I would strongly suggest that engineers should not settle for anything less than a 49 in quant. It makes reaching 700 a lot more feasible. i think even with a V 34 u will get to a 700. Just give some time. I am not being biased here. But after all the crappy signal and systems numericals//vector algebra// triple integration// u should back yourself to deal with subtle gmat questions in a few months' time.AIM GMAT wrote:Thanks a lot bblast for the wonderful tips .
I have also observed that basically verbal makes the difference in the score especially RC , i m doing bad at RC 50% hit ratio [normally screw most of the tests in last RC] and CR 57% hit ratio [Although i m fine at CR while solving at the forum or while offline practice, dnt know what makes me fumble at test]. Any tips to improve verbal , i also have almost brushed max books in the market .Your insight into this would be helpful . The Standard Deviation should be minimum to achieve the super 7.
I have an engineering b/g , so u will understand my situation with Quant .
CR :
Your quote regarding CR's is perfectly valid. Its may be difficult to nail them in the test envir. Even I fumbled on some of them after question 25 yesterday. Believe me I had become good at CR's. But this does not mean you always have to do badly in them. The level of CR questions is never too tough in GMAT. M sure u already have tried a few LSAT papers. That wil help develop some more base. For test taking I would suggest take a good old stopwatch, pick 10 questions, time for 15 mins, put on the earplug, phone on flight mode and go for it, this will work much better to groom u for the actual scenario. Randomly doing CR's reading the stem 2wice or thrice will naturally yield an answer to most sensible persons. I could never do this cause I studied in my manufacturing plant with people disturbing me every other minute.
For RC :
I made a terrible mistake of getting lost in making too much notes in RC in CAT's some 10 days before my exam. But thankfully I corrected my mistake with crucial time in hand. The best technique is to read the first para, take ur eye off the screen for a a few seconds, pretend to write notes(mind u->u will hardly look these notes while answering questions.)but it helps. the brief pause even lets u comprehend what u have read in the first para. A couple of things I always did. I used to attach SLANGS
to the bad guys in the passage,(In fine english this is called personalizing the passage) and make arrows for one thing leading to the other. sometimes they ask questions "which of the following is likely to happens when XYZ happens ?" ur notes will give u an answer for this in a second.Lemme know if any more questions.
