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?
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?
