D-Day in three days! Advice and encouragement needed!!

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lpycharles: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 21; Joined: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:32 am

by lpycharles » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:46 pm

I am taking the exam this Friday and hoping to score 700, however I have been getting mid 600 in my practice exams (See below).. I feel like I have kind of reached a pleatau and find it hard to improve.

Test Name Date Taken Verbal Math Total
Princeton Review #1 9/9/2008 28 42 580
Princeton Review #2 9/22/2008 30 50 650
Princeton Review #3 9/25/2008 34 44 640
Princeton Review #4 10/4/2008 37 43 650
GMAT Prep Test #1 10/12/2008 33 47 670
GMAT Prep Test #2 10/13/2008 31 48 640
Manhattan Review 10/14/2008 34 47 670

With a few days left, who do you think I can do to boost my score up to 700 mark? I think I am pretty much set at Maths. Right now I am just going through all the mistakes I committed in my practice tests, as well as my OG practice, particularly focusing on SC as I think that's where I can improve most from studying. My performance among SC, RC and CR is about similar ..

Thanks for all your help! Good luck to everyone who are taking the GMAT soon, including myself!

Charles

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RevRockSteady: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 14; Joined: Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:57 pm

3 days to the G-Day

by RevRockSteady » Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:05 am

I am in a similar spot as you - my test is on Saturday.

How much are your studying over the next few days? I am curious to know what your 'down to the wire' study method is since I am struggling with my own.

lpycharles: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 21; Joined: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:32 am

by lpycharles » Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:27 am

I am going through my Sentence Correction note cards today and some time tomorrow, then the rest of the day I will redo some of the CR and RC questions in OG I previously didn't do right. Then I will go over all the mistakes I made in the practice tests. The key is that I won't go over anything new as I think probably that we confuse me with all the things that I have already learnt.

What's yr score in your previous practice exams? I think at best I can get 49 in Maths, and 38 in Verbal (that's a stretch). Does that make it 700?

Altogether I have done over 1000 questions so I think I am pretty much set in practice. I think what matter most for me now is to make sure that in my real test, I don't commit the same mistakes I made in previous practices.

I feel like I have made way too many silly mistakes in my pratice test. Time constraint really forced me to make decisions without understanding the questions thoroughly. I have to make sure that on the test day I am totally fresh and can be fully focused. I also need to make sure that I give up questions that I have no clue about, especially in Maths. I think finishing the exam is extremely important, though I will definitely spend more time on the first 10 questions.

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