GMAT Verbal prep
I've been looking around online. Can't seem to find anything up to date, or maybe I'm searching the wrong things.
Anyways, I took the princetonreview practice test and scored 51Q and 30V with no study at all. So what is the best prep for verbal? I have the Kaplan 800 book, but I would like something more specialized, mainly in sentence correction and reading comprehension.
Thanks.
it depends... are you a native speaker? how did you do on the SAT verbal?
Yes I am a native speaker. I did not do too hot on the SAT verbal either. I believe it was a 520.
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either learn to read or start practicing.
Thanks. Just the kind of input I come here for. I'll get right on that.
FWIW I didn't like the Kaplan 800 book for verbal. I felt like a lot of the questions were more ambiguous than difficult. I thought the Kaplan Premier book was better.
Ok I'll look into that. The 800 was a friends so that's why I have it. I've heard the powerscore bibles are good. Any thoughts on those? I know they have a critical reading one, sentence correction one, and an all around verbal one. Any preference?
pick up the MGMAT books, specifically the SC. The CR and RC books werent helpful for me, the best thing to do is just the SC and go on GMAT club forum and do the verbal q's and analyze your answers.
Manhattan books are great for that kind of stuff:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2688737758791?r=1&cm_mmca2=pla&cm…
You can find 'em cheaper than that, but they have a whole series of topic oriented books to look into
the problem with Kaplan 800 in this situation is not that it's too specialized... the problem is that it's pitched at a level much higher than what is suitable for you
I know, I just got it from a friend. I'm going to use it mainly once the test gets closer to get some tougher questions going. That's why I am looking for some specialized verbal prep.
Just do all of the practice questions in the official guide book. I mean, for CR you need to familiarize yourself with the types of arguments, their structure and you need to be able to identify the components of an argument (simple). For RC the only thing you can really do is learn a mapping strategy or two and for SC you need to review the commonly tested grammatical mistakes (Subject-verb disagreement, pronoun ambiguity, misplaced modifiers, etc).
It should take you like a day to do this and from that point on you just need to practice. This is really all you can do. Also, the princeton review practice tests are shit. My verbal scores on their prep tests ranged from 28 to 41 and I ended up with 42 on the actual test. The only prep test with any real predictive power is the official practice tests on their website.
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