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16 May 2020, 22:20
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Hello,
I have attempted the GMAT exam twice with 690(Q-48,V-36,IR-4,AWA-5) as my latest score. I plan to attempt the exam once again to cross the 700 barrier. I have practiced a lot for my previous attempts and have exhausted all my study material. I've attempted the following tests:
1)All 6 G-Preps
2) Jamboree Tests
3) MGMAT free test
4) Experts global free test
5) GMAT Club tests for quant and verbal.
I am a bit confused as to what and how i should study now since most of my material is already solved by me once. I'm planning to buy a test series to practice. I am more inclined towards buying the experts global tests since the interface is quite similar to the actual GMAT and they provide in-depth analysis. I found Manhattan tests to be very difficult than the actual exam and the interface was also very different. Can you please provide me your views and opinions for a good test series and how I should approach my studies this time?
I have attempted the GMAT exam twice with 690(Q-48,V-36,IR-4,AWA-5) as my latest score. I plan to attempt the exam once again to cross the 700 barrier. I have practiced a lot for my previous attempts and have exhausted all my study material. I've attempted the following tests:
1)All 6 G-Preps
2) Jamboree Tests
3) MGMAT free test
4) Experts global free test
5) GMAT Club tests for quant and verbal.
I am a bit confused as to what and how i should study now since most of my material is already solved by me once. I'm planning to buy a test series to practice. I am more inclined towards buying the experts global tests since the interface is quite similar to the actual GMAT and they provide in-depth analysis. I found Manhattan tests to be very difficult than the actual exam and the interface was also very different. Can you please provide me your views and opinions for a good test series and how I should approach my studies this time?
16 May 2020, 22:31
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Hi Chinmay1998
A good test series that you have NOT practiced yet is Veritas Prep tests. They are especially good in Quant however I wouldn't rate it as high on Verbal. But I can see that your quant score too has an upside of 2-3 points which with the same verbal score will take you to 710-720 so I firmly believe that you must consider taking Veritas Prep against any other available source.
Another very good source that you have NOT practiced yet is the Advanced OG book which has really good Quant and Verbal problems to practice.
In addition, you can also bank upon the OG 2021 and Review books
I wouldn't suggest that you go on practicing new tests/material without knowing the merit of doing that.
My advice for Verbal will be to Stick to Official source and Manhattan books.
The mantra of scoring high in GMAT is not doing a LOT of material, It is doing quality material with in-depth understanding. You are at a juncture where improving score further is the toughest task so I hope you will identify your mistakes and weak areas first before exhausting any new resource. Looking back at old good resource is never a bad thing... may be just a little less interesting... But who cares about interest??? All that we care about is the possibility of increasing score, and working on the possibility to make it real.
All the best!!! (Get in touch for any further suggestion)
18 May 2020, 17:30
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Hi Chinmay1998,
The good news is that 690 is a great start! Regarding how to study moving forward, to improve your quant and verbal skills, you need to go through GMAT quant and verbal carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills. The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable, and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point. For example, if you find that you are not strong in answering Number Properties questions, then carefully review the conceptual underpinnings of how to answer Number Properties questions and practice by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc. When you are working on learning to answer questions of a particular type, start off taking your time, and then seek to speed up as you get more comfortable answering questions of that type. As you do such practice, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get right. If you got a remainder question wrong, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not properly apply the remainder formula? Was there a concept you did not understand in the question? By carefully analyzing your mistakes, you will be able to efficiently fix your weaknesses and in turn improve your GMAT quant skills. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.
Each time you strengthen your understanding of a topic and your skill in answering questions of a particular type, you increase your odds of hitting your score goal. You know that there are types of questions that you are happy to see, types that you would rather not see, and types that you take a long time to answer correctly. Learn to more effectively answer the types of questions that you would rather not see, and make them into your favorite types. Learn to correctly answer in two minutes or less questions that you currently take five minutes to answer. By finding, say, a dozen weaker quant areas and turning them into strong areas, you will make great progress toward hitting your quant score goal. If a dozen areas turn out not to be enough, strengthen some more areas.
You can work on verbal in a similar manner. Let’s say you are reviewing Critical Reasoning. Be sure that you practice a large number of Critical Reasoning questions: Strengthen and Weaken the Argument, Resolve the Paradox, find the Conclusion, Must be True, etc. As you go through the questions, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get correct. If you missed a Weaken question, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not recognize what the question was asking? Did you skip over a key detail in an answer choice? Getting GMAT verbal questions right is a matter of what you know, what you see, and what you do. So, any time that you don't get one right, you can seek to identify what you had to know to get the right answer, what you had to see that you didn't see, and what you could have done differently to arrive at the correct answer.
So, work on accuracy and generally finding correct answers, work on specific weaker areas one by one to make them strong areas, and when you take a practice GMAT or the real thing, take all the time per question available to do your absolute best to get right answers consistently. The GMAT is essentially a game of seeing how many right answers you can get in the time allotted. Approach the test with that conception in mind, and focus intently on the question in front of you with one goal in mind: getting a CORRECT answer.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses. You also may find it helpful to read the following article about The Phases of Preparing for the GMAT.
Feel free to reach out with any further questions. Good luck!
The good news is that 690 is a great start! Regarding how to study moving forward, to improve your quant and verbal skills, you need to go through GMAT quant and verbal carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills. The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable, and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point. For example, if you find that you are not strong in answering Number Properties questions, then carefully review the conceptual underpinnings of how to answer Number Properties questions and practice by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc. When you are working on learning to answer questions of a particular type, start off taking your time, and then seek to speed up as you get more comfortable answering questions of that type. As you do such practice, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get right. If you got a remainder question wrong, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not properly apply the remainder formula? Was there a concept you did not understand in the question? By carefully analyzing your mistakes, you will be able to efficiently fix your weaknesses and in turn improve your GMAT quant skills. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.
Each time you strengthen your understanding of a topic and your skill in answering questions of a particular type, you increase your odds of hitting your score goal. You know that there are types of questions that you are happy to see, types that you would rather not see, and types that you take a long time to answer correctly. Learn to more effectively answer the types of questions that you would rather not see, and make them into your favorite types. Learn to correctly answer in two minutes or less questions that you currently take five minutes to answer. By finding, say, a dozen weaker quant areas and turning them into strong areas, you will make great progress toward hitting your quant score goal. If a dozen areas turn out not to be enough, strengthen some more areas.
You can work on verbal in a similar manner. Let’s say you are reviewing Critical Reasoning. Be sure that you practice a large number of Critical Reasoning questions: Strengthen and Weaken the Argument, Resolve the Paradox, find the Conclusion, Must be True, etc. As you go through the questions, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get correct. If you missed a Weaken question, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not recognize what the question was asking? Did you skip over a key detail in an answer choice? Getting GMAT verbal questions right is a matter of what you know, what you see, and what you do. So, any time that you don't get one right, you can seek to identify what you had to know to get the right answer, what you had to see that you didn't see, and what you could have done differently to arrive at the correct answer.
So, work on accuracy and generally finding correct answers, work on specific weaker areas one by one to make them strong areas, and when you take a practice GMAT or the real thing, take all the time per question available to do your absolute best to get right answers consistently. The GMAT is essentially a game of seeing how many right answers you can get in the time allotted. Approach the test with that conception in mind, and focus intently on the question in front of you with one goal in mind: getting a CORRECT answer.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses. You also may find it helpful to read the following article about The Phases of Preparing for the GMAT.
Feel free to reach out with any further questions. Good luck!
