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30 Apr 2020, 04:44
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Hello all,
I would appreciate your input and wisdom on this one.
My aim is for end of July- mid August to sit the test and my aim score is 650. My very first practice test was 410. (don;t remember the exact split but it was poor across both sections but tragic on quant)
I have covered all Verbal content through the e-gmat verbal course. On SC I hit the 70-80% accuracy on medium questions and around 50% on hard. On CR it is a bit more of a hit and miss, I am not able to have a very consistent performance. RC I started recently but in I am in a good position. Also I try to read as much as possible outside of my preparation.
My questions are the following:
When do I start preparing for Quant?
How do I maintain or even improve on Verbal while I am covering the Quant material?
Any suggestions on improving CR? What strategies are out there?
Any suggestions on improving my overall performance will be great.
Thank you!!!!
I would appreciate your input and wisdom on this one.
My aim is for end of July- mid August to sit the test and my aim score is 650. My very first practice test was 410. (don;t remember the exact split but it was poor across both sections but tragic on quant)
I have covered all Verbal content through the e-gmat verbal course. On SC I hit the 70-80% accuracy on medium questions and around 50% on hard. On CR it is a bit more of a hit and miss, I am not able to have a very consistent performance. RC I started recently but in I am in a good position. Also I try to read as much as possible outside of my preparation.
My questions are the following:
When do I start preparing for Quant?
How do I maintain or even improve on Verbal while I am covering the Quant material?
Any suggestions on improving CR? What strategies are out there?
Any suggestions on improving my overall performance will be great.
Thank you!!!!
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30 Apr 2020, 09:44
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Hi tdamyanova,
considering you have got around 2.5 months from now, I think you need to start now be it strengthening Quant or polishing your verbal skills.
Quant: It'll be beneficial if you start with concepts of each sub-section, devote may be a week for it. After that start practicing as many questions as possible. it is not as much important to attempt loads of questions as to attempt and understand the logic.
you may want to keep at least a week separate for Quants not mixing it with verbal. After you start getting familiar with questions and logic required to answer those questions you would want to mix it up verbal.
Verbal: SC would be easier to just keep practicing through out your study period. Personally I think CR section also require a dedicated 4-5 days to go through the different question types and ways to approach different CR questions.
These links might help to find a way to improve your skills in CR
https://gmatclub.com/forum/cr-strategy-155417.html#p1243168
https://gmatclub.com/forum/1-week-left-for-gmat-i-need-help-in-cr-is-it-worth-buying-73272.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/last-month-cr-strategy-66783.html#p490292
https://gmatclub.com/forum/cr-strategy-how-to-get-effective-at-taking-notes-224109.html#p1725716
once you get closer to last week in May you would want to start giving the full length mock exams to analyse where you are still missing it consistently. target those areas, refresh the concepts and attempt more mock exams.
I think investing time on improving your concepts will push your GMAT score higher and higher towards your target score.
Best of luck for your exam!
considering you have got around 2.5 months from now, I think you need to start now be it strengthening Quant or polishing your verbal skills.
Quant: It'll be beneficial if you start with concepts of each sub-section, devote may be a week for it. After that start practicing as many questions as possible. it is not as much important to attempt loads of questions as to attempt and understand the logic.
you may want to keep at least a week separate for Quants not mixing it with verbal. After you start getting familiar with questions and logic required to answer those questions you would want to mix it up verbal.
Verbal: SC would be easier to just keep practicing through out your study period. Personally I think CR section also require a dedicated 4-5 days to go through the different question types and ways to approach different CR questions.
These links might help to find a way to improve your skills in CR
https://gmatclub.com/forum/cr-strategy-155417.html#p1243168
https://gmatclub.com/forum/1-week-left-for-gmat-i-need-help-in-cr-is-it-worth-buying-73272.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/last-month-cr-strategy-66783.html#p490292
https://gmatclub.com/forum/cr-strategy-how-to-get-effective-at-taking-notes-224109.html#p1725716
once you get closer to last week in May you would want to start giving the full length mock exams to analyse where you are still missing it consistently. target those areas, refresh the concepts and attempt more mock exams.
