Operation GMAT **(unclassified)**

so you got about 1.5 weeks. try to concentrate on fixing your problem areas and refrain from overloading. Relax couple of days before test and good luck!

Dawgie, yes...everything helps. Granted that problems in there are harder than expected I think do cover all the basis fairly well and requires you to do more. I like their Math and Verbal refreshers. Although they are not so much in dept as the Manhattan ones are they do just a pretty good summary in just the few pages provided.

shaselai, kudo's for thinking what I'm thinking =)

vwjetty,

Do you think Starcraft 2 has helped your quant ability in the recent months?

of course. analytical abilities certainly helps. plus number crunching.

You crunched numbers in SC2? No wonder you are 49Q!

not as good as them koreans

So I did some more reading and note-taking in the Number Properties book (studying). It seems to be clicking a little more. The only thing that I'm not seeing, at least not now, is how is this material going to translate into doing well on the quantitative section of the test. I'm sure that it is building on a foundation, but at this point, I just can't really see it. I attempted a "sub-600" level quant question today that dealt with probabilities, and I didn't know where to start. I'm staying optimistic though. On a side note, I'm doing verbal questions in the verbal question forum during the day (while I'm supposed to be working). I think that I've identified my weakness, which is Sentence Correction. It isn't a glaring weakness, but compared to me getting almost 4 out of every 5 CR right, I think this is my weakest verbal area. I feel that I'll do well in verbal, so I'm really, really, REALLY trying to get my quant up to at least a 49. That's about it for the night. I might do another verbal problem or two before I go to bed, but I'm watching the football game as well.

VW and Dawgie,

Any of you play Call of Duty? I've had to take a break due to studying, but I might still sneak some gametime in there in between sessions.

Doing the mgmat books really helps in applying the knowledge while doing quant questions.

I'm still on break too due to studying, when I get back I'm going to SC2 no doubt.

call of duty... i guess if you like online then maybe. the story so short...

Yeah, I only play it online.

I understand where you are coming from in regard to the Numbers Properties book. It isn't exactly going to be a direct relation in questions you will likely face on the GMAT so much as understanding the underlying principals of the questions. What this means is that understanding the properties of the numbers in the GMAT questions allows you to better understand what they are asking and also how to use the strategies in the MGMAT books to solve the questions. As an example, if you are asked to find some number, the question says it's an integer (or prime, or even, you get the idea), you can take this and, with your understanding of number properties, quickly eliminate some of the answer choices, or to just quickly calculate the correct answer. I have found that I am doing questions so quickly that I'm starting to wonder if they are really asking me what it looks like. I'm starting to doubt myself as the answers are sometimes coming so quickly that I don't even write the information down. It just pops into my head. Keep in mind that this was NOT the case 6 weeks ago when I started studying. Back then I was writing copious notes and calculating everything. As others have posted on here, the Numbers Properties book is incredibly useful.

Also, I'll be honest and say that some areas are still difficult for me. I answer the advanced probability questions correct only part of the time. This is also true for combinatorics. I can only invest so much time on each area so I'm happy that I have a strong grasp of almost all of the topics. As you can see with some users, they scored high even when there were a couple sections that they were weak in. Good luck!

I understand where you are coming from in regard to the Numbers Properties book. It isn't exactly going to be a direct relation in questions you will likely face on the GMAT so much as understanding the underlying principals of the questions. What this means is that understanding the properties of the numbers in the GMAT questions allows you to better understand what they are asking and also how to use the strategies in the MGMAT books to solve the questions. As an example, if you are asked to find some number, the question says it's an integer (or prime, or even, you get the idea), you can take this and, with your understanding of number properties, quickly eliminate some of the answer choices, or to just quickly calculate the correct answer. I have found that I am doing questions so quickly that I'm starting to wonder if they are really asking me what it looks like. I'm starting to doubt myself as the answers are sometimes coming so quickly that I don't even write the information down. It just pops into my head. Keep in mind that this was NOT the case 6 weeks ago when I started studying. Back then I was writing copious notes and calculating everything. As others have posted on here, the Numbers Properties book is incredibly useful.

Also, I'll be honest and say that some areas are still difficult for me. I answer the advanced probability questions correct only part of the time. This is also true for combinatorics. I can only invest so much time on each area so I'm happy that I have a strong grasp of almost all of the topics. As you can see with some users, they scored high even when there were a couple sections that they were weak in. Good luck![/quote]

Vince,

So have you taken any CAT's since you've started to figure things out quicker? I'm trying to see the correlation between what you've learned from your starting point. It sounds like you're almost ready to schedule your exam, no?

I'm scoring in the low 700's at this point. I seem to have no problems with the easier questions, miss almost no 600 - 700 level questions, and do ok on the 700 - 800 questions. I'm looking at scheduling pretty soon, I just want to finish up a few more sections in prep. It really is amazing how easy some of the questions become after you get used to the pattern. I think the best thing I can say for all of the practice is that you start to recognize exactly what they are asking for, which is half the battle for me. Once I know what they are asking and what sort of problem it is, I usually have a very good idea of what strategy I need to use in order to find the answer.

Alright, so I'm wading into the OG12th problems now. I don't know if the questions are still supposed to be fairly difficult after reading the Number Properties guide, but they still are pretty tough. I'm going to work on some more of the problems tonight, with a little MNF intermission. Sorry for the infrequent posts. I don't want to post that I'm still reading, or that I didn't get as much studying done today as I would have liked to. I figure the members of this forum want to hear the positive results.

I made a mistake in the first problems that I attempted. I started on the wrong page number according to the Number Properties guide. I did them yesterday, and they weren't bad at all. It was pretty encouraging for me to be able to apply the concepts that I've learned so far.

On a side note,

I'm here at work and I just finished the SC questions in the GMAT prep. 10 correct out of 15 isn't bad for not studying SC yet. I'm going to do the RC next and see how that goes.