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Shruti0805
14 Apr 2017, 10:03
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Dear experts,
I've been following this group for around 4 months now and have tried to run through a few questions across various difficulty levels. What I've observed is that the sub 600 and 600-700 level questions come easily to me but the 700+ difficulty level is an entirely different story. I have ~60% accuracy with the hard level questions and its really demotivating me
I recently attempted a Kaplan mock and scored in the 650-670 range which again is quite consistent with what the problem I'm highlighting.
I've booked my GMAT slot for 100 days from today, am targeting around 730-740 (A girl can dream, right!
) and could really use all the help from the in house experts. Can you please tell me where might I be going wrong ? What should I be focusing on or how should I be prepping ?
Thanks in advance!
I've been following this group for around 4 months now and have tried to run through a few questions across various difficulty levels. What I've observed is that the sub 600 and 600-700 level questions come easily to me but the 700+ difficulty level is an entirely different story. I have ~60% accuracy with the hard level questions and its really demotivating me
I recently attempted a Kaplan mock and scored in the 650-670 range which again is quite consistent with what the problem I'm highlighting.I've booked my GMAT slot for 100 days from today, am targeting around 730-740 (A girl can dream, right!
) and could really use all the help from the in house experts. Can you please tell me where might I be going wrong ? What should I be focusing on or how should I be prepping ?Thanks in advance!
14 Apr 2017, 18:25
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Hi Shruti0805,
To start, 100 days of additional study time is plenty (and you might not even need all of that time to get to your score goal). If you're 'stuck' at a particular score level though, then you're going to have to make some changes to how you 'see' (and respond to) the Test.
1) What study materials have you used?
2) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)?
3) Did you take the FULL CAT each time (with the Essay and IR sections)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
To start, 100 days of additional study time is plenty (and you might not even need all of that time to get to your score goal). If you're 'stuck' at a particular score level though, then you're going to have to make some changes to how you 'see' (and respond to) the Test.
1) What study materials have you used?
2) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)?
3) Did you take the FULL CAT each time (with the Essay and IR sections)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Shruti0805
15 Apr 2017, 01:02
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Hi Shruti0805,
To start, 100 days of additional study time is plenty (and you might not even need all of that time to get to your score goal). If you're 'stuck' at a particular score level though, then you're going to have to make some changes to how you 'see' (and respond to) the Test.
1) What study materials have you used?
2) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)?
3) Did you take the FULL CAT each time (with the Essay and IR sections)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
To start, 100 days of additional study time is plenty (and you might not even need all of that time to get to your score goal). If you're 'stuck' at a particular score level though, then you're going to have to make some changes to how you 'see' (and respond to) the Test.
1) What study materials have you used?
2) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)?
3) Did you take the FULL CAT each time (with the Essay and IR sections)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Hi Rich,
First of all, thank you so much for taking some time to respond.
I'd started my prep with the OG 2017 versions and then moved to Manhattan guides. Along with these, I've been going through the topic wise questions for PS from the quant forum here. Have got a set of Kaplan books recently and solved those questions for quant only; haven't really dived into verbal as yet.
Another thing to mention is that I'd joined a local GMAT prep institute between Jan and March but they honestly didn't do a lot apart from handing out questions upon questions instead of focusing on concept building. Wonder if I'm trying too many things at once and that's causing all this ?
To answer your 2nd and 3rd questions, on the 2 CATs Ive taken, I did mostly well on SC and RC but CR is a pain area in the verbal section. On quant, another observation I have is that the questions that I did wrong under the timed conditions, I could quite easily solve without the time constraints. Unsure if that would be due to the nerves or because I'd already attempted it once so my brain was familiar with it and could work better
I haven't attempted the IR and AWA sections in my CATs as people have been saying that the colleges don't really factor those a lot, but I do plan to do some practice for those around the last few days of my preparation.
I also want to highlight that the practice I'd been doing for the majority of the last few months had been topic wise and I did realize that I had started to sort of forget a few concepts from the topics I did previously and so have started doing mixed set practice now. Also registered for the GMAT Club tests to help with that.
Rich, I really want to do this and but am confused how to go about it
