@ locosr,
First of all, let me remind you again that I'm no Gmat expert, but I can provide you some do and dont's that helped in increasing my score. My first real Gmat attempt score was 510, and you have 540... so I would say not too much variations in our score.
As you said that you need to get to somewhere around 650, then from now on wards your score is all dependent on your perseverance and your hard work. Your current score says that you have gained knowledge of all the concepts specially in Quant.
Had I been at your place, I would have ignored the GMAT prep test, and would have started my prep again by going through all
OG questions again, and this time not to get the correct answer but to see why other options are wrong. See, the reason I am stating this strategy is because the Code lies in
OG only. Some guys score 750 by reading that only and some score 400 only. ofcourse, other things does matter.. but my point is that
OG is everything for GMAT.
Now, if you want your score to somewhere aroung 650, your score shall lie somehere (q 49, v 30) atleast... again, you may score 650 by scoring in one particular section. but I would recommend you to aim q 49, v 30 bcoz looking at your score.. q 49 is achievable easily. All you need to do is to take
MGMAT tests and analyze each question.
For verbal, achieving 30 is a steep task, but not impossible. Go through concepts again and do
OG thoroughly... not in a rush.. this time SC and RC should be your area of study, and then take full length tests of
MGMAT, you will definitely learn some concepts,and then practice GMAT preps.
Also, for SC- follow
MGMAT book... have a firm understanding of Part 1 of book.
RC- cant say as I dont have any book on this part.
CR - Veritas CR1 and 2 is a good book for practice. you will definitely gain a lot.
Doing so.. I hope, you will be able to pull up your score.
Thanks
H
locosr wrote:
Ok guys, I just took an official test, and this is very disappointing. Although I worked hard this week, I was not able to improve my score.
Here is the result: 540, Quant 45 (17 mistakes), verbal 20 (18 mistakes).
I have to admit that I lacked of time at the end of the verbal (8 of my mistakes were made on the 12 last questions). More precisely, I made 8 mistakes on SC, 7 on RC and 4 on CR. The 7 mistakes on RC can be explained by the fact that I decided to pass very quickly on the last text due to my poor time management; before this text I had only 3 mistakes on RC.
Nevertheless, I do not understand such bad score. I read the entire book (
Manhattan Gmat) about sentence correction, I made mixed verbal questions with a time limit in order to get used to the real test conditions. But no improvement, actually my score decreases…
I’m not targeting an impressive score, I guess 650 would be enough to get the Msc I’m targeting, but 540 is seriously too low and I do not understand what is wrong