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malfuriouspete
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First time poster, long time lurker.. Please forgive me if I sound like a whiner.. feel these forums are just as good of a place to vent as to exchange ideas.
Made the decision to go to business school at the start of the year, looking to improve myself career wise but also educational wise. Been out of school now for 10 years and looking at math and sentence correction is nothing more than fleeting memory at this point. As a side, I'm from Canada and never had to do standardized tests during HS and Uni..
First time I took the test in May, I didn't respect it.. did some practice questions, looked at some sentences to correct and went in there thinking I was king kong.. came out with a 510. Disappointed but I didn't deserve any more.. tried again at the end of september - came out with a 530.. even more disappointed because I had trouble with some of the word problems, specifically work related and exponent rules, which I thought I studied enough for.. Pleasantly surprised about my verbal (75 percentile) so I figured I had a solid base but my math is sorely lacking..went back for the past month and studied as much as I could, just wrote the exam this past weekend.
480 - crushed... my math was pathetic and my verbal score was almost as bad. I didn't even have any questions about rates, probabilities because I couldn't get past the "basic" stuff like inequalities and number properties and the data sufficiency all but killed me. Verbal was a surprise because while I didn't spend as much time looking at it, I did a fair share of practice questions and was continually getting the correct answers for crtical thinking and sentence corrections... I don't know what happened and I don't where to begin again.
I used the official guide and picked up some kaplan books, math fundamentals, verbal foundations, the kaplan guide to study... and was doing about 2 hours a night. Full time job and a young family so I have to be very strategic with my time.
Its still my goal to get into business school but I'll be honest, my faith in my abilities is wavering at the moment.
Where do I go to improve my low 500s quant.. seems like everyone can do these no problem! except for me.. if I can't get over this hump, I won't have a chance to even answer the rates, ratios, etc problems.
I know what I want the end of the tunnel to look like, but it seems like I'm hitting dead ends and having to start at the beginning again.
Made the decision to go to business school at the start of the year, looking to improve myself career wise but also educational wise. Been out of school now for 10 years and looking at math and sentence correction is nothing more than fleeting memory at this point. As a side, I'm from Canada and never had to do standardized tests during HS and Uni..
First time I took the test in May, I didn't respect it.. did some practice questions, looked at some sentences to correct and went in there thinking I was king kong.. came out with a 510. Disappointed but I didn't deserve any more.. tried again at the end of september - came out with a 530.. even more disappointed because I had trouble with some of the word problems, specifically work related and exponent rules, which I thought I studied enough for.. Pleasantly surprised about my verbal (75 percentile) so I figured I had a solid base but my math is sorely lacking..went back for the past month and studied as much as I could, just wrote the exam this past weekend.
480 - crushed... my math was pathetic and my verbal score was almost as bad. I didn't even have any questions about rates, probabilities because I couldn't get past the "basic" stuff like inequalities and number properties and the data sufficiency all but killed me. Verbal was a surprise because while I didn't spend as much time looking at it, I did a fair share of practice questions and was continually getting the correct answers for crtical thinking and sentence corrections... I don't know what happened and I don't where to begin again.
I used the official guide and picked up some kaplan books, math fundamentals, verbal foundations, the kaplan guide to study... and was doing about 2 hours a night. Full time job and a young family so I have to be very strategic with my time.
Its still my goal to get into business school but I'll be honest, my faith in my abilities is wavering at the moment.
Where do I go to improve my low 500s quant.. seems like everyone can do these no problem! except for me.. if I can't get over this hump, I won't have a chance to even answer the rates, ratios, etc problems.
I know what I want the end of the tunnel to look like, but it seems like I'm hitting dead ends and having to start at the beginning again.
) but I can tell that a good plan will play a substantial role in beating this GMAT thing.
