War on Quant!

Hi all,

Like many of you out here, I've done my GMAT two days ago only to underperform quite significantly on the real thing. In my practice CATS, I was scoring around 730-760, with verbal around 44-47 and quant around 45-50. On the real thing, I ended up with a decent 710 for a first try but an incredibly lopsided result of Q41 (57 percentile) and V47 (99).

I felt that the questions on quant were far harder than on my practice ones, and probably a bit of bad luck was in there too, with the test predominantly throwing algebra and number properties questions at me, rather than some of the topics that I am much better at like proportions/sets/probability etc. I also felt that the first couple of questions didn't really make sense, which I would presume were some of the "experimental" questions.

In any case, I've decided to declare war on the quant section and to really try and get that quant score up in time for a retake in around 2-3 months time.

What resources would you guys recommend apart from the official materials and Manhattan strategy guides for advanced quant material?

Steve