cmldps wrote:
Hi,
I am currently in the prep phase with a goal to have the exam by the middle of December (no date booked yet). My target score is between 700-710.
I have not finished brushing up on all the concepts yet, but I follow the
Manhattan books for the concepts and the
OG for the questions. (Still have a couple of topics like number properties and geometry left over in quant, and some in Sentence correction).
From the First CAT to the second (5 weeks apart), I improved my quant score from 30 to 40, however I seem to have reduced my verbal score from 33 to 27, which ultimately only led to a 20 point increase from 530 to 550.
I am looking for some tips in quant to move over the 40 mark to near a 47-48 mark. Any tips on material or strategies that I can follow will be appreciated. When it comes to verbal, while solving the
OG questions (now on the Hard category), I get most of the RC and the CR questions right, however during the mock, I got a lot of these wrong. I am not sure if it's because I was overly stressed out since I was a bit focused on the quant and how I had the last couple of questions easy and was thinking about that score or not. But I would really like some tips here since I am used to having atlas a 70% correct rate. Sentence correct is another story! It seems on the mock that I got most of my sentence corrects correct but I know that it is my weakness, compared to CR and RC. I am trying to play to my strengths, but it looks like that didn't work today.
I am a list disappointed and would really just appreciate some support and ideas on how to bridge the gap between a 550 to a 700.
Thank you all so much!
/C
Hey cmldps,
From your post, tt's very difficult to narrow down to one real cause for your low score. It might be due to a few conceptual gaps or lack of application skills. But as you are saying that you are getting most of the questions right when you practice,
I doubt whether you are using the right technique to get the right answer. If you are somehow getting lucky or using any other method than the right one to get to the right answer, then I'm afraid there's a lot to work on your approach.
So, please do let me know so that I can suggest you in a better way. You can always write back to me here or a better way would be to connect over a zoom conference call and discuss the same.
That way we can solve a few questions together, which will help me evaluate your approach towards solving questions. So, if you wish to get in touch with me, you can do so using the below link.
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