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24 Mar 2022, 08:37
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Title says it all.
I've taken four of the official practice exams: 730(Q49, V41), 640(Q41, V36), 620(Q47, V28), 680(Q46, V37)
Took the real test today: 650. I forget the unofficial breakdown but it was like Q47, V34
Based on the practices and real test, I guess 650 is an accurate assessment of my current levels despite the original 730 practice test. During today's test, in both the quant and verbal I found myself way behind halfway through each and needed to really pick up the pace the second half and rapidly blind guess the last 3-5 in the final 10 seconds. But I also found myself in this situation in the first 730 practice.
That said, how realistic is 700+ two weeks from now? I expect to put in 2 hours a day during weekdays and 4 hours a day on weekends. I am planning to focus on fundamentals of the topics. For example, Probability is definitely a weak spot of mine that I barely understand. Part of me wants to focus the verbal too because those scores have been a lot less consistent which means there's room to improve I suppose.
What do you all recommend?
I've taken four of the official practice exams: 730(Q49, V41), 640(Q41, V36), 620(Q47, V28), 680(Q46, V37)
Took the real test today: 650. I forget the unofficial breakdown but it was like Q47, V34
Based on the practices and real test, I guess 650 is an accurate assessment of my current levels despite the original 730 practice test. During today's test, in both the quant and verbal I found myself way behind halfway through each and needed to really pick up the pace the second half and rapidly blind guess the last 3-5 in the final 10 seconds. But I also found myself in this situation in the first 730 practice.
That said, how realistic is 700+ two weeks from now? I expect to put in 2 hours a day during weekdays and 4 hours a day on weekends. I am planning to focus on fundamentals of the topics. For example, Probability is definitely a weak spot of mine that I barely understand. Part of me wants to focus the verbal too because those scores have been a lot less consistent which means there's room to improve I suppose.
What do you all recommend?
24 Mar 2022, 08:56
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Hi. It depends on how much you have improved over the past few weeks/months.
If you just started out, you can easily get 50 points in 2 weeks since you will be learning the mechanics. Improvement slows down over time for a few reasons (material gets harder, smaller gains, etc) It can be tricky to improve - I would recommend focusing on the weaknesses and mistakes and sort of explore your weak spots. Probability is probably not the best use of your time - with Q47, you are unlikely to see any of these questions and perhaps 1 at most. I would just pick the easiest question and learn how to solve that one question in the shortest time amount needed (i.e. don't understand how probability works but instead just memorize how to solve that question format/template).
I probably would not start a new course to try to cram it in 2 weeks since you will be stuck on a lot of the basics.... so picking your mistakes and going through error log and figuring out why you make mistakes will be most productive.
P.S. Also there is this option: https://gmatclub.com/forum/support-free-385403.html
If you just started out, you can easily get 50 points in 2 weeks since you will be learning the mechanics. Improvement slows down over time for a few reasons (material gets harder, smaller gains, etc) It can be tricky to improve - I would recommend focusing on the weaknesses and mistakes and sort of explore your weak spots. Probability is probably not the best use of your time - with Q47, you are unlikely to see any of these questions and perhaps 1 at most. I would just pick the easiest question and learn how to solve that one question in the shortest time amount needed (i.e. don't understand how probability works but instead just memorize how to solve that question format/template).
I probably would not start a new course to try to cram it in 2 weeks since you will be stuck on a lot of the basics.... so picking your mistakes and going through error log and figuring out why you make mistakes will be most productive.
P.S. Also there is this option: https://gmatclub.com/forum/support-free-385403.html
24 Mar 2022, 09:06
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Hi. It depends on how much you have improved over the past few weeks/months.
If you just started out, you can easily get 50 points in 2 weeks since you will be learning the mechanics. Improvement slows down over time for a few reasons (material gets harder, smaller gains, etc) It can be tricky to improve - I would recommend focusing on the weaknesses and mistakes and sort of explore your weak spots. Probability is probably not the best use of your time - with Q47, you are unlikely to see any of these questions and perhaps 1 at most. I would just pick the easiest question and learn how to solve that one question in the shortest time amount needed (i.e. don't understand how probability works but instead just memorize how to solve that question format/template).
I probably would not start a new course to try to cram it in 2 weeks since you will be stuck on a lot of the basics.... so picking your mistakes and going through error log and figuring out why you make mistakes will be most productive.
If you just started out, you can easily get 50 points in 2 weeks since you will be learning the mechanics. Improvement slows down over time for a few reasons (material gets harder, smaller gains, etc) It can be tricky to improve - I would recommend focusing on the weaknesses and mistakes and sort of explore your weak spots. Probability is probably not the best use of your time - with Q47, you are unlikely to see any of these questions and perhaps 1 at most. I would just pick the easiest question and learn how to solve that one question in the shortest time amount needed (i.e. don't understand how probability works but instead just memorize how to solve that question format/template).
I probably would not start a new course to try to cram it in 2 weeks since you will be stuck on a lot of the basics.... so picking your mistakes and going through error log and figuring out why you make mistakes will be most productive.
Thank you, thank you! I appreciate the advice about the probability. I've done on and off studying for 1-2 hours a week the past three months but started really focusing the past three weeks. the first practice test was three weeks ago.
