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Re: 450 to goal of 700; Need Strategy Advice [#permalink]
https://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/two-week-prep.cfm

Use the info in this article to help you strengthen your weak areas :)
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Re: 450 to goal of 700; Need Strategy Advice [#permalink]
I did a set of GMAT Club V06 questions and also did some factorization/expansion practice last night after work and I feel quite exhausted today.

I think I will go home and sleep for a while first before doing any more studying. I printed out a load of Combinations/Permutation questions and I will also work on some rate problems.
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Re: 450 to goal of 700; Need Strategy Advice [#permalink]
If you're weak in a particular area/section, practising questions is important but what is more important is to practise questions the right way. You need to ensure that you you're not moving from one question to another without seeing the explanation. Now you'll say that I read the explanation but I still don't improve. The reason behind that is most of the times we just read an explanation and think that we understand it. What we forget to ask ourselves what is the valuable thing or my takeaway from this question which I can apply in similiar questions in future. Because of not doing so, you'll see that you'll get stuck in questions which will probably test the same concept but twist it a bit and you'll be left wondering how to tackle this now.
So it is important that you think and ask yourself the takeaways from each question and it applies equally to Verbal and Quant. If you do so, then I'm sure that you should improve.
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Re: 450 to goal of 700; Need Strategy Advice [#permalink]
Thanks for those who responded. All of the above links were very helpful. I just took my thrid MGMAT CAT exam yesterday and scored a 530 Q32 & V31. My quant has been steadily improving and I have found that I am strong in number properties, algebra, and geometry but am very weak in rates/Non standard word problems, VICs, and FDPs. In the areas I am weak in, I plan to revisit the strategy guides and make sure I understand the key concepts while also doing harder more advanced problems for the areas I am stronger in. If you are aware of any good strategies to tackling such problems, please let me know.

As far as the verbal goes, my score has remained the same for the first 3 tests. How can I begin to improve it? I am strongest in RC, followed by SC, and then CR and the average level of the questions I get right are 670-690. The last test I noticed that my accuracy for CR and RC improved b/c I was spending more time outlining the argument & taking notes that I had to rush through the last 10 questions get almost all of them wrong. If I did not have to do this, my score may have increased slightly. I am going to take a look at Whiplash's CR guide. I have found a couple SC summaries provided by other Gmat club members and will look over this as well. Please let me know if you know of any other good resources to skim through.

I have my final Manhattan GMAT session tomorrow and then have 6 weeks until my exam. I've done almost all of the reading for the MGMAT books so really want to focus on doing problems. Please also let me know if you know any additional strategies I should be focusing on in order to reach my goal. Appreciate all the help :)



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