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20 Oct 2022, 02:37
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Hello everyone, I gave my 2nd attempt in GMAT yesterday. But first I would like to give some background regarding my preparation. I began studying for GMAT in February 2022. My educational background is in engineering, so like many engineers, I consider my quantitative skills stronger than my verbal skills. For that reason while preparing, I spent 80 percent of time on verbal & only 20 percent of time on quant (maybe even lesser).when I first began preparing, My skills in CR were comparatively better than those in SC and RC . So, I started my preparation with sentence correction. In the beginning, I found SC very confusing & my accuracy was around 45%. I consider myself more confident in SC now than I had been before, thanks to @e-gmat, target Test Prep, RonPurewal & GMATNinja. For RC, I mostly practiced to improve my accuracy, and for CR, I used Powerscore critical reasoning Bible that I found satisfactory. Besides practicing GMATclub questions, I did nothing specific for quant.
Yesterday, I received my GMAT score of 690 (V35, Q49). This is a slight improvement from my first attempt (650 (V28, Q49)), but my target score is 730.I have attached my ESR, so I would appreciate any suggestions as to what my next steps should be. Whether I should focus more on the quantitative section or simply focus on the verbal section. Anything you've noticed from my ESR that I can improve or enhance. Any small suggestion will be a significant help. Thanks in advance.
Yesterday, I received my GMAT score of 690 (V35, Q49). This is a slight improvement from my first attempt (650 (V28, Q49)), but my target score is 730.I have attached my ESR, so I would appreciate any suggestions as to what my next steps should be. Whether I should focus more on the quantitative section or simply focus on the verbal section. Anything you've noticed from my ESR that I can improve or enhance. Any small suggestion will be a significant help. Thanks in advance.
20 Oct 2022, 05:23
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Hi Sourav8888.
I think, to get to your score goal, you should take advantage of your strength in quant to get some more questions correct there, and then get the rest of the way to your goal by improving your performance in verbal.
You may think that, since you're already at 49 in quant, you can't increase your score much by improving in quant, but the truth is that your total score is based on your actual performance in quant and verbal rather than on your quant and verbal section scores. So, every additional question you get correct in quant will help to increase your total score.
Your ESR indicates that, in quant, you have the most room for improvement in Geometry. So, you could start by working on Geometry and then, once you're stronger in Geometry, you could continue by working on other areas of quant, mastering them one at a time to improve your expected performance bit by bit.
Regarding verbal, you can still improve in all areas of verbal.
One way to improve is to fill in any knowledge gaps you have in SC, partly by noticing what trips you up as you answer SC questions and reviewing it.
Also, make sure you have a clear understanding of what's an effective strategy for answering each type of verbal question.
Finally, a key aspect of mastering verbal is to practice untimed and achieve super high accuracy before seeking to answer verbal questions at test pace. The following accuracies would be good to achieve untimed.
Easy - 95%+
Medium - 90%+
Hard - 70%+
To achieve those accuracies, each time you miss a question, determine why you missed it and address whatever you find. Eventually, you will have addressed any issue that would cause you to miss a verbal question at which point you'll get almost every verbal question correct.
For more detail on how to master GMAT verbal, see these posts.
How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
How to Get Faster at GMAT Verbal
I think, to get to your score goal, you should take advantage of your strength in quant to get some more questions correct there, and then get the rest of the way to your goal by improving your performance in verbal.
You may think that, since you're already at 49 in quant, you can't increase your score much by improving in quant, but the truth is that your total score is based on your actual performance in quant and verbal rather than on your quant and verbal section scores. So, every additional question you get correct in quant will help to increase your total score.
Your ESR indicates that, in quant, you have the most room for improvement in Geometry. So, you could start by working on Geometry and then, once you're stronger in Geometry, you could continue by working on other areas of quant, mastering them one at a time to improve your expected performance bit by bit.
Regarding verbal, you can still improve in all areas of verbal.
One way to improve is to fill in any knowledge gaps you have in SC, partly by noticing what trips you up as you answer SC questions and reviewing it.
Also, make sure you have a clear understanding of what's an effective strategy for answering each type of verbal question.
Finally, a key aspect of mastering verbal is to practice untimed and achieve super high accuracy before seeking to answer verbal questions at test pace. The following accuracies would be good to achieve untimed.
Easy - 95%+
Medium - 90%+
Hard - 70%+
To achieve those accuracies, each time you miss a question, determine why you missed it and address whatever you find. Eventually, you will have addressed any issue that would cause you to miss a verbal question at which point you'll get almost every verbal question correct.
For more detail on how to master GMAT verbal, see these posts.
How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
How to Get Faster at GMAT Verbal
20 Oct 2022, 07:06
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Hi Sourav8888,
To add to what Marty said, a great way to practice quant, since you are already scoring Q49, is with topical practice.
For example, let’s say that you want to practice Number Properties. You can do so by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc.
After each problem set, thoroughly analyze your incorrect questions. For example, 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 fix your weaknesses efficiently and, in turn, improve your GMAT quant skills. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.
To add to what Marty said, a great way to practice quant, since you are already scoring Q49, is with topical practice.
For example, let’s say that you want to practice Number Properties. You can do so by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc.
After each problem set, thoroughly analyze your incorrect questions. For example, 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 fix your weaknesses efficiently and, in turn, improve your GMAT quant skills. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.
