GMAT Strategy

Stacey Koprince wrote:When you look back at those verbal sections, can you figure out some more detail there? How is your timing - are your percentages dropping in certain areas possibly because you're running out of time at the end and having to guess on a lot? (And then, obviously, you get a lot of those wrong, and if there happen to be a lot of CRs there, for example, then your CR percentage goes down.

My timing in verbal is bad!I tend to overconcentrate on the first questions and i realized when i give the first questions some little bit more time i get most of the questions right, but rush through the second half of the 41 questions.

Are there certain types of questions (CR), questions and passages (RC), or grammar rules (SC) that you're particularly weak at - and did those types get tested more heavily on a test on which your performance went down in a specific area?

On CR:
Am quite good on strenghthen and assumption CRs but poor in weaken, inference and logical completion questions.I get impatient when reading CR arguments

On RC:
I enjoy business RCs more than Science and History ones.I realized if i spent more time to comprehend the RCs, i get the questions right.One thing that consumes most of my time is taking notes, which i end up not refering too..I understand better when i read the whole passage as opposed to skimming.

On SC:
My difficult areas are cases where the verb tenses are mixed.i.e a sentence could have a past perfect tense or a present continous tense and this would give me difficulty.I have no major problems with subject verb agreements,parallelism,modifications and comparisons


What are the specific types of things with which you tend to struggle in verbal? Certain grammar rules? Understanding CR arguments or RC passages? Certain types of questions in either RC or CR? etc.

I struggle most in understanding CRs and history and science RCs

Have you been taking the tests under full official conditions? (30m each for two essays, 10m break, 75m quant, 10m break, 75m verbal) If you have sometimes been doing the essays and sometimes not doing them, did your scores drop when you did do the essays? If so, you need to work on mental stamina so that you can still perform fully at the end of the test.