Hi Guys,
I gave my GMAT yesterday and scored just 530. I was in a total state of shock after seeing my score. Though, I knew that I was not going to score high given the scores I was getting in my mocks but such a low score was never expected.
I need some serious advice for my second attempt. Following is my analysis till now and would like some guidance from experienced people out here.
My serious prep started 1 month back and I booked a slot without knowing where I stand i.e never gave a mock exam. I gave my first mock on 13th Nov and scored just 570. Though disappointed I thought I will improve in the due course of time but the progress was not impressive.
My Mock exams-
GMATPrep 1 - 570 (Q43; V28)
4 GMAT exams - 610 (Q47;V28) , 630 (Q45;V32), 580 (Q43; V28), 630 (Q45;V32)
GMATPrep 2 - 590 (Q45; V27)
Books referred till date-
MGMAT Guides
Powerscore bible
QG 12
What I feel is that after giving the first mock exam I was not able to improve much on my weak areas. Most of the time I devoted to go throught the concepts. Given that I have not touched the maths for the past 8 years or so took some time to refresh.
1) In Quants my weak area are inequalities, tough prime number questions. In DS also my success rate is not very good.
2) For SC i took e-gmat course which was quite good and helped me to retain the rules which I had learned in MGMAT SC but I didn't practiced much. I an not having very good success rate with SC. I know this can be improved by more thorough analysis of QG.
3) Though I have gone through Powerscore CR but somehow I am not having much success in CR. I think its mostly due to the fact that I take lot of time to comprehend the argument and thus due to time lag I am not able to have a good success rate.
4) For RC I didn't prepare much apart from going through some passages in QG. Need to focus more on RC and I think it can be handled by more practice and reading.
Apart from this I am very disappointed with the kind of silly mistakes I do in Quants. Eg. I read ratio 3/2 in the question and end up solving with 3/4.
I think I need some guidance in terms of tricks and tips for Quants. Pls let me know whether knewton online course would be suitable for this?
Has anyone who has gone through the course suggest me if the knewton course would help in term of helping me to speed up in quants by providing some tips? Also whether this course would be a bet for my verbal which needs a lot of improvement?
I plan to give GMAT again after 2 months or so and the Knewton is offering the course for more than 50% discount and would cost around 300$.
The deal is ending on 15th December. Please guys let me know if it's worth spending time with knewton online course to improve my score or should I continue with more focussed self study?
I gave my GMAT yesterday and scored just 530. I was in a total state of shock after seeing my score. Though, I knew that I was not going to score high given the scores I was getting in my mocks but such a low score was never expected.
I need some serious advice for my second attempt. Following is my analysis till now and would like some guidance from experienced people out here.
My serious prep started 1 month back and I booked a slot without knowing where I stand i.e never gave a mock exam. I gave my first mock on 13th Nov and scored just 570. Though disappointed I thought I will improve in the due course of time but the progress was not impressive.
My Mock exams-
GMATPrep 1 - 570 (Q43; V28)
4 GMAT exams - 610 (Q47;V28) , 630 (Q45;V32), 580 (Q43; V28), 630 (Q45;V32)
GMATPrep 2 - 590 (Q45; V27)
Books referred till date-
MGMAT Guides
Powerscore bible
QG 12
What I feel is that after giving the first mock exam I was not able to improve much on my weak areas. Most of the time I devoted to go throught the concepts. Given that I have not touched the maths for the past 8 years or so took some time to refresh.
1) In Quants my weak area are inequalities, tough prime number questions. In DS also my success rate is not very good.
2) For SC i took e-gmat course which was quite good and helped me to retain the rules which I had learned in MGMAT SC but I didn't practiced much. I an not having very good success rate with SC. I know this can be improved by more thorough analysis of QG.
3) Though I have gone through Powerscore CR but somehow I am not having much success in CR. I think its mostly due to the fact that I take lot of time to comprehend the argument and thus due to time lag I am not able to have a good success rate.
4) For RC I didn't prepare much apart from going through some passages in QG. Need to focus more on RC and I think it can be handled by more practice and reading.
Apart from this I am very disappointed with the kind of silly mistakes I do in Quants. Eg. I read ratio 3/2 in the question and end up solving with 3/4.
I think I need some guidance in terms of tricks and tips for Quants. Pls let me know whether knewton online course would be suitable for this?
Has anyone who has gone through the course suggest me if the knewton course would help in term of helping me to speed up in quants by providing some tips? Also whether this course would be a bet for my verbal which needs a lot of improvement?
I plan to give GMAT again after 2 months or so and the Knewton is offering the course for more than 50% discount and would cost around 300$.
The deal is ending on 15th December. Please guys let me know if it's worth spending time with knewton online course to improve my score or should I continue with more focussed self study?
