GMAT retake in 5 weeks...any advice on material and plan?

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Tstud20: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 1; Joined: Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:51 amFollowed by: 1 member

by Tstud20 » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:01 am

Hello everyone,

I'm actually retaking the GMAT since I bombed it this past Saturday. 510...35Q and 25V. Obviously I studied wrong for about a month and a half. I had an online course and the OG guide but I really didnt use the OG guide as much as I should have and used the course and the practice problems and quizzes from the course and I felt great. I took the two practice exams and had a 510 on one and a 550 the week before the exam and that is when I knew I was in trouble. I was shocked to see my verbal so low actually since English is my native language. What advice would you guys have for me on this second time around..I need to clear 600 and ideally if I can get to the 650 range would be ideal. I have the OG 12 guide and I am for sure giong through everything in that book this time but also I have ordered the Manhattan Verbal foundations book and also the number properties and word translations from Manhattan as well and they arrived today. Any study plan or words of advice to increase my score? I know that I can get higher than this this next time around. What materials should I use to study to give me an accurate assessment this second time around?

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by Jim@Grockit » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:37 am

Use the OG first -- it will point you to whatever grammatical concepts you need to master as a native speaker. There are quite a few rules that we break regularly in everyday speech that are wrong on the GMAT!

Take full-length practice tests regularly -- every week or two -- and do most or all of the rest of your practice untimed, so that you can get used to doing what you need to do, in order to get questions right.

Also, I don't know if this is you, but I notice a fair number of native speakers who try to save time by skimming RC and CR for the answer. This will kill your score because some answer choices are created to fool skimmers; do it the right way the first time.

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