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Timing strategy in verbal for best score

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by dhonu121 » Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:35 pm
Hi,
I am taking GMAT yet again on this coming saturday.I know a few things wrt to GMAT in general
1.I should focus more on initial questions than later ones.Meaning, I should be more rigorous in first 10-15 problems,double checking every time etc that later problems.I know that initial 10-15 corrects would make me far ahead in my score.
2.I should finish the section on time, doing all the questions and not leaving any of them unattempted.
Also, I should not reach a stage where I have to guess to save time etc.Thats' really bad thing to do.

Side Note:I am a non-native speaker of English.Hence, I cannot breeze through RC or Long CR's like Native speakers do.I generally have to re-read sentences to figure out their meaning.Hence, Initial RC's like the first two in first 20 prob set would take dispropotionately more time.
THe most that I can do is save some time in SC's.I can do that, as i have seen from my previous CAT's.
During my last GMAT, I screwed my verbal section because I was too much concerned about my timing that initial accuracy and hence even though I finished verbal section quite on time, I just scored a 30.
Some expert advice is solicited.

Thanks In Advance.
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by throughmba » Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:50 pm
Hope you like my strategy

Continue with questions till you reach an accuracy level greater than 85% then bring the timing factor. Start timing yourself and target your speed to
SC-1 to 1.5 min
CR-1 to 1.75 min
RC-1.5 to 2.0 min (including time taken to read the passage)

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by dhonu121 » Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:07 pm
Thanks throughmba for your post.
But I dont really have that much time left to do all that.
RC < 2min could be attainable, no doubt, but for that I would need atleast a month's practice.
If you can advice me more around the timing that I should follow while attempting my GMAT Verbal section, that would be really really great.

Thanks in Advance.
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