saloomiz wrote:
Hello,
I have gotten to the stage of "I dont know what to do!". Please Help!
I took my first test in Oct 2016 as a diagnostic,
MGMAT- 550 Q38 V28. I got busy with life and pretty much didn't do anything till 2 weeks ago.
I have been working through the
Magoosh Premium, its a good product and I have pretty much gone through all the Quant section.
Took the
Magoosh Practice Test 19th Dec 2017: 570 Q45 V23
Thereafter, I took a few more GMATPrep tests:
24 Dec 2017: 600 Q42 (PS42, DS43) V30 (CR29, RC28, SC33)
25 Dec 2017: 590 Q42 (PS42, DS39) V30 (CR35, RC39, SC17)
28 Dec 2017: 580 Q42 (PS39, DS44) V28 (CR28, RC32, SC25)
I don't know how to pull my score higher. I haven't done that much Verbal practice except for RC and some SC (in
Magoosh).
All advice welcome!
Thanks in advance.
Saloomiz
For quant, I would suggest doing ~20 problems at a time from
the official guide and then reviewing the ones you got wrong or guessed correctly on. Identify what it is in those problems that threw you off the scent of the correct solution, and make a flashcard with that concept on it. It's also helpful to keep a log of the ones you got incorrectly, so that you can revisit them later and prove to yourself that you've mastered that concept. Even if you've already done a set of questions, it's useful to revisit and drill those problems. I repeated questions many times and when I actually took the test, I was able to relate each quant question to one that I had drilled in the past, and was able to apply the same steps to that problem. Drill those flashcards whenever you have time. Sometimes I would casually leaf through them while sitting on the porch, other times I would have my pen and paper out and would be working through them. Even if you're memorizing the answers to those questions after a while, you're still planting the process of getting to that answer into your brain.
For verbal, I used flash cards as well - but when it comes to RC or CR, I found it most useful to identify the types of answers given, so that I could eliminate them. This is something Manhattan did a good job of explaining; there is also a guide on this site called the Comprehensive Critical Reasoning Guide that covers this. I'll try my best to explain, but basically every wrong answer is wrong for a certain reason. After you've seen enough of these answers, you can categorize them into different buckets and cross them off.
Good luck!