GMAT Strategy

Hello,
I'm a couple days from the big test and I only have this weekend to dedicate go thru concepts and things that I didn't learned correctly.

The story goes like this, I'm a full time employee, a mother from a 9 month baby and and a non native English speaker.

I did the Kaplan and so far I haven't performed well 420's to high 490's . My goal is to achieve a 550 or enough average. I'm studding the verbal section from the Manhattan review as I realized that most of the points that I didn't have were from the critical reasoning guide. Furthermore, I did all the Manhattan exams and I ranged from 420's to 520's.


In addition, I did as the time allowed me almost all the Gmat prep book 99% of it and I had more less 55% correct for all the sections with a 64% correct and the poorest sections were on the verbal area.

For some reason I am unable to finish the math section and I always leave around 10 questions without answering, but now reading from what Manhattan says is that you should anwer all the questions as more penalties will be applied if you don't. So I'm guessing in the last minute the left questions and of course always I get them wrong- so no surprises there, but I want someone to tell me if this is truth.

I am to the point that I really do not know if I should concentrate more on practicing, reviewing questions, reading more the verbal section or what to do. I even feel ashamed of saying that I want to be average as I see all this great stories from people saying they achieved 600's and above.

Your feedback will be appreciated.

2 days from the test, dont stress yourself out too much. It is not good. I recommend that you take GMAT Prep prac test, maybe once or twice. Nothing more.

Yes, try to finish the test. Simple way of doing that is, if you are not able to get an answer in quant in 2 minutes, leave the question and move on. You will get some easy questions in the final 10 that you can solve. But what you were told is correct. There is penalty for not completing the test. It is better not to guess and get a few right than get everything wrong in the last 10. Instead, things that are taking time need to be left alone. You will do well. All the best.