Study: timing

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Study: timing

by mjjking » Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:11 am
Hi there,

as you may or may not remember, I took the gmat in august 2007 and scored 680 (Q43, V40).
For I while I was satisfied with it, but the surge in applications at my schools of choice and setting my goals higher made me decide I could do better than that.

On the GMATPrep 2 days before the exam I had scored 700 (Q42,V42), hence I know that I can reach 42 on Verbal. On the past month and half I've focused on verbal (SC and CR mainly) and tried to higher my score.
I've taken one month ago the V portion of a MGMAT test and I got a 41, and I had never scored so high on MGMAT verbal. So, I believe it to be a good sign.

Now I've started (about 1 week ago) to focus on math, my weekness. I've hired a private tutor, one that knows (IMO) how to teach gmat! :)
My test date is on early/mid april, so... do you think I will have enough time to prepare? Please note I work full time and - except during week-ends - I cannot spend more than 2 hours/day on the GMAT.

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REAL THING 1 (AUG 2007): 680 (Q43, V40)
REAL THING 2 (APR 2009): 720 (Q47, V41)
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by awesomeusername » Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:47 pm
Three months to better your quantitative score seems like more than enough time to improve your skills. If you were to spend 2hrs a day and did quality studying with your tutor, I would imagine you'd see a good increase in your Quant. score.