How important are verbal strategies for my case and target?

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Hi Greg/Vince/fellow travellers,

My diagonostic test results were 168/170 in Q, and 151 in V which I took about 3 weeks ago. My target school cutoff is practically 170 in Q (85 percentile), and 15 percentile in Verbal. My quant fundamentals are good but I am still going through all PrepSwift videos, exercises and practicing questions. For verbal, I am doing vocab mountain, maintaining 90% recall, revising every day. I am on day 13 now. I plan to continue this for 3 more weeks and take my GRE in mid-August. What I am not able to do is watch vocab strategy videos, because I am simply left with no time after work, Gre Quant, German classes, vocab mountain. I am confused whether I should reasses my timeline to include more verbal theory like strategies from Greg because by mid-August I will be able to do only vocab mountain and GRE official practice questions (from the 4th edition guide, not the big book). The biggest thing I am scared of getting 170 in quant but flunking on 15 percentile in Verbal, and having to redo everything again!

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15th percentile is approximately 144V.

Your baseline is above that.

You’d have to be extremely unlucky to score on the lower end of your baseline ( using ±5 score points variation) especially given everything you’ve shared about your verbal prep.

Watch a few of the strategy videos if you can, and you should be good.

“Lock In” with the quant too - 170q demands near perfection.

Reference for the percentiles:

GRE® General Test Interpretive Data

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9 standard deviations?

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I meant score points. I have edited for clarity.

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Okay thanks for the reply. I guess I will go ahead with mid August take, and hopefully all goes well! I’ll cover the verbal prepswift videos I think.

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Understood!