Help a Belgian girl struggling with Math (most typical quant questions

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Hi guys,

My name is Amandine and I am a third-year business student from Belgium. My plan is to start a master's degree in Finance next year, hopefully in a top B-school.

I am writing this post because I need help to improve my Quant score (currently a sad 44). I believe that despite my poor mathematics background, I could improve a lot if I had a better strategy to prepare. I have two weeks before my last shot, and your help would be priceless to me.

If you know where I could learn how to solve the most typical questions or anything else that would truly have an impact on my quant score, please write a comment!

Also, I would love to find a study buddy. For example, someone who is already very good at Quant but needs help in Verbal, we could greatly help each other!

Thank you in advance and good luck to reach your goals <3

HoneyLemon · Answer

Q44 means there can be conceptual gaps ..May I know What sources you have used till now and how much time you have gone through the same .

bb · Answer

Hi and welcome to GMAT Club!

I do have a post about improving from Q44 to Q50. See if this perhaps gives you some ideas?

https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-impro ... 41670.html

Thx
BB

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Bunuel · Answer

We have several topics dedicated to that issue:

5. Strategies and Tactics To Increase Your Score 
  3 Tips for Handling a Low GMAT Quant Score 
 Improving from 30-35 to 40-44 
 Improving from 44 to 50 
 Improving from 48 to 51  (7 chapters)
 The Final Climb: Quest for Q 50+ from Q47/48 
 3 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR GMAT SCORE TO A 760 
 GMAT TIP OF THE WEEK: YOUR 3 STEP PACING PLAN 
 How to Understand Your GMAT Practice Test Results and Score Higher Next Time

6. Strategies and Tactics To Speedd-Up 
 Want to speed up? Check this:  Timing Strategies on the GMAT 
 Follow This Strategy to Save Time on the GMAT 
 How to Improve Your Timing on the GMAT 
 HOW TO MANAGE YOUR TIME ON THE GMAT 
 Pacing - No one question matters unless you let it 
 The Importance of Timing on the GMAT 
 The Difference Between a 1-Minute Solution and a 4-Minute Solution 
 Determining How Much Time to Spend on GMAT Quant Questions 
 Timing is Everything on the GMAT: One Strategy to Help You Succeed 
 3 Ways to Improve Your Timing on the GMAT

For more check below:
 ALL YOU NEED FOR QUANT ! ! ! 
 Ultimate GMAT Quantitative Megathread

Hope it helps.

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi Amandine98,

The good news is that Q44 is a nice start! To improve your GMAT score to a higher level, you have to go through GMAT quant carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills. The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point.

For example, if you find that you are not strong in answering Number Properties questions, then carefully review the conceptual underpinnings of how to answer Number Properties questions and practice by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc. 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. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.

Each time you strengthen your understanding of a topic and your skill in answering questions of a particular type, you increase your odds of hitting your score goal. You know that there are types of questions that you are happy to see and types that you would rather not see, and types of questions that you take a long time to answer correctly. Learn to more effectively answer the types of questions that you would rather not see, and make them into your favorite types. Learn to correctly answer in two minutes or less questions that you currently take five minutes to answer. By finding, say, a dozen weaker quant areas and turning them into strong areas, you will make great progress toward hitting your quant score goal. If a dozen areas turn out not to be enough, strengthen some more areas.

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

Please reach out with any further questions.

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Amandine,

To start, with a Q44, your overall math knowledge is pretty good. Since the Quant section of the GMAT is NOT a 'math test' (it's actually a bit 'critical thinking test' that requires that you work through lots of little calculations along the way), you have to be careful about spending too much additional time on skills that you already have. Most GMAT questions are written so that they can be approached in more than one way - so if you've gotten "stuck" at a Q44, then it's likely that you are approaching the Quant section in inefficient ways (and there are easier and faster approaches that you could be using).

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) Have you taken the Official GMAT yet? If you have, then how did you score (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
2) How long have you studied in total? How many hours do you typically study each week?
3) What study materials have you used so far?
4) On what dates (or approximate 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)?

Goals:
5) What is your overall goal score?
6) Are you facing any immediate application deadlines (and is that why you have just 2 weeks to study?)?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

vamshikaithi · Answer

Hi Amandine98,

A score of Q44 indicates that you are pretty good with the concepts but are struggling with the application of concepts, which is very important to score well on GMAT. I personally scored Q43 in my first GMAT attempt. Later on, I improved my score to Q50 by focusing more on the methodology part.

You will require these methodologies and strategies mainly to solve DS questions. You need to do certain pre-analysis on the question stem before you jump into solving statements. And there are certain cases to consider and certain assumptions not to be made while solving. So, all these things will help you improve your score.

As you have just 2 weeks of time, I think you have to put in a lot of effort to improve your score. Use a proper resource which can help you with the methodology part. I personally used GMATWhiz to learn the methodology and strategy part. You can reach out to me if you need any help with Quant part. All the best!!

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