NewKid,
The verbal score on the GMAT is based on how well you perform on RC, SC and CR. If you are weak in one of those parts, this could damage your verbal score and this is what happenned to me too...
This is what could happen if you are not confident about your reading capabilities during a GMAT exam:
- Spending maybe 10 minutes trying to understand a passage and resulting in a bad time management of the exam.
- Loosing concentration on SC and CR.
Beleive me, if you are targeting high, don't go to a GMAT Exam if you are not confident that you master fast reading techniques.
Pratice a lot at least one hour per day.
Try to understand how ETS ask their questions, the types of passages, business, science and history...
Do a lot of practice from differents ressources such as
OG, GMAT plus, V-study and time yourself
Buy books such as:
Remember everything you read: (ISDN 0380715775)
Triple your reading speed: (ISDN 0768909031)
Teach yourself speed reading: (ISDN 0071426655)
Speed reading the easy way: (ISDN 0812098528)
The bottom line is that English speed reading are skills that should be developped with time and needs a lot of patient and determination especially if you are not native english speeking. With a lot of practice and hard work , you will get the result that you want.
Good Luck !