GMAT Prep Verbal Comparison with REAL GMAT

[anb]

Hello,

I'm very discouraged right now, as I've taken the two GMAT Prep tests with the following scores:

PREP1 - 660 (Q44 V37)
PREP2 - 630 (Q47 V29!!!!!!!!)

Can those who have taken the test recently compare Verbal on the REAL GMAT to what GMAT Prep is like. I take the test in just over a week, and this verbal score has knocked me down. For my last two MGMAT tests I scored a V40 and V41. What's the deal???????????

RC is one of my weaknesses and I got some difficult passages (or at least for me) - not so much a surprise. SC was a surprise - I thought SC was a strength until these tests. I got plenty wrong, which has not been happening. The SC questions just seemed different and are tripping me up!

Any input would be great!

[Wineau]

It's pretty accurate.

Change your methodology. Where are you falling apart?

I realized I had a problem "focusing" during the verbal - especially during reading comprehension, so I Forced myself to focus by writing.

"Writing what?"

I actually took my "yellow pad" and for each sentence correction question, wrote down exactly what the errors were as I was reading them (i.e. Modifier, Verb Tense, Idiom, Parallelism, Subject/Verb, Pronoun - all of the questions fell into one of these 6 areas...most questions had 2 or more problems). With "Critical Reasoning" I would write down the main point of each passage (short hand...keep it simple... 5-10 words). And with Reading Comp I wrote down a one liner detailing what the passage was about.

Figure out where you're going wrong...and attack it.

[anb]

Thanks for the info.

I do write down notes for RC, but I could right more and ask myself more questions while I'm reading. Sometimes if I don't understand something I just let it go. I think I should spend just a little more time trying to comprehend it.

I don't write errors down in SC, maybe I'll give it a try.

RC really screwed my verbal score. I wasn't positive on many of the RC's. I need to focus more. 1.5 weeks to go....it's crunch time!