Advice for GMAT Study

Hi mangolondon,

To properly change the way that you 'see' (and respond to) the GMAT, you will have to do more than just read about a concept/Tactic - you have to immerse yourself in lessons, practice, repetition, etc. That type of exposure can usually only be found in a GMAT Course. When it comes to studying for the GMAT, there are a variety of different options. Most GMAT Companies offer some type of free materials (practice problems, Trial Accounts, videos, etc.) that you can use to 'test out' a product before you buy it. We have a variety of those resources at our website (www.empowergmat.com). I suggest that you take advantage of all of them then choose the one that best matches your personality, timeline and budget.

If you have any additional questions, then you can feel free to contact me directly.

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Rich

Hi mangolondon,

Don't be so discouraged!
In fact, GMAT math is a logic test, not a general math test. Hence, you need to learn logic to tackle GMAT math questions. With the conventional method, you can hardly solve all the questions in 75 minutes, which is highly time-consuming and inefficient. That is why you had hard time improving your score despite your hard work.

Please note that mock test scores tend to be higher than actual GMAT scores and we don't recommend for our members to solely rely on mock test scores.

With our unique approaches of Variable approach for DS and IVY approach for PS, you can significantly save time, and will have 10 minutes to spare on exam. For instance, with our approaches, you can solve questions that normally take 4 minutes in 1 minutes and 30 seconds, and 2-minute question in 30 seconds.
Also, You can solve DS questions 100% with Variable approach and 30-40% of PS questions with IVY approach.

Based on your mock scores(please note that mock test scores tend to be higher than actual GMAT scores and we don't recommend for our members to solely rely on mock test scores.) , it seems like you lack basic math skills. If you are weak on basic math skills, your PS won’t be good. If your PS isn't good, you will have hard time in forming equations in DS. So, your DS may not be good. Hence, it is very crucial for you to build solid basic math skills first, which you can learn from Math Review, part of our course package. After that, we highly recommend learning our approaches. We would like to highly recommend studying with our course and give another shot in a few months.

If you would like to try our approaches, Please try Trial Pack (4 hour lesson) that reveal our secret approaches of DS+PS core theory that you have never seen. You can test whether you like them or not before you enroll.

Additionally, the below is a useful article featured in GMAT Club for your reference. This will be helpful for you. You can see what sort of questions you might encounter on actual GMAT.

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Math Revolution

This is probably your biggest problem. There are two things going on here. First: you aren't timing yourself when you practice, because timing yourself makes your performance worse. The problem is, the GMAT doesn't test what you can do with unlimited time. It tests what you can do quickly and under pressure. Working quickly and under pressure, and making tough decisions about which problems to work on and which problems to move on from, takes strong executive reasoning skills. Those skills are what MBA programs care about - they don't really care too much about whether you can solve math problems, except in the sense that it's a good way to test your executive reasoning. To be better at the GMAT, you have to practice with a timer, because when you practice without a timer, you're practicing a totally different skill set from what the GMAT actually tests. If you practice with a timer, you'll get better (slowly!) at taking the test with a timer, and your executive reasoning skills will improve.

Also, your score is lower than your actual ability level, because you're spending too much time at the beginning of the sections. This is almost certainly a mindset problem. You have control over how much time you spend on each problem, and if you're consistently making this same mistake on practice tests, you need to change your mindset and start deciding to move through the beginning of the test more quickly. I don't mean that you need to do every problem more quickly - I mean that you need to give up on more problems, focus on the ones you can get right, and do those problems smoothly and efficiently.