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25 Jul 2015, 05:00
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Hey guys.
I've been trying to climb a brick wall for the last (almost two months) and now the wall is starting to fight me. I need some advice on what to do from here.
My test prep so far has been about 3+ hours of studying per day for the last 1.5 months and included these resources: Read all the Manhattan books + Done all the practice questions in the OG and the OG verbal/quant twice+6 CATs.
My scores on the CATS started at 650 and I felt confident. However, they did not improve and on the two last once I did I got 640 and 630. My latest score was (Q45, V33). I feel beat down and desperate at this point and need some advice. My goal is 700 as that is the average at the one school I want to attend.
I have time and motivation to keep going for a year if that is what it takes. What do you guys suggest I do from here?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Karljan
I've been trying to climb a brick wall for the last (almost two months) and now the wall is starting to fight me. I need some advice on what to do from here.
My test prep so far has been about 3+ hours of studying per day for the last 1.5 months and included these resources: Read all the Manhattan books + Done all the practice questions in the OG and the OG verbal/quant twice+6 CATs.
My scores on the CATS started at 650 and I felt confident. However, they did not improve and on the two last once I did I got 640 and 630. My latest score was (Q45, V33). I feel beat down and desperate at this point and need some advice. My goal is 700 as that is the average at the one school I want to attend.
I have time and motivation to keep going for a year if that is what it takes. What do you guys suggest I do from here?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Karljan
25 Jul 2015, 08:30
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Hi Karlan,
The OG has tons of questions and for you to say that you've "done" the OG + several CAT tests and that you're not making progress in practice tests tells me that you are not absorbing or developing thought processes adequately in your brain. You may be exposed to concepts and have an idea of what to expect in questions -- but you are not developing a thinking process that you can use to approach similar-looking questions.
You need to learn to quickly identify what is being tested -- and come up with a thought process to think through similar-looking questions in the future so that next time you see something with this same structure/format -- you'll be able to think it through properly -- even if the question is slightly different.
Thought process --- is something that is difficult to learn just from going through questions. Ideally, you want to hear someone else think through a question out loud so you can hear what's going through their mind -- what keywords they are focusing on at critical times, etc.
As an example, here's one approach that might help you: https://www.gmatpill.com/criticalreasoni ... Estate.mp4
The OG has tons of questions and for you to say that you've "done" the OG + several CAT tests and that you're not making progress in practice tests tells me that you are not absorbing or developing thought processes adequately in your brain. You may be exposed to concepts and have an idea of what to expect in questions -- but you are not developing a thinking process that you can use to approach similar-looking questions.
You need to learn to quickly identify what is being tested -- and come up with a thought process to think through similar-looking questions in the future so that next time you see something with this same structure/format -- you'll be able to think it through properly -- even if the question is slightly different.
Thought process --- is something that is difficult to learn just from going through questions. Ideally, you want to hear someone else think through a question out loud so you can hear what's going through their mind -- what keywords they are focusing on at critical times, etc.
As an example, here's one approach that might help you: https://www.gmatpill.com/criticalreasoni ... Estate.mp4
25 Jul 2015, 08:57
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Also, you may be interested in following along our video thought process for OG questions here: https://www.gmatpill.com/official-guide
