Will again give GMAT ???? Doubts pls help me clear it

[sunilpanigrahi27]

I'm planning to give GMAT again . Have completed OG and manhattan as well as KAPLAN 800 & Princeton . Have appeared in the online sectional tests also.
My major problem is that RC . Not doin it well. Finding it hard to appear inference based ques and summary of the passage . Please help me out .

Also please suggest some other books apart from Manhattan , KAPLAN and Princeton . A good collection of GMAT books .

If I study Wren and Martin will it add any concepts when I approach SC problems ????

Sunil

[messi10]

Hey,

I have had issues with inference questions as well. There are a couple sessions that Ron has done on these kind of questions that I have found very useful. Here is the link:

http://www.manhattangmat.com/thursdays-with-ron.cfm

Watch the sessions dated 28th April 2011 and 2nd June 2011.

Just my own opinion: I don't think reading a great number of books is the right way to go. I mean, you may gain some new information from each one but I don't think that that's necessary. If I were you, I would spend more time working on your weaker areas by analyzing any practice tests and questions that you have got wrong

For the rest of the issues, Stacey will point you in the right direction. However, it will be good if you give some more details as to your current GMAT score, practice test scores and your main areas of weaknesses (if any) other than just RC.

Regards

Sunil

[sunilpanigrahi27]

hey ,
thanks for ur suggestion . But problem is that when I refer manhattan again , I jus know the answers before hand..So i need new varities of questions like a complete set present i n manhattan...

Any other books so that i could practice some more questions and analyse them .

[StaceyKoprince]

varun is on the right track, sunil. If you're struggling with a question type, you don't really get better by just doing tons more questions of that type. If I were trying to play a piece on the piano, but I didn't know how to play it correctly, I wouldn't get much better by continuing to play it incorrectly over and over again.

You actually need to figure out *why* you're struggling and *how" to get better first. Once you have better approaches for answering these kinds of questions, you can then test yourself with new questions in order to see whether you really have improved. But you don't improve (much) in the act of doing bunches of new questions.

For instance, for RC, read the below two articles. Are you doing these things already? If not, go back and practice these techniques using passages that you have already done in the past. Only once you feel you've made progress with the technique should you go and try it out on new passages.

http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... p-passage/
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/07/ ... rc-passage

After that, read these articles and do the same thing - use old problems to really study the process and understand how each problem type works. Then, test yourself on new problems.

http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/09/ ... prehension
http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/a ... estion.cfm
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/11/ ... il-problem

Do you understand how what I'm describing is different from what you've been describing? If so, please describe it back to me in your own words. If not, please ask questions.

Re: new questions (when you get to that point), first, set aside some old questions right now that you haven't done in a long time. Don't look at them at all for a while - just so you'll forget more about them. You may be able to use them again later.

You can also go back to older versions of the OG. Right now, we're on OG12 and Verbal Supplement 2nd Edition. You can typically find used copies of OG11 and VS1 online. A lot of the questions overlap, but some don't - plus you'll have forgotten some of the ones that do overlap.

Be really careful going forward not to use up all of your new, good questions. As you've discovered, there isn't an unlimited supply of good questions. If you study in the way that I'm describing above, then the question supply is adequate. If, however, you try to learn simply by doing lots of questions, you're going to use up the questions without actually learning as much as you want from each one.

You may want to read this article:
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/09/ ... e-mistakes