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I just read a post that Stacy(Manhattan Rep) responded to about timing and I am interested in your input. I want to retake within 3 weeks.

Gmat History-in order-Score, Q, V
First 5 were GMAC Practice tests
1. 620-42,34
2. 600-45,27
3. 690-45,40
4. 620-44,31
5. 620-43,34
6. 660-45,35(Actual in June)
7. 660-40,40(actual in Aug)

SOOOOOOO...I worked on getting my verbal score up after my first test and indeed I did. I also tried to get my Quant score up above 45 by studying alot of harder questions. I can get them right but I really killed myself because I wasted ALOT of time on the first 15 questions then had to guess on prob 10 of the remaining questions. I need to recognize problems faster and know how to guess better. Any ideas here?

I also was looking at the Manhattan One day workshop for 750 DS. Do you think this is a good class?

Hi ens137,

Timing is a very important issue on the exam. It is no doubt that your score went down on the quant section for your previous exam because you had to guess on the remaining 10 questions. You need to be able to appropriately pace yourself and complete sections on time - it's extremely important to success on the exam.

With that said, practicing your timing can be difficult. What you need to do when you practice from now on is to sit down with a stopwatch and make sure you complete practice questions within 2 minutes (except for Sentence Correction problems, which should be completed in 1 minute 30 seconds). Hold yourself to the 2 minute time limit when you practice and you'll find that this will carry over on the real exam.

As for the DS workshop, I think you're at the appropriate quant level to take the workshop, so it's certainly worth looking into. You'll learn advanced Data Sufficiency techniques that will help you better recognize and attack more challenging problems on test day, thereby saving you time.

Good luck studying!

Best,

Thanks both for getting back to me.
I am going to take the course and I will report on my experience.

Eric