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urgent need experts advice as GMAT on 2nd nov

by aimkp » Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:48 pm
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I have been preparing for GMAT for last 3 month approx & will take my final test on 2nd Nov. I don't have much problem with concepts in any area. I have been also taking tests but my scoring is not consistent. I have taken tests in following order

ETS 1 - 680 ( Q- 48 V -35)
ETS 2 - 650 (Q -44 V - 33)
Manhattan 1 - 600 (Q -42 V -35)
Manhattan 2 - 610 (Q - 44 V 33)
Manhattan 3 - 650 (Q - 46 V 35)
Princeton 2 - 600 (Q -44 V - 29)
Princeton 3 - 610 (Q 48 V - 26)

My target is to cross 700 + level. I have found fluctuations in verbal & problem areas are RC & CR. I need feedbacks to improve on these areas. Do also tell, are people able to increase score from 650 to 700 + level in 2 weeks time ????


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by Night reader » Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:01 pm
Try power score - CR bible. If you do this as an urgent matter (i.e. read 40-50 pages a day of CR bible) then CR and RC increase by at least 50% is guaranteed. Believe me, I had 70-75% hit for difficult SC questions and low rate of correct answers for CR and RC - below 30%. Now, I managed to change the situation with verbal CR and RC. Also, keep watching your quant score, as intensive studying of verbal usually spirals down one's quant ability for a while. Good luck on test!
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by messmat » Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:55 pm
I had a similar problem with CR & RC early in my preparation. My current accuracy rate is in the range of 80 to 90% up from 50%. I used Power Score CR Bible during my preparation and LSAT Tests. I suggest the following:

1) Try to finish CR bible ASAP (it took me 10 days, you should opt for less than that because I wasn't rushing or anything, 5-7 days is a very reasonble time frame)

2) The skills needed for CR questions are the same for RC questions, so no extra preparation on how to solve RC questions is needed, however, your reading skills matter on the RC section

3) Start solving LSAT tests, each test has around 50 CR questions and 4 RC passages. LSAT CR is very difficult and RC passages are longer and harder than GMAT passages. In the first LSAT test, my accuracy rate in CR Qs was 60% even after going through CR bible, because the questions were really harder. After sometime i started recoginizing the patterns in both CR and RC Qs, and my performance improved gradually towards the 80-90% accuracy rate.

4) Honestly, when I look now at GMAT CR and RC questions, I can see the difference, they are much easier than LSAT Qs, the answer will jump at you in a very short time and you will be sure about it as well.

5) For RC, I noticed that when I rush to finish reading the passage, my accuracy rate drops siginificantly. so I told myself even if it took me 4 minutes to read the passage (for LSAT passages, and really too much for GMAT passages), the questions will be like a walk in the park and my average time for a passage with 4 questions will be 2 minutes/question (assuming that each question will take me about a minute to solve, however questions, after reading the passge carefully, take me less than that). So don't rush, read carefully and it will payoff when you start solving the questions.

6) My last advice, don't panic. You can improve your performane on CR and RC Qs in a such short time. Just put in the effort. After you finish CR bible which I believe you have already started at the advice of Night Reader, you can keep doing 10-12 CR questions and 2 RC passages from LSAT tests everyday until the very few days before the exam along with your preparation for the other sections.

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by uwhusky » Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:06 pm
Wow! Careful there, buddy. Last thing you want to recommend someone who's struggling in CR is to pick up a LSAT test.

David from Veritas has posted a very good analysis of using LSAT materials for GMAT; try to search in the strategy forum for it.
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by fitzgerald23 » Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:43 pm
Have you gone through the OG yet? I think its an invaluable study tool for those two sections if you need practice. For myself I found that with RC the best thing I could do was come up with a strategy for answering those questions. I found that the best strategy was to make a chart on my paper with the answer selections and once I knew an answer was wrong crossed it out and never went back. I found that you can usually quickly eliminate 2 or 3 choices right away and then focus on those remaining selections. What I realized I was doing on my practice tests was picking the wrong answer when I narrowed it down but almost always had the right choice as one of my last 2. By focusing more on my choices I scored much higher. Also if you are good at SC you can save a ton of time to focus on the reading questions. I think often being fast in SC you will score higher in the other two parts of the test.
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by Dan@VinciaPrep » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:34 pm
fitzgerald23 wrote: Also if you are good at SC you can save a ton of time to focus on the reading questions. I think often being fast in SC you will score higher in the other two parts of the test.
I couldn't agree more. Get fast at the SC section and you'll have more time to for the other sections. To get fast at the SC section you need to know the rules extremely well and to be able to recognize what is being tested when you read a question.

Also, the best way to improve your reading ability is to...practice reading. The average reading comprehension article is 300-500 words. Therefore, you need to practice reading short articles. One of my favorite sites is the the New York Times at www.nytimes.com . An added benefit of this site is that you can double click any word in any article and you'll get the definition. Vocab and the reading comprehension in one! The next best site is probably the Economist.com because the articles tend to be a little shorter than the ones on the NY times.

I think it's a good idea to read regular articles and also passages from the OG
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by joannabanana » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:26 am
Get fast at the SC section and you'll have more time to for the other sections.
@Daniel - What would "fast" timing be for SC? Right now I'm practicing solving sets of 10 questions in 12 minutes. I was trying to do them in 10 min before but found that I was making mistakes by rushing through them. Now when I give myself those extra 2 min I usually get most of them correct and often have close to 2 min left over at the end. Is that timing good enough to give me an advantage in SC and RC? I find that I often have to read those passages twice before I get my brain fully wrapped around them.

@messmat - Where did you get LSAT tests from? I don't have access to a bookstore, so I can only get online resources now.
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by Dan@VinciaPrep » Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:22 am
joannabanana wrote:
Get fast at the SC section and you'll have more time to for the other sections.
@Daniel - What would "fast" timing be for SC? Right now I'm practicing solving sets of 10 questions in 12 minutes. I was trying to do them in 10 min before but found that I was making mistakes by rushing through them. Now when I give myself those extra 2 min I usually get most of them correct and often have close to 2 min left over at the end. Is that timing good enough to give me an advantage in SC and RC? I find that I often have to read those passages twice before I get my brain fully wrapped around them.

@messmat - Where did you get LSAT tests from? I don't have access to a bookstore, so I can only get online resources now.
Well, it depends on how hard the SC questions are. If they are the tough ones then you might need to spend from 1:15 to 1:30 a question. If you have a mix of tough and easy questions then a minute to a minute 15 seconds on average is about right.
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