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11 Sep 2006, 11:55
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All,
I've only posted a few times but I swore I'd post whatever happened with the GMAT here in the hopes that others would somehow benefit. In short- I definitely know I need to step up my quant practice.
Full disclaimer: I took Veritas prep and also did private tutoring. In addition to that, I bought the 11th edition OG and the OG supplemental review books. In practice, I have been scoring in the 99th percentile in verbal, and quant...well, around the 60th percentile.
I took the exam this morning: essays were great, then quant was a runaway train that got way way way away from me...verbal was great. I cancelled because I know I didn't make the mark in quant, and that's what I need to show the adcoms I can do.
My quant experience:
I ended up having 10 minutes left for 10 problems. This is not good! Also, I thought that a lot of the questions really really tested your theoretical knowledge of math and arithmetic, not just knowledge of how to do practice problems. I was expecting a lot more algebra, and unfortunately I didn't see it.
On the Saturday before the test, I took a sample GMATPrep, and got a 47 in quant, my highest score ever. I thought, I'm set, all my prep has paid off. Well...not so much.
If anyone could answer this question for me, I'd really appreciate it: when you go through the OG, and you "understand why a problem is wrong," is there some deeper level of understanding to take away besides, well, if I saw that again, I'd know how to solve it? How do you get there? I can see that that's what I need to do to score 80th percentile+, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Or in general, how do some of you do it?!
I've only posted a few times but I swore I'd post whatever happened with the GMAT here in the hopes that others would somehow benefit. In short- I definitely know I need to step up my quant practice.
Full disclaimer: I took Veritas prep and also did private tutoring. In addition to that, I bought the 11th edition OG and the OG supplemental review books. In practice, I have been scoring in the 99th percentile in verbal, and quant...well, around the 60th percentile.
I took the exam this morning: essays were great, then quant was a runaway train that got way way way away from me...verbal was great. I cancelled because I know I didn't make the mark in quant, and that's what I need to show the adcoms I can do.
My quant experience:
I ended up having 10 minutes left for 10 problems. This is not good! Also, I thought that a lot of the questions really really tested your theoretical knowledge of math and arithmetic, not just knowledge of how to do practice problems. I was expecting a lot more algebra, and unfortunately I didn't see it.
On the Saturday before the test, I took a sample GMATPrep, and got a 47 in quant, my highest score ever. I thought, I'm set, all my prep has paid off. Well...not so much.
If anyone could answer this question for me, I'd really appreciate it: when you go through the OG, and you "understand why a problem is wrong," is there some deeper level of understanding to take away besides, well, if I saw that again, I'd know how to solve it? How do you get there? I can see that that's what I need to do to score 80th percentile+, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Or in general, how do some of you do it?!
12 Sep 2006, 09:04
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gmatgirl
Hey gmatgirl,
Don't be too discouraged. I think the gmat tests such a limited type of questions, that if you practice enough times, you will be familiar with any question on the gmat. That is why it is not unreasonable to see one's score jump well over 150 points. One day it will click.
I started out doing sentence correction and was solving about 50%. Now I am nearly at 90% because of my growing familiarity with the various questions. I even bombed on the mgmat sentence correction exercise. I think I got a 6 out of 25. But I learned from these mistakes. If you do enough constructive practice, your brain will eventually click.
