:-)

[sravan.aravelly]

[newmoon]

What were your GMAT prep tests score?

[sravan.aravelly]

Hi Newmoon, I did not take any of the GMAT Prep exams. But instead, I took MGMAT CAT's.

MGMAT CAT 1 : 590
MGMAT CAT 2 : 560
MGMAT CAT 3 : 630

[jaskaran]

Firstly, sorry to hear about your harrowing verbal experience, secondly we would require the splits as well to be able to better guide you.

[Ludacrispat26]

Your boldface assumption question could've been an experimental.

[uwhusky]

Unfortunately if you have already gone over the two most valuable books in verbal thoroughly, then it means that you are not capturing the necessary details. I recommend a tutor and I also recommend that you reschedule your 2nd retake.

[outreach]

do not loose hope
try to check take some professional tutor.probably it can help u

[sravan.aravelly]

@ Jaskaran ---> Are you asking about my split scores in practice tests ?

@ uwhusky & @ outreach ---> Thanks for the advice guys. I live in Hyderabad in INDIA and the only option for getting a good tutor is to opt for an online tutor.

Anyways, I think I need rigorous practice for the verbal section following strict timelines. I will let you know if that helps. May be as uwhusky suggests, I will go through those books again to have a better understanding of all the concepts.

It may sound strange but I felt the verbal section was a bit tougher than the corresponding MGMAT CAT's. I may be wrong but this is purely based on my test taking experience and ability.

Thanks.

[newmoon]

Bro, u should have taken some GMATprep tests. Its the best estimator of the final gmat score. However according to me you got your verbal concept quite good. Your MGMAT scores suggests that. I think you became somewhat nervous in the test centre and thus for anxiety you could not give proper attention to the details. Take some days rest and give the exam again. I'm sure you will nail it.

[JkateS24]

Here are a few helpful verbal tips that I've come across in my studying:

1. Practice verbal when your tired - i.e. late at night. By the time you get to the verbal section in the test, even if you know the concepts, your probably mentally fatigued. It's critical that you build up stamina to put all of your studying to good use.

2. Start reading complex material to supplement your studying. Pick up a magazine on neuroscience or a complex economics article. In your spare time (like when your in transit to/from work), if you read complex material your reading comprehension will approve. This is obviously useful for RC, but is also useful for SC and CR where you need to digest quickly what the text means under pressure and in a short amount of time.

3. Memorize idioms. Even if grammar is not your strong suit, knowing idioms down cold can help you make easy eliminations.

Hope this helps and good luck!

[sravan.aravelly]

@newmoon ---> Thanks bro. I will make it a point not to skip those GMAT prep tests this time around. I was always under the impression that as MGMAT CAT's are considered relatively tougher than actual GMAT, I focussed my attention on those tests. And MGMAT CAT also gives a very good analysis of the test performance with good explanations for all the questions. Since I bought the MGMAT's SC guide, I thought to make full use of the free CAT's I get as a result. Though I felt that Quant on GMAT was relatively easy than MGMAT CAT's.

I was brimming with confidence going into the verbal section but I think something went wrong somewhere. Anyways, Thanks bro.

[sravan.aravelly]

@JkateS24 ---> Thanks a lot. I will implement all the 3 steps you have mentioned as it might be of some help to me. May be I did not do well because of drop in the level of concentration due to fatigue / whatever. GMAT needs all your concentration for the full 4 hours I should get used to working on verbal section under stress. I feel that the first two points you have made might be valuable to me.

Thanks.

[Victory_GMAT]

@JkateS24 ---> Thanks a lot. I will implement all the 3 steps you have mentioned as it might be of some help to me. May be I did not do well because of drop in the level of concentration due to fatigue / whatever. GMAT needs all your concentration for the full 4 hours I should get used to working on verbal section under stress. I feel that the first two points you have made might be valuable to me.

Thanks.

First find where exactly you were beaten in verbal or what are most weak areas and then remove time pressure of next attempt. Just work on those areas with consistency, right material and right approach. I am sure that in addition to SC your CR and RC must also be weak and needs a great attention so dissect the areas to work and then work on each individually. For Instance:

In SC:
-Modifiers concepts
-Parallelism concepts

In CR:
-Bold face role played BFRP questions (Also known as methods of reasoning questions)
-Weakening
-Strengthening
-Which of ....best logically completes argument... type question
-Similar reasoning questions or parallel reasoning questions

In RC:
-Of course same MP (Main point questions)
-Passage infers
-Passage suggests
-Most likely to agree
-Most likely to be true
-Which of following is the question which can be answered by the passage as a whole?

Changing locations where you study, or time when you take the test could make a difference but I think you are in best position to judge yourself whether it was a failure of circumstances (such as time, location etc) or failure of concepts or both.

[qwe12]

Hi Newmoon, I did not take any of the GMAT Prep exams. But instead, I took MGMAT CAT's.

MGMAT CAT 1 : 590
MGMAT CAT 2 : 560
MGMAT CAT 3 : 630

you are being very foolish. please take the gmat prep exams.