790 GMAT (q50, v51)

[speedrag]

congrats, great score

[TwinnSplitter]

hey purplebex, looks like you've got all the resources covered, if you want some extra practice for critical reasoning and reading comprehension then check out the "Next 10 real LSATs" book that I linked to. The AWA book I linked to was the Arco real essays book, but honestly I wouldn't worry about AWA, it's worth nothing at most schools. Good luck, let me know if you have any more questions.

[umang]

hey twinsplitter...absolutely awesome job...i'm sure the feeling must be really super. Get out and have a couple of drinks....u really deserve it !!!!

[babypurin]

Congrats for your excellent score. Go out and Celebrate!

[hansenyip]

Hey twinsplitter (and all),
Congratulations! You are just incredible.
I will take GMAT in early Aug and I am looking for advice on critical reasoning and reading comprehension. My current level is something around 650 (Q51, V30). My SC is something around 70%, while the reading comprehension and critical reasoning scores only 50%. Pretty aweful! (as English is my third language) Anyway, I would like to improve the verbal part to V35. Here're are some details of my verbal:

reading comprehension: As my overall verbal score is 'pity' low, I opt for accuracy in the first 20Q. In other words, I will focus on the first 2 reading comprehension and mostly likely will give up the 4th one (wild guess). My key problem is the reading speed......Any advice to push the score of this part?

critical reasoning: This is where I wanted to improve the most. I saw a lot of your posts and realized that your 'tip' is practice. You have done something like 1200 critical reasoning Questions. I would like to know where can you find so many critical reasoning Qs? I have only the PR and OG with me (300-400Qs only). Please kindly advise.

SC: I score 70% in the SC section and I will read through spidey's note during this weekend. See if there is any improvement after that.

BTW, I am not really familiar with this forum and I am really appreciated if you can suggest which messages I must read in this forum, especially for the verbal part.

Thank you in advance and have a lovely summer in Chicago!

Hansen

[outrageous]

Hey Twinn,

Congratulations!! Really a Bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yay!!!!11 score. Wish you all the best for further process.

[TwinnSplitter]

Hansen,

Unfortunately I am of the opinion that it is quite difficult to improve your reading speed in reading comprehension, as I believe that this is something you acquire at a much younger age. Thus, the advice I have for dealing with time issues in reading comprehension is to work on your timing for critical reasoning and SC (since those are much easier to improve timing on), so that on the test you won't spend much time on critical reasoning and SC and will thus have a lot of time left over for reading comprehension.

As far as sources of critical reasoning questions, check out the "Next 10 Real LSAT" book that I linked to on page 4 of this thread (can also be found by going to lsac.org). But don't let the difficulty level of the LSAT questions get you down, b/c they're more difficult than those on the GMAT.

As far as posts you should check out, I'd say look up the debriefings of several high scorers (Ursula, GreyCellz, Spiderman, Alakshma, etc.) and pick up bits and pieces from their strategies.

Good luck!

[tripleS]

Thanks so much for this TwinnSplitter - the detail and all the resources are very much appreciated. I have taken the test already - score a 640 only but had I prepped following a more structured pattern - as you outline - with the help of so many more resources available on this site, I am sure I would've done better. But, I am prepping again and I'm glad someone pointed me to your log.

Good luck with everything !!

PS: I echo Alakshma's thoughts..

[agarwavs]

This is by far one of the best post on the site. Thanks for all the insight and the links. I am sure I will be using them in the next few weeks before I take my GMAT on Aug 15. Thanks Thanks and Thanks again.

Love
Vik

[gp1974]

Yes, this is the best post I have ever read. You are amazing. You should perhaps take-up a venture of writing your GMAT book.

I do want your suggestion on statistics. Can you please suggest a resource for me to practice some good questions on mean, median, standard deviation on DS and PS format. Although I understand the concepts of mean, median and sd, I always get stumped by these questions, especially when I see them in the DS format.

Also, how useful would the reading comprehension and critical reasoning Manhattan material be?

I have a feeling that I am still average, when I practise questions on "Next 10 LSAT" book.

Thanks much in advance.