GMAT Strategy

jpjp wrote:

ofedosova wrote:

jpjp wrote:You should keep trying. It seems your quant is on the right track, you may just not have had your A game that day. I bet with another crack at it, you'll be matching your practice Quant score. For verbal, it looks like your score dropped when you went took the GMATPrep CATs. I've been doing the MGMAT CATs, and noticed the style of writing on verbal is quite different than that of GMATPrep software questions, which has been causing me a bit of problems as well. I'd switch it up with the verbal practice questions and see if that helps. Perhaps taking non-MGMAT CATs and skipping the quant sections, and focusing on the Verbal sections only. Seeing different styles of writing and being able to adapt can only help you

Your score is especially discouraging to me though, because my CAT scores are almost identical to your scores. My exam is a few days away, so we'll see if I share the same fate.

Thank you very much for your advice & support! and oh god don't let my score discourage you! I really hope you will do great. The real GMAT verbal was very different and harder then MGMAT. So, unfortunately, I wasn't ready for that. Good luck to you, and please tell me how you've done

Back from the testing center, I got a 700 (47Q, 38V). Thanks for the support. I can only reciprocate and hope you do well on your next try. My advice is to take the GMATPrep exam, reset and do it again, reset do it again, and on and on. Your score might may a bit inflated because you'll see repeat questions, but it will serve two purposes. It will get you use to the look and language of the real thing, and it will ingrain in you certain question types since you're doing it over and over again, despite knowing the answer. I'm pretty sure you can do well, because as I said before, our practice scores are very similar.