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shikhargmat
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Hi,
I m a non-native English speaker with Software Engineer Degree n over 5yrs of work-exp.
I started preparing for my GMAT exam 1 month back using OG and Manhattan Sentence Correction. While I m doing ok with Quant, verbal score is still pretty low.
Within verbal, the main problem I m facing is time management and lack of accuracy.
To be specific, RC n SC are the main problematic areas for me.
For example in RC, I tend to read the passage first which takes around 4mins. Along with this, I sometimes loose the context and the passage is not comprehended well. So, when I go back to the questions, I again have to refer back to the passage for the answer, which takes 1-2mins more mins and finally builds pressure n hence affects accuracy as well.
For SC, while I have been able to grasp many of the concepts of the Manhattan Sentence Correction book, I m not thorough with them. Along with this, doing a SC problem takes 1.5-2 mins which is quite a lot for sentence correction. The approach I take here is read n understand the original sentence and then read all the answer choices n pick the wrong ones out.
I want to go for the test in around 40days from now and I m not seeing myself anywhere near it as far as RC n SC are concerned.
Will any expert here will be able to suggest me the best approach to go about these things. Maybe some old articles which addresses these issues or few new lines of advice. Some particular book that I should buy. One more question is whether doing some classroom prep course such as Veritas, Kaplan, Manhattan will be able to help me in this.
Thank you so much in advance.
Regards,
Shikhar
I m a non-native English speaker with Software Engineer Degree n over 5yrs of work-exp.
I started preparing for my GMAT exam 1 month back using OG and Manhattan Sentence Correction. While I m doing ok with Quant, verbal score is still pretty low.
Within verbal, the main problem I m facing is time management and lack of accuracy.
To be specific, RC n SC are the main problematic areas for me.
For example in RC, I tend to read the passage first which takes around 4mins. Along with this, I sometimes loose the context and the passage is not comprehended well. So, when I go back to the questions, I again have to refer back to the passage for the answer, which takes 1-2mins more mins and finally builds pressure n hence affects accuracy as well.
For SC, while I have been able to grasp many of the concepts of the Manhattan Sentence Correction book, I m not thorough with them. Along with this, doing a SC problem takes 1.5-2 mins which is quite a lot for sentence correction. The approach I take here is read n understand the original sentence and then read all the answer choices n pick the wrong ones out.
I want to go for the test in around 40days from now and I m not seeing myself anywhere near it as far as RC n SC are concerned.
Will any expert here will be able to suggest me the best approach to go about these things. Maybe some old articles which addresses these issues or few new lines of advice. Some particular book that I should buy. One more question is whether doing some classroom prep course such as Veritas, Kaplan, Manhattan will be able to help me in this.
Thank you so much in advance.
Regards,
Shikhar
