30 days to bring up my quantitative score... a lot - HELP!

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I took the GMAT on Nov 19th. I was aiming for the 600 range and ended up with a 620 so I was pretty happy with my overall score, however, when I looked at the break down of the score, I was less impressed. I got in the 88th percentile in verbal (which is good enough for me) but only the 47th percentile in quantitative (which is really disappointing).

I am hoping to go to UBC and their admissions requirements are that you need to be at least in the 50th percentile in all sections, with a score of 650 being the average of last year's class. So, I booked another appointment, I have an appointment to do the GMAT again on Dec 29th.

I am very confident in my abilities for the verbal and analytical sections, but I need some help in math and I have one month to do it. I bought the Kaplan GMAT Math workbook and already have the quantitative supplement for the official guide. I think I am having the hardest time with the basics, I haven't done math since high school and I don't remember much. I also seem to have a hard time with the inferences, once I know the basics.

Does anyone have any suggestions of strategies or methods to bring up my quantitative score in 30 days?
anything I can do besides working through hundreds of practice questions? because I've already done that!!!
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by karanrulz4ever » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:25 am
Well the only way to improve quant is to solve as many questions as possible. Go through Nova(if you have it) as it has good concept explanations. Give the GMAT prep quant again and again.

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by dee123 » Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:43 pm
Does anyone have any suggestions for math basics? the stuff I can't remember from high school and even farther back? I'm really struggling with the basics. any books or tutorials anyone can suggest?

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by rishab1988 » Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:12 pm
Get hold of ALL MGMAT quant strategy guides and solve all their CATs.I think you can bring your quant score to at-least 70th percentile by doing so.

Be careful.Just by solving questions you wont do yourself much good.Review all the questions that you got wrong so that you don't make the same mistake again.