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Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask for some guidelines on what my study should look like from now on. For quant I've been studying basic maths concepts from magoosh's free material and doing random problems from the OG - all different subjects and levels. For verbal I read the Manhattan's SC & RC guide, and for CR read the Powerscore Bible.

I just took my first mock test, got 630 - 46 Quant, 31 Verbal , my goal is to get 50/51 quant and 38-40 verbal, but i don't know how my study sessions should look like - now that i've covered the "basics".

Im planning to take the test in 3 months.

For Quant most of the questions I answered incorrectly were DS.

In verbal Most of the wrong answers were from CR and RC.

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks,

PS. My background info: Civil engineer from a spanish speaking country (English is not my native language) - I tend to read slow, so usually I panic when I get long passages in RC.
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Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask for some guidelines on what my study should look like from now on. For quant I've been studying basic maths concepts from magoosh's free material and doing random problems from the OG - all different subjects and levels. For verbal I read the Manhattan's SC & RC guide, and for CR read the Powerscore Bible.

I just took my first mock test, got 630 - 46 Quant, 31 Verbal , my goal is to get 50/51 quant and 38-40 verbal, but i don't know how my study sessions should look like - now that i've covered the "basics".

Im planning to take the test in 3 months.

For Quant most of the questions I answered incorrectly were DS.

In verbal Most of the wrong answers were from CR and RC.

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks,

PS. My background info: Civil engineer from a spanish speaking country (English is not my native language) - I tend to read slow, so usually I panic when I get long passages in RC.
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Wow , man . You are already a decent level to start with .
To improve quant score , you may follow bunnel's post on GC along with MGMAT strategy guides and make sure you apply the reasoning behind each ques .
Similarly , for verbal , i would suggest to have a through understanding of each and every question of all the official material (OG , Verbal review and GMAT advanced ) . IMO ,that will be more than enough to hit V38 .
I am following the same path as well.

All the best for your prep.
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For CR and RC, you can watch few videos from the following link..
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Hi Carlos10596,

Q46 is a great 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.

You also may find it helpful to read this article about how to score a 700+ on the GMAT.

Please reach out with any further questions.

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Hi Carlos10596,

Q46 is a great 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.


Please reach out with any further questions.

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Thank you! I will definitely try out those tips, i'll be taking oficial practice tests every 2 weeks, in that way i'll be able to fit in 6 of them during this study period, and track my improvement / find out what my usual mistakes are.
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Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask for some guidelines on what my study should look like from now on. For quant I've been studying basic maths concepts from magoosh's free material and doing random problems from the OG - all different subjects and levels. For verbal I read the Manhattan's SC & RC guide, and for CR read the Powerscore Bible.

I just took my first mock test, got 630 - 46 Quant, 31 Verbal , my goal is to get 50/51 quant and 38-40 verbal, but i don't know how my study sessions should look like - now that i've covered the "basics".

Im planning to take the test in 3 months.

For Quant most of the questions I answered incorrectly were DS.

In verbal Most of the wrong answers were from CR and RC.

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks,

PS. My background info: Civil engineer from a spanish speaking country (English is not my native language) - I tend to read slow, so usually I panic when I get long passages in RC.
Carlos.
Wow , man . You are already a decent level to start with .
To improve quant score , you may follow bunnel's post on GC along with MGMAT strategy guides and make sure you apply the reasoning behind each ques .
Similarly , for verbal , i would suggest to have a through understanding of each and every question of all the official material (OG , Verbal review and GMAT advanced ) . IMO ,that will be more than enough to hit V38 .
I am following the same path as well.

All the best for your prep.
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I will definitely check out the material! Thank you, hopefully we'll be able to crush the test :)
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Hi carlos10596,

A 630 is a strong initial CAT score (the average score on the Official GMAT hovers around 550 most years). You also appear to have given yourself plenty of time to study - which is good. It's worth noting that you do NOT need to be a 'fast' reader to hit your Score Goal - but you do have to be an 'efficient' reader (and train to take the proper notes AS you read).

Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

1) How long have you studied so far? How many hours do you typically study each week?
2) What is your overall goal score?
3) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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Hi carlos10596,

A 630 is a strong initial CAT score (the average score on the Official GMAT hovers around 550 most years). You also appear to have given yourself plenty of time to study - which is good. It's worth noting that you do NOT need to be a 'fast' reader to hit your Score Goal - but you do have to be an 'efficient' reader (and train to take the proper notes AS you read).

Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

1) How long have you studied so far? How many hours do you typically study each week?
2) What is your overall goal score?
3) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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Hello Rich!
1) I started reviewing basic maths concepts during the beginning of April (However I did not use any official material) usually I studied for 4 hours a day, on May I started reviewing the Manhattan verbal series and started doing problems from the OG (Verbal and Quant)... since I was on lock down during that period I managed to study around 6 hours a day for the whole month. Now I began to work again, so I'm studying around 4 hours each weekday and 6-8 hours on weekends (aprox. 36h a week).
2)My overall score goal is 700+
3) I'm applying to top-20-30 Business schools for the September semester in 2021 (Hopefully winning a merit based scholarship). Also it is important to mention that I will be applying to a Msc Finance and not to an MBA.
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Hi Carlos10596,

Q46 is a great 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.


Please reach out with any further questions.

Let’s do this!!

Thank you! I will definitely try out those tips, i'll be taking oficial practice tests every 2 weeks, in that way i'll be able to fit in 6 of them during this study period, and track my improvement / find out what my usual mistakes are.
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Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask for some guidelines on what my study should look like from now on. For quant I've been studying basic maths concepts from magoosh's free material and doing random problems from the OG - all different subjects and levels. For verbal I read the Manhattan's SC & RC guide, and for CR read the Powerscore Bible.

I just took my first mock test, got 630 - 46 Quant, 31 Verbal , my goal is to get 50/51 quant and 38-40 verbal, but i don't know how my study sessions should look like - now that i've covered the "basics".

Im planning to take the test in 3 months.

For Quant most of the questions I answered incorrectly were DS.

In verbal Most of the wrong answers were from CR and RC.

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks,

PS. My background info: Civil engineer from a spanish speaking country (English is not my native language) - I tend to read slow, so usually I panic when I get long passages in RC.
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Q46 to Q50 would required you to make less errors that are silly and work upon your harder topics viz. probability/P&C/Work-rate word problems more. DS by nature is hard so practicing it will only help. Materials you mentioned are great for anyone who's trying to improve on GMAT.
V31 to V40 would take more efforts than quant. Without RC and CR improvement it would be difficult. Improving both of them takes time and patience - refer nightblade's posts on CR and RC. Additionally, a brand new series on RC has started on GC by none other than GMATNinja, so do refer them.
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Hi carlos10596,

To start, you have to be careful about confusing "quantity" of study with "quality" of study. I've never asked anyone to study 30+ hours a week - and while it's great that you might have the available time to study that much, with that number of study hours, you would run the risk of 'burning out' before Test Day (and that is something that we want to avoid). If you are going to try to study that much, then I suggest that you take one hour "off" for every two hours of study. For example, you could study for 2 hours, then stop for an hour, then study for another 2 hours, then take an hour off, etc.

Finance Programs tend to put a high emphasis on each Applicant's Quant Scaled Score. While a Q46 is a solid performance in the Quant section, that Score won't "impress" anyone. It's worth noting that the Quant section of the GMAT is NOT a 'math test' - it's a 'critical thinking test' that requires lots of little calculations as you work through it. To score at a much higher level in this section, you need to become more of a 'strategist' and less of a 'mathematician.' With your Score Goal, you'll have to make significant improvements to how you handle BOTH the Quant and Verbal sections though.

Since you're not planning to take the GMAT for another 3 months, you still have plenty of time to continue studying - which is great! Based on all of the information that you have provided, you would likely find it beneficial to invest in a GMAT Course of some kind (either Guided Self-Study or instructor-led). Most GMAT Companies offer some type of free materials (practice problems, Trial Accounts, videos, etc.) that you can use to 'test out' a product before you buy it. We have a variety of those resources at our site (www.empowergmat.com). I suggest that you take advantage of all of them then choose the one that best matches your personality, timeline and budget.

If you have any additional questions, then you can feel free to contact me directly at any time.

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