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Updated on: 24 Jul 2020, 15:37
Originally posted by arjohnson023 on 22 Jul 2020, 19:28.
Last edited by arjohnson023 on 24 Jul 2020, 15:37, edited 1 time in total.
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Hi GMAT Club,
I had been scheduled to take the GMAT on April 20th, and had studied for 3 months prior to my scheduled test date. My test was cancelled due to COVID-19, and I pushed it to the next available date in my area (8/31). I am now in the process of picking studying back up and am looking for a study plan that is geared towards studying after a long break instead of picking up from the beginning.
I primarily feel the need to focus on quant. My high score on a practice test is a 680 (Q41, V42), but my most recent is a 650 (Q43, V36). I've taken three other practice tests, on each I scored V38 and lower on Q. I'd be ecstatic with a 700 on test day.
Any advice or list on topics to really hammer again would be greatly appreciated!
I had been scheduled to take the GMAT on April 20th, and had studied for 3 months prior to my scheduled test date. My test was cancelled due to COVID-19, and I pushed it to the next available date in my area (8/31). I am now in the process of picking studying back up and am looking for a study plan that is geared towards studying after a long break instead of picking up from the beginning.
I primarily feel the need to focus on quant. My high score on a practice test is a 680 (Q41, V42), but my most recent is a 650 (Q43, V36). I've taken three other practice tests, on each I scored V38 and lower on Q. I'd be ecstatic with a 700 on test day.
Any advice or list on topics to really hammer again would be greatly appreciated!
22 Jul 2020, 21:58
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Your Verbal seems to be fine but quant needs a little more effort. You can work upon your error log/weak points, assuming you are done with all topics. This would help you reach Q45 atleast; if done seriously enough you may hit Q48, but one step at a time. 680 in official mock is great if your target is 700 - just keep reviewing and try to not make similar mistakes in next mock.
23 Jul 2020, 04:38
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Hi,
I can understand that a break in between can make you a little off-track. No worries! It’s just that you have to get back on track. Let me share a few insights on what can be done next.
Let’s consider the recent score as the baseline because you took it after a gap. Based on the individual breakdowns, you might be struggling with a few topics on quant. And coming to verbal, the performance is decent and we can try for an overall improvement.
Plan for Quant:
To identify the topics you are not comfortable with, I suggest you to take sectional quizzes with 20-25 questions for each topic and if you get less than 60% accuracy, mark that as a weak area.
Now, you can go through the concepts of these topics once again and this time make sure you learn the right methodology to solve those questions. After that, you can take sectional quizzes and then based on the performance, you can move to the next topic. I recommend you to work on one topic at a time.
Plan for verbal:
For Verbal, although the performance is decent, it is important to identify whether the performance is decent in all the modules, or it is high in specific ones and weak in the others.You can take sectional tests to identify the performance level in each module. Based on that, you can plan to revisit the concepts of that module.
- For SC, the approach should be from a meaning stand-point. Knowledge of grammatical rules will surely help, but it is the meaning which is tested on GMAT.
- For CR, develop the ability to pre-think the answer by understanding the framework behind the question.
- For RC, use the right reading strategies so that you can understand the intention behind the author’s writing of the passage.
Division of time:
As you have slightly more than a month, it is important to plan accordingly.
- The first two weeks have to be dedicated to working on weaker areas. If you need more time to work on the weak areas, feel free to use the next week as well( As the deadline is 5 weeks away).
- Once you are done with this, you can give a mock in the next week and make sure to dedicate equal amount of time for quant and verbal in this week.
- In the final week, you can take the mocks for every couple of days and analyze the score pattern. This has to be the ideal study plan for the next 4-5 weeks.
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