Need some expert triage after retaking GMAT today

Hi meeh1872

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Hi meeh1872,

3 weeks is not a lot of additional study time, but you could potentially make some meaningful improvements and raise your score. Many Business Schools place a greater emphasis on an applicant's Quant Scaled Score (since that score is often seen as a 'measure' of an applicant's ability to handle the 'academic side' of the Program), so I would suggest that you focus on that portion of the GMAT. With a Quant Scaled Score in the low-40s, you're pretty good at most of the 'math' questions that you face, but you're making little mistakes throughout the Quant section and you're missing out on LOTS of 'strategy-based' points. If you continue to practice in the same ways as before - and answer Quant questions in the same ways as before - then you will likely continue to score at the same level. As such, your focus has to shift towards learning and practicing the proper Quant Tactics. Whether 3 weeks is enough time for you to incorporate all of those ideas or not is the question.

Based on everything that you've described, I think that you would find the EMPOWERgmat Quant Score Booster to be quite helpful. Most of our clients complete that Study Plan in under a month, so it should fit your limited timeframe. We have a variety of free resources on our site (www.empowergmat.com), so you can 'test out' the Course before setting up an account.

If you have any additional questions, then you can feel free to contact me directly.

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Rich

meeh1872 - I am sorry that you could not improve appreciably in your second attempt. From your post, its quite evident that you spent most of your time on GMAT quant, yet you have very little improvement in mock scores to show for the same (barring one mock test). Your verbal seems to be pretty solid BTW (although there is scope for improvement there as well). To improve to 700, answer the questions below:

1. Why did your quant not improve despite spending 1 month on the same. What can you do to improve GMAT Quant. You may have to analyze your mock tests for the same.
2. What is your target Verbal score? Note, improving GMAT verbal can help you get closer to that 700 score. To know more, take a look at GMAT Planner - a tool that we built to help folks decide their target Quant and Verbal scores:

https://gmatplanner.e-gmat.com/

Regards,

Rajat Sadana

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Rajat,

Thanks for replying to me.

1) I believe it has to do with simple mistakes. On almost every question that I get wrong, I review the answer and have a "That was stupid, I should have known that" type of moment. There are very few questions I get to that I haven't seen/done before. I think it's my ability to "triage" the questions as it were and solve them under two minutes. I almost always get to the last 2-3 questions with about a minute or two left and have to rush through them (invariably getting them all wrong).

2) My Target verbal score would be a 40. My biggest weakness here is definitely sentence correction. I have almost no issue answering the CR or RC questions with 95% accuracy. I have a hard time remembering all of the little rules and laws that apply to SC. I usually solve SC by ear, and not by rules, which I think is what is keeping me from breaking the 40 barrier.