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by spwildmba » Tue May 29, 2007 10:58 am
Hi,

I took the MGMAT course in February and April. Was not able to complete all coursework on time but attended every class, worked through all quant books (verbal was in 90 percentile from the beginning and 93% on test.) I had calc in college but definitely needed brushing up on the geometry and even algebra as it has been awhile. Was putting in about 10 hours per week plus classes and felt pretty good by end of April about quant...mid 70th percentile but had April and most of May yet to study.

Well work went crazy for me and could not do anything from April 1 until early May about 2 weeks before test.

I absolutely bombed the Quant...looked at screen, could not set stuff up, ended up staying too long on early problems, ran out of time...

I did feel approaching the test that although I had logged which concepts I had concept errors on vs. stupid mistakes, I did not go back and compare solutions to my work to find specifically where I was going wrong. I also was not able to set stuff up in an efficient manner..rephrasings just came very hard on test day. Then when I started seeing easier problems..new I was bombing and then came the panic.

I ended up with Quant 32 for 50%. I know I need 80% at least for a top tier school which I am still targeting.

How do I drill for quant so it becomes automatic? Most of my problems are set up and stupid algebraic errors, not really concepts. I will be running out of access to MGMAT materials soon too..how can I maximize those resources while I have access? How soon to retest?
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by Stacey Koprince » Wed May 30, 2007 4:13 pm
You have to wait at least 31 days to take the test again - I'd say 4-6 weeks given the difference between your score and where you want to be.

You need to be very systematic in your prep. Log all of your errors - not just the fact that you made an error, but what the error was and (if possible) why you made it. Examine the log for patterns and figure out habits you can build to break the habits. (One good habit is to write EVERYTHING down so you minimize careless math errors. I literally will write down 2+2 when I take the test - it doesn't take any more time to write it than to think it, and if I make some really silly mistake, my eye will catch it most of the time.)

Part of your study needs to involve being able to recognize what to do with a problem within the first 15-20 seconds - recognize, not figure out. The more problem types you can recognize, the better you will do on the test. You will have some you don't recognize, of course, and then you will have to figure those out from scratch. Break any problem down to its bare bones, its basic structure, and figure out what the language or set-up is that lets you know what the problem is about and how to do it. Then you can start to recognize other problems that are different but have similar "bones" and that gives you a jump start on solving that problem.

You also need to work on your educated guessing strategy so that you feel more comfortable letting go on problems you really can't do within 2 minutes. As you found, if you get yourself into timing difficulties, it is extremely difficult to recover.

Finally, you know you've mastered a problem when you can teach it to someone else. If you don't have a willing victim, try your cat or the mirror - but do actually try to explain it out loud (and don't forget to explain what the traps are or why the wrong answers are wrong), because your strengths and weaknesses will become very apparent when you do this.
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