Quant - how to know when to guess and move on to save time?
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18 Apr 2015, 14:46
Hi there,
I am a 45 year old father of two that works full time as a Director of a successful company (read, very busy!) and trying to get in to an Executive MBA program. I only need a 550 to allow a submission to the program, and I expect a 600 is all that is needed to get in since I have a strong application otherwise. This being an Executive program, the potential students are all in their late 30's, 40's and 50's and I suspect in a similar situation to me.
As you can imagine, my Quant skills are a little (a LOT!) rusty and I am struggling mightily with the Quant section. I've been getting around 530-570 on practices CAT's and have achieved 600 only once. My scores are around Q32-37 and V34-36 or so. My Verbal is consistent, not great but I think I can rely on that score on test day, so I really need to get as much as I can out of my Q score. My problem is that I run out of time every Q test and I find myself having to blindly guess the last 5-8 questions each time. I have been studying as much as possible, about 2-3 hours per night, and 6-8 hours on weekends for about 3 months. And oh yeah, my test is next Saturday the 25th of April!
My question to the group is, how do I gain back some time by guessing and moving on quickly so that I can save time for the questions that I could answer. I find that if I had time at the end, most of the later questions would have been solvable, since I have done poorly during the test it is not going to give me 700+ questions at the end anyway. Is there a strategy I could use to quickly evaluate whether I should burn a question and move on?
Any advise at this point would be greatly appreciated. I am starting to panic and have to cram this week as much as I can to try and do my best on test day.
Thanks,
Steve