Hi,
I am another GMAT aspirant and I thank members of this website including Eric, who have posted lots of useful info. I am planning to take my exam on Sep 12. My background
IT professional, 32 years did my commerce degree 12 years ago. I took a princeton review course from Feb to April 15. It was a good introduction course. My test results were as follows
Princeton 1: 620 Q42, V33
Princeton 2: 580 Q42, V26
GMATPrep1: 660 Q42, V36
GMATPrep2: 580 Q42, V26
I was about to take exam on April end but after looking at my GMATPrep2 results, I decided against it. I really need to work a lot on verbal questions. Now, I have restarted my preparation on June 4th and I have ordered Manhattan SC book based on the recommendation from various people on this website.
I have reproduced my Quant Problem Solving Log at the end of the post. I need help to know how I can improve my timing to average less than 2 minute per question. Currently it averages between 2.5 minutes to 3 minutes. Also, how should I improve on the target areas i.e. if I know I was slow or had a concept error on a particular question, I dont seem to be confident enough that I have improved revisiting it? I do retry the questions that were wrong without reading the explanation but in cases where I do not have an approach, I end up going to explanations. Also, the problem is that as I understand a question and the approach to solve it, I do it faster when I re-do it. But I am not very sure if I retake a similar question with different values, I have improved my timing.
Another thing I noted was that I was rushing through reading the questiions. You really waste a lot of time solving the problem and not finding the answer that you got.
Thanks a lot for all your help,
JP
Abbrevation: CT-Category, TM-Time in minutes to solve 10 questions, SL-Slow, C-Correct, W-Wrong, CR-Careless Error, CN-Concept Error
I added '-' to indent the columns. It was a bit painful. Any other suggestion as to how to post this log is welcome!
Date--CT--OG#------TM--SL---C--W--CR--CN
11-06-PS--101-110--26--02--09--01--02--
--------PS--111-120--26--03--08--02--02--
--------PS--121-130--28--03--07--03--01-02
12-06-PS--131-140--23--02--10--00--01--
--------PS--141-150--22--01--09--01--01--
13-06-PS--151-160--34--04--08--02--04--
--------PS--161-170--23--02--10--00----
--------PS--171-180--22--01--10--00--01--
14-06-PS--181-190--25--03--10--00----
--------PS--191-200--31--03--07--03--01-02
--------PS--201-210--26--03--09--01-----01
--------PS--211-220--22--02--09--01--01--
15-06-PS--221-230--30--03--10--00--01--
--------PS--231-240--40--03--10--00----
19-06-PS--241-249--29--04--07--02--01-01
I am another GMAT aspirant and I thank members of this website including Eric, who have posted lots of useful info. I am planning to take my exam on Sep 12. My background
IT professional, 32 years did my commerce degree 12 years ago. I took a princeton review course from Feb to April 15. It was a good introduction course. My test results were as follows
Princeton 1: 620 Q42, V33
Princeton 2: 580 Q42, V26
GMATPrep1: 660 Q42, V36
GMATPrep2: 580 Q42, V26
I was about to take exam on April end but after looking at my GMATPrep2 results, I decided against it. I really need to work a lot on verbal questions. Now, I have restarted my preparation on June 4th and I have ordered Manhattan SC book based on the recommendation from various people on this website.
I have reproduced my Quant Problem Solving Log at the end of the post. I need help to know how I can improve my timing to average less than 2 minute per question. Currently it averages between 2.5 minutes to 3 minutes. Also, how should I improve on the target areas i.e. if I know I was slow or had a concept error on a particular question, I dont seem to be confident enough that I have improved revisiting it? I do retry the questions that were wrong without reading the explanation but in cases where I do not have an approach, I end up going to explanations. Also, the problem is that as I understand a question and the approach to solve it, I do it faster when I re-do it. But I am not very sure if I retake a similar question with different values, I have improved my timing.
Another thing I noted was that I was rushing through reading the questiions. You really waste a lot of time solving the problem and not finding the answer that you got.
Thanks a lot for all your help,
JP
Abbrevation: CT-Category, TM-Time in minutes to solve 10 questions, SL-Slow, C-Correct, W-Wrong, CR-Careless Error, CN-Concept Error
I added '-' to indent the columns. It was a bit painful. Any other suggestion as to how to post this log is welcome!
Date--CT--OG#------TM--SL---C--W--CR--CN
11-06-PS--101-110--26--02--09--01--02--
--------PS--111-120--26--03--08--02--02--
--------PS--121-130--28--03--07--03--01-02
12-06-PS--131-140--23--02--10--00--01--
--------PS--141-150--22--01--09--01--01--
13-06-PS--151-160--34--04--08--02--04--
--------PS--161-170--23--02--10--00----
--------PS--171-180--22--01--10--00--01--
14-06-PS--181-190--25--03--10--00----
--------PS--191-200--31--03--07--03--01-02
--------PS--201-210--26--03--09--01-----01
--------PS--211-220--22--02--09--01--01--
15-06-PS--221-230--30--03--10--00--01--
--------PS--231-240--40--03--10--00----
19-06-PS--241-249--29--04--07--02--01-01
