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Vera
Verbal Flashcards

Say why the trap answer is a trap.

Critical reasoning and sentence correction drilled aloud.

GMAT wrong answers are designed to be attractive, and you keep taking the bait.

What Vera actually is

A phone call with someone who is not there. You say the thing out loud, they answer the way a real person would, and you get to do it again — as many times as it takes, with nobody listening.

1She calls youA real phone call, about ten seconds after you tap. Lock screen, headphones, car — wherever you take calls.
2She plays the other personNot a coach reading tips. GMAT Verbal Practice, with someone on the other end who answers back.
3She pushes when you are vagueFollow-up questions, interruptions when you ramble, and a straight read at the end on what landed.
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“What if I am bad at it?”Everyone is, on the first one. That is the entire reason it happens here and not there.
“What if I do not know what to say?”She asks first and follows up on whatever you answer. You never start from a blank page.
“What if it is awkward?”It is, for about twenty seconds. Then it is a conversation, and nobody heard the twenty seconds.

Not practising doesn’t save you anything.

The ticket, the evening, the weeks of applying — all of it is spent before anyone says a word. The practice is the only cheap part, and the only part that changes how the rest goes.

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What she'll actually ask

She asks these the way a real person would, then follows up on whatever you say.

  1. What is the conclusion here?
  2. Why is that answer tempting, and why is it wrong?
  3. What assumption does the argument need?
  4. What is the grammatical issue in that sentence?
  5. Which choice changes the meaning?
More about this one

GMAT verbal answer choices are engineered so the wrong ones are appealing, which means improvement comes from articulating why a tempting choice fails rather than from doing more questions. Most people skip that step because it is slow in writing. Speaking it is faster. Vera works through critical reasoning and sentence correction and asks what made the wrong choice attractive.

What she listens for

Trap articulationNaming what made the wrong answer attractive is the review that works.
Conclusion identificationMost critical reasoning errors start here.
Meaning changesSentence correction often turns on meaning rather than grammar.
  • GMAT verbal
  • critical reasoning
  • sentence correction
  • assumption questions
  • trap answers
  • argument structure
  • meaning changes
  • GMAT Focus
“Doing more questions did nothing for months. Explaining wrong answers out loud moved my verbal score in three weeks.”
Lea C.

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Common questions

Can it do quant?

Conceptually, though quant needs written work. Verbal is where speaking practice pays.

How many questions per session?

Five or six analyzed thoroughly beats thirty rushed.

Does this suit GMAT Focus?

Yes — the critical reasoning emphasis makes this more relevant, not less.

What if I am bad at it?

Everyone is, on the first one. That is the entire reason it happens here and not there.

What if I do not know what to say?

She asks the first question and follows up on whatever you answer. You never start from a blank page.

What if it is awkward?

It is, for about twenty seconds. Then it is a conversation, and nobody heard the twenty seconds.

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