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November 28, 2022
Papu8820

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Verified GMAT Classic score:
730 Q51 V36

Perseverance

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Improvement 90 Points

Course e-GMAT Online Intensive

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I decided to join eGMAT course when I scored only 640 (V25 Q50) in dec'21. Obviously, I cancelled my score. At this point, I understood that I needed to change my preparation strategy, mainly in the verbal section.

For Sentence Correction, the meaning-based approach is the real game changer. Even though I did not manage to get all SC correct under 90 seconds per question, I improved overall accuracy and planned to sacrifice few questions at the end of the verbal section (It is a risky strategy but somehow worked for me). My real intention was to get the first 20 questions right at any cost.

For Critical reasoning, approach for assumption, evaluation and boldface questions was very useful. My boldface question horror story ended immediately after starting CR module. (Pre-think was never my cup of tea and I relied solely on process of elimination)

For Reading comprehension, I watched two video links of recorded live classes by Harsha. He did not say anything new or fancy, but whenever I struggled in RC, I watched these two videos.
Finally, Thanks to Kanupriya who guided me during the course. She analyzed my weak areas and assigned tasks on daily basis to attack the low hanging fruits (I do not know why like this term, but I like it).

Being a non-native speaker, it was never an easy task for me to get a decent verbal score on the GMAT exam. With the strategical approach of eGMAT, I got a score of V36 (from V25).

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December 07, 2022
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Dear Papu8820,

Congratulations on the 730! A massive 11-point Verbal score improvement from V25 (37th percentile) to V36 (79th percentile) and a perfect Q51 are both truly amazing feats! Achieving V36 as a non-native speaker is just the cherry on top.

I can truly see that the different approaches across SC, CR and RC helped you achieve success. In the image below, we can see your perseverance to imbibe the meaning based approach and the RC strategies has really paid off!

Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/Papu8820-Verbal-Scholaranium

In SC – I can see that the time and energy you put into imbibing the meaning-based approach had a huge impact on your accuracy, as you went from 56% accuracy on hard questions to 80% accuracy –

Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/Papu8820-SC-Improvement

Having mentored you through this improvement journey, I can say that you have shown grit and perseverance throughout and I am excited to see what challenges you take up next!

All the best!

Regards,

Kanupriya

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