Stuck in 9-10 range in verbal reasoning.

[MangoPlant]

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I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get out of the 9-10 range in verbal reasoning. On the EK tests I'm consistently getting 28- 31 out of 40 and I'm wondering whether anyone on here was in the same situation and slightly altered their method to get to the 12- 13 range. I know I read somewhere else on this site that someone changed their method and went from 9 - 10 to 11- 12.

Do you remember any specific things that raised your score into the 12 - 13 range? (Like reading the questions first, skimming, etc, etc) ?

 

[xGeorgettex]

When I checked, there were like 8 threads on VR just on the front page. If you do a search, you'll come up with thousands of posts dedicated to individual strategies, gripes, and tips for this section. What works for some people might not work for others. You'll be best served in the tips/advice department to just start looking through those until you find something that jives with you. My opinion is that verbal reasoning is an art form--you have to learn fast reading, fast comprehension, and how to dissect what the question means all in about seven and a half minutes to do well. That comes with practice and post-passage analysis. Beat it over and over until you know it. For some people it's natural, for others it never quite falls together, but the only thing I've found to help is still practice and analysis. If you're looking for the specific strategies people have used for either of those two, like I said, search and you shall find nothing short of a mountain of options.