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I need some serious help. My test is on March 3rd. I need to improve my score by 200 points, even if I have to study 10+ hours a day (which is what I plan to do from today onward). Do I have any hope?
I thought I was stronger in verbal but I scored a meager 28. Completely blew me away. I've been studying on and off since November and thought I had a good grasp on 80% of the materials. I didn't take any tests prior to today, which turned out to be a mistake.
I covered all Manhattan series (but mastered none) and the Kaplan Quant. I did only 20% of OG12 problems. As I write this, I'm realizing my preparation had not been enough. But somehow I'm figuring out that even if I read the strategies, I can't apply them to answer the questions. It means that I am not being able to train my brain in the GMAT mode.
Can someone please help me devise a detailed strategy? Plan of action which I can blindly follow?
Please do what you can so I am able to pull up my score. I'm an average student with ADD. Thought I should mention it.
I thought I was stronger in verbal but I scored a meager 28. Completely blew me away. I've been studying on and off since November and thought I had a good grasp on 80% of the materials. I didn't take any tests prior to today, which turned out to be a mistake.
I covered all Manhattan series (but mastered none) and the Kaplan Quant. I did only 20% of OG12 problems. As I write this, I'm realizing my preparation had not been enough. But somehow I'm figuring out that even if I read the strategies, I can't apply them to answer the questions. It means that I am not being able to train my brain in the GMAT mode.
Can someone please help me devise a detailed strategy? Plan of action which I can blindly follow?
Please do what you can so I am able to pull up my score. I'm an average student with ADD. Thought I should mention it.
02 Feb 2010, 11:34
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C'mon, I should be able to get some help. Or is my predicament that hopeless?
I've figured out that I got all the CR and RCs right in Verbal, and ALL SCs wrong. Mind boggling. I thought I was good in grammer. And I did go through the Manhattan SC Guide (the SC Bible).
Can someone please show me the light? BB?
I've figured out that I got all the CR and RCs right in Verbal, and ALL SCs wrong. Mind boggling. I thought I was good in grammer. And I did go through the Manhattan SC Guide (the SC Bible).
Can someone please show me the light? BB?
02 Feb 2010, 20:19
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Given your ADD, it may be possible to request special testing conditions. However, putting that aside for now, I think over the next month you have the potential to make a lot of progress, but it's going to be very difficult to get up to 700-level from 500, assuming the 500 wasn't a fluke.
I think to get an idea of how to approach studying, you need to look at your subsection scores.
Below I've listed possible strategies for you given your current quant and verbal scores.
Quant
48+: Your issue is probably timing and getting "tricky" questions wrong. Allocate your time properly (read the question multiple times, don't agonize over not knowing the answer, know when to guess and move on).
43-48: You know most concepts but probably don't know how to approach every single question. Look at your practice tests for the questions that you got wrong and categorize them by question type (geometry, algebra, probability/statistics, counting/number theory, etc.). Tally these question types (in something a lot of GMATClub people call an "error log"). If you took a lot of tests, you should see a pretty clear trend.
35-43: You understand the test but lack an understanding in a good number of the mathematical concepts tested on the GMAT. Work on understanding the concepts and methods in the question types. An error log probably isn't absolutely necessary at this stage, but it'll certainly help. Know your formulas, theorems, and rules for algebra, geometry, probability, statistics, and number theory.
<35: You have probably been away from math for a while and need a refresher on most of the mathematical topics on the exam. Here, I would recommend picking up some math books and problem set books, making sure that you're solid in the fundamentals beforehand.
Verbal
40+: Your issue is probably timing and getting "tricky" questions wrong. Allocate your time properly (read the question multiple times, don't agonize over not knowing the answer, know when to guess and move on).
34-40: You are competent at taking the exam and are familiar with all question types but you probably need to dig a little deeper into the exact questions you're getting wrong (e.g. weaken questions in critical reasoning, global questions in reading comp, parallelism in sentence corrections, etc.). Keep a detailed log of the practice test questions you've gotten wrong. This should help reveal a pattern.
28-34: You are probably having difficulty in one ore more broad question types (reading comp, sentence, correction, critical reasoning). Use the error log and cast a wide net around the kinds of things you want to improve upon. If you have trouble with reading comp, for example, you may want to find prep materials devoted to just the reading comp section and work on that exclusively. The idea here is to make the most out of your time by making the most significant improvements first.
<28: You may be unfamiliar with the test or have difficulty with a good number of concepts. Spend a lot of time reading about the concepts and internalizing examples before going into problem sets.
Hope that helps. The idea is to find out where your most significant weaknesses are (either in concepts or in the way you take the test) in order to figure out how to take the biggest strides from there.
I think to get an idea of how to approach studying, you need to look at your subsection scores.
Below I've listed possible strategies for you given your current quant and verbal scores.
Quant
48+: Your issue is probably timing and getting "tricky" questions wrong. Allocate your time properly (read the question multiple times, don't agonize over not knowing the answer, know when to guess and move on).
43-48: You know most concepts but probably don't know how to approach every single question. Look at your practice tests for the questions that you got wrong and categorize them by question type (geometry, algebra, probability/statistics, counting/number theory, etc.). Tally these question types (in something a lot of GMATClub people call an "error log"). If you took a lot of tests, you should see a pretty clear trend.
35-43: You understand the test but lack an understanding in a good number of the mathematical concepts tested on the GMAT. Work on understanding the concepts and methods in the question types. An error log probably isn't absolutely necessary at this stage, but it'll certainly help. Know your formulas, theorems, and rules for algebra, geometry, probability, statistics, and number theory.
<35: You have probably been away from math for a while and need a refresher on most of the mathematical topics on the exam. Here, I would recommend picking up some math books and problem set books, making sure that you're solid in the fundamentals beforehand.
Verbal
40+: Your issue is probably timing and getting "tricky" questions wrong. Allocate your time properly (read the question multiple times, don't agonize over not knowing the answer, know when to guess and move on).
34-40: You are competent at taking the exam and are familiar with all question types but you probably need to dig a little deeper into the exact questions you're getting wrong (e.g. weaken questions in critical reasoning, global questions in reading comp, parallelism in sentence corrections, etc.). Keep a detailed log of the practice test questions you've gotten wrong. This should help reveal a pattern.
28-34: You are probably having difficulty in one ore more broad question types (reading comp, sentence, correction, critical reasoning). Use the error log and cast a wide net around the kinds of things you want to improve upon. If you have trouble with reading comp, for example, you may want to find prep materials devoted to just the reading comp section and work on that exclusively. The idea here is to make the most out of your time by making the most significant improvements first.
<28: You may be unfamiliar with the test or have difficulty with a good number of concepts. Spend a lot of time reading about the concepts and internalizing examples before going into problem sets.
Hope that helps. The idea is to find out where your most significant weaknesses are (either in concepts or in the way you take the test) in order to figure out how to take the biggest strides from there.
