AjiteshArun wrote:
Somnium wrote:
I have taken now another GMATPrep cat (exam 2),
My score got better, but still very low : 650 - Q 47, V 33. ( Quant : 13 incorrect( 5 DS, 8 PS ) , Verbal : 15 incorrect ( 6 CR, 6 SC, 3 RC )
(When I just first posted here a couple of weeks ago, I got 570 - Q 41, V 27)
My goal is scoring at least around 720~ , and more specifically - scoring at least 49 on quant, and at least 39-40 on verbal).
My strategy so far was solving lots of gmatclub quant quizzes.( and I've gone through the manhattan SC guide once. )
I have another week of non-stop prep at my disposal. Could you please advise me how I should be using that week to reach my goal?
Should I now just practice different CATs? (I bought the GMATprep 3-6 exams + the question pack) . Keep practicing gmatclub quizzes?
Thank you !
Are you taking the actual test in a week's time? We generally recommend only light revision and a few practice questions (and not too many tests) just before the exam. You want to go in relaxed and focused, not (say) wishing you'd managed to get a little more sleep. If I were you, I'd focus on only official practice questions at this stage and take not more than 2 practice tests. If there are any major concepts that you can work on, that's also okay. Just try to give yourself at least one rest day before the exam.
Are you open to taking the exam again? It's quite likely that your score increases won't stop after just 3 weeks
Thank you for the help!
The plan was to take the actual exam next week. I have yet to register for the exam though.. The thing is : I have my last exam at the university by the end of the month, for which I'll have to leave at least a few days of preparation. So I wanted to take the gmat just before that.. I can however postpone the uni. exam for another week, thus postponing the gmat for another week correspondingly.
The rush with the gmat is because:
1. I want to apply for round 1, and understandably I want to be done with gmat first, since without it(or if I score below 700-720) there's no sense even thinking about starting to apply to my target schools.
Worst case scenario(low gmat) - I want to leave enough time for retaking\improving the gmat long enough before the round 1 deadline expires, so I'll have enough time for essays/toefl\ielts, etc.
2. I work full-time, and if I stretch the preparation for too long I don't think anything productive could come out of it. Hence, I preferred taking the necessary days off this month, and immersing myself fully in the gmat.
After going through a lot of gmatclub quizzes, I went to the
OG again, and the quant there seemed a joke and like a total waste of time.
Regarding verbal - after going through the manhattan SC guide, I solved the last 30 questions of the SC section in the
OG - almost all of them correctly, with only a few mistake. So the
OG seemed once again like a waste of time. I did however have 6 incorrect SC questions at the GMATPrep exam 2, which really surprises and bothers me..
RC though seems to be good, missed only 2-3.
CR - I got 3 wrong in the first gmatprep exam, and 6 wrong in the second.
I must note that the level of gmatclub quant quizzes seems very high. (I build quizzes with 600 and 700 level questions) . There always seem to be new questions that "surprise" me.. Is this really the level of the real exam? should I be worried? the 2 gmatprep exams I took seemed a bit easier, but maybe it's only cause I haven't gotten to the 700+ questions.
Currently I'm mainly focusing on as many gmatclub quant quizzes as possible, I just can't let myself score less than 49 on the real thing.
Should I, starting tomorrow, solve the gmat official exams 3-6 (assuming the gmat website goes online so I can finally have access to those..), or leave them for the last days, and concentrate more on quant quizzes?