Suggestions Appreciated - Improve Verbal

[symsj]

Hi all,

Appreciate all the info everyone brings to this board, I have been "lurking" for the past 2 months during my prep.

Anyways, I personally am looking for ANY advice to improve my verbal within the next week. Particularly in Sentence Correction and Critical Reasoning.

I take the test on March 17th. Have access have all the MGMAT guides, as well as (idiom) access to their practice site. Have OG12 as well.

Appreciate any feedback/suggestions you all might have. TIA.

[penguinfoot]

Hello symsj,

There is no universally approved study plan to boost your verbal score. What works for one doesn't for others. My best advise for you, if you want to improve your verbal score, is that you analyse your weakness areas in verbal and the cause for that : Content or Technique

Content : Content problems are because you donot know the concepts perfectly in that area
Best solution is to review material in this area and practice on this content sets form OG 12

Technique : Technique problems come when the method you use to solve a problem is no working
Best solution for this is to try some other techniques used (like in CR -> You can use substitution)

If you really want improvement and If you target score is far away from your current performace, reschedule the test.
If your target score is 20 or 30 points from your current performance, go for it - May the godess of luck shine on you.



Regards,
penguinfoot

[Karite]

I would also check on GMAT Club's website (they are offering a deal) for E-GMAT. They continue to get good reviews. I just signed up so I am unable to give a review. I do like the fact the site is for non-native speakers of English. I think it's a plus for native speakers because you know they are going to cover the basics and everyone knows you need a strong foundation for the GMAT. I hope this helps.

Update (03/18/12)-The E-GMAT has been helpful so far. It is divided into three levels and each level contains a number of topics. Then they quiz you about the topics covered. The quizzes are somewhat easy but they test the basic knowledge that you need to know (Independent and Dependent Clauses, Modifiers, and Tenses). I am taking notes on each topic.

[symsj]

Karite & Penguin,

I appreciate the feedback you two gave me. I actually took the test yesterday and somehow pulled my verbal scaled score up 6 points from my last GMATPrep CAT. I guess lady luck was on my side yesterday afternoon. Again, thank you for your feedback, and all the best to your guys' GMAT prep/and applications!