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GMAT Strategy advice - One Month from GMAT

by soni_pallavi » Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:48 am
Dear ALL

I've booked November 3rd to take the GMAT which roughly gives me a month of prep time(out of which a week is work;therefore approx 3 weeks of REAL leave away from the job)

Could anyone suggest the best way to utilise this time (practice time + mocks).
My current status is as follows :

1)Quant - Practice of conceptual/fundamental plus some 700 level questions are ongoing (NOT completely confident yet)

2)Verbal - As of now least practice in Reading comprehension while a 75% accuracy level in SC & CR.

Its clear from the above I need much more practice in both.My question is should I tackle Math and Verbal side by side or one after the other ??

How many hours should I devote each day seeing that now only a month is left???

Finally,How many times should One do the Official guide before the GMAT??

THANKS,Any insight is Helpful

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by sam2304 » Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:21 am
What is your target score ?
Where do you stand now ? GMATPrep scores, please.
Which is your strength/weakness ? Quant or verbal, specific sections if you know them.
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by soni_pallavi » Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:56 am
What is your target score ? 740

Where do you stand now ? GMATPrep scores, please. Ive taken 3 Mocks till now (No GMAT Preps yet) and the Scores were 620,650 and 640.

Which is your strength/weakness ? Quant or verbal, specific sections if you know them. In Verbal - SC and RC,plus the stamina of tackling the verbal section after the Math section.

In Quant,Data Sufficiency.

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by sam2304 » Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:19 pm
3 weeks and a 100 point increase is a bit difficult, but not impossible. Take a GMATPrep immediately. Always remember that GMATPrep is the only indicator of your actual capability, other tests are useful only to a certain extent - to get the testing experience and to find your strong/weak areas.

You have mentioned 3 scores 620, 630 and 650 - which test prep company mocks, and what is the split up, your QA and VA scores ?

For a 740 if you are scoring equally well in quant and verbal, you should get a Q50 and V40.

Study materials:
MGMAT 5 set strategy guides for quant, MGMAT SC for SC, MGMAT CR - if you are doing well in CR and powerscore CR if your CR performance is pathetic. Use powerscore if you don't know to identify the question types. Thursdays with Ron's videos for RC or Veritas RC. Thursdays with Ron is quite good for both quant and verbal part especially for non native speakers.

Take a GMAT Prep immediately (With official conditions 8 min breaks and AWA + IR)
Review the test extensively and find out your weak topics (modifiers in SC, Assumption in CR) from the test, its topics not section.
Use the strategy guide to revisit the concept
Solve the related OG problems
Review the problems extensively
Prepare flash cards, take notes
Once you feel you have improved in the weak areas
Take another mock
Analyze the test again and re structure the strategy to proceed in the same way till you break your 740 barrier.

Review in the sense - for every quant problem try to find each and every possible way to solve the problem and choose the one with highest accuracy and less time. For every SC problem - try to find every error in each answer choice - every error use the forums or books to find the rule which makes them wrong and get to know the patterns. For CR and RC - try to switch strategies if you are not improving, because once you use the right strategy it is easy to crack them. Different strategies work for different people, so its your hands to try different strategies and choose the one with good accuracy.

Going to 740 is a big deal, if you are already good at one section then try to score maximum in that section, otherwise you can equally target both the sections. If possible reschedule the test or if this is your first attempt, then you can go ahead with the test for testing experience and you also get to know your potential.
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by akashkumar1987 » Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:08 am
Can you please tell me some strategy for CR and SC ??
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by sam2304 » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:57 pm
akashkumar1987 wrote:Can you please tell me some strategy for CR and SC ??
For CR, watch Thursdays with Ron videos
For SC, search for egmat in youtube and you will find lot of basic concepts explained, then all the OG verbal 2nd edition questions explained in E GMAT methodology. Watch and learn the approach with which they solve the problems and try to incorporate them in your practice.
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by XLogic » Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:48 am
akashkumar1987 wrote:Can you please tell me some strategy for CR and SC ??
CR -- You must know the question types and what your task is for each type

Assumption: Find the conclusion! What is the Gap between Premise and conclusion. i.e., what's in the conclusion that's not in the premise?
Strengthen/Weaken: Find the conclusion! How can you widen/narrow the gap between premises and conclusion?
Inference (draw conclusion): Usually no conclusion, so stay close to the premises.

SC -- Start with Subject-Verb-Agreement. This is the framework for other complex concepts.
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