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Brent, Please help!

by tanvis1120 » Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:54 pm
After the 60-Day study guide Quant, I took the GMAT prep 1. My Quant is still at 46 (Q46) :(
I am damn worried.
I am concentrating on verbal now, in fact, I have to.
But what do I do to increase my quant score (to at least Q49)? I know I do not have a shaky quant base (I am an engineering undergrad), but I am missing out on formulae many times.
Please advice !

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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:04 pm
Hi tanvis1120,

When you start at such a high level (Q46), it's hard to raise your score.
That said, you're still only about 1/3 the way through the Guide. There will be plenty of time to identify/strengthen areas of weakness (although it's unlikely that you have many weaknesses :-))

Other than "missing out on formulae many times," have you identified other areas of weakness?

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by tanvis1120 » Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:11 pm
Yes Brent, actually i have identified a handful of other weaknesses. I am still in process of jotting down all. But, integer properties and permutation-combination problems also fall under pain areas.
And this Q46 seems low because the GMAT prep 1 questions were pretty easy this time. Hence, I expected more.
One more thing is that I have, so far, studied from OG13, Additional reinforcements and Kaplan.
Do I need to get the Manhattan strategy guides?
Do the books have practice problems in them as well?

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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:18 pm
If you're looking for more practice questions, I suggest you look on this forum. To help you focus on one topic at a time, you can use BTG's tagging feature. For example, here are all of the questions tagged as statistics questions: https://www.beatthegmat.com/forums/tags/ ... statistics
See the left side of that linked page for more tag options.

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by tanvis1120 » Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:03 am
Ya, I am doing that too.

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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:31 am
Then I think you have everything you need.
It may just take some time - keeping working at it.

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