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beison8000
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Hello,
This is my first post however I've been utilizing the information on this forum for some time. Pretty great stuff.
Anyway, I have my GMAT exam coming up on April 6th. For the last two months, I've been putzing around kind of "half studying" working through the Knewton GMAT online program. I initially scored a 550 with their diagnostic CAT (Q:31 V:36) and was less than thrilled with the result. I'd always been good at standardized tests and have scored in the top 90% without much effort in the past, so I was pretty bummed to see a 48th percentile looking back at me.
I thought the reason I didn't do that well was due to just being extremely rusty (I'd forgotten tons of math basics that I should have remembered) and set a goal of 700 for myself. I figured I'd work through the Knewton program and all that dust would be shaken off.
Now I'm looking at about 35 days to pre-test, I've done about 1/4 to 1/3 of the Knewton program, and I'd been having relatively good results with the homework and picking up the information pretty well. Or so I thought.
I decided to "get serious" for the last 4-5 weeks of study prior to my test, and decided to take one of the two free GMATPrep CAT's to see where I'd come this far. That was last night, and I'm looking at a disappointing 560 Q:36 V:31. My scores flipped, but still remain terrible.
The strangest thing, is that I really feel like I'd come a significant distance with the verbal section, and have actively improved my SC and RC. At least I thought I had.
So we come to my main question: I've got 35 days to study. I've revised my goal to 650. Should I continue with the Knewton program? I felt that it hasn't really given me any improvement going through the first portion of it's program. Are there other high-valued study methods anyone would recommend?
I feel like deep down, I used to be quite good at these tests and really believe that I should be able to break the 650-700 range-I just need a solid plan to get me there, and i don't know if the Knewton program has been cutting it...
Thanks for any advice you've got!
This is my first post however I've been utilizing the information on this forum for some time. Pretty great stuff.
Anyway, I have my GMAT exam coming up on April 6th. For the last two months, I've been putzing around kind of "half studying" working through the Knewton GMAT online program. I initially scored a 550 with their diagnostic CAT (Q:31 V:36) and was less than thrilled with the result. I'd always been good at standardized tests and have scored in the top 90% without much effort in the past, so I was pretty bummed to see a 48th percentile looking back at me.
I thought the reason I didn't do that well was due to just being extremely rusty (I'd forgotten tons of math basics that I should have remembered) and set a goal of 700 for myself. I figured I'd work through the Knewton program and all that dust would be shaken off.
Now I'm looking at about 35 days to pre-test, I've done about 1/4 to 1/3 of the Knewton program, and I'd been having relatively good results with the homework and picking up the information pretty well. Or so I thought.
I decided to "get serious" for the last 4-5 weeks of study prior to my test, and decided to take one of the two free GMATPrep CAT's to see where I'd come this far. That was last night, and I'm looking at a disappointing 560 Q:36 V:31. My scores flipped, but still remain terrible.
The strangest thing, is that I really feel like I'd come a significant distance with the verbal section, and have actively improved my SC and RC. At least I thought I had.
So we come to my main question: I've got 35 days to study. I've revised my goal to 650. Should I continue with the Knewton program? I felt that it hasn't really given me any improvement going through the first portion of it's program. Are there other high-valued study methods anyone would recommend?
I feel like deep down, I used to be quite good at these tests and really believe that I should be able to break the 650-700 range-I just need a solid plan to get me there, and i don't know if the Knewton program has been cutting it...
Thanks for any advice you've got!
