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Hi all, my exam is in a week from today and I am stuck on a score between 520 and 630. I have taken the exam five times and am very skeptical about the score I would get but have decided to give it one final shot. I am waitlisted at three Top 5 schools and my GMAT score is the only thing that would prevent me from getting in (as explained to me by admissions). I need at least 650, preferably 690 to make the cut.
In quant (range 30-42), my weakest side is problem solving, specifically word problems (algebraic translations, rate problems, and occasionally, linear equations). I am doing very well on DS problems, combinatorics, and all other topics (Rarely make mistakes on DS). Time management is not an issue - I often finish 5-10 minutes early in each section, but I clearly need to spend this time proofing my work. In verbal, I am stuck on a range 27 - 35. My weakest side is CR (assumption / inference), SC (Idioms), and RC overall. Admittedly, I have not spent much time on RC, or verbal prep in general. I did read about and tried to apply the various Kaplan and Manhattan techniques but found that my V score dropped..
Any suggestions on how I can best spend the next 5-6 days before test day would be greatly appreciated. I have already exhausted the question bank from GMATPrep and completed the 6 Manhattan practice tests (and almost done with the free tests listed on the forum. I have taken time off of work to study and plan to take a test each day, review it, and allocate 1-2 hours in the evening each day to verbal / quant and focus on addressing my weaknesses. Thank you for the advice!
In quant (range 30-42), my weakest side is problem solving, specifically word problems (algebraic translations, rate problems, and occasionally, linear equations). I am doing very well on DS problems, combinatorics, and all other topics (Rarely make mistakes on DS). Time management is not an issue - I often finish 5-10 minutes early in each section, but I clearly need to spend this time proofing my work. In verbal, I am stuck on a range 27 - 35. My weakest side is CR (assumption / inference), SC (Idioms), and RC overall. Admittedly, I have not spent much time on RC, or verbal prep in general. I did read about and tried to apply the various Kaplan and Manhattan techniques but found that my V score dropped..
Any suggestions on how I can best spend the next 5-6 days before test day would be greatly appreciated. I have already exhausted the question bank from GMATPrep and completed the 6 Manhattan practice tests (and almost done with the free tests listed on the forum. I have taken time off of work to study and plan to take a test each day, review it, and allocate 1-2 hours in the evening each day to verbal / quant and focus on addressing my weaknesses. Thank you for the advice!
22 Mar 2017, 06:08
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I am on the same boat as you basically, I am taking the GMAT next tuesday. I just finished the GMAT Prep Test and got a 580 overall and 8 in Integrated Reasoning.
There are some points that I know definetely lowered my score such as: taking many breaks and stopping because my family was talking to me during the exam, doing parts of it really late at night when I was tired, not having memorized the formulas yet, or I wasn't thinking with the right mentality most of the time as I was replying to messages and checking the phone during the exam..... and with all that time wasting I still managed tohave 10 minutes left in the quantitive section and in Verbal 15 minutes left. In terms of the Quantitive I think not knowing all the formulas had a lot to do with it. More worrysome was the verbal where I got 18 incorrect. Going back through it I can just see where I did wrong, but at the time of the exam I keep going back to the thinking process of 'this sounds better to me' than actually breaking down the sentence. This is silly since I get in practice questions most lv 600 and 70% of lv 700 right.
I know I could have definitely gotten 30-50 points more had I just done this at 5pm when I have the exam, which is the time at which I work best instead of 1am. Also completely focusing on the exam and not walking off at 3am and starting sleepy at 9am will help. Now, even with all these variables, I do not know if I can go from a 580 to a 700. Because one thing I've noticed I did struggle with the hardest level questions in the exam. I knew what to do but did not implement the formulas/theory correctly.
Lets see how it goes. Seeing how the actual exam actually is has given me a rough estimate of how it will be. I need to give x time for the first y questions, because I worried about time and I made mistakes in questions when I rushed thinking it would be right and then I had 16 minutes left. Silly.
There are some points that I know definetely lowered my score such as: taking many breaks and stopping because my family was talking to me during the exam, doing parts of it really late at night when I was tired, not having memorized the formulas yet, or I wasn't thinking with the right mentality most of the time as I was replying to messages and checking the phone during the exam..... and with all that time wasting I still managed tohave 10 minutes left in the quantitive section and in Verbal 15 minutes left. In terms of the Quantitive I think not knowing all the formulas had a lot to do with it. More worrysome was the verbal where I got 18 incorrect. Going back through it I can just see where I did wrong, but at the time of the exam I keep going back to the thinking process of 'this sounds better to me' than actually breaking down the sentence. This is silly since I get in practice questions most lv 600 and 70% of lv 700 right.
I know I could have definitely gotten 30-50 points more had I just done this at 5pm when I have the exam, which is the time at which I work best instead of 1am. Also completely focusing on the exam and not walking off at 3am and starting sleepy at 9am will help. Now, even with all these variables, I do not know if I can go from a 580 to a 700. Because one thing I've noticed I did struggle with the hardest level questions in the exam. I knew what to do but did not implement the formulas/theory correctly.
Lets see how it goes. Seeing how the actual exam actually is has given me a rough estimate of how it will be. I need to give x time for the first y questions, because I worried about time and I made mistakes in questions when I rushed thinking it would be right and then I had 16 minutes left. Silly.
