Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
May 1408:30 AM PDT
-09:30 AM PDT
Most GMAT test-takers are intimidated by the hardest GMAT Verbal questions. In this session, Target Test Prep GMAT instructor Erika Tyler-John, a 100th percentile GMAT scorer, will show you how top scorers break down challenging Verbal questions..
May 1212:00 PM EDT
-11:59 PM EDT
Make the most of your break with the most realistic GMAT™ prep. Take up to $700 off select products.- May 13
08:30 AM PDT
-09:30 AM PDT
In Episode 4 of our GMAT Ninja CR series, we tackle the most intimidating CR question type: Boldface & "Legalese" questions. If you've ever stared at an answer choice that reads, "The first is a consideration introduced to counter a position that... - Jun 10
06:00 AM PDT
-06:15 PM PDT
Register for the GMAT Club Virtual MBA Spotlight Fair – the world’s premier event for serious MBA candidates. This is your chance to hear directly from Admissions Directors at nearly every Top 30 MBA program..
05 Aug 2020, 16:32
Kudos
Bookmarks
I have taken 3 GMAT test simulations so far from Manhattanprep, scores were 620, 670 and (today's score which really made me worry) 550.
Because I have been preparing for the LSAT for a long time, therefore familiar with RC and CR, and also taken the GRE a couple years ago scoring 168/170 in Quant, I planned to study only 4 weeks for the GMAT, aiming for a score of 750+ (planning to register for August 13).
During the last 2 weeks, I went over the regular GMAT books and also the "Advanced GMAT Quant" book, all by Manhattanprep. I got familiar with Sentence Correction rules because that was the only new thing for me in the Verbal part and worked on virtually all Psets in RC, CR and quant.
Specifically in the Advanced Quant book (which allegedly includes problems way harder than on real GMAT) I had c.90% accuracy (untimed), while I think it was only in c.5% of the questions where I finally gave up and looked into the answers for the solution. I did not time myself, but, expect for some really tough problems, I never felt that I needed a substantially long time to solve the vast majority of the quant psets.
In the very last test simulation, by contrast, I barely answered 2/3 of the questions, and the platform showed me that I was in the 25th percentile in Quant.
I have an engineering background, have always been quite strong in math and was able to go through the MGMAT books and the advanced stuff very quickly, so I don't really think I can be that stupid. Either I am an extremely slow thinker and I did not know it before (though, for GRE, I achieved that score in quant without timed practice at all), or there are some very advanced shortcuts that I am not familiar with/have never seen before, or the difficulty of the test simulation is simply way too big.
Has anyone of you had similar experiences?
Because I have been preparing for the LSAT for a long time, therefore familiar with RC and CR, and also taken the GRE a couple years ago scoring 168/170 in Quant, I planned to study only 4 weeks for the GMAT, aiming for a score of 750+ (planning to register for August 13).
During the last 2 weeks, I went over the regular GMAT books and also the "Advanced GMAT Quant" book, all by Manhattanprep. I got familiar with Sentence Correction rules because that was the only new thing for me in the Verbal part and worked on virtually all Psets in RC, CR and quant.
Specifically in the Advanced Quant book (which allegedly includes problems way harder than on real GMAT) I had c.90% accuracy (untimed), while I think it was only in c.5% of the questions where I finally gave up and looked into the answers for the solution. I did not time myself, but, expect for some really tough problems, I never felt that I needed a substantially long time to solve the vast majority of the quant psets.
In the very last test simulation, by contrast, I barely answered 2/3 of the questions, and the platform showed me that I was in the 25th percentile in Quant.
I have an engineering background, have always been quite strong in math and was able to go through the MGMAT books and the advanced stuff very quickly, so I don't really think I can be that stupid. Either I am an extremely slow thinker and I did not know it before (though, for GRE, I achieved that score in quant without timed practice at all), or there are some very advanced shortcuts that I am not familiar with/have never seen before, or the difficulty of the test simulation is simply way too big.
Has anyone of you had similar experiences?
05 Aug 2020, 16:33
Kudos
Bookmarks
The quant in the mgmat tests seems sometimes a bit over the line... a number of people reported getting Q47 only to get Q49 on the gmat.
Posted from my mobile device
Posted from my mobile device
tydsheets
05 Aug 2020, 16:39
Kudos
Bookmarks
I have had a very similar experience. My last official GMAT practice exam was a 710 (Q42 V45), which might have been lucky, but my first MGMAT CAT was a 600. I ran out of time in both quant and verbal, and all of the questions felt substantially harder to me. It's hard, because I'm trying to take everyone's advice and rely on the official exams and resources, but when I take the GMAC practice GMAT exams, the software freezes and bugs and doesn't release my score until a day later, so I feel kind of at a loss when trying to figure out where to go with my GMAT study.
