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Raunak_Bhatia
29 Nov 2016, 12:24
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Hi,
In the last 3-4 days i have given 6-7 GMATclub Quant Mocks and i am quite consistently scoring Q46-49. I am really liking the type of questions and the practise of solving under time pressure. Is there a confidence interval for the GMATclub Quant scores? Reading through the forums, i read these might be tougher questions than the actual GMAT.
Since i have still some time before my real test I am planning to take the remaining 15-18 quant starting 15 days prior to the actual date. For now i am planning to focus more on the Verbal section, where i would like to improve from 30 (approximately 1.5 months ago) to 35. Can anyone please recommend what material should i focus for improvement on Verbal? I was planning to revise the SC and practise a lot of RC in the coming days. CR i feel pretty good with.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Raunak
In the last 3-4 days i have given 6-7 GMATclub Quant Mocks and i am quite consistently scoring Q46-49. I am really liking the type of questions and the practise of solving under time pressure. Is there a confidence interval for the GMATclub Quant scores? Reading through the forums, i read these might be tougher questions than the actual GMAT.
Since i have still some time before my real test I am planning to take the remaining 15-18 quant starting 15 days prior to the actual date. For now i am planning to focus more on the Verbal section, where i would like to improve from 30 (approximately 1.5 months ago) to 35. Can anyone please recommend what material should i focus for improvement on Verbal? I was planning to revise the SC and practise a lot of RC in the coming days. CR i feel pretty good with.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Raunak
29 Nov 2016, 12:37
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Hi Raunak,
While the sectional Tests are a great practice resource, the only way to truly gauge your 'readiness' to face the Official GMAT is to take FULL-LENGTH CATs (with the Essay and IR sections) under realistic conditions. However, it's important to remember that taking lots of CATs will NOT make you a better Test Taker. A CAT is really a 'measuring device' - when used correctly, it will give you a realistic score and help define your strengths and weaknesses, but it will NOT help you to fix any of those weaknesses. To raise your scores, you have to put in the necessary practice, review and repetitions. The CAT will show you whether your studies are helping you to improve or not. As such, you really shouldn't take more than 1 FULL CAT per week. In that same way, taking lots of sectional Tests won't help you to fix any of those weaknesses either, so planning to take so many of those tests in such a short period of time is not the best use of that time.
1) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
2) Did you take the FULL CAT each time (with the Essay and IR sections)?
3) What is your goal score?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
While the sectional Tests are a great practice resource, the only way to truly gauge your 'readiness' to face the Official GMAT is to take FULL-LENGTH CATs (with the Essay and IR sections) under realistic conditions. However, it's important to remember that taking lots of CATs will NOT make you a better Test Taker. A CAT is really a 'measuring device' - when used correctly, it will give you a realistic score and help define your strengths and weaknesses, but it will NOT help you to fix any of those weaknesses. To raise your scores, you have to put in the necessary practice, review and repetitions. The CAT will show you whether your studies are helping you to improve or not. As such, you really shouldn't take more than 1 FULL CAT per week. In that same way, taking lots of sectional Tests won't help you to fix any of those weaknesses either, so planning to take so many of those tests in such a short period of time is not the best use of that time.
1) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
2) Did you take the FULL CAT each time (with the Essay and IR sections)?
3) What is your goal score?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
03 Dec 2016, 15:20
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Raunak_Bhatia
Hi,
In the last 3-4 days i have given 6-7 GMATclub Quant Mocks and i am quite consistently scoring Q46-49. I am really liking the type of questions and the practise of solving under time pressure. Is there a confidence interval for the GMATclub Quant scores? Reading through the forums, i read these might be tougher questions than the actual GMAT.
Since i have still some time before my real test I am planning to take the remaining 15-18 quant starting 15 days prior to the actual date. For now i am planning to focus more on the Verbal section, where i would like to improve from 30 (approximately 1.5 months ago) to 35. Can anyone please recommend what material should i focus for improvement on Verbal? I was planning to revise the SC and practise a lot of RC in the coming days. CR i feel pretty good with.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Raunak
In the last 3-4 days i have given 6-7 GMATclub Quant Mocks and i am quite consistently scoring Q46-49. I am really liking the type of questions and the practise of solving under time pressure. Is there a confidence interval for the GMATclub Quant scores? Reading through the forums, i read these might be tougher questions than the actual GMAT.
Since i have still some time before my real test I am planning to take the remaining 15-18 quant starting 15 days prior to the actual date. For now i am planning to focus more on the Verbal section, where i would like to improve from 30 (approximately 1.5 months ago) to 35. Can anyone please recommend what material should i focus for improvement on Verbal? I was planning to revise the SC and practise a lot of RC in the coming days. CR i feel pretty good with.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Raunak
Hi Raunak,
You are scoring at a high level in the GMAT Club tests and they are generally considered more difficult the at the questions on the actual GMAT. So you should be happy about it. Regarding Verbal, the best way to improve in a section is to dig down deep in the problem types:
SC: The questions test various concepts such as S-V agreement, modifiers, parallelism etc. Find out what troubles you.
CR: There might be certain types of questions that are troubling you. May be Assumption, may be conclusion, inference etc.
You need to find that out and then practice them
RC: This again can be drilled down into different types of questions and also different topics. See what questions and topics trouble you the most and then practice accordingly.
Quants: Again try to break the questions in topics such as Algebra, Number system (very important), Geometry, PnC etc.
As an addition, start preparing an error log and keep a note of all the mistakes you made and the lessons you learnt from the problems. This will ensure you do not make the same mistake again.
Make sure you complete all of the OG and the Verbal review and if required, you can buy the Question pack1 from mba.com
Also, I would recommend you to take one full length mock CAT every week, so that you can train your body and mind for the full 4 hours of the test.
