vgharibj wrote:
vgharibj wrote:
Hi Guys,
This is my first post, but I have been actively logging on to the site and reading all the great information.
My post is concerning my relatively slow growth on my GMAT practice test scores. I have been studying on and off for 3 months with daily hours in the most recent month.
Here are some of my scores
GMATPREP- 630 v47 q33
Veritas- 600
MGMAT 1 - 650
MGMAT 2 - 670 q48 v33 (yesterday)
My eventual goal is to consistently score in the 750 range before I take the real exam. I was planning on taking the exam before Christmas, but I don't feel like I can make it with yesterdays results.
I feel pretty confident with the Quant, I score 47/48/49 pretty consistently. Questions I miss are almost always the more difficult DS questions inequality/number property/abs value questions. I plan on mastering these with the
MGMAT guides?
I have also gotten considerably better at SC, but I cant seem to see that gain in my score. This is probably because I cant seem to get ANY HANDLE ON CR or RC. I tried reading the CR bible, and MGMAT guides on both. Nothing seems to help.Where should I focus my time to bump up this score? Does anyone have any pointers for me on this? Any chance I can boost my V score by 10 points in 3 weeks?
Thanks for the time guys
Hi Guys,
Just an update here after taking in everyone's advice.
My scores since the initial post:
12/13-
MGMAT Q47 V35- 680
12/16-
MGMAT Q47 V35- 680 (interesting how i got the exact score)
12/22-
MGMAT Q44 V36- 640 (i spent way too much time on a few of the quant problems)
12/30-
MGMAT Q46 V38- 690
1/4- GMATPREP2 Q49 V37 - 700
QUANT
I am doing pretty well other than two issues. I seem to get stuck on higher level data sufficiency problems that seem to require iterations of plugging in and testing certain scenarios of divisibility, < or > and other things alike. These kind of problems seem tough to obscure to solve with algebra and I'm left plugging and chugging which is tough to organize and takes much too long.
Thoughts?My second issue with quant is timing. I tend to take more time on the earlier problems thinking that these problems are more sensitive to determining my score than those later on. This is leaving me in situations with 10minutes to the last 7 questions. Alot of people on the forums have said to guess and move on after a minute if the problem seems unsolvable in decent time. However, I find it very hard to determine that moment when its right to guess and move on: almost every problems seems doable atleast from the start.
Any advice here?sidenote: Through poor time management I have noticed that guessing on data sufficiency is much easier than PS
VERBAL
So it seems like I have been feeling alot better about verbal.
The CR has gotten substantially easier for me
SC has turned in to a pretty fluent mechanical process except for the higher level ones which still seem to give me problems-
any advice on these??RC-still my worst section- I really haven't done much studying on. I still haven't done any article reading as suggested.
I do still feel pretty far away from the V43 or 44 range
Thanks for everyones help and advice! Any input is appreciated!
Hi guys,
Below is my updated list of practice CAT results:
12/13-
MGMAT Q47 V35- 680
12/16-
MGMAT Q47 V35- 680 (interesting how i got the exact score)
12/22-
MGMAT Q44 V36- 640 (i spent way too much time on a few of the quant problems)
12/30-
MGMAT Q46 V38- 690
1/4- GMATPREP2 Q49 V37 - 700
1/5-
MGMAT Q51 V45-780 -i took this one with unlimted time
1/7-
MGMAT Q50 V45-770
1/10
MGMAT Q48 V45-750
1/13
MGMAT Q48 V45-750
1/15 GMATPREP Q49 V42-740
1/25 GMATPREP Q51 V45-770
My study plan has been to exhaust all the
OG problems from beginning to end. I did this all of last week and essentially did a 100 problems a day. I just started to do the same with the
OG 11 as well. Every day I review the ones that I missed.
After a set I take time to review ones I got wrong and any others that I didn't feel 100% confident with.
My test is scheduled for the 8th. I figure I will take 3 more GMAT prep practice tests again.
Again at this point point a considerable amount of problems are starting to reappear in practice tests. I am afraid my scores are inflated because of it.
Questions:
1. Any pointers on the study plan?
2. Is it worth retaking these tests at this point?
3. Am i in the range of my goal of 750?