Bold faced CR and evaluate argument strategy

[kandulab]

Hi Stacy/Ron

Here is the situation in my mgmat practise tests, quant score is always in the range 46-48 but verbal varies from 30 to 36 , I want verbal to be consistent like quant (1-2 point difference).
I feel timing is the main issue for the verbal to be so inconsistent.

In all the practise tests I get bold faced CR's and "what needs to be known to evaluate argument" kind of crs wrong even though I spend more than 2 mins on them I couldnt answer them confidently and the time wasted on these will mess up my overall verbal timing so I decided not to try hard and skip these type of questions especially bold faced ones so that I have more time for other questions, until I find some good strategy I think i will follow the same strategy in the real test too.

I want to know a strategy ,if at all there is one,to tackle these type of questions.

Also I feel that making a mistake in verbal will decrease the percentile score drastically when compared to that in quant, should the number of mistakes in verbal less than that in quant ?

thanks

[jnelson0612]

Hi kandulab,
That is a great question but it belongs in the General strategy forum, since this forum is just for specific questions from the ManhattanGMAT strategy guides. Please repost in that forum; here's the link: general-gmat-strategy-questions-f9.html

Thanks and best wishes!