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Louis14
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13 Aug 2020, 10:02
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Hi. I have been facing an unexpected issue while solving questions on various Quant topics. I am performing at 90%+ accuracy on Sub 600 level questions, 80%+ accuracy at 600-700 level questions, but merely 30-40% accuracy at 700+ level questions. Now, this 30-40% accuracy is not happening in every quant topic as I have a better accuracy rate at this level in certain areas, but unfortunately, in topics such as stats, work-rate, distance-rate, I have really struggled with 700+ level questions.
My decently high accuracy up to 700 level questions and abysmal accuracy at 700+ level questions has put me in a very uneasy situation as I don't know what really explains this uncanny discrepancy. What should I do? Please help. My guess is that it's probably about my lack of conceptual grasp on the cryptic subtleties of the topics I have mentioned above - subtleties that are frequently tested on 700+ level questions.
I have been solving questions in batches of 50 at each level from the general GMATCLUB resources (not GMATCLUB Tests).
I would really appreciate your help. Thank you so much in advance.
My decently high accuracy up to 700 level questions and abysmal accuracy at 700+ level questions has put me in a very uneasy situation as I don't know what really explains this uncanny discrepancy. What should I do? Please help. My guess is that it's probably about my lack of conceptual grasp on the cryptic subtleties of the topics I have mentioned above - subtleties that are frequently tested on 700+ level questions.
I have been solving questions in batches of 50 at each level from the general GMATCLUB resources (not GMATCLUB Tests).
I would really appreciate your help. Thank you so much in advance.
14 Aug 2020, 08:33
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Hi Louis14,
One of the keys to understanding why you are underperforming on 700+ level questions is to breakdown how they make those questions harder than sub 700 level questions:
1) More tricky wording of questions so key information is harder to extract
2) More and different kinds of information that you need to extract from the prompt (PS) and the statements (DS).
3) Blending two types of quant skill areas into one question
It all comes down to how strong your process is in solving quant problems. I coach people through drills that focus purely on how well they 1) capture and preprocess the information in the prompt and statements and 2) use visualization to take complicated wording that's hard to work with and turn it into more usable formats like tables, number lines, Venn diagrams etc. The latter lets you get your head 'wrapped around the problem' much more easily.
It's what I call slow down to speed up. When you spend a bit more time on the first 2 stages of solving quant questions, the latter part (equations and calculations) goes much faster and you eliminate all those times you get a wrong answer and have to go back and see what you missed.
Expert help (coaching) can really help to identify your process gaps and drive you to change how you do problems at the 700+ level.
One of the keys to understanding why you are underperforming on 700+ level questions is to breakdown how they make those questions harder than sub 700 level questions:
1) More tricky wording of questions so key information is harder to extract
2) More and different kinds of information that you need to extract from the prompt (PS) and the statements (DS).
3) Blending two types of quant skill areas into one question
It all comes down to how strong your process is in solving quant problems. I coach people through drills that focus purely on how well they 1) capture and preprocess the information in the prompt and statements and 2) use visualization to take complicated wording that's hard to work with and turn it into more usable formats like tables, number lines, Venn diagrams etc. The latter lets you get your head 'wrapped around the problem' much more easily.
It's what I call slow down to speed up. When you spend a bit more time on the first 2 stages of solving quant questions, the latter part (equations and calculations) goes much faster and you eliminate all those times you get a wrong answer and have to go back and see what you missed.
Expert help (coaching) can really help to identify your process gaps and drive you to change how you do problems at the 700+ level.
Louis14
Joined: 01 Nov 2019
Last visit: 04 Nov 2023
Posts: 249
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 472
Schools: NUS MiF "22 (A) LSE MFin "22 (S) HEC MFin "22
GMAT 1: 680 Q48 V34
GPA: 3.56
14 Aug 2020, 23:34
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Right! Thanks so much for your word of advice. Really appreciate it.
