Hello Everyone,
I'm getting very frustrated with the results of my GMAT preparation. I've been out of school for 10 years now, and started studying 3 weeks ago. Math has never been a strong suit for me, so all of my studying has been focused on quantitative only. The 3 practice tests I've taken have shown no growth:
07/25/2009: 38Q; 46V; 660 combined
08/01/2009: 39Q; 41V; 620 combined
08/08/2009: 37Q, 44V; 650 combined
Since I haven't even looked at the verbal stuff, I'm not too worried about the fluctuating verbal score. I'm starting to get the horrifying feeling that I'll never break 40 on quant, much less the 48 I set as my pretest goal.
I spend 2 hours a day (a 1 hour bus ride to and from work), 5 days a week going through practice problems. Saturday is for practice test. Unfortunately my scores have remained stagnant. I'm making fewer concept errors and more careless errors, but the end results are the same. Is this normal, or am I just sub-par mathematically? If I'm a math dunce, any suggestions regarding what I should do to help get the dunce cap off? I'm really worried about what's going to happen to my Q score once I start looking over the verbal section.
If, my scores end up staying more or less static, is this split too extreme for most good business schools? Do schools tend to value the quantitative section over the verbal section?
I'm getting very frustrated with the results of my GMAT preparation. I've been out of school for 10 years now, and started studying 3 weeks ago. Math has never been a strong suit for me, so all of my studying has been focused on quantitative only. The 3 practice tests I've taken have shown no growth:
07/25/2009: 38Q; 46V; 660 combined
08/01/2009: 39Q; 41V; 620 combined
08/08/2009: 37Q, 44V; 650 combined
Since I haven't even looked at the verbal stuff, I'm not too worried about the fluctuating verbal score. I'm starting to get the horrifying feeling that I'll never break 40 on quant, much less the 48 I set as my pretest goal.
I spend 2 hours a day (a 1 hour bus ride to and from work), 5 days a week going through practice problems. Saturday is for practice test. Unfortunately my scores have remained stagnant. I'm making fewer concept errors and more careless errors, but the end results are the same. Is this normal, or am I just sub-par mathematically? If I'm a math dunce, any suggestions regarding what I should do to help get the dunce cap off? I'm really worried about what's going to happen to my Q score once I start looking over the verbal section.
If, my scores end up staying more or less static, is this split too extreme for most good business schools? Do schools tend to value the quantitative section over the verbal section?
