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Feel Discouraged....Can I boost up my verbal?

by powxoper Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:59 am

I need your help. Today, I took the fifth GMAT test and I feel discouraged. Does beat the GMAT have additional test for Verbal especially CR and SC? I need to boost up my verbal.

My past GMAT
1) Q39/V16 total 460 (Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 9:00 AM)
2) Q45/V20 total 540 (Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012 9:00 AM)
3) Q46/V17 total 530 (Friday, 1 Jun 2012 9:00 AM)
4) Q39/V10 total 400 (Tuesday, 15 Jan 2013 9:00 AM)
5) GMATPrep #1 Q44/V17 total 510 (15 Jan 2013)
6) GMATPrep #2 Q45/V17 total 510 (24 March 2013)
7) Q47/V17 total 520 (27 March 2013 09:00 AM)
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Re: Feel Discouraged....Can I boost up my verbal?

by StaceyKoprince Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:04 am

I'm sorry that you're having a tough time with the verbal section. You're asking for additional tests, but that's not actually how you improve your score. Practice CATs are really good for (a) figuring out where you're scoring right now, (b) practicing stamina, and (c) analyzing your strengths and weaknesses. The actual act of just taking the exam is NOT so useful for improving. It's what you do between tests that helps you to improve.

We need to take a look at how you're studying and whether you have timing problems (you probably do - almost everyone does). Take a look at this article:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... -the-gmat/

There are many resources in there that can help you to figure out what to do (and also why what you've done so far isn't working) - follow the other links in that article.

Then come back here and tell me what you've discovered about your strengths and weaknesses, in terms of the questions / content AND your study regimen. Also tell me what you've been doing in the past to study and how you think that needs to change based upon what you see in the above article. We'll go from there!
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