I had a few quick questions I was hoping you could help me with. I've been studying for the GMAT's for about 1.5-2 months now, and I've seen some notable improvements in certain areas (SC and CR). I've taken two MGMAT practice tests within the past 2 weeks, I scored 630 the first time and 620 the second time (within two weeks of each other)
Each time I take the exam I have a very similar breakout (40/41Q and 35V). However, my percent on the Q is extremely low (~60's) vs. the Verbal (~77). What's odd is when I go through the problems in the MGMAT guides or do OG problems for Quant, I typically don't have many problems with the content and I understand the concepts. During the exam, however, if I see one difficult problem I tend to freeze up and just stare at the problem rather than writing it out and trying to solve it. When I analyze my scores, I'm noticing a lot of problems in data sufficiency, word translations, and number properties, so I plan to spend more time studying those topics in the upcoming weeks. What's boggling my mind is I don't have too many issues when I go through the material in the OG.
In terms of studying, I started out by going through the OG and solving almost all the problems and then going back to see what I was getting wrong and doing those questions again to understand what my mistakes were. Then I went through the MGMAT guides for both CR and SC, which seems to have helped me quite a bit. Reading comprehension is seriously suffering, I got 3 out of 12 questions right on the last CAT I took. For Math, given that I feel comfortable with the material in the OG but freeze up on the test, I'm not sure what the best approach is to increase my score. I feel like during the test I'm not doing something correctly because I end up with a few minutes to spare at the end which means that I must be rushing through the questions.
I'm currently scheduled to take the exam on August 30th, in order to get my applications in time for R1 deadlines the first week in October. I know a 70-80 point jump in three weeks is not characteristic, so I wanted to get some of your thoughts on what I should do in the upcoming weeks.
My plan of attack is to:
1) Review the MGMAT Reading Comp Guide, Word Translations Guide, Number Properties Guide, and Inequalities Guide
2) After reviewing take another CAT to see where I stand
3) Go through the OG Verbal and OG Quant books which are an additional 600 questions with timing and long sets
4) Continue taking Practice tests
If there is any advice you can offer, in terms of what might be causing me to get stuck on the math section within the MGMAT and ways to score better on reading comp, it would be extremely helpful.
Each time I take the exam I have a very similar breakout (40/41Q and 35V). However, my percent on the Q is extremely low (~60's) vs. the Verbal (~77). What's odd is when I go through the problems in the MGMAT guides or do OG problems for Quant, I typically don't have many problems with the content and I understand the concepts. During the exam, however, if I see one difficult problem I tend to freeze up and just stare at the problem rather than writing it out and trying to solve it. When I analyze my scores, I'm noticing a lot of problems in data sufficiency, word translations, and number properties, so I plan to spend more time studying those topics in the upcoming weeks. What's boggling my mind is I don't have too many issues when I go through the material in the OG.
In terms of studying, I started out by going through the OG and solving almost all the problems and then going back to see what I was getting wrong and doing those questions again to understand what my mistakes were. Then I went through the MGMAT guides for both CR and SC, which seems to have helped me quite a bit. Reading comprehension is seriously suffering, I got 3 out of 12 questions right on the last CAT I took. For Math, given that I feel comfortable with the material in the OG but freeze up on the test, I'm not sure what the best approach is to increase my score. I feel like during the test I'm not doing something correctly because I end up with a few minutes to spare at the end which means that I must be rushing through the questions.
I'm currently scheduled to take the exam on August 30th, in order to get my applications in time for R1 deadlines the first week in October. I know a 70-80 point jump in three weeks is not characteristic, so I wanted to get some of your thoughts on what I should do in the upcoming weeks.
My plan of attack is to:
1) Review the MGMAT Reading Comp Guide, Word Translations Guide, Number Properties Guide, and Inequalities Guide
2) After reviewing take another CAT to see where I stand
3) Go through the OG Verbal and OG Quant books which are an additional 600 questions with timing and long sets
4) Continue taking Practice tests
If there is any advice you can offer, in terms of what might be causing me to get stuck on the math section within the MGMAT and ways to score better on reading comp, it would be extremely helpful.
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