skins81 wrote:so far I have gone through all the MGMAT guides (8) and almost done with OG 11. I have SC and DS problems left in that. I am planning to take 3 more practice tests. My goal is to finish SC, DS, and review problems I got wrong for the other sections in OG 11. The last GMAT prep test I took a month ago I got a 550 (M35/V31).
Is there anything else I should do to be ready for the test in 3 weeks? Do you think I am sufficiently prepared for the test? My weak areas are SC and Math word problems. Experts weigh in also please. Thanks.
well, honestly, there's not much information here from which i can really make a judgment. in particular, i have absolutely no idea what your goal score (or goal range) is, so it's really impossible to say whether you are ready to take the test. for instance, if your goal score is 700 or higher, than your current score of 550 seems to indicate that you are not quite ready to take the exam yet; on the other hand, if your goal score is 600 or lower, then you may very well be ready.
also, you haven't really given any indication of your strengths and weaknesses, so it's hard to say whether your study plan is appropriate. you've given a breakdown of your score into quantitative and verbal components, but you haven't indicated whether those components are good, bad, or average performances for you.
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still, even though there's not much here in the way of specific information, i do want to emphasize one thing:
quality is much more important than quantity.
i'm a little bit worried that you have only indicated that you are going to "review problems that [you] got wrong"; this makes it sound like you are just going to check why you got the problem wrong, and then move on.
a thorough review will go much, much deeper than this. if you review the problems thoroughly, you will wind up looking at problems that you got right in addition to problems that you got wrong -- and you will look for TAKEAWAYS from those problems. in particular, it really doesn't matter why you've missed problems, from a perspective of hindsight; the ONLY thing that matters is
lessons that may be useful on future problems.
see a post i wrote about takeaways here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/need-tips-fr ... tml#107595
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sentence correction in particular,
you need to review every problem -- even the ones you got correct.
this is super important, because, unlike most other problem types, the process by which you
solve sentence correction problems is almost completely divorced from the process by which you
review them.
specifically, the process of
solving sentence correction problems is almost entirely
elimination of wrong answers, but the process of
reviewing sentence correction problems should concentrate on the structures in the
correct answer.
i've had plenty of students who can solve sentence correction problems in the OG -- mostly by eliminating choices that are incorrect -- but are completely unable to explain the structures in the
correct answer. if this happens, that's a very incomplete review.
the short version: make sure that you review enough (you should spend, roughly, 3 times as much time reviewing as you spend doing the problems).
