Please help ! 2 attempts and 550 in both the attempts

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Dear Friends

Need your help I made two attempts

21.9.2007 550 ( 51 Q and 18 V)
25.7.2011 550 ( 51 Q and 20 V)

I am not sure what went wrong with me after 20th question.i found questions level were difficult than what i was preparing in tests and practice. Although I was scoring 640 - 690 in Manhattan test series and my last gmat perp score was 710 , the test day has doomed me .Although the gmat test prep test was second time in one month time period.

Can some body suggest me a tutor on verbal who can motivate , build confidence and set some direction to master verbal.

Write now i have lost the direction and finding difficult where to start from.

I am based out of Delhi and have 3 months of time to apply my target B schools.

Expert please suggest
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by Amiable Scholar » Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:58 am
Hi

It would be better if you tell us your preparation material. You just described the test day stuff and practice test material.

Well I can see your Quant is quite strong so you need to focus on Verbal part for now.
SC : I would suggest Manhattan SC guides they are really Good ,if you have not gone through them earlier. Test the concepts by doing problems in OG afterwards
CR : I would recommend powerscore bible. Definitely a must have if you want to improve CR .. I went through LSAT guides chapter too but you can avoid that.
RC : Try some good passages .. OG 10 has lots of them .. try them .. I dont have any well strategy for that part

Dont loose hope you will do better in your next attempt.
I jumped to 730 from 620 in first attempt after 2-3 months of prep