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I can’t comment about specific companies here, but I would never trust a score from any company test,
and many of them are so unrealistic as to be pointless

Have you had any personal experience from them?

Investment bankers are generally experts in routing money from nameless offshore clients
while strat up as conduits

After having so much discussion and,I think I need breather ,what wind off
Since you are unable to post your ESR, I can provide some general advice on how to improve both your
verbal and quant skills. Keep in mind, improving from 520 to 600 in just 3 weeks, is a pretty tall order, so
you may consider pushing your GMAT to a later date and taking it when you are truly ready. That said,
here is some advice you can follow to improve your Quant, Sentence Correction, and Reading
Comprehension skills. Let’s start with Reading Comprehension

To improve in Reading Comprehension, you need to focus on understanding what you are reading.
When you are incorrectly answering Reading Comprehension questions, it’s partly because you do not
truly understand what you have just read, right? Thus, you likely have to slow down in order to
(eventually) speed up. At this point, your best bet is to focus on getting the correct answers to
questions, taking as much time as you need to see key details and understand the logic of what you are
reading. You have to learn to comprehend what you read, keep it all straight, and use what you are
reading to arrive at correct answers. If you don't understand something, go back and read it one
sentence at a time, even one word at a time, not moving on until you understand what you have just
read. There is no way around this work. Your goal should be to take all the time you need to understand
exactly what is being said and arrive at the correct answer. If you can learn to get answers taking your
time, you can learn to speed up. Answering questions is like any task: The more times you do it carefully
and successfully, the faster you become at doing it carefully and successfully.

Another component of understanding what you are reading is being “present” when reading. Don’t
worry about how things are going at work, or what you will eat for dinner, or even how long you are
taking to read through the passage. Just focus on what is in front of you, word by word, line by line.
Furthermore, try to make reading fun. For example, even if you are reading about a topic that bores you,
pretend that you are the person making the argument. By doing so, you will make the passage more
relatable to YOU, and ultimately you should be able to read with greater focus.

One final component of Reading Comprehension that may be tripping you up is that RC questions
contain one or more trap answers that seem to answer the question but don't really. So, a key part of
training to correctly answer RC questions is learning to notice the differences between trap answers and
correct answers. You have to learn to see how trap answers seem to follow from what the passages say,
but don't really, while correct answers fit what the passages say exactly.

Regarding Sentence Correction, there are three aspects to getting correct answers to GMAT Sentence
Correction questions: what you know, such as grammar rules, what you see, such as violations of
grammar rules and the logic of sentence structure, and what you do, such as carefully considering each
answer choice in the context of the non-underlined portion of the sentence. To drive up your Sentence
Correction score, you likely will have to work on all three of those aspects. Furthermore, the likely
reason that your Sentence Correction performance has not improved is that you have not been working
on all three of those aspects.
Regarding what you know, to be successful in Sentence Correction, first and foremost, you MUST know
your grammar rules. Let's be clear, though: GMAT Sentence Correction is not just a test of knowledge of
grammar rules. The reason for learning grammar rules is so that you can determine what sentences
convey and whether sentences are well-constructed. In fact, in many cases, incorrect answers to
Sentence Correction questions are grammatically flawless. Thus, often your task is to use your
knowledge of grammar rules to determine which answer choice creates the most logical sentence
meaning and structure.

This determination of whether sentences are well-constructed and logical is the second aspect of finding
correct answers to Sentence Correction questions, what you see. To develop this skill, you probably have
to slow way down. You won't develop this skill by spending less than two minutes per question. For a
while, anyway, you have to spend time with each question, maybe even ten or fifteen minutes on one
question sometimes, analyzing every answer choice until you see the details that you have to see in
order to choose the correct answer. As you go through the answer choices, consider the meaning
conveyed by each version of the sentence. Does the meaning make sense? Even if you can tell what the
version is SUPPOSED to convey, does the version really convey that meaning? Is there a verb to go with
the subject? Do all pronouns clearly refer to nouns? By slowing way down and looking for these details,
you learn to see what you have to see in order to clearly understand which answer to a Sentence
Correction question is correct.

There is only one correct answer to any Sentence Correction question, there are clear reasons why that
choice is correct and the others are not, and none of those reasons are that the correct version simply
"sounds right." In fact, the correct version often sounds a little off at first. That correct answers may
sound a little off is not surprising. If the correct answers were always the ones that sounded right, then
most people most of the time would get Sentence Correction questions correct, without really knowing
why the wrong answers were wrong and the correct answers were correct. So, you have to go beyond
choosing what "sounds right" and learn to clearly see the logical reasons why one choice is better than
all of the others.

As for the third aspect of getting Sentence Correction questions correct, what you do, the main thing
you have to do is be very careful. You have to make sure that you are truly considering the structures of
sentences and the meanings conveyed rather than allowing yourself to be tricked into choosing trap
answers that sound right but don't convey meanings that make sense. You also have to make sure that
you put some real energy into finding the correct answers. Finding the correct answer to a Sentence
Correction question may take bouncing from choice to choice repeatedly until you start to see the
differences between the choices that make all choices wrong except for one. Often, when you first look
at the choices, only one or two seem obviously incorrect. Getting the right answers takes a certain work
ethic. You have to put in the necessary time to see the differences between answers and to figure out
the precise reasons that one choice is correct.

To improve what you do when you answer Sentence Correction questions, seek to become aware of
how you are going about answering them. Are you being careful and looking for logic and details, or are
you quickly eliminating choices that sound a little off and then choosing the best of the rest? If you
choose an incorrect answer, consider what you did to arrive at that answer and what you could do
differently to arrive at correct answers more consistently. Furthermore, see how many questions you
can get correct in a row as you practice. If you break your streak by missing one, consider what you
could do differently to extend your streak.

After learning a particular Sentence Correction topic, engage in focused practice with 30 questions or
more that involve that topic. As your skills improve, you’ll then want to practice with questions that test
you on skills from multiple SC topics.
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Finally, when it comes to improving your quant skills, you need to ensure that you are following a linear
and structured approach, so that you are able to learn each GMAT quant topic and then practice each
topic until you’ve gained mastery. Let me expand on this idea further.

For example, if you are learning about Number Properties, you should develop as much conceptual
knowledge about Number Properties as possible. In other words, your goal will be to completely
understand properties of factorials, perfect squares, quadratic patterns, LCM, GCF, units digit patterns,
divisibility, and remainders, to name a few concepts. After carefully reviewing the conceptual
underpinnings of how to answer Number Properties questions, practice by answering 50 or more
questions just from Number Properties. When you do dozens of questions of the same type one after
the other, you learn just what it takes to get questions of that type correct consistently. If you aren't
getting close to 90 percent of questions of a certain type correct, go back and seek to better understand
how that type of question works, and then do more questions of that type until you get to around at
least 90 percent accuracy in your training. If you get 100 percent of some sets correct, even better.
Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.

When you are working on learning to answer questions of a particular type, start off taking your time,
and then seek to speed up as you get more comfortable answering questions of that type. As you do
such practice, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get right. If you got a remainder
question wrong, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not properly apply the
remainder formula? Was there a concept you did not understand in the question? By carefully analyzing
your mistakes, you will be able to efficiently fix your weaknesses and in turn improve your GMAT quant
skills.

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