Balajikarthick1990 wrote:
Dear Mike
First and Foremost, I fell in love with the
magoosh UI and especially the filters. I have scheduled my gmat on march - 18, 2016. I have the following materials (OG16,OG12 ,Manhattan SC,Power score CR etc).
I started with manhattan and solved all the questions. Quants has been my forte for life. Now I solved all the 500+ questions in
magoosh and My accuracy is 81% CORRECT with average time of 1 min 23 sec.
Out of 98 incorrect questions ( 45 are very hard , 37 are hard)....Estimated Score : 42 to 45
It will be gr8 if you can tell me what should i do now? I wish to score q50 in quants---Basically I want to maximize my strengths...
I have OG16,OG12,Quant review - 2016 for quants.
Predominantly i struggle with probability and P&C as far as concepts are concerned.
Thanks in Advance...
Dear
Balajikarthick1990,
I'm happy to respond.
First of all, I am going to recommend a couple of blog articles. This is one about re-thinking math:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/how-to-do- ... th-faster/This is one about pursuing excellence (a score of 50+ on the GMAT Quant is excellent!)
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/gmat-study ... 0-or-more/What strikes me is the incredible breadth you have covered in your practice of GMAT Quant. Keep in mind that developing deep understanding involves a subtle balance of breadth with depth.
On the side of depth, I would say: first and foremost, math happens in the details. From your overall stats, I can tell very little about what is happening for you. Go back to those 98 questions you got wrong, and give each one a detailed treatment. For each question, I want you to write down, in an
error log, the exact nature of your mistake, exactly what you forgot or didn't know or missed or overlooked or misinterpreted. For each question, I want you to write down exactly what ideas you need to study so that you never make that mistake again. If the TE & VE were not enough, and you are left with more questions, then come here to GMAT Club. Please please please do not start a new thread for a question that has already been posted. Search thorough for a thread with the question already, and add to this pre-existing post, before you start a new thread on your own. When you post, give the entire question, and explain in detail exactly what you understand, exactly what you thought you were supposed to do, and exactly what is unclear to you. Free free to solicit my input wherever you post these questions.
On the topic of probability and counting, these are very tricky for a few reasons. In much of algebra & geometry & word problems, those are more "follow the rules" questions. If there's a formula, one just uses the formula and gets the answer. In algebra & geometry & word problems, you can just jump into the problem focused on the question "
what should I do?" Part of the challenge of probability and counting is that what you will do in any question, what formula you will use and what procedure you will follow, depends heavily on how you frame the problem. The primary question in a probability or counting question is not "
what to do?" but "
how to see?" The problems depend very much on how you see the question, how you conceptually organize and frame the information in the question. Once you are looking at the question in the right way, what needs to be done will be easy----the hard part is framing the question. This can be a hard thing to get from the VE or TE, because an explanation sometimes will begin with "
OK, we'll look at it this way. Now, we do this . . ." The framing part, the hard part, happens lickety-split at the beginning, so it's easy to miss. This also would make for a valuable thread on GMAT Club: asking the experts how one would know to approach a probability problem one way as opposed to another way.
At this point, moving to the next level will not simply be about learning rules and formulas better. It will be about your ability to be creative, to think outside-of-the-box, and dissect problems in unconventional ways. The GMAT Quant excels at creating hard question that test-takers have never seen before, and success is all about adapting in the moment to this new and unconventional challenge. Again, you will learn a great deal about studying the hard problems here on GMAT Club.
Does all this make sense?
Mike