Weak Quant Score advice on re-studying needed.

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Hello,

I was disappointed with the score I earned the first time I took the GMAT (a week ago). I would like to get the advice of this forum in terms of what to focus on for re-studying. My weakness is Quantitative and while I feel like I did a lot of problems (all of OG 11, all of the Kaplan material from the class including extra quizzes) something must have been missing. I felt like after 3 months of focusing on the material I was ready for whatever came my way. I know one of my big areas of weakness is DS.

I know there are a lot of blogs out there with information on what people studied on and I have been reading them. I was wondering if there were others out there who struggled in Quant and how they pulled up their score for the re-test. Any advice you can offer as I get ready to go into another round of studying would be really helpful. I am frustrated and at a loss as to where to even start after putting in a strong 3 months.

I was thinking of buying the OG Quantitative guide and the Kaplan GMAT/GRE Book but want to make sure in the 6-8 weeks that I am going to dedicate to restudying that I am giving it my all and doing things that will truly help.

Thank you for any advice in advance.

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kellyeroses wrote:Hello,

I was disappointed with the score I earned the first time I took the GMAT (a week ago). I would like to get the advice of this forum in terms of what to focus on for re-studying. My weakness is Quantitative and while I feel like I did a lot of problems (all of OG 11, all of the Kaplan material from the class including extra quizzes) something must have been missing. I felt like after 3 months of focusing on the material I was ready for whatever came my way. I know one of my big areas of weakness is DS.

I know there are a lot of blogs out there with information on what people studied on and I have been reading them. I was wondering if there were others out there who struggled in Quant and how they pulled up their score for the re-test. Any advice you can offer as I get ready to go into another round of studying would be really helpful. I am frustrated and at a loss as to where to even start after putting in a strong 3 months.

I was thinking of buying the OG Quantitative guide and the Kaplan GMAT/GRE Book but want to make sure in the 6-8 weeks that I am going to dedicate to restudying that I am giving it my all and doing things that will truly help.

Thank you for any advice in advance.

Kel
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Doing a lot of problems can be useful, but a much more efficient way to study is to analyze your errors. More material may not be the answer for you, but going back and closely examining your mistakes may produce big returns for your quant score.

There's been a ton of discussion on how you should go about analyzing your errors--perform a few searches on this subject in this forum.

Some good posts to read:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/how-to-appro ... s-t85.html
https://www.beatthegmat.com/gmat-practic ... s-t68.html
https://beatthegmat.blocked

And of course, if you encounter specific concepts of practice questions that cause you problems, post them here and this great community will help!

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by kellyeroses » Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:01 pm
Thank you, I spent tonight going through your blog and the other links off of it. I am debating buying to OG Quantitative review or the Kaplan Gmat Math book you refer to. I already have Kaplan 800 and The OG 11 to review and dissect. I am hoping to take the test in January as it is almost December and I don't want to re-study for too long before taking it gain.

Let me know if you have thoughts on this...

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by Tommy Wallach » Wed Jan 16, 2013 6:11 pm
Kelley,

Just be sure to listen to what Eric said; your focus needs to be on process, not quantity of questions. If you aren't changing the way you take questions on, no amount of material is going to make you any better. Good luck!

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