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How to improve a Q49?

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Hi everyone!!

So I scored a Q49 on my first attempt and a Q47 on my second attempt. I think my fundamentals in quant are pretty good but I have a serious time management issue. I think I'm capable of atleast getting a Q50 if not Q51. I've attempted questions from all over the place- OG13, Quant review 2nd edition, Manhattan advance gmat, kaplan gmat 800, veritas, gmatclub math book and gmatclub.com

Besides time management what else can I do? and from where else can I practice quant questions?

Planning to give my gmat around the 10th of december so need to figure out a plan of action asap.

Thanks in advance



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Re: How to improve a Q49? [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2014, 13:53
ramalo wrote:
Hi everyone!!

So I scored a Q49 on my first attempt and a Q47 on my second attempt. I think my fundamentals in quant are pretty good but I have a serious time management issue. I think I'm capable of atleast getting a Q50 if not Q51. I've attempted questions from all over the place- OG13, Quant review 2nd edition, Manhattan advance gmat, kaplan gmat 800, veritas, gmatclub math book and gmatclub.com

Besides time management what else can I do? and from where else can I practice quant questions?

Planning to give my gmat around the 10th of december so need to figure out a plan of action asap.

Thanks in advance


You want to retake the exam over a 1 pt shortfall in Quant? Improve your verbal. A 1 point improvement in Q won't do as much for your score as bringing your verbal a bit. At this point your quant score is probably facing diminishing returns and your verbal may not be.
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Re: How to improve a Q49? [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2014, 22:11
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ramalo wrote:
Hi everyone!!

So I scored a Q49 on my first attempt and a Q47 on my second attempt. I think my fundamentals in quant are pretty good but I have a serious time management issue. I think I'm capable of atleast getting a Q50 if not Q51. I've attempted questions from all over the place- OG13, Quant review 2nd edition, Manhattan advance gmat, kaplan gmat 800, veritas, gmatclub math book and gmatclub.com

Besides time management what else can I do? and from where else can I practice quant questions?

Planning to give my gmat around the 10th of december so need to figure out a plan of action asap.

Thanks in advance


You want to retake the exam over a 1 pt shortfall in Quant? Improve your verbal. A 1 point improvement in Q won't do as much for your score as bringing your verbal a bit. At this point your quant score is probably facing diminishing returns and your verbal may not be.


Thanks for your response.

Well I'm planning to improve my quant from a 49 to a 50/51 and verbal from a 39 to 40.

If I'm able to do this my score should improve from a current 710 to around 730/740 range.

So any tips for quant improvement will be appreciated.

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Re: How to improve a Q49? [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2014, 23:53
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To push your score from Q49 to say Q50/Q51, you will have to do two things. First, eliminate any mistakes from easy and medium level questions, this will require focus and concentration and also double checking your work, speed and accuracy will be very important here. To improve on this continue to practice with easy and medium level questions. The second part is dealing with the more complex and new types of GMAT problems that inevitably show up when you are heading towards Q50/Q51, this will require you to be able to develop quick insight in to new problems.

I wrote a post on this forum earlier about it and here is the link: q49-to-q51-171175.html#p1364299

As for the content for practice, use the following official stuff:
1) GMATPrep Question Pack 1.
2) Questions in the GMATPrep database(assuming you have done the two free practice tests): all-gmatprep-questions-quant-verbal-187679.html
3) GMATPrep Exam Pack 1

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ramalo wrote:
Hi everyone!!

So I scored a Q49 on my first attempt and a Q47 on my second attempt. I think my fundamentals in quant are pretty good but I have a serious time management issue. I think I'm capable of atleast getting a Q50 if not Q51. I've attempted questions from all over the place- OG13, Quant review 2nd edition, Manhattan advance gmat, kaplan gmat 800, veritas, gmatclub math book and gmatclub.com

Besides time management what else can I do? and from where else can I practice quant questions?

Planning to give my gmat around the 10th of december so need to figure out a plan of action asap.

Thanks in advance


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