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I took my GMAT yesterday and scored 660 (Q48 V33). Although I scored 710 (Q51 V34) in my last GMAT attempt, I thought of increasing my overall GMAT score to 750 + level.
I completed E-gmat verbal course and Magoosh Verbal course. Took GMAT prep mocks (all 6) before my last attempt in which I was scoring on average around 700-720 (Q50-51 V33-38). The Verbal score is plateaued at 33-34 despite working hard on verbal this time. Now, it seems to me that my overall strategy and temperament is skewed in attempting verbal. The ability is yet not above 40 plus level and a score above 40 can't be a fluke.
I sincerely need a guidance from all masters out here for my Verbal Strategy. I have also attached the ESR.
Quant score was a shock for which I conclude that I might have made silly mistakes as I read Quant only a day or two before the real exam. So, being out of practice may be the reason for the low quant score. I believe that I can score 51 again with practice.
For verbal, the question started with Sentence Correction - a normal one line sentence asking me to identify the difference among a lot, abundance, and plenty of etc.. I was thinking countable or uncountable nouns but nothing was clicking at the moment as it was based on some unheard idiom.
Sentence correction questions were totally different from my usual practice of retired questions or it can be that after solving and resolving the same official questions I was taking less time and thinking that I am improving. But overall while taking exams I could feel that SC was more concentrated on idioms or general English usage. A few sentences were quite long and jumbled. Honestly finding segregation points among answer choices was taking time. I got some straight questions from Comparisons, Parallelism and if -then etc. I remember that I got around 12 questions.
Critical Reasoning was on the same pattern or type of questions like retired official ones. I am weak at CR, so I was not expecting much from it. I faced around 08 CR questions. They were from Weakening, Solve the paradox - 2, Support / Reconcile etc. I am satisfied with the sub-section score.
Reading Comprehension - Every block had one passage in it with 3,3,4, and 3 questions respectively. The first passage was short and convoluted. Rest all three passages were easy to understand except 2 questions in which the answer choices were tough to eliminate as all choices were projecting the same idea. It may be that I was faltering at questions so I didn't get Medium - High or Hard questions and eventually I scored less.
My analysis for three sections -
SC - To read more about nuances in English from English newspapers. Go through idioms. Emphasize on English usage. Revise grammar and solve questions.
CR - I feel I need more practice as my verbal preparation was tilted towards SC :D
RC - It has to be tamed. Practice and that too from wide resources. It is not that I don't read but I am weak at comprehending convoluted kinds of stuff. Moreover, I feel I should read more from NYT, WP, Scientific American or The Economist.
Best Regards,
Rishi![]()
I took my GMAT yesterday and scored 660 (Q48 V33). Although I scored 710 (Q51 V34) in my last GMAT attempt, I thought of increasing my overall GMAT score to 750 + level.
I completed E-gmat verbal course and Magoosh Verbal course. Took GMAT prep mocks (all 6) before my last attempt in which I was scoring on average around 700-720 (Q50-51 V33-38). The Verbal score is plateaued at 33-34 despite working hard on verbal this time. Now, it seems to me that my overall strategy and temperament is skewed in attempting verbal. The ability is yet not above 40 plus level and a score above 40 can't be a fluke.
I sincerely need a guidance from all masters out here for my Verbal Strategy. I have also attached the ESR.
Quant score was a shock for which I conclude that I might have made silly mistakes as I read Quant only a day or two before the real exam. So, being out of practice may be the reason for the low quant score. I believe that I can score 51 again with practice.
For verbal, the question started with Sentence Correction - a normal one line sentence asking me to identify the difference among a lot, abundance, and plenty of etc.. I was thinking countable or uncountable nouns but nothing was clicking at the moment as it was based on some unheard idiom.
Sentence correction questions were totally different from my usual practice of retired questions or it can be that after solving and resolving the same official questions I was taking less time and thinking that I am improving. But overall while taking exams I could feel that SC was more concentrated on idioms or general English usage. A few sentences were quite long and jumbled. Honestly finding segregation points among answer choices was taking time. I got some straight questions from Comparisons, Parallelism and if -then etc. I remember that I got around 12 questions.
Critical Reasoning was on the same pattern or type of questions like retired official ones. I am weak at CR, so I was not expecting much from it. I faced around 08 CR questions. They were from Weakening, Solve the paradox - 2, Support / Reconcile etc. I am satisfied with the sub-section score.
Reading Comprehension - Every block had one passage in it with 3,3,4, and 3 questions respectively. The first passage was short and convoluted. Rest all three passages were easy to understand except 2 questions in which the answer choices were tough to eliminate as all choices were projecting the same idea. It may be that I was faltering at questions so I didn't get Medium - High or Hard questions and eventually I scored less.
My analysis for three sections -
SC - To read more about nuances in English from English newspapers. Go through idioms. Emphasize on English usage. Revise grammar and solve questions.
CR - I feel I need more practice as my verbal preparation was tilted towards SC :D
RC - It has to be tamed. Practice and that too from wide resources. It is not that I don't read but I am weak at comprehending convoluted kinds of stuff. Moreover, I feel I should read more from NYT, WP, Scientific American or The Economist.
Best Regards,
Rishi