GMAT Prep Strategy - Please respond.

[nuwalt]

Dear MGMAT Colleague,

I am a MGMAT course student. I took the in-person course last year but did not attend all the sessions due to work travels. Above all, I postponed my MBA start date ot 2012 (Going for EMBA now). I wish to achieve atleast a score of 700+ (720 to be ideal). I have all the MGMAT materials and wish to enroll in another online course to get started. I plan on taking my GMAT end of January, so I have 6 months. I also plan to study 2 hours on weekday and 5-6 hours each day on weekends.

Here is my plan of attack:
1. Start with Fundamentals (Verbal and Math). Build content knowledge and solve most of the Fundamentals questions to buiild the comfortable floor below which I can never be wrong,. comfortably.
2. Then go through the strategy guides/On-Line Course and do the Benchmark problems.
3. Once the class is done, do the rest of the OG problems (including 2nd ED Verbal and Math).
4. Do timed drills (mixed topics) and then start real condition CAT exams (1 exam every week) during the last couple months.
5. I plan to focus only on MGMAT instructed problems for practice so that I focus on quality and analyze every problem to study well (rather than doing just plan questions and look at the answer sheet).

My issue:

1. I dont have any issues with Math, although I do need to rebuild content and practice.
2. For Verbal, I believe that SCs can be mastered with rules, content, and knowledge. My biggest challenges are RC and CR. I dont even know how to practice and what to read to practice and be good at that. Can I be good at those in 6 months. Should I read things like Economist, WSJ, HBR, Chicago Business, Scientific American for atleast 30 minutes a day online and analyze what I read focussing on GMAT stlye questions.
3. Also, I have read and heard from many students that MGMAT CAT Verbal is easier than the real GMAT, and students do poorly in the real Verbal GMAT. I want to avoid that surprise.

Can you please advice and help on how to build a strong strategy for RC and CR and where to get more GMAT like tough & dense practice problems?

Also, is 6 months enough for a complete GMAT preparation and achieve a score of 700+ assuming that I am an average candidate with good analytical skills. Thanks.

[StaceyKoprince]

Is this a double post? It looks like you have an identical post here (to which I already responded):

gmat-verbal-strategy-for-preparation-t13526.html