I've taken various online coaching courses and have also been studying from the GMAT OG.
Unfortunately,I am struggling to get a good score in the Verbal part of the exam during the mocks.
In the MGMAT CAT's my verbal score is fluctuating between 28 to 32 and I'm failing to improve my performance.
I would really appreciate if some one can really help me out on making a strategy.
I'm having the following problems while giving the MGMAT' s:
1)In CR questions-I feel that I know the concepts, moreover I'm able to solve the questions/identify the mistakes when I finish the mock CAT or when I'm practicing from the OG.
However,during the exam I don't know why,but I tend to make mistakes!
2)I am having problem in managing Time during the mocks. I've read on an online forum that the first 30 questions are the most important ones.Is this true? Should I just randomly guess on the last 11 questions and mainly focus on the first 30 questions?? Will this help?
3) The analysis of the mock test have helped me find my weak areas. I have decided to guess/leave the weak area questions but I'm NOT able to categorize/identify these on the mock test.My weak SC areas are-Meaning category,idioms,punctuation questions. I find it difficult to identify the "meaning" error and "idioms" questions.Any suggestion to improve on this?
4)I'm able to solve the RC's correctly within the time limit when I'm studying/practicing.BUT,fail to do so during the mock:(
What to do?
I'm really tired and frustrated with myself.I'm aware that these mock test scores are indicative of the actual scores and I don't want to end up with such a low score that too after putting in so such work and investing so much money.
I wish to do Masters in Management and plan to give the exam by October .
I am looking for some suggestions from the experts here. Let me know what different should I do?
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Re: help on Verbal score strategy
I'm taking your questions out of order.
(2) The first 30 questions are NOT more important than the final 11. All questions are ultimately worth about the same amount (except for the experimental questions, but you won't know which those are). You want to try to have a pretty steady performance throughout the section, from start to finish.
(2) and (4): Everyone struggles with time management; you are not alone! Because the test adapts to you, it will keep you right around your peak ability level (if you are doing well on the test, which of course you want to do!). And then what happens is this: you keep trying to get things right even when they get too hard, so you spend too much time (and probably get it wrong anyway, because it is too hard), and then you run out of time and have to guess on questions that you might have known how to do...and then your score goes down.
So the first thing to fix is your time management, and the first step there is to fix your mindset:
http://tinyurl.com/executivereasoning
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog ... -the-gmat/
Next, take a look through this for more specific time management strategies:
http://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/ ... rt-1-of-3/
And take a look at this series for more on how to use the 1-minute time sense (that you'll learn about in the time management series above):
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2015/09/ ... gmat-quant
(Note: the later articles in that series touch on verbal.)
(1) Re: careless mistakes, you can make a few careless mistakes without significantly impacting your score...but it's really annoying to lose points on something you know how to do.
The key is to figure out why you made each specific mistake and then set in place some new habit that will minimize the chances of a repeat of that type of error. See here:
http://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/ ... -the-gmat/
(3) Re: SC meaning and idiom errors, think of it more this way: when you see certain differences among the answer choices, you either know how to deal with them or you don't. If you do, then eliminate whatever you can. If you don't, ignore those differences (doesn't matter what they are). Don't agonize back and forth or keep re-reading, hoping something else will jump out at you or suddenly make sense. Do what you know you know how to do right away. If that doesn't get you down to 1 answer, guess from among the remaining answers and move on. (You can then study / analyze after to see whether you can learn more to help you narrow down to 1 answer next time.)
What are you using to teach yourself the SC grammar rules? You mention only one book, the GMAT OG—and it's next to impossible to learn the grammar rules just from doing a bunch of practice problems. Did the online coaching courses you've taken provide you with actual study materials for the rules, etc?
(2) The first 30 questions are NOT more important than the final 11. All questions are ultimately worth about the same amount (except for the experimental questions, but you won't know which those are). You want to try to have a pretty steady performance throughout the section, from start to finish.
(2) and (4): Everyone struggles with time management; you are not alone! Because the test adapts to you, it will keep you right around your peak ability level (if you are doing well on the test, which of course you want to do!). And then what happens is this: you keep trying to get things right even when they get too hard, so you spend too much time (and probably get it wrong anyway, because it is too hard), and then you run out of time and have to guess on questions that you might have known how to do...and then your score goes down.
So the first thing to fix is your time management, and the first step there is to fix your mindset:
http://tinyurl.com/executivereasoning
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog ... -the-gmat/
Next, take a look through this for more specific time management strategies:
http://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/ ... rt-1-of-3/
And take a look at this series for more on how to use the 1-minute time sense (that you'll learn about in the time management series above):
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2015/09/ ... gmat-quant
(Note: the later articles in that series touch on verbal.)
(1) Re: careless mistakes, you can make a few careless mistakes without significantly impacting your score...but it's really annoying to lose points on something you know how to do.
The key is to figure out why you made each specific mistake and then set in place some new habit that will minimize the chances of a repeat of that type of error. See here:http://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/ ... -the-gmat/
(3) Re: SC meaning and idiom errors, think of it more this way: when you see certain differences among the answer choices, you either know how to deal with them or you don't. If you do, then eliminate whatever you can. If you don't, ignore those differences (doesn't matter what they are). Don't agonize back and forth or keep re-reading, hoping something else will jump out at you or suddenly make sense. Do what you know you know how to do right away. If that doesn't get you down to 1 answer, guess from among the remaining answers and move on. (You can then study / analyze after to see whether you can learn more to help you narrow down to 1 answer next time.)
What are you using to teach yourself the SC grammar rules? You mention only one book, the GMAT OG—and it's next to impossible to learn the grammar rules just from doing a bunch of practice problems. Did the online coaching courses you've taken provide you with actual study materials for the rules, etc?
Stacey Koprince
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Director, Content & Curriculum
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ManhattanPrep
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