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31 Aug 2021, 13:22
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Hey Everyone,
I'm writing this as I'm at a crossroads with my GMAT prep. Here's a quick overview of my background for context:
I started prepping for the GMAT in June of 2020. I work a full-time job in tech strategy consulting and was an economics major at a top 20 college. I started using Magoosh and went through all of the lessons and answered all of the problems. I also supplemented this studying with the Manhattan Prep books. After about ~6 months of studying, I started taking the official practice tests. I was scoring in the low 700s and even scored a 760 on one practice test. I felt fairly confident and scheduled an exam for end of March 2021.
I came into the test pretty nervous and ended up scoring 570. I knew I could do better, so I scheduled an exam for two weeks later. I ended up scoring a 650. After scoring 650, I decided I needed to re-evaluate my approach and decided to use Target Test Prep. I went through all of the quant material and most of the verbal material in TTP, and felt much more comfortable handling GMAT problems. After a week weeks of working through TTP, I decided to sit for a GMAT course in late August.
That brings us to today. I just got done with my official exam and scored a 710 (Q49, V37) with an 8 IR. While I'm happy that I've improved, I'm pretty frustrated as I want to score a 740.
My dream school is Tuck and I want to give myself the best chance of getting in there. I'd appreciate any advice from the experts in terms of study plans moving forward.
Thanks in advance and appreciate the help!
ScottTargetTestPrep
EMPOWERgmatRichC
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KaplanCrispin
ManhattanPrep
mikemcgarry
ScoreleapTestPrep
VeritasPrepMarisa
I'm writing this as I'm at a crossroads with my GMAT prep. Here's a quick overview of my background for context:
I started prepping for the GMAT in June of 2020. I work a full-time job in tech strategy consulting and was an economics major at a top 20 college. I started using Magoosh and went through all of the lessons and answered all of the problems. I also supplemented this studying with the Manhattan Prep books. After about ~6 months of studying, I started taking the official practice tests. I was scoring in the low 700s and even scored a 760 on one practice test. I felt fairly confident and scheduled an exam for end of March 2021.
I came into the test pretty nervous and ended up scoring 570. I knew I could do better, so I scheduled an exam for two weeks later. I ended up scoring a 650. After scoring 650, I decided I needed to re-evaluate my approach and decided to use Target Test Prep. I went through all of the quant material and most of the verbal material in TTP, and felt much more comfortable handling GMAT problems. After a week weeks of working through TTP, I decided to sit for a GMAT course in late August.
That brings us to today. I just got done with my official exam and scored a 710 (Q49, V37) with an 8 IR. While I'm happy that I've improved, I'm pretty frustrated as I want to score a 740.
My dream school is Tuck and I want to give myself the best chance of getting in there. I'd appreciate any advice from the experts in terms of study plans moving forward.
Thanks in advance and appreciate the help!
ScottTargetTestPrep
EMPOWERgmatRichC
bb
KaplanCrispin
ManhattanPrep
mikemcgarry
ScoreleapTestPrep
VeritasPrepMarisa
31 Aug 2021, 13:51
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Hi BostonTC2018.
Nice job so far!
It's always good to see someone take full advantage of the TTP course and achieve a significant score increase.
To get the rest of the way to 740, you could do two things: lock in that 49 quant score and shoot for an even higher quant score by continuing to strengthen any less strong areas of quant you have, and continue higher in verbal by developing more concept knowledge if necessary and continuing to develop your skills.
Regarding quant, you likely know which areas you are less confident in, the ones you typically have more trouble with on your practice tests or the types of questions you'd just plain rather not see. You could drive your quant score a point or two higher by strengthening your skills in some of those areas, by reviewing the concepts involved in an area and then doing dozens of practice questions in that area until you practically can't get them incorrect. I love working on quant this way. Every area you get stronger in means more correct answers in that area and also more correct answers in other areas, because you end up having less stress and more time to answer all kinds of questions when you take the GMAT,
For verbal, you could continue through the TTP verbal chapters and keep practicing by analyzing questions choice by choice to get better at identifying and articulating what's going on in each answer choice. Also, you could review any concepts that you realize you don't quite have down as you practice.
Also, here are some posts that you can get further insight from to maximize the results of your verbal prep.
How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
https://gmatclub.com/forum/verbal-tip-b ... 59527.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/verbal-prep- ... 57059.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-practic ... 56936.html
Nice job so far!
It's always good to see someone take full advantage of the TTP course and achieve a significant score increase.
To get the rest of the way to 740, you could do two things: lock in that 49 quant score and shoot for an even higher quant score by continuing to strengthen any less strong areas of quant you have, and continue higher in verbal by developing more concept knowledge if necessary and continuing to develop your skills.
Regarding quant, you likely know which areas you are less confident in, the ones you typically have more trouble with on your practice tests or the types of questions you'd just plain rather not see. You could drive your quant score a point or two higher by strengthening your skills in some of those areas, by reviewing the concepts involved in an area and then doing dozens of practice questions in that area until you practically can't get them incorrect. I love working on quant this way. Every area you get stronger in means more correct answers in that area and also more correct answers in other areas, because you end up having less stress and more time to answer all kinds of questions when you take the GMAT,
For verbal, you could continue through the TTP verbal chapters and keep practicing by analyzing questions choice by choice to get better at identifying and articulating what's going on in each answer choice. Also, you could review any concepts that you realize you don't quite have down as you practice.
Also, here are some posts that you can get further insight from to maximize the results of your verbal prep.
How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
https://gmatclub.com/forum/verbal-tip-b ... 59527.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/verbal-prep- ... 57059.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-practic ... 56936.html
31 Aug 2021, 16:17
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Hi BostonTC2018,
First off, a 710/Q49 is an outstanding Score, so you can comfortably apply to any Business Schools that interest you. As such, another retest is probably not necessary. Since you have a first-choice School in mind, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement. There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
With a V37, you don't have any big 'weak spots' in that section of the Exam, but there is likely one category (RC, SC or CR) in which you're letting a few too many points slip past you. If you took this recent attempt at a Test Center, then you might choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report (so we can nitpick this performance in more detail). While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
First off, a 710/Q49 is an outstanding Score, so you can comfortably apply to any Business Schools that interest you. As such, another retest is probably not necessary. Since you have a first-choice School in mind, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement. There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
With a V37, you don't have any big 'weak spots' in that section of the Exam, but there is likely one category (RC, SC or CR) in which you're letting a few too many points slip past you. If you took this recent attempt at a Test Center, then you might choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report (so we can nitpick this performance in more detail). While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