I think investing time on improving your concepts will push your GMAT score higher and higher towards your target score.
Best of luck for your exam!
17 May 2020, 00:45
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Firstly, it is good to hear that you’re doing good in SC and RC. Since you're faltering in CR, it suggests that you have certain conceptual gaps specially when it comes to understanding the stimulus properly. Let me elaborate
To get CR questions right, you need to do some Pre-thinking before jumping onto the option choices. Now Pre-thinking is an often misunderstood term. Most people think that it is all about finding out the exact answer, but in reality it is more about understanding the conclusion correctly and what are the key factors that affect the conclusion and is within the scope. The good thing is approx. 50% CR questions use a certain frame work. If you approach these frameworks properly, you will find it easy to pre-think. Sharing a couple of videos that can help.
Comparison Framework
Plan & Goal Framework
With that sorted, let us talk about the preparation for Quant. I would recommend to start working on Quant right away because you need to invest a considerable amount of time as you said it was poor in your last mock. Your score suggests that you need start from the basics. So, it is very important that your study plan for quant is highly organized. Just learning the concepts and jumping to solving questions won’t help because there are certain strategies involved in solving every question on GMAT.
So I would recommend you to look for an online course which helps you learn these strategies and analyze your weak areas on the go in such a way that you don’t have to put additional effort into finding out what needs to be done when.
GMATWhiz is one such unique course which provides you with all the features I mentioned above. Moreover we have a Exclusive Application focused Lesson called “concept-booster”, which is a Specially designed exercise with handpicked questions that occur after every concept video. It actually covers every type of question you are likely to encounter on actual test from that particular concept. They come with very detailed solutions to help you learn the best methods to solve each and every type of question that can come your way on GMAT. This actually helps to master each and every topic because GMAT tests certain type of questions from every topic. This is what concept- booster on GMATWhiz does. There is a free trial available , try it and see if its suitable for you.
For Verbal, try to invest 20-30% of your week’s time working on weak areas and then on practising.
CR is one of the most dreaded topics on Verbal. To ace CR, there are certain strategies one has to follow while approaching a question. Here is the link of a video explaining the overview of it. If you still have any queries, feel free to contact over call.
- Piyush Beriwala, Senior GMAT Strategy Expert at GMATWhiz
To get CR questions right, you need to do some Pre-thinking before jumping onto the option choices. Now Pre-thinking is an often misunderstood term. Most people think that it is all about finding out the exact answer, but in reality it is more about understanding the conclusion correctly and what are the key factors that affect the conclusion and is within the scope. The good thing is approx. 50% CR questions use a certain frame work. If you approach these frameworks properly, you will find it easy to pre-think. Sharing a couple of videos that can help.
Comparison Framework
Plan & Goal Framework
With that sorted, let us talk about the preparation for Quant. I would recommend to start working on Quant right away because you need to invest a considerable amount of time as you said it was poor in your last mock. Your score suggests that you need start from the basics. So, it is very important that your study plan for quant is highly organized. Just learning the concepts and jumping to solving questions won’t help because there are certain strategies involved in solving every question on GMAT.
So I would recommend you to look for an online course which helps you learn these strategies and analyze your weak areas on the go in such a way that you don’t have to put additional effort into finding out what needs to be done when.
GMATWhiz is one such unique course which provides you with all the features I mentioned above. Moreover we have a Exclusive Application focused Lesson called “concept-booster”, which is a Specially designed exercise with handpicked questions that occur after every concept video. It actually covers every type of question you are likely to encounter on actual test from that particular concept. They come with very detailed solutions to help you learn the best methods to solve each and every type of question that can come your way on GMAT. This actually helps to master each and every topic because GMAT tests certain type of questions from every topic. This is what concept- booster on GMATWhiz does. There is a free trial available , try it and see if its suitable for you.
For Verbal, try to invest 20-30% of your week’s time working on weak areas and then on practising.
CR is one of the most dreaded topics on Verbal. To ace CR, there are certain strategies one has to follow while approaching a question. Here is the link of a video explaining the overview of it. If you still have any queries, feel free to contact over call.
- Piyush Beriwala, Senior GMAT Strategy Expert at GMATWhiz
