I used old prep material to take my exam yesterday. When I looked at the new material I found that the OG for 2016 used many of the exact same problems my 2010 material had. I decided to use the 8 Manhattan Guides to base my prep. I figured that the material largely remained the same so there would be no issue.
I researched Integrated Reasoning to get up to speed. I did about 15 practice problems, finding them to be pretty easy, and I just moved on.
On test day I get totally and completely stunned by the 2nd IR question. I'm not sure what it was, but I simply could not collect all of the necessary information in my head to address the questions in a timely manner. I wasted nearly half of my allotted time on one passage and ended up not finishing the entire 2nd half of IR. I got a TWO as a score on IR...13th percentile. Ugh.
Naturally at this point I was stunned and on tilt. Took my break, tried to recompose and did the quant. Again time seemed to be a huge factor here. I just felt like I had absolutely no time to consider any of the problems, and certainly no time to check if I fell into any traps (which I now believe I most certainly did.).
Ended up with a 42Q score. Incredibly disappointed. I managed to somewhat salvage an overall terrible test performance with a 39V (which was a lot of luck, I think) but this is just awful for me. It's essentially excluded me from my top two schools and now I have to try and fix this for the third.
How do you guys get your Quant and IR skills up to snuff to deal with these problems with the, in my opinion, brutal time constraints? What material do you use?
I'd be happy with 85h percentile quant and IR. I think I can make that work.
I researched Integrated Reasoning to get up to speed. I did about 15 practice problems, finding them to be pretty easy, and I just moved on.
On test day I get totally and completely stunned by the 2nd IR question. I'm not sure what it was, but I simply could not collect all of the necessary information in my head to address the questions in a timely manner. I wasted nearly half of my allotted time on one passage and ended up not finishing the entire 2nd half of IR. I got a TWO as a score on IR...13th percentile. Ugh.
Naturally at this point I was stunned and on tilt. Took my break, tried to recompose and did the quant. Again time seemed to be a huge factor here. I just felt like I had absolutely no time to consider any of the problems, and certainly no time to check if I fell into any traps (which I now believe I most certainly did.).
Ended up with a 42Q score. Incredibly disappointed. I managed to somewhat salvage an overall terrible test performance with a 39V (which was a lot of luck, I think) but this is just awful for me. It's essentially excluded me from my top two schools and now I have to try and fix this for the third.
How do you guys get your Quant and IR skills up to snuff to deal with these problems with the, in my opinion, brutal time constraints? What material do you use?
I'd be happy with 85h percentile quant and IR. I think I can make that work.
