Gmat retake

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Hi,

i took the Gmat last week and scored only 580. I have followed the Manhattan books on number properties, word problems, geometry, sentence correction and CR. I did all 6 MH tests and the 2 GMAT preps including the 404 GMAT question banks. I also did the OG 13 on Verbal and Quant.

I felt my issue was with the timing and verbal, specially RC and CR. I got Q42 and V28.

Can you please help me regarding what i should do for the next retake.

* Should i enroll in a Verbal course like e-gmat? please provide inputs for this. 
* Or should i take the GMAT prep tests several times to improve on the timing. I read in several posts that it is good to do the GMAT prep several times. 
* Also is it good to retake MH tests once they are exhausted just as the GMAT prep. 
* Can anyone suggest some other tests that would be helpful to do? 
* How should i improve on CR and RC (specially).

Thanks for all the help

GeneralEducation · Answer

Hi, Yes, you are right. Timing plays an important role in your GMAT test. You can practice as many tests (mock) as possible, this will help you to get adapted to the real test and you will feel more familiar to the sections and questions. And yes, solve maximum questions possible. E-learning will always help you if you can adapt to the online teaching methodology. All the best!! Neha https://goo.gl/LT72yk

KyleWiddison · Answer

I've made this analogy before and I'll make it again. Prepare for the GMAT like you would prepare for a marathon. Marathon runners do not prepare by running a marathon every day. They prepare by running short, mini marathons. You need to do the same to get your timing down for the GMAT. Run small "mini GMATs" every day by completing a set of OG problems in the proper timing (2 minutes for quant questions, 1:15 for SC, 2:15 for CR, 2:00 for RC). Looks like you'll want to place a major focus on practicing your CR & RC.

One thing that people often miss out on is heavy review. If you are only working the problems and checking to see if you are right you are only getting half the value out of your work. You need to spend just as much time reviewing your work as you do on the actual problems, reviewing both the questions you got right and the questions you got wrong.

KW

clearmountain · Answer

Hi CJT,

Decoding the GMAT language!! From the discrepancy between your verbal and math scores as well as the particular math subject matter you said you have had difficulty with I would say that you need the most work on developing more precise and elegant ways of summarizing verbal information as well as some mathematical concepts.

Let's start with verbal. I would not continue to take new tests but I would go over your old tests and tell you to certain exercises with them. For RC and CR, rewriting all the questions in a very short summary style. You need to distill the most important logically dynamic points, and not get hung up on details which you can always go back to. Goal: your summaries should be 1/3 the number of words of the passages.

For math, create your own glossary of terms. The issue that most people have with number properties is a certain fuzziness of thinking in regards to their definitions. Most GMAT books do not create fundamental worksheets to really clarify defnitions and that fuzziness is overlooked at the very beginning is what leads to the most problems when you try to answer the harder questions.

thanks,

Clearmountain

www.clearmountainprep.com

CJT · Answer

Thank you Kyle, neha and clear mountain. I will do as you say. I have also started to created my own error log to see the mistakes i make repeatedly. I read in several posts that this is good way to understand the mistakes.

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