Well, let me make it straight. Now I know for sure -- I don't like the verbal section of GMAT.It doesn't make me happy.
While I scored into middle third according to warm-up section of Cracking the GMAT, I decided to start with the first bin, instead of the second one. (Better more then less.)
You know what? I didn't mention any difference. The first bin felt pretty hard for me. Sometimes even really weird.
I made a few "educated" guesses, completed it rather quick, despite on the noise and overall distraction of TV and constantly beeping email coming in (yes, I receive a lot of emails on the weekend, too).
So well, what made me even more surprised is my result, which was about 90% of correct answers.
If you'd ask me about that -- I would say I made at least 30% of mistakes. However, I didn't.
So what could be my options to improve myself in the verbal part of GMAT? Still don't have a good answer for that.
Reading helps, however, to what extent? The texts posted in the GMAT are pretty weird and unlikely to belong to my list of readings. Other then that, I didn't mention any improve in my results.
From what I heard, Manhattans' Sentence Correction is very good. I have plans to acquire this book as soon as I'll finish with my official guides and one more (I guess Kaplan's one). I'm also thinking about Kaplan 800, however, I'm little bit concerned on some reviews saying that the questions in it not that good like even the free ones from mba.com.
I also have a set of printed material from my friends, with some sample questions and tests to go through. However, I'm not very fond of solving problems, that I can't get an explanation for. It will take more time, which I'm pretty limited for anyway.
P.S. Found a nice image to accompany this post. ;)
