Struggling to get an equally good score in all sections

[SagorikaG48]

Hi Team,

My observation over the past 1 month of practice and giving the GMAT mock has been that if I focus on Sentence Correction(It happens to be my weakest area) immediately a spike in the overall accuracy of Sentence Correction can be seen in the next Mock but on the downside lower accuracy levels in RC and CR can be seen. While I do not give up practicing CR and RC entirely. But this seems rather absurd! While I am trying to take practiced timed tests of all the three sections, this has got me worried. Because when a single section score goes down, more focus needs to be given to the same. But its not helping!!

Need Advice to break this. Or have I fallen into some bad habit?

Thanks

[StaceyKoprince]

It sounds like you're mostly using what's called a "blocked" approach to studies - concentrating primarily on one thing to lift it. When you're studying that way, it feels really good - it feels like you're learning a lot. But as you've found it, it isn't really the best way to study.

Read this:
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2015/07/ ... s-say-what

It's not enough just to practice CR and RC when focusing primarily on SC (for example). You really do need to interleave your studies in the way that the article states. The real test interleaves all of these question types, too. Let me know if you have any quesitons about what that article says.

I will add: people do generally have strengths and weaknesses, so don't expect to be at the same level across all areas. You don't want one area to be really far behind the others, of course, but expect to have some variability there - that's okay.