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very right whip! take GMAT Preps a week ago so you can review your errors and have ample amount of time to resolve them.

just a little advice: try to take each test with AWA included. This way you'll adjust your stamina to glance at computer screen for almost 4 hours on the trot. That's important.

All the best!

Good luck next week on the test. Fingers crossed!

Thanks bb! Hopefully it'll be good news

Good luck whip for Dec 29

Good luck!

You will be fine! We will keep our fingers crossed for you! As we say in my country before an exam 'merde"

Just took a fresh version of GMAT Prep and scored a 750! Q50, V42!

How many mistakes are there in Q50 and V42 and how are they spread?

Good luck tons!

8 mistakes each in Q and V. Evenly spread out, except for one streak of three wrong in both sections

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I dont know what went wrong but with 11 mistakes in quant I could only get 44. I got 5 wrong in first 11 and then got last two wrong. So what is the reason..getting first 5 wrong or getting last two wrong

I always believed the 1st 10 and last 10 are the most important. If you make 5 mistakes in the 1st 10, then it would take sometime before GMAT rates you at 700-800 and getting the last 2 wrong could probably have brought you score down a little. GMAT rates you after each question, so in the beginning I believe GMAT will be adjusting your score a lot more since it doesn't have a clue of your level at that point in time and towards the middle it kind of knows your level so will be willing to let go of a few random mistakes.

When one is aiming for a score closer to 50-51, it means that that person is capable of answering any GMAT question thrown at him or her. In that case the only thing that matters would be time. What I did is, I made sure that I spent enough time on the 1st 10 and last 10 so that I can be clear of any silly mistakes. I scored 51 in the last 2 prep tests and in the final GMAT and I observed that I made a max. of 1 mistake (if at all) in the 1st and last 10. I think I had a total of 3 incorrect answers in those preps.

thanks for inputs srjaidev

I need some help from you. Actually I analysed my prep and could see that most mistakes were in Number properties area 6 mistakes from 11. I am not sure how to improve in number properties. I know all the fundamentals but somehow I fail to apply them. I have already gone through the MGMAT Number properties guide twice. Any advise on this topic since you see to be very sound in maths.


Thanks in advance

It is very difficult to suggest anything specific from so little information (6/11 wrong even after going through MGMAT NP Guide twice), but here is my 2 cents:

The number of concepts or formulae that you must learn for GMAT is very very less compared to, say, IIT-JEE or AIEEE (assuming that you are Indian, I suppose you know what those are). So, the 1st step is to go through OG to know exactly what formulae they expect you to know. I guess you must have already done that. Also other books could overload you with alot more unnecessary formulae which could confuse you, so its better to keep to the basics (as long as you have a decent speed when it comes to calculation and derivation).

Secondly, it is important to understand the question. I did not mean understanding what you should find (which is easy in NP compared to other concepts where there could be word problems), instead I meant understanding what you must do to reach there. Its pretty easy to check whether you understood. Here is how you do it -
Next time you do a test, write down the steps you used. Then for your wrong answers, compare your method with the method provided in the explanations. I know that there are many ways of doing so, but still by doing this exercise you will get some idea what went wrong in your thought process. Maybe you missed a clue in the question on how to move forward and got stuck, maybe you lost your way amidst all the calculations in tiny handwriting in the already cramped rough work sheet, or maybe you got a formula wrong.

You could also find that you totally misunderstood the question This is possible because the language used in GMAT questions could be different from what we are used to. Some words could be unfamiliar and you had to take a guess about the meaning and ended up completely on the wrong path. In this case you will have to read the entire OG and make sure you understand each and every word or clause they use, not all but atleast those that describe the problem, solution or a property of the numbers.

I am sorry for the very generic answer to your question but ultimately, after learning the concepts, improvement can be achieved only by reviewing your mistakes. I used a similar method for Critical Reasoning and it helped me alot. I am right in the middle of essay writing and recommendations and work and am finding it really difficult to remember my GMAT prep days even though that would only 2 months ago. There should be alot of help in the different forums here and you could possibly meet someone who overcame the same problem.

Jaidev, I don't think the first 10, last 10 is really accurate. In my GMAT Prep, I got 5-6-7 wrong but still managed to get a 50. I think Prashant might have gotten the easier questions wrong. And in that sense, Q is definitely more forgiving than V. In Verbal, I got my 12th question, 18th question and then like 32-33-34 wrong, but with 8 wrong I was pulled down to a 42.

Prashant, in terms of number properties, its more about constantly keeping ALL the factors in mind. I suggest going through Bunuel's signature links and working your way through ALL of them, noting down any mistakes and so on. Apart from that, if you have the MGMAT Number Properties, then you should have gotten a question bank with it, so try working on those problems as well. I think, with number properties, I usually go with intuition and like brute-check for all the conditions and constraints. So, its really finding middle ground for what you find comfortable.

Whiplash, after the 5-6-7, which questions did you get wrong in Q?
V seems to be a totally different story and my concern then was to get a V42 so didn't care much about researching

I got 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 21, 33, and 34 wrong in Quant. 4, 8, 12, 18, 32, 33, 34, and 40 wrong in Verbal.