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18 Apr 2015, 14:46
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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
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
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18 Apr 2015, 20:03
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Hi Steve,
Since you've put in some study time already, do you have a sense of which question types cause you the most trouble (and which Quant areas you're just not 'great' at)?
As an exercise, you should review your last couple of CATs and look at EVERY Quant question that took you more than 3 minutes to solve (whether you got it correct or incorrect). These are THE questions that are eating up your clock. If there's any consistency in the type of questions that are taking you too long, then those questions would be logical questions to 'dump.'
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Since you've put in some study time already, do you have a sense of which question types cause you the most trouble (and which Quant areas you're just not 'great' at)?
As an exercise, you should review your last couple of CATs and look at EVERY Quant question that took you more than 3 minutes to solve (whether you got it correct or incorrect). These are THE questions that are eating up your clock. If there's any consistency in the type of questions that are taking you too long, then those questions would be logical questions to 'dump.'
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
18 Apr 2015, 23:37
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Thanks Rich, that is good advise. I've spent the day analyzing my challenge areas, and unfortunately the ones that I am going over time are all over the map. I am going to take your advise and focus on a few key areas and really drill in to specific ones that I know I am close on and make sure that I can nail those within the two minute time frame, and then when I encounter one that I know is going to eat away my time, I am going to ditch it. After this weekend I am going to try this technique in another practice exam and see how I do.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Steve
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Steve
