Best Verbal Strategy

[digoazambuja]

Hi,

Ive been studying for over 3 weeks and I have already seen improvements.

I got some very useful tricks in the quant part but I could not do the same for verbal. I cant really get the tracks and find usefull techniques!! Therefore, I was wondering If you could help me by posting some time-consuming and effective verbal tips to improve my score.

In regards to RC, I would also like to know what would be the most effective way to nail this part. I know Kaplan suggests us to read the entire passage carefully, take notes and then answer the questions. But isnt it so time-consuming??

Another technique I heard was from GmatClub:

Step 1: Read the first paragraph and rewrite the key points. Rewrite in your own words.
Step 2: Read the first sentence of each subsequent paragraph. Rewrite in your own words.
Step 2a: SKIM the paragraph looking for key words - names, dates, key words. Write these down underneath the key sentence you wrote for each paragraph.
Step 3: Answer the questions.

According to your knowledge, what should I do??

Thanks a lot

Rodrigo

[StaceyKoprince]

Hi! Here are some RC resources (including how to read the passage):

http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/04/ ... mp-passage
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/07/ ... rc-passage

RC question types:
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/09/ ... prehension
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/11/ ... il-problem
RC: http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/analyze-RC-question.cfm

Here are some higher-level CR and SC articles. If you are having particular difficulties with specific CR question types or grammar rules, let me know what those are (I have many, many articles - I can't post them all here!) :)

http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/06/ ... on-problem

http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/03/ ... sc-problem

http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... orrection/
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... on-part-2/

http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... g-problem/