Good Afternoon All,
I recently took the GMAT this past saturday and did poorly due to extremely poor quant performance. I did 70% percentile on my Verbal so I am trying to find a way to improve my math for the next 6 weeks before my retake. I am not looking for drastic improvements as my practice tests had me in 30-38 percentile for math using Kaplan. This was fine as my verbal made up for it. However, I did significantly worse about 10 percentile points on the actual test and was not confident in really any of the questions as the seemed much more difficult than those I practiced on using the GMAT Offical Quant Book (green book) or anything I had on the Kaplan practice test's.
At this point I am trying to reevalute my strategy so that I can up my quant and get a 550-580 which would represent a 50-8o pt increase from my actual score and be in line with my practice test's which were 550-590.
I have all MGMAT books however I did not use their practice tests as I only used the Kaplan ones. So I will adjust and take the 2 GMAT old tests on their website and the 6 from the MGMAT site. What else should I focus on to improve my math. I've used the aformentioned books and Kaplan questions and did not feel as though I was unable to do those problems but the GMAT was it seemed significantly different for the Math. Any study suggestions to get to a actual GMAT 30-40 percentile.
Lastly, a bit of a differnt question. On the test I was on my last question and selected an anwser but did not hit next in time. Does this go down as unanwsered or since I selected an anwser and did not hit next it just takes what I selected. I only wonder since I believe its a significant penalty for not anwsering.
Thank you for the help. I truly appreciate it.
I recently took the GMAT this past saturday and did poorly due to extremely poor quant performance. I did 70% percentile on my Verbal so I am trying to find a way to improve my math for the next 6 weeks before my retake. I am not looking for drastic improvements as my practice tests had me in 30-38 percentile for math using Kaplan. This was fine as my verbal made up for it. However, I did significantly worse about 10 percentile points on the actual test and was not confident in really any of the questions as the seemed much more difficult than those I practiced on using the GMAT Offical Quant Book (green book) or anything I had on the Kaplan practice test's.
At this point I am trying to reevalute my strategy so that I can up my quant and get a 550-580 which would represent a 50-8o pt increase from my actual score and be in line with my practice test's which were 550-590.
I have all MGMAT books however I did not use their practice tests as I only used the Kaplan ones. So I will adjust and take the 2 GMAT old tests on their website and the 6 from the MGMAT site. What else should I focus on to improve my math. I've used the aformentioned books and Kaplan questions and did not feel as though I was unable to do those problems but the GMAT was it seemed significantly different for the Math. Any study suggestions to get to a actual GMAT 30-40 percentile.
Lastly, a bit of a differnt question. On the test I was on my last question and selected an anwser but did not hit next in time. Does this go down as unanwsered or since I selected an anwser and did not hit next it just takes what I selected. I only wonder since I believe its a significant penalty for not anwsering.
Thank you for the help. I truly appreciate it.
