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missionphd
GMAT 1: 720 Q50 V36
Posts: 52
11 May 2014, 10:10
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Hi All GMATdestroyers,
I have appeared for my GMAT twice already in a gap of 4 years. Both times my Quant was 49 while I improved on my verbal from 32 to 37. Overall score moved from 660 to 710.
I applied to some of the elite schools this year, but missed out and now I am being advised that I should increase my GMAT to something like 730 or more. I understand Q51V37 is itself 730. While I am also working on my Verbal score, I wanted to ensure 51 in Quant.
What are the steps would you recommend that will push 49 to 51? Does solving 100 hardest questions by Bunuel and learning the concept for each question there sound good enough?
People sharing the concerns hit Kudos and lets talk about this challenge together.
I have appeared for my GMAT twice already in a gap of 4 years. Both times my Quant was 49 while I improved on my verbal from 32 to 37. Overall score moved from 660 to 710.
I applied to some of the elite schools this year, but missed out and now I am being advised that I should increase my GMAT to something like 730 or more. I understand Q51V37 is itself 730. While I am also working on my Verbal score, I wanted to ensure 51 in Quant.
What are the steps would you recommend that will push 49 to 51? Does solving 100 hardest questions by Bunuel and learning the concept for each question there sound good enough?
People sharing the concerns hit Kudos and lets talk about this challenge together.
14 May 2014, 05:43
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@missionphd
I am reproducing portions of my earlier replies that I gave to a question about jumping from Q50 to Q51.
I will give you my take on how to jump from Q50 to Q51. First if you are consistently scoring Q50, then that means you have all the basics and the advanced ideas in place. It is also possible that there may be some subtopics where you are not as strong as others. Clearly beefing up on those would be a good strategy.
As for the specific problem types, there are two category of questions that can hold you back from a Q51. The first ones are the medium level ones where one could misinterpret a statement and fall for a trap. These are problems that you know everything about but still trip on something small and make a mistake. These are really hard to correct, other than having extreme focus and double checking your work. This can happen to anyone on any day. I personally double check the easier problems, because I know I am more likely to miss an easier problem than a hard one. The reason is that the harder ones rely on testing an advanced concept and rely less on how the questions are phrased or need to be interpreted.
The second category of questions that mostly rely on a new idea require you to be fairly flexible in your approach. These questions often rest on testing an idea that you may not have seen before. Of course, they are not entirely new, but are significantly different than what you may have seen in practice tests. To be able to deal with these problems, I generally recommend going one step beyond GMAT, this where others may disagree with me. I will illustrate with an example. Let's say I want to push my understanding of Counting and Number Theory. I would give the following question to a student(Source American Mathematics Competition AMC 12 2003 Problem#23):
How many perfect squares are divisors of the product (1!)(2!)(3!)(4!)(5!)(6!)(7!)(8!)(9!)?
(A) 504 (B) 672 (C) 864 (D) 936 (E) 1008
This problem is beyond what you would encounter on GMAT, however it has the elements of the concepts necessary for the GMAT, and it does an excellent job of forcing you to think and come up with an approach to solve this problem. This struggle that is inherent in solving this problem is extremely valuable for those few hard problems on the GMAT that determine the difference between Q50 and Q51.
Here is the list of advanced questions organized by topic that I believe are relevant for students targeting a Q50/Q51. All of these problems use the same concepts that are required on the GMAT, I made sure to only select those that are relevant. However, some of these are fairly challenging and will require a certain level of ingenuity. I recommend that you struggle with them to gain the most.
https://www.gmatquantum.com/amc-questions
Cheers,
Dabral
I am reproducing portions of my earlier replies that I gave to a question about jumping from Q50 to Q51.
I will give you my take on how to jump from Q50 to Q51. First if you are consistently scoring Q50, then that means you have all the basics and the advanced ideas in place. It is also possible that there may be some subtopics where you are not as strong as others. Clearly beefing up on those would be a good strategy.
As for the specific problem types, there are two category of questions that can hold you back from a Q51. The first ones are the medium level ones where one could misinterpret a statement and fall for a trap. These are problems that you know everything about but still trip on something small and make a mistake. These are really hard to correct, other than having extreme focus and double checking your work. This can happen to anyone on any day. I personally double check the easier problems, because I know I am more likely to miss an easier problem than a hard one. The reason is that the harder ones rely on testing an advanced concept and rely less on how the questions are phrased or need to be interpreted.
The second category of questions that mostly rely on a new idea require you to be fairly flexible in your approach. These questions often rest on testing an idea that you may not have seen before. Of course, they are not entirely new, but are significantly different than what you may have seen in practice tests. To be able to deal with these problems, I generally recommend going one step beyond GMAT, this where others may disagree with me. I will illustrate with an example. Let's say I want to push my understanding of Counting and Number Theory. I would give the following question to a student(Source American Mathematics Competition AMC 12 2003 Problem#23):
How many perfect squares are divisors of the product (1!)(2!)(3!)(4!)(5!)(6!)(7!)(8!)(9!)?
(A) 504 (B) 672 (C) 864 (D) 936 (E) 1008
This problem is beyond what you would encounter on GMAT, however it has the elements of the concepts necessary for the GMAT, and it does an excellent job of forcing you to think and come up with an approach to solve this problem. This struggle that is inherent in solving this problem is extremely valuable for those few hard problems on the GMAT that determine the difference between Q50 and Q51.
Here is the list of advanced questions organized by topic that I believe are relevant for students targeting a Q50/Q51. All of these problems use the same concepts that are required on the GMAT, I made sure to only select those that are relevant. However, some of these are fairly challenging and will require a certain level of ingenuity. I recommend that you struggle with them to gain the most.
https://www.gmatquantum.com/amc-questions
Cheers,
Dabral
06 Jul 2014, 11:20
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IMHO solving the toughest problems doesn't help in increasing the score from 49 to 51. You should keep your basics strong and avoid doing silly mistakes. Devoting appropriate time to all questions is a must in the quant section. I myself got 50 in quant in my 1st attempt and I remember I was left with 15 questions when I saw 21 mins remaining in the timer. I had to rush through 5-7 questions in the end which I think reduced my score by 1 point in the end.
