Retake Strategy

[vikhyatm812]

Hi,
I have been studying for the GMAT since the past 7 months. I wrote the GMAT on 2/09/2014 and managed a 650 ( Q49,V31 ). Its fairly obvious to see that quant is my strength and verbal is the reason why i scored so low. Throughout the 7 months of preparation, i focused on improving my verbal skills. I bought almost every book available in the market to improve my verbal skills and i most certainly solved innumerable timed sets to effect a change in my score. My major weaknesses in the verbal section were (and still are) sentence correction and reading comprehension. Even after solving innumerable time bound problem sets i couldn't manage to improve my overall CAT scores significantly.

I think, till now, i have done a million time bound sentence correction questions. I consistently had an accuracy level of 65% when I attempted such questions in a "SENTENCE CORRECTION TIME BOUND SET", however, i would most certainly get confused between various grammar rules and ultimately end up picking the wrong answer most of the times during a full length test.

Please could you help me overcome this problem ?

Thanks

[StaceyKoprince]

I would be happy to help. Let's start by getting into more detail on your strengths and weaknesses, as well as your overall mindset and study methods.

First, read these two articles:
https://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/inde ... lly-tests/
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... -the-gmat/

Then, use the below to analyze your most recent MGMAT CATs (this should take you a minimum of 1 hour):
http://tinyurl.com/analyzeyourcats

Based on all of that, figure out your strengths and weaknesses as well as any ideas you have for what you think you should do (or do differently than before).

Then come back here and tell us; we'll tell you whether we agree on your ideas and advise you further. (Note: do share an analysis with us, not just the raw data. Part of getting better is developing your ability to analyze your results - figure out what they mean and what you think you should do about them!)