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06 Jun 2008, 00:30
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Hello;
I have been following GMATclub for some time now..After my first GMAT experience (I got 660 44M, 37V), I thought my preparation was not enough. So I joined this group and purchased the tests. Let me tell you; the tests are the most valuable preparation material one can find besides the official guide. I did most of the math tests, kept an error log, reviewed my mistakes and really focused on math this time around. I took my second test yesterday and was kind of shocked when I saw the score on the screen. 660 again with 49M and 31V. With the intense math studying I managed to increase my math from 44 to 49 but my verbal score plummeted and my overall score stayed the same. I believe if I managed to get my math score with my first test's verbal score I was in the 700 range and I would be done with GMAT. Now I have to take it again and hopefully the last time, working hard on both sections. English is my second language but I do well on practice materials. Can you please advise me on how to raise or at least keep my verbal score around 37-40 range?
Thanks all
Take care
I have been following GMATclub for some time now..After my first GMAT experience (I got 660 44M, 37V), I thought my preparation was not enough. So I joined this group and purchased the tests. Let me tell you; the tests are the most valuable preparation material one can find besides the official guide. I did most of the math tests, kept an error log, reviewed my mistakes and really focused on math this time around. I took my second test yesterday and was kind of shocked when I saw the score on the screen. 660 again with 49M and 31V. With the intense math studying I managed to increase my math from 44 to 49 but my verbal score plummeted and my overall score stayed the same. I believe if I managed to get my math score with my first test's verbal score I was in the 700 range and I would be done with GMAT. Now I have to take it again and hopefully the last time, working hard on both sections. English is my second language but I do well on practice materials. Can you please advise me on how to raise or at least keep my verbal score around 37-40 range?
Thanks all
Take care
06 Jun 2008, 00:38
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Excellent quant improvement emir. Would you mind sharing your gmat-challenge scores ? so that we can see the co-relation between those results and final scores ?
Good luck for take 3.
Good luck for take 3.
06 Jun 2008, 00:56
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Thanks.
I have technical background actually. So improvement in math was not so challenging for me. After my first exam, I decided I did not take GMAT so seriously. It is not enough to know the basic concepts to do well in GMAT. There many key factors. Timing, key points, getting to know question types.. And the tests in the GMATclub are the only source which give you all of these. I did not keep every score of the tests I took. I did 19 of them and if I remember correctly I did between 8-10 mistakes on average. It is really important to go back and go over your mistakes. Sometimes they were really silly mistakes sometimes tests really thought me important key points. But I really advise to do the OG material before starting the GMATclub tests. After some gmatclub tests I got to know how the question are designed to trick you. I started to avoid basic mistakes. And it really paid of in the actual exam. I caught myself correcting my answer choice 3 or 4 times after realizing my mistakes. And this would not be possible if I wasnt prepared from the GMATclub tests. The thing on my second exam was I was really short on time towards the end. I did not want to make silly mistakes on easy questions so I checked my answer again which cost me some time. I believe GMAT is getting harder overall. I got 2 hard geometry questions, 2-3 prob., comb. problems, hard number theory problems (terminating decimals etc.). So i thought I was on the right track because I was getting medium-hard to hard questions on the exam. But when it came to verbal, i was nowhere near as focused as I was in the math section. During my prep. and the exam, I was so concentrated on math that I actually did not care about verbal at all. I thought, I got 37 in the first exam so I can at least match that, but obviously I was wrong. So now it is time to work on both sides equally.
