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With only a week or so of studying under my belt, I decided to take the GMAT. I ended up getting a 96th percentile score in Verbal and a 42nd percentile score in Quant. My overall score was a 680 (not terrible if you don't consider the sub-scores).
Verbal comes naturally to me, so I'm not worried about it. On the exam, I completed the Verbal section in 2/3 of the time allotted.
I would really, really like my Quant score to be above the 80th percentile, at least, so that I could be a competitive candidate at top MBA programs. (I think I can do it, because my math SAT score in high school was in the 95th percentile.) My current Quant score is honestly disgraceful -- especially relative to my Verbal score, and it upsets the heck out of me.
Can you guys please recommend some resources that I can use to boost my Quant score? I would really appreciate any help.
Verbal comes naturally to me, so I'm not worried about it. On the exam, I completed the Verbal section in 2/3 of the time allotted.
I would really, really like my Quant score to be above the 80th percentile, at least, so that I could be a competitive candidate at top MBA programs. (I think I can do it, because my math SAT score in high school was in the 95th percentile.) My current Quant score is honestly disgraceful -- especially relative to my Verbal score, and it upsets the heck out of me.
Can you guys please recommend some resources that I can use to boost my Quant score? I would really appreciate any help.
31 Jan 2016, 11:54
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Hi geematt,
To start, a 680 is a fantastic overall score (it's right around the 85th percentile overall), so it could very well be enough to get you into your first-choice Business School. The lower Quant Scaled Score could be a 'red flag' though, especially to certain Programs (Finance or other Specialty Programs), so it's understandable that you would want to retest.
Many Test Takers spend 3 months (or more) on their studies before they hit their 'peak' scores. Since your Verbal skills are already so strong, you likely will NOT need that amount of study time, but you will certainly need more than 1 week to hit that type of level in Quant. To that end, what about your 1 week of study made you think that you were ready to perform at a high level in the Quant section? Why did you rush in to take the GMAT? Are you facing some type of deadline?
1) What materials have you worked through already?
2) What is your actual overall goal score?
3) What Schools are you planning to apply to?
4) On Test Day, did you have to rush to finish the Quant section (and guess on a bunch of questions at the end)?
5) How comfortable did you feel with the overall content in the Quant section?
Thankfully, the GMAT is a consistent, predictable Test, so you CAN train to score at a higher level.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
To start, a 680 is a fantastic overall score (it's right around the 85th percentile overall), so it could very well be enough to get you into your first-choice Business School. The lower Quant Scaled Score could be a 'red flag' though, especially to certain Programs (Finance or other Specialty Programs), so it's understandable that you would want to retest.
Many Test Takers spend 3 months (or more) on their studies before they hit their 'peak' scores. Since your Verbal skills are already so strong, you likely will NOT need that amount of study time, but you will certainly need more than 1 week to hit that type of level in Quant. To that end, what about your 1 week of study made you think that you were ready to perform at a high level in the Quant section? Why did you rush in to take the GMAT? Are you facing some type of deadline?
1) What materials have you worked through already?
2) What is your actual overall goal score?
3) What Schools are you planning to apply to?
4) On Test Day, did you have to rush to finish the Quant section (and guess on a bunch of questions at the end)?
5) How comfortable did you feel with the overall content in the Quant section?
Thankfully, the GMAT is a consistent, predictable Test, so you CAN train to score at a higher level.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
31 Jan 2016, 15:24
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geematt
Hey there I was in a very similar situation as you, but worse on the quant. As a native speaker from a well-spoken family I immediately was hitting about V40, with only some marginal practice in SC and practice with RC and CR I am now routinely hitting V45+ but was so behind on math that I didn't even take a diagnostic test because I didn't know how to do so manly things it would've likely been in the teens.
So assuming you don't want to go into a full-on prep course let me list some great self-prep materials everyone here typically agrees on:
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- Official Guide (at least 2013)
- Manhattam Prep GMAT Books: they have about 8 or more of them I think but you can pick and choose based off of topic. DEFINITELY get a foundations one to remind yourself of the simple math tricks if you find you struggle with things like area of a triangle or algebra.
- Official Quant Review (same people that make the Official Guide AKA OG)
- Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org)
- GMAT Club forums (there is a "Math Book" that's great but heavy math right off the bat; also plenty of explanations/problems/ and tips).
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When you do problems you don't like the answer explanation to, go to google and type "site:gmatclub.com _____" and fill the blank with pertinent information from the question and someone will have a better answer for you (typically it's Bunuel). Khan Academy goes through a few gmat problems as well depending on the perspective you prefer (Bunuel is a math wiz so sometimes his answers are him explaining math with math and less of a right brained explanation).
There are plenty of strategies and stories and any question you have has likely been asked before, just google what I said above and you'll find it here on the forum. The key to the quant is to know the basics! If you know the general math information like exponent rules and fractions/triangles and such really well it's not unlike being a native speaker in english as a leg up for verbal.
If you know the basics really well you should be getting close to the 48 range then after that starts to be about strategy. Which by the way you'll naturally pick up some of along the way between gmatclub explanations the the MGMAT books I listed.
Best of luck with your test and don't forget to still work on verbal and don't neglect it! Sometimes people do worse on their strength the second time around because they completely neglected it and if you score a Verbal in the high 40's (totally reachable with only a little practice for you in particular) you'll be breaking 700 before you even improve on the quant.
