What to do in last week to 2 weeks of preparation?

Hi

In the last 2 weeks you should better concentrate on the analysis of your latest CATs. Try to learn from your mistakes so you never repeat them on the real test, Take some more CATs (2-3). Make your stamina for sitting in the test for 3.5 hours, take care of your health and sleep.

Good Luck

Hi gmat5ever,

For Quant, especially in the last couple of weeks, a subscription to GMATCLUB tests is the best way to improve your score. They are indeed phenomenal and will not only pinpoint your weak areas but also help you improve on them.

Further taking multiple mocks might help. Apart from the GMATPREP, Manhattan GMAT tests and Veritas Prep Tests in my experience have good verbal and Quant section and will certainly help you point out and improve your weak areas.

Further another advantage of taking many mocks is to build up your stamina. Apart from the GMATPREP tests, taking practise tests of any major GMATPREP company ought to do that.

I would also encourage you to purchase the GMATPREP QP 1 for some great additional practice.

Hope this helps. All the best!

Wow, great scores!

Since you have about 14 days, there are some steps you can take to improve your GMAT quant score. You will need to study each quant topic "with a fine-toothed comb" to determine your exact weaknesses.

For example, if you are reviewing Number Properties, be sure that you practice 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc. Once complete, do a thorough analysis of each incorrect question. If you got a remainder question wrong, ask yourself why you got it wrong. 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 properly analyzing your mistakes, you will be able to more efficiently fix your weaknesses and in turn improve your GMAT quant knowledge. 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 and types that you would rather not see, and questions 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.

Regarding practice exams, you probably don't need to take any more. Rather, spend your time strengthening your quant skills so you push your score to Q50 or Q51.

Finally, you may find my article helpful regarding how to improve your GMAT quant score.

Feel free to reach out with any further questions. Good luck!

ScottTargetTestPrep

Thanks for the advice. I 100% agree with it, but can you elaborate on the best places to get these sets of 50 questions on particular subtopics to practice on? I've been using official GMAT materials to study and they only have ~400 quant questions and you can't pick and choose by area of weakness.

Is it just a matter of browsing here and finding random questions to do?

Thank you!!!!

rohan2345

I haven't purchased GMATClub problems because they seem to be too involved and not necessarily practical enough for the GMAT, where solutions seem to be pretty simple as long as you understand the underlying concept that is being tested. GMATClub seem to have way too many calculations and intricacies to be useful for me to get a lot out of in only a week. If I had a month, maybe. But a week seems to be too short to truly take advantage of it.

Happy to be convinced otherwise though!