Anyway as advised by almost everyone who's ever taken the GMAT, I took my first full practice test using GMAT Prep 1 to gauge my level and to my surprise a 310!! (Q11 V12 IR 4 AWA not scored). I finished 24 mins before time for quant and 16 mins before time for verbal. It was obvious that I rushed.
I decided to use the next 1 month to study content and also focus on timing. After 15 days of studying half of MGMAT's guide and watching videos from Veritas, I took a full practice test and scored 540, (Q38, V27 IR 2 AWA not scored). I finished 18 mins before time for quant and 6 mins before time for Verbal. I suspected that timing was again my problem. (Happy but still more work to be done)
15 days later after going through the second half of the MGMAT's guides and again watching videos and reading articles from Veritas Prep, I took the MGMAT practice test and scored a 520!! (Q34, V28 IR 1.2 AWA not scored).
I did poooooooorly in IR and that affected my motivation throughout the test. I finished 6 mins before time for quant and 4 mins before time for verbal. Timing problem again?Still knowing I could do better, I started using the OG guide, I was scoring well and thus decided to try another practice test Princeton only to get a 510. (Q37,V24 IR 2, AWA not scored). I must confessed I was tired when I started with the verbal section.
From my personal review, I notice when I do well in Problem solving, I flop in Data Sufficiency and when I do well in Data Sufficiency, I flop in Problem Solving. Also when I do well in Sentence Correction, I do fairly well in Critical Reasoning, and when I do very well in Critical Reasoning, I do fairly well in Sentence Correction....For Reading Comprehension, I do well in long essays than in shorter ones.. Are these weird?
My question; What do I need to do to improve? I have 1 month left, and I will be glad to have at least a 650. I know I can still work harder. But what do I need to do efficiently to improve my score? I'm quite frustrated
