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09 Oct 2014, 00:04
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Hi,
BACKGROUND: Past Scores
I took GMAT practice test few weeks back without any prep and got a score of 650 (in both princeton and manhattan). After putting in around 10 hours each for critical reasoning and quant I again gave practice tests and got following score (Veritas-740, Kaplan-730, manhattan-720, Babson/economist-740-770).
ISSUE: Time constraint
I am taking the test in exactly a month's time and I need to push up my GMAT score. However it is difficult for me to put in many hours as I have a 10 hour full time job, and at home I need to spend large part of my time with my 2.5 year kid. That leave me with about an hour or two daily for GMAT prep.
QUESTION
I need to increase my score to at least 750 points to have a reasonable chance of getting what I want. I think its possible as lot of mistakes I make are avoidable. However I dont think I will be able to put in more that 5 hours per week.
- I have still not put reasonable effort on sentence correction and it shows in the practice tests. Whats the best strategy to increase SC score to a high percentile in least possible time.
- I realize that most answers are incorrect because I am under time pressure rather than lack of knowledge. Whereas time constraint leads to careless mistakes in quant, it leads to me spending only 30 secs in last 5-6 questions in verbal (which I invariably get wrong). Whats the best strategy to manage time in GMAT to attain a high percentile(apart from solving more practice sets).
Regards
BACKGROUND: Past Scores
I took GMAT practice test few weeks back without any prep and got a score of 650 (in both princeton and manhattan). After putting in around 10 hours each for critical reasoning and quant I again gave practice tests and got following score (Veritas-740, Kaplan-730, manhattan-720, Babson/economist-740-770).
ISSUE: Time constraint
I am taking the test in exactly a month's time and I need to push up my GMAT score. However it is difficult for me to put in many hours as I have a 10 hour full time job, and at home I need to spend large part of my time with my 2.5 year kid. That leave me with about an hour or two daily for GMAT prep.
QUESTION
I need to increase my score to at least 750 points to have a reasonable chance of getting what I want. I think its possible as lot of mistakes I make are avoidable. However I dont think I will be able to put in more that 5 hours per week.
- I have still not put reasonable effort on sentence correction and it shows in the practice tests. Whats the best strategy to increase SC score to a high percentile in least possible time.
- I realize that most answers are incorrect because I am under time pressure rather than lack of knowledge. Whereas time constraint leads to careless mistakes in quant, it leads to me spending only 30 secs in last 5-6 questions in verbal (which I invariably get wrong). Whats the best strategy to manage time in GMAT to attain a high percentile(apart from solving more practice sets).
Regards
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09 Oct 2014, 01:40
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I followed the following process
Sentence Correction:
MGMAT is the best book you can get your hands on to prepare for SC.
Aristotle Grail is a simplified version of MGMAT and is too useful to build the concepts.
Magoosh lessons. Easy, Crisp and Lucid video lessons.
Take down the notes in your notebook and revise them every other day, so that they are embedded in your system.
Start off a SC question by find the subject and then check that the verb agrees with it or not. Check for the parallelism by looking out for words such as and, that etc.
Make sure that there is a verb in the sentence (-ing forms are not verbs by themselves)
To break it in points:
1. Find the subject
2. Make sure the subject agrees with the verb in numbers
3. Make sure the verb is full verb
4. usage of Like (used to compare nouns and express similarities), as(used to compare every thing else and such as used for examples)
5. Parallelism- Pay attention to ""and, that, either or, neither nor etc" as they are the signal words and parts on both sides of these words should be parallel
5. Tense: The parallel parts of the sentences should be in the same tense.
Perfect Tense used only when any event has already happened and is over
Progressive tense is used when the event is in action.
These are some of the things which will enable you solve most of the questions correctly.
Also do not forget to get your hands dirty with the official questions from the pdfs compiled by Souvik.
You can get the links to the files from my debrief.
All the Best!
Ankur
Sentence Correction:
MGMAT is the best book you can get your hands on to prepare for SC.
Aristotle Grail is a simplified version of MGMAT and is too useful to build the concepts.
Magoosh lessons. Easy, Crisp and Lucid video lessons.
Take down the notes in your notebook and revise them every other day, so that they are embedded in your system.
Start off a SC question by find the subject and then check that the verb agrees with it or not. Check for the parallelism by looking out for words such as and, that etc.
Make sure that there is a verb in the sentence (-ing forms are not verbs by themselves)
To break it in points:
1. Find the subject
2. Make sure the subject agrees with the verb in numbers
3. Make sure the verb is full verb
4. usage of Like (used to compare nouns and express similarities), as(used to compare every thing else and such as used for examples)
5. Parallelism- Pay attention to ""and, that, either or, neither nor etc" as they are the signal words and parts on both sides of these words should be parallel
5. Tense: The parallel parts of the sentences should be in the same tense.
Perfect Tense used only when any event has already happened and is over
Progressive tense is used when the event is in action.
These are some of the things which will enable you solve most of the questions correctly.
Also do not forget to get your hands dirty with the official questions from the pdfs compiled by Souvik.
You can get the links to the files from my debrief.
All the Best!
Ankur
09 Oct 2014, 06:49
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sandeepy02
What is your Quant/Verbal breakup?
Also, here is a post that can immediately bump up your score by 20-30 points:
https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/2010/10 ... for-field/
Follow the strategy in verbal, but don't forget to work on improving your concepts.
