Advice required for the GMAT exam scheduled in 7 Days.

To improve your quant and verbal skills, you may find it helpful to engage in focused practice of each individual quant topic. For example, let’s say that you want to practice Number Properties. You can do so by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc. As you do such practice, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get right. If you got a remainder question wrong, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not properly apply the remainder formula? Was there a concept you did not understand in the question? By carefully analyzing your mistakes, you will be able to efficiently fix your weaknesses and in turn improve your GMAT quant skills. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant and verbal topics.

Hi Shivam,

Based on your recent CAT/mock Scores, you likely have most (if not all) of the knowledge that you need to hit your Score Goal - so the missing points that you are after are likely based on how you approach the overall Exam (and the number of missed opportunities that occur on any given CAT). That having been said, you should not try to do too much studying at this point.

The process of taking (and reviewing) a CAT requires a significant amount of energy and effort - and takes time to 'recover' from. This is one of the reasons why you typically should not take more than 1 CAT per week - and your last CAT should be taken about 1 week before Test Day. Since you're now less than a week from your Official Test Date, you should not try to do too much studying though (lest you 'burn out' before your Exam). In these last few days, you should limit your studies to general practice and light review (NO CATs and NO 'cramming'); as an example, when reviewing these recent CATs, what additional notes could you have taken to avoid missing out on some of the 'gettable' questions that you got wrong? Beyond that type of review, you would be well-served by getting some extra rest so that you can go into Test Day calm, clear-headed and ready to work.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Thanks Rich! Will keep that in mind. Another question-How reliable are the Official Mocks in predicting the score with respect to the main Exam?

Contact Rich at: Rich.C@empowergmat.com

Thanks Scott! That is exactly what I am doing. Reviewing my Error Log and working on my mistakes.

Hello fellow members & experts.

I have the GMAT offline scheduled for 20th July,2022for which I have been preparing since January 2022. Initially for the first three months, i studied for 2.5hours daily which I increased to 3.5 hours for the next 3 months.
For preparation of Quant, I have referred to GMAT Club Maths book and solved questions from Manhattan Prep, Veritas Prep & Official Guides. And for Verbal, I referred to official questions only and watched videos of Gmat Ninja on youtube.
My past 5 official mock scores are as follow:
1. Mock 1 - 560 (Q 41 & V 27) taken in Feb at the beginning of my prep
2. Mock 2 - 690 (Q 45 V 40) dated 12.06.2022
3. Mock 3- 730 (Q 50 V 39) dated 09.07.2022
4. Mock 4 - 700 (Q 50 V 35) dated 11.07.2022
5. Mock5- 710 (Q48 V 38) dated 13.07.2022

I am targeting a score of atleast 750 given the high represantation of my group when it comes to applications. I have been diligently working on my error log since the past week by solving questions that I got incorrect and also those that I was unable to solve at my first attempt.

Considering that I have exactly a week left, what things should i focus on to improve the chances of achieving my target score.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Shivam

Hi Shivam,

While the 6 Official GMAT CATs/mocks are the most realistic ones available, the accuracy of any mock is still based heavily on how realistically YOU choose to take the CAT (re: how detail-oriented you are about making the CAT-taking-'event' match-up with how you will take the Official GMAT). The more you deviate, the more your practice Score can vary from your actual 'ability level'. For example, do you ever pause the CAT? Do you take your CATs at a notably different time of day from when you will take your Official GMAT? Do you skip sections? etc. Points can be won and lost on the GMAT rather easily - so if you are particularly strict about how you are practicing, then you might end up with practice results that make you think you are more prepared to face the Official GMAT than you actually are.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Contact Rich at: Rich.C@empowergmat.com

Hi Shivamjulka,

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