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My GMAT is scheduled on Sept 26th.
I have taken the GMAT thrice over the course of last 1.5 years and scored a constant Q49 in all three of them. I am well equipped with quant concepts and am quick at calculations as well. Algebra comes naturally to me and hence I try to use nice equations to get to most if not all my answers correct. I know this can be time taking on the GMAT but I have never had to guess questions on GMAT because of timing (I guess only when the idea to solve doesn't hit me). I have attached a latest version of my ESR for your reference.
I plan to spent 3-4 hours/week on Quant and 12-13 hours on Verbal (I am taking tutoring sessions of Verbal to tackle this beast) over the course of the next 5 weeks for the D-Day.
What are some of the things I need to tackle in those 3-4 hours/week over the next 5 weeks so that I improve my chances of a Q51.
Bunuel
I have taken the GMAT thrice over the course of last 1.5 years and scored a constant Q49 in all three of them. I am well equipped with quant concepts and am quick at calculations as well. Algebra comes naturally to me and hence I try to use nice equations to get to most if not all my answers correct. I know this can be time taking on the GMAT but I have never had to guess questions on GMAT because of timing (I guess only when the idea to solve doesn't hit me). I have attached a latest version of my ESR for your reference.
I plan to spent 3-4 hours/week on Quant and 12-13 hours on Verbal (I am taking tutoring sessions of Verbal to tackle this beast) over the course of the next 5 weeks for the D-Day.
What are some of the things I need to tackle in those 3-4 hours/week over the next 5 weeks so that I improve my chances of a Q51.
Bunuel
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A few things:
- if you've scored a Q49 every time for a year and a half, then whatever you've done to prepare for Quant hasn't been improving your score. It's a great score already, of course, but if you wanted to increase it, you'd almost certainly want to try something new;
- when people are prone to careless mistakes, or are weak in one subject (Geometry, say), their scores normally fluctuate from one test to the next. That's because on an adaptive test, wrong answers on easy questions hurt you a lot. So those test takers will make careless errors on easy questions on some tests but not on others, or will get easy Geometry questions wrong on some tests and not on others, and therefore see varying scores. Your scores are completely consistent. So it's very likely that you don't make many careless mistakes, and that you have a strong foundation across the board. That means you can focus almost exclusively on high-level questions during your prep. If you can learn to answer more of the hard questions correctly, you'll raise your score;
- of course it's great to be strong at Algebra, but the difference between a Q45 and a Q51 really doesn't have much to do with algebraic ability. To answer the hardest questions correctly on the GMAT, you need a deep conceptual understanding. When you have that, you'll see how to solve even the hardest problems, and you'll actually save time by avoiding a lot of algebra. It's possible you're relying too much on algebraic methods when conceptual ones would get you more right answers;
- there really is a huge difference between a Q50 and a Q51. You can get about a third of your questions wrong, and as long as all of those questions are very hard, you can get a Q50. But to get a Q51 you need to be nearly perfect. Considering your starting level, you have a chance at a Q51, but I think for most test takers, it's not a realistic target, just because you need to see how to solve every question under test conditions, and need to eliminate every careless error. So I think you might more reasonably set Q50 as your target (which should definitely be achievable), and think of Q51 more as a best case scenario.
The GMAT books I've written teach the conceptual approaches I use to solve all of the hardest GMAT questions, so if you might be interested in learning GMAT math that way, feel free to contact me at the email address in my signature. Good luck!
- if you've scored a Q49 every time for a year and a half, then whatever you've done to prepare for Quant hasn't been improving your score. It's a great score already, of course, but if you wanted to increase it, you'd almost certainly want to try something new;
- when people are prone to careless mistakes, or are weak in one subject (Geometry, say), their scores normally fluctuate from one test to the next. That's because on an adaptive test, wrong answers on easy questions hurt you a lot. So those test takers will make careless errors on easy questions on some tests but not on others, or will get easy Geometry questions wrong on some tests and not on others, and therefore see varying scores. Your scores are completely consistent. So it's very likely that you don't make many careless mistakes, and that you have a strong foundation across the board. That means you can focus almost exclusively on high-level questions during your prep. If you can learn to answer more of the hard questions correctly, you'll raise your score;
- of course it's great to be strong at Algebra, but the difference between a Q45 and a Q51 really doesn't have much to do with algebraic ability. To answer the hardest questions correctly on the GMAT, you need a deep conceptual understanding. When you have that, you'll see how to solve even the hardest problems, and you'll actually save time by avoiding a lot of algebra. It's possible you're relying too much on algebraic methods when conceptual ones would get you more right answers;
- there really is a huge difference between a Q50 and a Q51. You can get about a third of your questions wrong, and as long as all of those questions are very hard, you can get a Q50. But to get a Q51 you need to be nearly perfect. Considering your starting level, you have a chance at a Q51, but I think for most test takers, it's not a realistic target, just because you need to see how to solve every question under test conditions, and need to eliminate every careless error. So I think you might more reasonably set Q50 as your target (which should definitely be achievable), and think of Q51 more as a best case scenario.
The GMAT books I've written teach the conceptual approaches I use to solve all of the hardest GMAT questions, so if you might be interested in learning GMAT math that way, feel free to contact me at the email address in my signature. Good luck!
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