Hi Manhattanites!
I recently took the Manhattan GMAT course. Great stuff. I implemented the timing strategy for Quant and saw a dramatic increase in my score. If I did not know how to approach a question I took a strategic guess and moved on.
If I implemented a similar strategy for Verbal, do you believe I will see a similar increase? THANKS!
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a couple of comments about this:
(1) you can't really transfer this strategy, mutatis mutandis, onto the verbal section, because there are certain concepts that apply to the quant but not to the verbal. chief among those concepts is the idea of 'knowing how to approach the question': each quant problem actually has a 'textbook' solution, which, if it can be found, obviates the need for process of elimination / guessing. verbal problems (especially SC problems), by contrast, generally have no such 'textbook' solutions, relying instead on process of elimination right from the start.
therefore, whereas quant has a two-tiered approach - try to find the textbook method, and then resort to secondary methods such as poe / guessing if you can't find it - verbal doesn't really have such an approach.
BUT
(2) if you are as serious and responsible about time management in general on the verbal section as you are on the math section, then you will probably see a significant increase on the verbal section as well. it's really a matter of knowing how much time you can spend on the verbal questions, spending only that amount of time, and being able to cut the rope and move on to the next question.
(1) you can't really transfer this strategy, mutatis mutandis, onto the verbal section, because there are certain concepts that apply to the quant but not to the verbal. chief among those concepts is the idea of 'knowing how to approach the question': each quant problem actually has a 'textbook' solution, which, if it can be found, obviates the need for process of elimination / guessing. verbal problems (especially SC problems), by contrast, generally have no such 'textbook' solutions, relying instead on process of elimination right from the start.
therefore, whereas quant has a two-tiered approach - try to find the textbook method, and then resort to secondary methods such as poe / guessing if you can't find it - verbal doesn't really have such an approach.
BUT
(2) if you are as serious and responsible about time management in general on the verbal section as you are on the math section, then you will probably see a significant increase on the verbal section as well. it's really a matter of knowing how much time you can spend on the verbal questions, spending only that amount of time, and being able to cut the rope and move on to the next question.
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