[Help] Best strategy for last 10 days of preparation - 720 Q49 V39

Hi gianluigi19,

Assuming that you took these CATs in a realistic fashion that matches what you will face when you take the Official GMAT, you certainly appear to have the skills to score at a high overall level.

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 shouldn't take more than 1 CAT per week - and your last CAT should be taken about 1 week before Test Day. From what you've described, you've taken 8 CATs/mocks during your 5 weeks of study - and that's a bit too many (and might help to explain the variations in your Scores - meaning that it's possible that you are getting close to 'burning out' before Test Day). In these last 10 days, you should plan to take 1 more CAT, but no more than that. During the last week, you should limit your studies to general practice and light review (NO CATs and NO 'cramming') - you would be better served by getting some extra rest so that you can go into Test Day calm, clear-headed and ready to work.

"Review" is an exceptionally important part of the GMAT training process; your ability to define WHY you're getting questions wrong is essential to defining the areas that you need to work on (and the specific things that you need to 'fix'). As such, I'd like to know a bit more about your last CAT. While a full Mistake Tracker would provide a lot more information, there are some basic questions that you should be able to answer (and the more EXACT you can be with your answers, the better):

Based on your latest CAT Score, you don't appear to have any big 'weak spots' in the Quant or Verbal sections, so we have to nitpick your performance a bit to define what you should be working on. After reviewing each section of this recent CAT, how many questions did you get wrong....

1) Because of a silly/little mistake?
2) Because there was some math/verbal that you just could not remember how to do?
3) Because the question was too hard?
4) Because you were low on time and had to guess?
5) How many Verbal questions did you 'narrow down to 2 choices' but still get wrong?

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