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25 Jun 2011, 07:51
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Fellow G-clubbers: I think I reached a point in my studying that's really frustrating. I've just wrapped up my 4th week of studying (quant) an feel like I'm starting to plateau with my absorption of the quant material. There are questions in the latter half of the OG that are extremely difficult and I'm not scoring well. I have my own version of error log, keep track of all my wrong questions, but there are topics I'm not quite "getting", even after reviewing it a few times. This has really shot my confidence, because initially, I was scoring decent. The next two weeks I improved dramatically which improved my confidence. This past week, I've been frustrated with problems I'm just not understanding the explanations too (majority are in latter half of OG problems past 175 in PS).
Anyhow, thought I'd reach out to the community and see if any accomplished scorers experienced the same during their studying bouts. Test date is scheduled for aug 26, shooting for 730, native English speaker, and scored a 550 on diagnostics cat
Thanks!
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Anyhow, thought I'd reach out to the community and see if any accomplished scorers experienced the same during their studying bouts. Test date is scheduled for aug 26, shooting for 730, native English speaker, and scored a 550 on diagnostics cat
Thanks!
T5G
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25 Jun 2011, 07:59
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How many different topics are giving you trouble? If it's just a few of the most challenging problems you might be best served leaving them for now and returning if you have extra time later in your preparation. Worst case scenario you can identify types of questions that give you trouble and plan to quickly guess them on the day of the exam (as long as the number of topics is small).
I think everyone runs into a stage of their prep where progress is slow--you just need to assure yourself that you're still getting better. The GMAT isn't going to be 37 of the hardest questions in the topics you hate the most anyway and you won't have to solve every problem to get the score you want.
I think everyone runs into a stage of their prep where progress is slow--you just need to assure yourself that you're still getting better. The GMAT isn't going to be 37 of the hardest questions in the topics you hate the most anyway and you won't have to solve every problem to get the score you want.
25 Jun 2011, 10:01
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Thanks G-koopa.
For now, advanced number properties, some word translations, probability and combinatorics are the most troublesome. I guess one of the things thats freaking me out is when I get the hard questions wrong, I have no idea what my quant skill level is at (600 700 level, etc).
I haven't taken another cat because I've been advised by many to go through the verbal section before I take another cat. If I do that by the 9th week and don't score well, I'll be in a time crunch to improve in a short amount of time! I guess what I'm looking for is a quant test to see where I currently stand. Does G-club offer that? Is it pretty accurate?
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For now, advanced number properties, some word translations, probability and combinatorics are the most troublesome. I guess one of the things thats freaking me out is when I get the hard questions wrong, I have no idea what my quant skill level is at (600 700 level, etc).
I haven't taken another cat because I've been advised by many to go through the verbal section before I take another cat. If I do that by the 9th week and don't score well, I'll be in a time crunch to improve in a short amount of time! I guess what I'm looking for is a quant test to see where I currently stand. Does G-club offer that? Is it pretty accurate?
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