Dilema

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Hi all, I took this weekend the first GMATPrep test and I scored 540 (Q38, V25) after studiyng almost three month once in a while. I have competed all the OG questions and the verbal and quantitative review. It is obvious that my stategy is not the right one. I have just found out about the error logs :oops:

reading some of the posts here on this GREAT forum. I have starded to study from the Gmat Critical Reasoning Bible 2 weeks ago and the Manhattan Sc Guide only yesterday. I was thinking about reviewing all the OG questions and keeping an error log, analizing why I'm doing wrong before trying to do the 1000 sets (I'm not sute though if that's what I should do and I would really apreciate some advice). I didn't do this the first time I went through the OG questions. I'll do the same with the math section, as I know I can do better. At least I hope. :wink:

. A lot of my mistakes in math are because of overlooking and carelessness. DS section is giving me a hard time because of that. I feld dessapointed after the prep test, but I'm really determined not to give up. English is my second language, and I spend a lot of time trying to understand what I'm being asked. By the way, I ran out of time in math, with almost 10 questions, and because of that I kinda didn;t read carefully the verbal questions. I was thinking about taking the test in mid or end of April and try to submitt my application for this Fall. My essay part suck too, so i don't know if applying this year is such a good idea I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks

maverick101 · Answer

When are you taking the real test?

moni77 · Answer

I'm thinking about taking the test in the middle or end of April, if everything goes weel and I feel that I'm improving.

maverick101 · Answer

I'm in the same boat as you are. I hardly get time to prepare for GMAT but I still want 700+. I think I will change my nick to 'wishfulthinker'

I am going through the CR Bible, I don't see it improving my CRing. I still score the same.

Rubashov1 · Answer

I think it makes sense to do error logs and more work on the OG before starting the 1000 sets, since they sound like they are more difficult on average (I haven't used them myself). I would recommend reading as much English-language stuff as possible to become more familiar with it prior to your tests. The most common recommendations are the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com) and The Economist (https://www.economist.com). They offer a decent amount of free content on their websites.

moni77 · Answer

I'm feeling the same way. If I spend more time (10 -15 min) thinking about the author's reasoning, I finally get it. But it's TOO much time. Anyway, I really hope to improve.

moni77 · Answer

I think it makes sense to do error logs and more work on the OG before starting the 1000 sets, since they sound like they are more difficult on average (I haven't used them myself). I would recommend reading as much English-language stuff as possible to become more familiar with it prior to your tests. The most common recommendations are the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com) and The Economist (https://www.economist.com). They offer a decent amount of free content on their websites. Thank you for your advice. That's what I was thinking, especially that the OG questions have explanations and I could learn from that. I have started to read online newspapers in my spare time, but the easy ones. I don't have a large vocabulary, since I've been in US for 1 year and I haven't studied too much before. But I'll try to read the difficult ones too.

moni77 · Answer

Hi all, I took the second GmatPrep and I scored 670 (12 questions missed in Quant and 13 questions missed in verbal) :shock:

. Don't ask me how, cause i don't know. I have always considered math my strenght but obviously it's not anymore. I forgot a lot. So I have decided to buy the Manhattan Number properties but I'm not very sure about the Inequality and equation book. I don't have problems with equations but inequalities.......... Is it a good book? Two weeks ago I took the first Powerprep and I scored 700 (78% in quatitative and 93% in verbal), but I didn't take into account cause almost all were OG questions and I said myself that It's not representative of my real abilities, because I knew almost all questions in verbal. Now I realized that focusing on my verbal part and ignoring math was a mistake.To be honest I'm really really surprised by my verbal score. Another thing that I noticed is that I have a lot of calculation mistakes (like multiplying, dividing etc) and I usually spend a lot of time on calculations. :oops:

. Any suggestions would help.

maverick101 · Answer

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