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30 Apr 2016, 10:24
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TLDR: What to focus on as a non native with 600 (Q42 and V30) to get up to at least 620 in 8 days?
Hi guys! Just got a quick question concerning my strategy for further studies. Since here are enough GMAT pros around I hope someone will be able to give me some advice
My GMAT is scheduled for May 9th, so I don't have much time left but need some improvement. The good news is that I don't need an astonishingly good overall score, since my bachelor's grade is quite good and the GMAT is not thaat important for admissions over here (Germany). I was aiming for 630 but with 620 I would probably be satisfied as well. The bad news is (like you might have guessed) that I'm not there yet and can't postpone my exam... In the last two weeks I went through all the MGMAT guides once and solved around 50-100 OG questions verbal and quant each. I took an official GMAT prep test yesterday (600, Q42 V30) and a MGMAT prep test earlier today (580, Q42 V29). In the quant part my timing was OK and I could have used maybe 3 mins more but in the verbal part the time killed me both times and I had to skip 5-6 questions or so. (Obviously) I'm not a native but I guess my English is not the worst in general (99th percentile on TOEFL, yay
). On RC I just need too long to read and understand the passages, on SC I need too long to understand the differences between the remaining answers after eliminating the really obvious wrong answers through the splits I found correctly, and CR is the only category I'm more or less comfortable with, since the passages are written easier imo.
The big question is: What to focus on from now on? Where do you think the impovment should be easier? Plus for quant: since I don't have the disadvantage of not being native on that part it could be easier to get better fast. Plus for verbal: I feel like I am doing really bad at the moment and because of the diminishing marginal benefit of studying it could be easier to get better fast. What do you guys think?! Every answer is appreciated!
Cheers, Peter
Hi guys! Just got a quick question concerning my strategy for further studies. Since here are enough GMAT pros around I hope someone will be able to give me some advice
My GMAT is scheduled for May 9th, so I don't have much time left but need some improvement. The good news is that I don't need an astonishingly good overall score, since my bachelor's grade is quite good and the GMAT is not thaat important for admissions over here (Germany). I was aiming for 630 but with 620 I would probably be satisfied as well. The bad news is (like you might have guessed) that I'm not there yet and can't postpone my exam... In the last two weeks I went through all the MGMAT guides once and solved around 50-100 OG questions verbal and quant each. I took an official GMAT prep test yesterday (600, Q42 V30) and a MGMAT prep test earlier today (580, Q42 V29). In the quant part my timing was OK and I could have used maybe 3 mins more but in the verbal part the time killed me both times and I had to skip 5-6 questions or so. (Obviously) I'm not a native but I guess my English is not the worst in general (99th percentile on TOEFL, yay
). On RC I just need too long to read and understand the passages, on SC I need too long to understand the differences between the remaining answers after eliminating the really obvious wrong answers through the splits I found correctly, and CR is the only category I'm more or less comfortable with, since the passages are written easier imo.The big question is: What to focus on from now on? Where do you think the impovment should be easier? Plus for quant: since I don't have the disadvantage of not being native on that part it could be easier to get better fast. Plus for verbal: I feel like I am doing really bad at the moment and because of the diminishing marginal benefit of studying it could be easier to get better fast. What do you guys think?! Every answer is appreciated!
Cheers, Peter
30 Apr 2016, 10:33
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Hi Peter,
GMAC has publicly stated that the Official Score that you earn on Test Day is within +/- 30 points of actual ability. Assuming that your CATs function in the same way, this means that you could have very easily scored 630 on either of these CATs. Rather than try to learn a lot of new ideas/concepts/Tactics in these last 7 days, you should focus on fixing the little errors that you made when you took these CATs.
1) After reviewing each of these CATs, how many questions did you get wrong because of a silly/little mistake?
THOSE mistakes are what kept you from scoring higher (regardless of whether they occurred in the Quant or Verbal sections). Since your score goal is relatively modest, you won't have to correctly answer ANY of the hard/weird questions that you'll face on Test Day (so you can dump them), BUT you will have limit to the number of little mistakes that you make on the 'gettable' questions.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
GMAC has publicly stated that the Official Score that you earn on Test Day is within +/- 30 points of actual ability. Assuming that your CATs function in the same way, this means that you could have very easily scored 630 on either of these CATs. Rather than try to learn a lot of new ideas/concepts/Tactics in these last 7 days, you should focus on fixing the little errors that you made when you took these CATs.
1) After reviewing each of these CATs, how many questions did you get wrong because of a silly/little mistake?
THOSE mistakes are what kept you from scoring higher (regardless of whether they occurred in the Quant or Verbal sections). Since your score goal is relatively modest, you won't have to correctly answer ANY of the hard/weird questions that you'll face on Test Day (so you can dump them), BUT you will have limit to the number of little mistakes that you make on the 'gettable' questions.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
30 Apr 2016, 13:03
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Hey, thanks for you quick reply! The first part is true, assuming I didn't score over my actual level because of luck in the first place (e.g. first two tests) 
So let's hope for the best. Concerning the prep test, to be honest, the errors I made were mostly not silly but in Quant I was just lacking the knowledge and in Verbal the time to solve the questions properly. Apart from that, I got 8 days left, even with a really thorough analysis of my errors it would not take me all the time to review them, considering I have at least about 10 hours of day to study But what do you think is easier to tackle: getting better in Maths or seeing the SC errors quicker?
So let's hope for the best. Concerning the prep test, to be honest, the errors I made were mostly not silly but in Quant I was just lacking the knowledge and in Verbal the time to solve the questions properly. Apart from that, I got 8 days left, even with a really thorough analysis of my errors it would not take me all the time to review them, considering I have at least about 10 hours of day to study But what do you think is easier to tackle: getting better in Maths or seeing the SC errors quicker? 
