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04 Nov 2018, 18:31
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Congrats! Good luck with things moving forward.
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09 Dec 2018, 03:42
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hello sir,
I am sharing the news of my dissapointing score on GMAT (660- Q43/V38/IR5). I was unable to perform in quant as dreaded and now i am going away for 5 months on sailing. I would be grateful if you could offer some advise regarding my retake. I am planning to apply next year and will have abt 3 months for prep next year. i am afraid that my away time would degrade my verbal.
What would you recommend that i do once i come back? Should i look for some online course for quant? i will purchase egmat for verbal in any case to just improve a little more but i am confused regarding my quant prep. I remember your advise to redo question from MGMAT and Club but as i am going to start fresh what would you recommend?
How are things at your end? Are you done with applications? I wish you well.
Thanks & Best Regards
Kumar Utkarsh
09 Dec 2018, 07:55
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I know how you are feeling! It will make the end score all that more exciting. You can get a great score but will have to be resourceful and put in a lot of work.
My suggestion: come up with a very basic and realistic study plan that you will be able to execute on during your sailing trip. For example, do five official quant and verbal questions each morning. Do them timed as a set, meaning set a running timer and try and complete them in 10 minutes or less. Then, go back dissect question; this analysis portion should take just as long as the solving did, if not longer. On quant, ask yourself, was there a better way to solve this? Even if you solved it the best way, can you come up with another way just in case you freeze up during the exam? On verbal, go through each answer selection and identify ALL incorrect portions of wrong answers. In SC, there are usually 2-3. For RC/CR, it will probably mean identifying the 1 word they slipped in there that made the answer wrong. Also, before you leave, make some easy study material; for example, flash cards with most important idioms or list of important quant formulas (you can find these on GMATClub). Finally, gather some magazines (Economist, NYT, National Geographic, The New Yorker). Read one article each morning morning or night to practice the reading technique I suggested in my last post. (In case you need a reminder: read a sentence, paraphrase, read another sentence, paraphrase both, read another, paraphrase all three. At the end of each paragraph, paraphrase the whole paragraph. After two paragraphs, paraphrase everything you have read... and so on. You will get better and better at this, and it will become second nature. This is key for RC/CR.) So... with all that, this would be my study plan if I were going on a sailing trip:
1-hour plan:
1) Read article to wake my brain up (10 min)
2) Review flashcards/study guide (10 min)
3) Official quant/verbal (20 min)
4) Review answers (20 min)
Materials needed:
- Magazines
- Study guides/flashcards
- Most recent official verbal/quant practice question books
Tips/comments:
- this was my study plan when I traveled. It is quick enough that you can do it regardless of what is happening, but in-depth enough that you will get better at the material
- if crunched for time you can always break up the plan into morning/night portions. (I'd keep the practice and review together though.)
- you will be able to finish in less than an hour as you get better and better
- if you buy the 2018-19 official review (not just the practice question books) you should be able to make study guides and cards from that
- use ONLY official questions. The official review books have, I think, 1000 questions for both verbal and quant, so you will only need those.
- whenever possible (i.e. you have internet), do the practice questions on the GMATprep software. This simulate real interface and setting.
- don't worry if you aren't in ideal settings every time you do this. I had to work through noise and chaos a number of times. I think that actually helped in the long run.
- despite my last point, try and do this early morning before the day gets too crazy and everyone else is up making noise.
Hope this helps!
