rxxx wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm a non native english speaker (French) and I did my undergrad in Canada. I took my 1st GMAT test after 3 weeks of work and had a really low grade (450 Q32 V20) in January. I dont know why i registered, i thought that after the CFA it would be easy, BIG mistake ! I used only
Kaplan Premier and
OG.
Then I took a new job and began to study in March. I booked a date in June and started to study. I bought the
E-gmat course, gmatclub test, few
manhattan books,
OG Verbal and Quant and CR Bible. I worked around 2 or 3 hours per day.
I did many tests during these 4 months. I always did a full test to work on my stamina.
Kaplan 3 560 Q36 V33
Kaplan 4 530 Q39 V21
Manhatta 620 Q42 V33
gmat prep 540 Q41 V23
Manhatta 2 640 Q41 V36
gmat prep 2 590 Q42 V29
Manhatta 3 630 Q40 V36
gmat prep 3 660 Q45 V36
I thought I would score a nice 650 at the real GMAT but surprise : 600 Q42 V31
So now i want to retake it but i need a new strategy. How could I improve my score to a 680-700 ?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Since you have taken the test now and thus it seems 600 is your real score inspite of scores on higher side in mock tests.There are many factors that go into this..
First of all, I think you should look at ways to improve math score..Getting around 48-49 in Math is possible. A score 50 in Math is possible even with 10 questions incorrect.
Look at the below scenarios in the link below and you will understand what I am trying to say here.
gmat-prep-software-analysis-and-what-if-scenarios-146146.htmlgmat-prep-software-analysis-and-what-if-scenario-ir-147106.html#p1181172The below links will also be useful
how-to-improve-your-quant-from-q30-to-q40-142810.html#p1145999how-to-improve-your-quant-from-q44-to-q50-141670.html#p1138322For Verbal, Increase in score can be seen if you can improve SC first...Since you have the requisite resources (
e-gmat---The best course for Non-Native), You should revise and devise a strategy around improving SC...The best person to guide on this will be Rajat from
e-gmat..You can drop him an email and an action plan can be created.
FOR SC: Try these links although I am sure you are aware of these posts
e-gmat-s-all-sc-topics-consolidated-144985.htmlFor CR, I like Ron videos the most...May be you want to look at those if you feel weak in CR portion
new-critical-reasoning-question-bank-by-carcass-165570.html#p1313670the-most-comprehensive-collection-of-everything-official-cr-140375.htmlgmat-critical-reasoning-10-most-common-question-types-162476.htmlFor RC, I quite like the STOP strategy from veritasprep....you can look at more on relevant forums..Some useful links are given below
new-critical-reasoning-question-bank-by-carcass-165570.html#p1313670gmat-reading-comprehension-7-most-common-passage-types-168362.htmlnew-critical-reasoning-question-bank-by-carcass-165570.html#p1313670Last but not the least you can look to buy GMATPrep Question Pack 1 and GMATPrep Exam Pack 1 from mba.com or get the same at better price by becoming a premium member of GMATCLUB...More on this is below
premiumATB...
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