Hi everyone. I started my Gmat Prep about 1.5 weeks ago. For next 3-4 months I am entirely devoted to Verbal since it is my weakness. Currently, I am saving my GMAT practice tests attempt for later, since they are valuable and don't want to waste it on "dissecting the test." Consequently, I had a few questions which I would like answer to so I can understand if this strategy is better: "master what I am good at/don't be super bad at what I am bad at."
1) I had seen posts about how GMAT CAT works and from what I saw it is better 1) to get first couple of questions correct and 2) not get a steak of questions wrong in the middle/end.
My biggest weakness right now is RC and my biggest strength is SC (based on my SAT 4 years ago and solving few questions on Official GMAT book); SC would get stronger once I devote time to memorize some idioms and to refresh grammar rules.
My first question is, how are the order of SC, RC and CR on the exam. Are the questions scrambled, are the "SC, RC, CR" scrambled or do they follow specific order like SC->CR->RC (which is best case scenario for me as discussed below).
It would make it better for me (and maybe many other students?) if SC questions are first thing asked on GMAT since I can get a lot of them correct, even with increasing difficulty. I can get a good amount of CR correct (definitely without a steak of >2 wrong answers) since I like viewing them as a game of logic (I am a CS major). I can get couple of questions on RC correct but nevertheless it is my weakness (as reference, on official guide I got 36/40 correct on easy, 34/44 on medium (messed up on 1 long passage), got 24/28 on hard for now). Also I took 7-9ish minutes (depending on length of passage) to answer each RC; i.e. not take my sweet time to read thoroughly (just skim first) but neither strictly timing it with a timer).
My second question is, on revised 36 question Verbal, what can I except in RC in terms of # passages, length of passages, #questions/passage? Specifically, if the passage is long (3 para instead of 2) and has more questions, it is beneficial for me to spend an extra minute or two to better understand idea before moving to questions (since more #questions). Would I know for a given passage how many questions will be asked (Direction like: following passage refers to question 32-35, even though questions themselves will be presented one after the other)?
My score goal on Verbal is 38-42 which can ultimately (maybe?) get me 710-730 when combined with Q50/51. To get that verbal score, and given my strengths on SC/RC/CR as discussed what would be optimal on exam strategy; let us say I will give first (practice) exam in one month.
(Edit: I saw couple of grammar mistakes, don't get mad at me![:(]( "Sad")
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1) I had seen posts about how GMAT CAT works and from what I saw it is better 1) to get first couple of questions correct and 2) not get a steak of questions wrong in the middle/end.
My biggest weakness right now is RC and my biggest strength is SC (based on my SAT 4 years ago and solving few questions on Official GMAT book); SC would get stronger once I devote time to memorize some idioms and to refresh grammar rules.
My first question is, how are the order of SC, RC and CR on the exam. Are the questions scrambled, are the "SC, RC, CR" scrambled or do they follow specific order like SC->CR->RC (which is best case scenario for me as discussed below).
It would make it better for me (and maybe many other students?) if SC questions are first thing asked on GMAT since I can get a lot of them correct, even with increasing difficulty. I can get a good amount of CR correct (definitely without a steak of >2 wrong answers) since I like viewing them as a game of logic (I am a CS major). I can get couple of questions on RC correct but nevertheless it is my weakness (as reference, on official guide I got 36/40 correct on easy, 34/44 on medium (messed up on 1 long passage), got 24/28 on hard for now). Also I took 7-9ish minutes (depending on length of passage) to answer each RC; i.e. not take my sweet time to read thoroughly (just skim first) but neither strictly timing it with a timer).
My second question is, on revised 36 question Verbal, what can I except in RC in terms of # passages, length of passages, #questions/passage? Specifically, if the passage is long (3 para instead of 2) and has more questions, it is beneficial for me to spend an extra minute or two to better understand idea before moving to questions (since more #questions). Would I know for a given passage how many questions will be asked (Direction like: following passage refers to question 32-35, even though questions themselves will be presented one after the other)?
My score goal on Verbal is 38-42 which can ultimately (maybe?) get me 710-730 when combined with Q50/51. To get that verbal score, and given my strengths on SC/RC/CR as discussed what would be optimal on exam strategy; let us say I will give first (practice) exam in one month.
(Edit: I saw couple of grammar mistakes, don't get mad at me
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