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Moving from Q47 to Q50 [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2022, 03:41
Hello,
I am in desperate need of understanding how do I get from Q47 to Q50 or more in quant. I have been preparing quants for quite sometime and in my previous attempt last year in Oct, I had scored Q47 and then took a break due to work. However, I started my prep in mid June this year and scored Q47 yet again and I am very disappointed with no improvement in this section (especially knowing that despite a Q47, it has a very low 59 percentile). Hence, I am thinking whether should I give the exam again. But, I needed to know what can be done to get my score up from Q47 in 30-45 days time.
P.S- I have tried multiple courses but none seem to have helped move my Quant score. I had even identified my AODs and practiced a lot of questions from various sources. My verbal has been steady at V37-38. But a score of 690 for an Indian male engineer (coupled with a low quant percentile) with a social impact work-ex isn't going to help in getting into a good B-school.

Bunuel, GMATNinja, bb, KarishmaB and any other experts, please guide me on the same.
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Re: Moving from Q47 to Q50 [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2022, 06:41
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Hi SDW2.

To get to Q50, for each topic that you're not strong in, you need to

- make sure you know all the relevant concepts for that topic

- learn strategies for answering questions involving that topic

- answer questions involving that topic UNTIMED until you

    achieve close to 100 percent accuracy

    and

    get them correct in streaks of 20 or more in a row

- continue practicing questions involving that topic to maintain close to 100 percent accuracy while reducing the time per question to 2 minutes

Achieving the streaks of 20 in a row is super important. If you aren't able to achieve those streaks, then you don't really have the topic under control.

For some insights into how to achieve high accuracy and long streaks of correct answers, see this post.

Improving Your Accuracy on the GMAT
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Re: Moving from Q47 to Q50 [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2022, 08:46
At a Q47, isolating any sub-topics you have slippery fundamentals on may be helpful (i.e geometry). May be worth checking some Q50 ESR data to get a sense what type of performance you want. There's some Q50 data on the GMAT Knight website by the way.

At a V37-V38, all things being equal, probably fair to say a person has a decent grasp of the fundamentals. Working on your solving approach may be helpful to boost you past V40. Perhaps work with a study buddy with strong Verbal skills. This sort of learning doesn't have to take long. Had a 6-hour student, for example, get 4 points in the V40 range in about 10 days.
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Re: Moving from Q47 to Q50 [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2022, 09:11
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Hi SDW2.

To get to Q50, for each topic that you're not strong in, you need to

- make sure you know all the relevant concepts for that topic

- learn strategies for answering questions involving that topic

- answer questions involving that topic UNTIMED until you

    achieve close to 100 percent accuracy

    and

    get them correct in streaks of 20 or more in a row

- continue practicing questions involving that topic to maintain close to 100 percent accuracy while reducing the time per question to 2 minutes

Achieving the streaks of 20 in a row is super important. If you aren't able to achieve those streaks, then you don't really have the topic under control.

For some insights into how to achieve high accuracy and long streaks of correct answers, see this post.

Improving Your Accuracy on the GMAT


Hello MartyTargetTestPrep,
Thank you for the prompt response. Your strategy does make sense. I had tried solving questions from my AODs but didn't do the streak of 20 type of practice. However, I wanted to know in your experience, given a Q47, how long does this strategy usually take to move to Q50? Also, I noticed that some questions on GMAT seemed entirely new to me in the exam (in the sense that I didn't see such questions before). So can you recommend any good resources from where I can solve hard practice questions?

Lastly, I have been stuck at V37-38. Is there anything specific that I need to work on to get myself past V40?
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Re: Moving from Q47 to Q50 [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2022, 09:13
GmatTutorKnight wrote:
At a Q47, isolating any sub-topics you have slippery fundamentals on may be helpful (i.e geometry). May be worth checking some Q50 ESR data to get a sense what type of performance you want. There's some Q50 data on the GMAT Knight website by the way.

At a V37-V38, all things being equal, probably fair to say a person has a decent grasp of the fundamentals. Working on your solving approach may be helpful to boost you past V40. Perhaps work with a study buddy with strong Verbal skills. This sort of learning doesn't have to take long. Had a 6-hour student, for example, get 4 points in the V40 range in about 10 days.


Hi,
Thank you for your response. I will go through the data you suggested.
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Re: Moving from Q47 to Q50 [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2022, 12:16
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