Hi Pros,
I have a question for you guys. I have been preparing for my GMAT for the past 2 months now and my Exam date is on April 21/14. I am planning to take a mock every week and please find my below 2 Official Mock Gmat scores. I find my score plateau and would like to get your expert tips on how to improve.
1) GMAT Official Mock 1( Free test download)
Test date: Jan 4th/2014
Score : 640 ( Quant 48, Verbal 30)
Verbal Split : SC 14/17 ( 14 correct out of 17)
CR 8/11
RC 7/13
No timing issue.
2) GMAT Official Mock 1( Free test download)
Test date: Feb 17th/2014
Score : 640 ( Quant 49, Verbal 27)
Verbal Split : SC 8 incorrect
CR 3 In correct RC 5 incorrect.
Quant : 9 questions wrong. 2 - Unknown concept 7- mostly careless or question misread.
Quant Completion time 70 mins/ Verbal completion time ( 71 mins)
Materials used:
1)Manhattan Gmat books( edition 5 all books)
2)Princeton Review 1037 problems
3) Purchased e-gmat( I have to go through course work)
4) GMAT official question pack 1 and 2 additional test.
My Prep Stratergy,
I am good with quants ( Weak areas: Inequality,Co-ordinate geometry,Prob and Combo). I target a score 51 and I believe I can acheive this. My greatest weakness SC, I try to remember the rules/ understand meaning and they apply rules but during test mostly I do "Which sounds best"/avoid "being"
/look for common idioms/ identify subject verb".
I am bad with Verb tenses, Idioms/parallelism/ subjunctives etc.
Average Quant question solving time 1.03 mins Accuracy 85%
Average Verbal Solve time 1:30 mins Accuracy SC - 60%, RC -70%, CR - 80%
Issues that I face.,
1) No matter how much SC material I study, I do not feel confident on SC questions. I dont understand when OG says "awkward/rheotic construction" - should I remember these constructions?
2) RC - I find infer, compare the statements type of questions hard.
3) CR- I find logically completes type of questions hard to answer.
My greatest weakness is SC and I do not know how to handle this section. My Target Score is 720+ and I need atleast a 40 in Verbal to achieve this.
Please let me know how should I plan my time and how to improve. I am attaching my mock gmat error log with this mail, it might help you guys understand the question types that I face issue with.
Please do let me know for any further questions.
Thanks in advance,
Arun
I have a question for you guys. I have been preparing for my GMAT for the past 2 months now and my Exam date is on April 21/14. I am planning to take a mock every week and please find my below 2 Official Mock Gmat scores. I find my score plateau and would like to get your expert tips on how to improve.
1) GMAT Official Mock 1( Free test download)
Test date: Jan 4th/2014
Score : 640 ( Quant 48, Verbal 30)
Verbal Split : SC 14/17 ( 14 correct out of 17)
CR 8/11
RC 7/13
No timing issue.
2) GMAT Official Mock 1( Free test download)
Test date: Feb 17th/2014
Score : 640 ( Quant 49, Verbal 27)
Verbal Split : SC 8 incorrect
CR 3 In correct RC 5 incorrect.
Quant : 9 questions wrong. 2 - Unknown concept 7- mostly careless or question misread.
Quant Completion time 70 mins/ Verbal completion time ( 71 mins)
Materials used:
1)Manhattan Gmat books( edition 5 all books)
2)Princeton Review 1037 problems
3) Purchased e-gmat( I have to go through course work)
4) GMAT official question pack 1 and 2 additional test.
My Prep Stratergy,
I am good with quants ( Weak areas: Inequality,Co-ordinate geometry,Prob and Combo). I target a score 51 and I believe I can acheive this. My greatest weakness SC, I try to remember the rules/ understand meaning and they apply rules but during test mostly I do "Which sounds best"/avoid "being"
/look for common idioms/ identify subject verb".
I am bad with Verb tenses, Idioms/parallelism/ subjunctives etc.
Average Quant question solving time 1.03 mins Accuracy 85%
Average Verbal Solve time 1:30 mins Accuracy SC - 60%, RC -70%, CR - 80%
Issues that I face.,
1) No matter how much SC material I study, I do not feel confident on SC questions. I dont understand when OG says "awkward/rheotic construction" - should I remember these constructions?
2) RC - I find infer, compare the statements type of questions hard.
3) CR- I find logically completes type of questions hard to answer.
My greatest weakness is SC and I do not know how to handle this section. My Target Score is 720+ and I need atleast a 40 in Verbal to achieve this.
Please let me know how should I plan my time and how to improve. I am attaching my mock gmat error log with this mail, it might help you guys understand the question types that I face issue with.
Please do let me know for any further questions.
Thanks in advance,
Arun
