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GMAT in 6 weeks V42 Q38 - how to boost my Quant Score? 10 Mar 2020, 13:15
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Good evening everybody,

after deciding that I want to take the GMAT at the end of April, I did my second diagnostic test after failing the Quant Section horribly the first time.
The second time I took the diagnostic test (I already worked trough the Arithmetic section of the GMAT Kaplan Math Guide) I received a score of 660 (V42, Q38).

What advice can you give me to improve my quant score in just 6 weeks? I think somebody in this forum already mentioned that focusing on arithmetic problems is the most time-efficient way to improve, as most quant questions focus around this topic.

As I am working full time and also travel quite often, I'm afraid I cannot put as much of my time into preparation as I would like.
Furthermore, I am not aiming for an exceptionally high quant score, I think somewhere around 42 would be really nice. Is this achievable in this really short time frame?

Any advice is highly appreciated.

Thank you all in advance!
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Hi ullr,

Before I can offer you the specific advice that you’re looking for, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) How long have you studied? How many hours do you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used so far? When you refer to "diagnostic test(s)", are you referring to the 2 free tests from www.mba.com?
3) On what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

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4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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GMAT in 6 weeks V42 Q38 - how to boost my Quant Score? 10 Mar 2020, 14:45
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Good evening everybody,

after deciding that I want to take the GMAT at the end of April, I did my second diagnostic test after failing the Quant Section horribly the first time.
The second time I took the diagnostic test (I already worked trough the Arithmetic section of the GMAT Kaplan Math Guide) I received a score of 660 (V42, Q38).

What advice can you give me to improve my quant score in just 6 weeks? I think somebody in this forum already mentioned that focusing on arithmetic problems is the most time-efficient way to improve, as most quant questions focus around this topic.

Thank you all in advance!
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Hi ullr,

I’m glad you reached out, and I’m happy to help. Although 6 weeks is not a ton of time to make a significant improvement in our quant score, here is some general advice you can follow to improve your GMAT quant skills. Since you scored Q38 on your most recent practice exam, it’s clear that you lack some of the foundational skills you need for a high quant score. So, moving forward you should follow a linear and structured study plan that allows you to learn each GMAT quant topic individually and then practice each topic until you’ve gained mastery. Let me expand on this idea further.

For example, if you are learning about Number Properties, you should develop as much conceptual knowledge about Number Properties as possible. In other words, your goal will be to completely understand properties of factorials, perfect squares, quadratic patterns, LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, and remainders, to name a few concepts. After carefully reviewing the conceptual underpinnings of how to answer Number Properties questions, practice by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties. When you do dozens of questions of the same type one after the other, you learn just what it takes to get questions of that type correct consistently. If you aren't getting close to 90 percent of questions of a certain type correct, go back and seek to better understand how that type of question works, and then do more questions of that type until you get to around at least 90 percent accuracy in your training. If you get 100 percent of some sets correct, even better. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.

When you are working on learning to answer questions of a particular type, start off taking your time, and then seek to speed up as you get more comfortable answering questions of that type. As you do such practice, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get right. If you got a remainder question wrong, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not properly apply the remainder formula? Was there a concept you did not understand in the question? By carefully analyzing your mistakes, you will be able to efficiently fix your weaknesses and in turn improve your GMAT quant skills.

So, work on accuracy and generally finding correct answers, work on specific weaker areas one by one to make them strong areas, and when you take a practice GMAT or the real thing, take all the time per question available to do your absolute best to get right answers consistently. The GMAT is essentially a game of seeing how many right answers you can get in the time allotted. Approach the test with that conception in mind, and focus intently on the question in front of you with one goal in mind: getting a CORRECT answer.

In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant courses.

You also may find it helpful to read this article about How To Increase Your GMAT Quant Score.

Feel free to reach out with further questions.

Good luck!
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Good evening everybody,

after deciding that I want to take the GMAT at the end of April, I did my second diagnostic test after failing the Quant Section horribly the first time.
The second time I took the diagnostic test (I already worked trough the Arithmetic section of the GMAT Kaplan Math Guide) I received a score of 660 (V42, Q38).

What advice can you give me to improve my quant score in just 6 weeks? I think somebody in this forum already mentioned that focusing on arithmetic problems is the most time-efficient way to improve, as most quant questions focus around this topic.

As I am working full time and also travel quite often, I'm afraid I cannot put as much of my time into preparation as I would like.
Furthermore, I am not aiming for an exceptionally high quant score, I think somewhere around 42 would be really nice. Is this achievable in this really short time frame?

Any advice is highly appreciated.

Thank you all in advance!
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