Tommy Wallach wrote:Hey Nona,
Had you taken practice tests? The amount of study is slightly irrelevant if you never took any practice tests (so you don't know where you started). Also, you say you studied for 3 months, but studying for 3 months without taking any practice tests is a very bad idea.
Of course, it's possible you did take practice tests, but then I'm not sure why you were shocked by the 540 (you didn't say in your posting that you'd been scoring above that in your practice tests).
All that being said, it isn't possible to correctly identify 90% of questions, and know the strategy for 80%, and still get a 540. It could be that you're incorrectly strategizing, in which case that's something you could focus on.
If you have a practice test with MGMAT, I could look at it and give more specific advice. Taking a first test on our site is free, so maybe do that, then let me know (you can give me your full name by PM, if you'd like, though I'll post my thoughts as part of this thread).
Good luck!
-t
Hi Tommy ,
I took the free Manhattan test already on Jan the 7th scoring 560 with many careless mistakes (finished quant very early) and under the stress of a family emergency the day before.This was the 1st CAT I took .My three other , including the 2 GMAT Prep.tests , were at distant intervals from each other but there was improvement especially that I already worked on the weaknesses indicated by my first assessment report and could observe the difference while tackling the OG problems .
Yes , I sometimes discover that there are easier strategies to the problem than mine , or at least less time consuming , but not always do they make me comfortable to apply instead.
Thanks again for your valued advice , I will send you my name in a private message.
