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16 Jul 2016, 16:39
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I am taking the GMAT in one week from today and although I have studied A LOT since my last exam 3 months ago my quant score is still not where it needs to be.
In fact, today I took a CAT from the exam pack.
My verbal score has really improved very nicely since my last GMAT exam in April although I studied a lot more for the quant section than for verbal. The last couple of mock tests have already indicated that my verbal score will most likely be higher on my next GMAT but today I was very pleasantly surprised to see it at V38. That is 7 points up for me. So I am not really worried about the verbal section, I think I am almost where I want to be in verbal.
Quant is the complete opposite and I just don't understand it.
I made 39 on the official exam and that was pretty bad. I know I have to bring up that score quite a bit.
Unfortunately after 3 months of studying my test score is now at 36. I scored a 36 today and I also scored 36 on the last two mock exams so I have been consistently bad with absolutely no improvement despite all the studying.
Okay I get it, I will never have a 50 or 51 and that is fine with me, but 36 is unacceptable. What do I do? Why does studying math not work for me? I am so clueless like never before.
By the way, today I scored above the 600 mark for the first time in my life.
Another by the way: I know that many of you non-native English speakers have problems with the verbal section of the GMAT especially SC, but you are all great in math. Well, as mentioned before I am a non-native speaker as well, but I scored in the 96th percentile of SC today. (I think I got one SC question wrong), 84th percentile overall in verbal.
I am just telling you this to let you know that YES it is possible to do well on the SC section of the GMAT even if you are a non-native English speaker. Speaking, listening to, reading and writing the English language a lot definitely helps and it is a lot more fun than studying grammar rules.
I still don't know what to do about math though. Nothing I have tried so far has even remotely worked.
In fact, today I took a CAT from the exam pack.
My verbal score has really improved very nicely since my last GMAT exam in April although I studied a lot more for the quant section than for verbal. The last couple of mock tests have already indicated that my verbal score will most likely be higher on my next GMAT but today I was very pleasantly surprised to see it at V38. That is 7 points up for me. So I am not really worried about the verbal section, I think I am almost where I want to be in verbal.
Quant is the complete opposite and I just don't understand it.
I made 39 on the official exam and that was pretty bad. I know I have to bring up that score quite a bit.
Unfortunately after 3 months of studying my test score is now at 36. I scored a 36 today and I also scored 36 on the last two mock exams so I have been consistently bad with absolutely no improvement despite all the studying.
Okay I get it, I will never have a 50 or 51 and that is fine with me, but 36 is unacceptable. What do I do? Why does studying math not work for me? I am so clueless like never before.
By the way, today I scored above the 600 mark for the first time in my life.
Another by the way: I know that many of you non-native English speakers have problems with the verbal section of the GMAT especially SC, but you are all great in math. Well, as mentioned before I am a non-native speaker as well, but I scored in the 96th percentile of SC today. (I think I got one SC question wrong), 84th percentile overall in verbal.
I am just telling you this to let you know that YES it is possible to do well on the SC section of the GMAT even if you are a non-native English speaker. Speaking, listening to, reading and writing the English language a lot definitely helps and it is a lot more fun than studying grammar rules.
I still don't know what to do about math though. Nothing I have tried so far has even remotely worked.
16 Jul 2016, 17:26
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Hi Silviax,
After reviewing this recent CAT score, how many of the Quant questions did you get wrong that you COULD have gotten correct (but didn't, regardless of the reason). There's a practical side to raising that score - you can dump any question that you think is too hard or too weird, but you really have to nail the 'gettable' questions. As such, it would almost certainly be beneficial for you to purposely (and quickly) dump a few Quant questions on Test Day so that you can use that extra time to correctly answer a few more of those gettable questions.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
After reviewing this recent CAT score, how many of the Quant questions did you get wrong that you COULD have gotten correct (but didn't, regardless of the reason). There's a practical side to raising that score - you can dump any question that you think is too hard or too weird, but you really have to nail the 'gettable' questions. As such, it would almost certainly be beneficial for you to purposely (and quickly) dump a few Quant questions on Test Day so that you can use that extra time to correctly answer a few more of those gettable questions.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
16 Jul 2016, 21:13
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Hi Rich,
I got a total of 12 questions wrong out of the 37 and after briefly reviewing my responses I think that there were probably only 2 -3 I could have/should have gotten right.
I think I did dump about 4 questions relatively quickly, namely all geometry questions because I knew I most likely wouldn't be able to solve them.
I "triaged" one question and the interesting thing is that I was able to narrow down the choices to 2 and then unfortunately picked the wrong one out of the two. Bad guess, I guess!
I got a total of 12 questions wrong out of the 37 and after briefly reviewing my responses I think that there were probably only 2 -3 I could have/should have gotten right.
I think I did dump about 4 questions relatively quickly, namely all geometry questions because I knew I most likely wouldn't be able to solve them.
I "triaged" one question and the interesting thing is that I was able to narrow down the choices to 2 and then unfortunately picked the wrong one out of the two. Bad guess, I guess!
