Hi,

Thanks MGMAT for the excellent service you are providing. i would appreciate helping me to reach 35 in verbal section.

i have taken the real GMAT twice and scored 20 in the verbal of the first exam and 19 in the verbal of the second exam. i'm not a native english speaker.

since it is very difficult to improve my RC, my plan to reach 35 as follows:

i'll focus on the SC and CR using MGMAT books as i need to sit for the exam in a 6 weeks time. my weekly study hours will be around 10 to 15 hours.

do you think this plan is good to get me to the 35?

i have done 3 MGMAT CATs and below is the verbal report ( i copied it as i don't know how to post an image)



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VERBAL: ANALYSIS BY QUESTION FORMAT & DIFFICULTY
QUESTION FORMAT Total Right Wrong Blank % Right Average
Time
RIGHT
Answers Average
Time
WRONG
Answers Average
Difficulty
RIGHT
Answers Average
Difficulty
WRONG
Answers


Critical Reasoning 42 21 21 0 50% 1:39 1:39 620 650
300 - 500 2 2 0 100% 1:23 NA
500 - 600 14 8 6 57% 1:49 1:46
600 - 700 14 5 9 36% 1:29 1:26
700 - 800 12 6 6 50% 1:40 1:51

Reading Comprehension 36 13 23 0 36% 2:10 1:40 620 650
300 - 500 3 1 2 33% 0:38 0:57
500 - 600 5 3 2 60% 1:40 2:23
600 - 700 18 7 11 39% 2:32 1:22
700 - 800 10 2 8 20% 2:21 2:06

Sentence Correction 45 25 20 0 56% 1:14 1:23 580 660
300 - 500 3 3 0 100% 0:44 NA
500 - 600 19 12 7 63% 1:19 1:27
600 - 700 14 9 5 64% 1:17 1:14
700 - 800 9 1 8 11% 1:35 1:26
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Please use this article to analyze your practice CAT results:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... ice-tests/

Then come back here and post your analysis. I'll tell you some things I think based on the data below, but it's really important to be able to analyze the data yourself and figure out what it means, so I want you still to do that, okay?

You're looking to jump from around the 20th percentile to around the 75th percentile. That is an extremely ambitious jump and I don't think I have ever personally worked with someone who could make that kind of jump in only 6 weeks. I don't want to discourage you, but I also don't want you to set unrealistic expectations for yourself. For most people, that kind of leap would be at least 2 to 3 months, and very likely longer.

The first thing I'm noticing in your data is that CR is pretty strong despite the fact that you're going really fast on a lot of those questions. That likely means you're losing some points on CR just because you're going too quickly and making mistakes. You're also spending too long on the really hard SC questions (and you're mostly getting them wrong anyway). Let go of those faster and spend that time instead on CR, so that you aren't losing points on CR just due to speed.

Go do the rest of the analysis according to the article I linked above and let me know what you think.

Also, if you have ANY timing problems at all, read this article and start doing what it says:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... anagement/

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Stacey Koprince
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