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22 Jun 2022, 10:34
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Hi,
I am putting up this post as a call for help. I have been preparing for the GMAT since the last 4 months, gave my first mock a week ago and scored a 700. The split was Q44 and V41.
I am very disappointed with my quant score and to be honest, i had expected a more respectable score than a 44.
I have gone back and analysed my test performance, needless to say I am appalled at the kind of mistakes I have made on the test.
My score was completely eroded by my silly mistakes on the test.
Ever since I have started analysing my mistakes, I have found that the majority of mistakes are errors made due to being in a rush/overlooking some critical info/ calculation mistake.
I would really appreciate if an expert could show me the way to fix this, as I absolutely need to bring up my quant score to score 700+ on the exam.
I am planning to take the exam in one month.
I am putting up this post as a call for help. I have been preparing for the GMAT since the last 4 months, gave my first mock a week ago and scored a 700. The split was Q44 and V41.
I am very disappointed with my quant score and to be honest, i had expected a more respectable score than a 44.
I have gone back and analysed my test performance, needless to say I am appalled at the kind of mistakes I have made on the test.
My score was completely eroded by my silly mistakes on the test.
Ever since I have started analysing my mistakes, I have found that the majority of mistakes are errors made due to being in a rush/overlooking some critical info/ calculation mistake.
I would really appreciate if an expert could show me the way to fix this, as I absolutely need to bring up my quant score to score 700+ on the exam.
I am planning to take the exam in one month.
22 Jun 2022, 10:48
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Hi sv2023.
Many people come to the realization that scoring high on GMAT quant has a dimension that was not obvious to them at first. I mean we all know that, to score high on GMAT quant, we have to know quant concepts and strategies and how to answer various types of questions. At the same time what we realize at a certain point is that those skills are not sufficient to get us to our quant score goals. We need an additional skill, skill in getting questions correct consistently.
The good news is that, by developing this additional skill, we can often make big increases in our quant scores because skill in getting quant questions correct consistently applies to all kinds of quant questions. So, by developing that skill, we can get many more correct answers.
The following post discusses in detail multiple moves you can make to reduce the number of silly mistakes you make and get quant, and verbal, questions correct more consistently. So, I think you'll find that by reading the post and applying what it discusses, you'll get some great results.
Improving Your Accuracy on the GMAT
Many people come to the realization that scoring high on GMAT quant has a dimension that was not obvious to them at first. I mean we all know that, to score high on GMAT quant, we have to know quant concepts and strategies and how to answer various types of questions. At the same time what we realize at a certain point is that those skills are not sufficient to get us to our quant score goals. We need an additional skill, skill in getting questions correct consistently.
The good news is that, by developing this additional skill, we can often make big increases in our quant scores because skill in getting quant questions correct consistently applies to all kinds of quant questions. So, by developing that skill, we can get many more correct answers.
The following post discusses in detail multiple moves you can make to reduce the number of silly mistakes you make and get quant, and verbal, questions correct more consistently. So, I think you'll find that by reading the post and applying what it discusses, you'll get some great results.
Improving Your Accuracy on the GMAT
Updated on: 22 Jun 2022, 22:13
Originally posted by sujoykrdatta on 22 Jun 2022, 11:23.
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sv2023
Hi,
I am putting up this post as a call for help. I have been preparing for the GMAT since the last 4 months, gave my first mock a week ago and scored a 700. The split was Q44 and V41.
I am very disappointed with my quant score and to be honest, i had expected a more respectable score than a 44.
I have gone back and analysed my test performance, needless to say I am appalled at the kind of mistakes I have made on the test.
My score was completely eroded by my silly mistakes on the test.
Ever since I have started analysing my mistakes, I have found that the majority of mistakes are errors made due to being in a rush/overlooking some critical info/ calculation mistake.
I would really appreciate if an expert could show me the way to fix this, as I absolutely need to bring up my quant score to score 700+ on the exam.
I am planning to take the exam in one month.
I am putting up this post as a call for help. I have been preparing for the GMAT since the last 4 months, gave my first mock a week ago and scored a 700. The split was Q44 and V41.
I am very disappointed with my quant score and to be honest, i had expected a more respectable score than a 44.
I have gone back and analysed my test performance, needless to say I am appalled at the kind of mistakes I have made on the test.
My score was completely eroded by my silly mistakes on the test.
Ever since I have started analysing my mistakes, I have found that the majority of mistakes are errors made due to being in a rush/overlooking some critical info/ calculation mistake.
I would really appreciate if an expert could show me the way to fix this, as I absolutely need to bring up my quant score to score 700+ on the exam.
I am planning to take the exam in one month.
Silly errors are actually not silly
By saying those are silly errors, you are already undermining the severity of these mistakes.
A few tips to improve this aspect are:
1. Jot down the pieces of info as you read a QA question - don't read the entire question once and then start writing down
2. Try using a diagrammatic or pictorial representation form rather than writing in sentences - saves time and also is easier to refer to
3. If you are using variables to make an equation and solve it, define the variable for the term that has to be determined. For example, if distance has to be calculated, use the variable to define the distance rather than use it to define speed, for example.
4. Make sure of making a note of whether words like integers, positive integers, non-negative integer, etc. have been used - if not, don't assume those, however tempting it might seem.
5. Underline the main parts of your rough-work so that those remain in focus
6. Demarcate a proper area on your scratch sheet while doing the calculations (if any) - don't do all over the place - it's difficult to keep track and you might end up wasting time to find where you wrote a particular calculation.
7. In Data_Sufficiency, make it a point to keep the working areas for the two statements separate on the scratch pad (if required, draw a line separating those)
- helps prevent using info from statement 1 while trying to solve using statement 2 alone, also helps prevent marking an answer as B while it should have been C (I hope you understand what I mean)
These are some main points that you can keep in mind
All the best!
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