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mrod12 · Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:15 am

Good Afternoon All,

I recently took the GMAT this past saturday and did poorly due to extremely poor quant performance. I did 70% percentile on my Verbal so I am trying to find a way to improve my math for the next 6 weeks before my retake. I am not looking for drastic improvements as my practice tests had me in 30-38 percentile for math using Kaplan. This was fine as my verbal made up for it. However, I did significantly worse about 10 percentile points on the actual test and was not confident in really any of the questions as the seemed much more difficult than those I practiced on using the GMAT Offical Quant Book (green book) or anything I had on the Kaplan practice test's.

At this point I am trying to reevalute my strategy so that I can up my quant and get a 550-580 which would represent a 50-8o pt increase from my actual score and be in line with my practice test's which were 550-590.

I have all MGMAT books however I did not use their practice tests as I only used the Kaplan ones. So I will adjust and take the 2 GMAT old tests on their website and the 6 from the MGMAT site. What else should I focus on to improve my math. I've used the aformentioned books and Kaplan questions and did not feel as though I was unable to do those problems but the GMAT was it seemed significantly different for the Math. Any study suggestions to get to a actual GMAT 30-40 percentile.

Lastly, a bit of a differnt question. On the test I was on my last question and selected an anwser but did not hit next in time. Does this go down as unanwsered or since I selected an anwser and did not hit next it just takes what I selected. I only wonder since I believe its a significant penalty for not anwsering.

Thank you for the help. I truly appreciate it.

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GMATBootcamp · Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:33 pm

Alot of people ask that question.

But don't worry, as long as you have an answer selected the test will count that in your score, regardless of whether you hit submit button or not.

As for your study strategy. Keeping an error log really helps you identify weak areas. I would recommend doing normal practice under timed conditions for a week. Record all of your wrong answers in a spreadsheet and document whether this is a careless error or concept error. Document the type of careless error and concept error. At the end of the week, devise some action items to overcome these pitfalls. Review specific material if you have to.

Just my 2 cents. HTH!

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