Hi all,
I'm usually a good standardized tester, English is my primary language, but 10 years out of college....and am normally very good with Math (I'm a Chief Financial Officer with an accounting and finance degree and a CPA). That said, I scored a 640 on my mba.com GMAT practice test a few days ago with no prior studying/expectations of any kind. I ran out of time on the math portion and didn't even get to answer the last two (I didn't have my timing down), and didn't even understand what the first two verbal questions on sentence correction were asking. I'm pretty happy with that 640 score all things considering and want to build on that.
Surprisingly, I had 36 quant and 41 verbal......
The area I felt weakest was math related questions that I didn't remember from highschool. Slopes of graphs, formulas for areas/perimters of shapes, sides of triangles, least common multiples, etc.
That said, is my time going to be best spent re-learning all these math formulas? Any suggestions on what to focus on? I've got some Manhattan study books headed my way in a day or two, so will have that at my disposal.
I'm usually a good standardized tester, English is my primary language, but 10 years out of college....and am normally very good with Math (I'm a Chief Financial Officer with an accounting and finance degree and a CPA). That said, I scored a 640 on my mba.com GMAT practice test a few days ago with no prior studying/expectations of any kind. I ran out of time on the math portion and didn't even get to answer the last two (I didn't have my timing down), and didn't even understand what the first two verbal questions on sentence correction were asking. I'm pretty happy with that 640 score all things considering and want to build on that.
Surprisingly, I had 36 quant and 41 verbal......
The area I felt weakest was math related questions that I didn't remember from highschool. Slopes of graphs, formulas for areas/perimters of shapes, sides of triangles, least common multiples, etc.
That said, is my time going to be best spent re-learning all these math formulas? Any suggestions on what to focus on? I've got some Manhattan study books headed my way in a day or two, so will have that at my disposal.
