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Hi everyone,

Despite my engineering background, I am having major issues with the Quant section. I need more than 75 min to finish the questions or rush through the last questions to avoid penalties. I don't have the same issue with Verbal: it's either I know it or I don't. But for Quant, it's different, my engineering brain just wants to sit down and solve the problem, which is not the point of GMAT!

Any help would be appreciated! I am 3 weeks away from the actual exam.



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Hi everyone,

Despite my engineering background, I am having major issues with the Quant section. I need more than 75 min to finish the questions or rush through the last questions to avoid penalties. I don't have the same issue with Verbal: it's either I know it or I don't. But for Quant, it's different, my engineering brain just wants to sit down and solve the problem, which is not the point of GMAT!

Any help would be appreciated! I am 3 weeks away from the actual exam.
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Check here: new-to-the-math-forum-please-read-this-first-140445.html HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR QUANT SCORE (chapter 8) and HOW TO SPEED UP (chapter 9).

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Thank you. It's super helpful!
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Hi id1592,

How many questions do you normally have to rush through just to finish the Quant section on time?

As a general rule, NO Quant question is worth more than 3 minutes of your time (not even the first question). When reviewing your CATs, on how many Quant questions are you spending MORE than 3 minutes on a question?

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Hi id1592,

How many questions do you normally have to rush through just to finish the Quant section on time?

As a general rule, NO Quant question is worth more than 3 minutes of your time (not even the first question). When reviewing your CATs, on how many Quant questions are you spending MORE than 3 minutes on a question?

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Hi Rich,
I rush through about 5 quant questions at the end. I am not sure how many questions I spent more than 3 minutes on. But I have been keeping track of my progress on 75min, 50min 25min and 0min marks.
I have no idea why people think that eng /math background test takers should have an easy time with the quant section. I find a lot of questions requiring significant time to solve.

Maybe it's just the Kaplan tests that I'm taking.

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HI id1592,

Most Quant questions can be solved in more than one way, so it might be that "your way" of approaching prompts is the "long way" (that's actually an 'issue' that many 'math people' - bankers, engineers, etc. face when studying for the GMAT). As such, to fix a pacing problem, you have to look at MORE than just the questions that you get wrong (and that take too long). The Kaplan CATs should include data on the amount of time that you spend on each question, so you should be able to review that information.

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