GMAT Strategy

i received a PM regarding this post.

are you on some sort of accelerated timeline on which you have to apply to school? because, if not, you may want to consider laying off of the GMAT-specific materials for some time, so that you can devote some time exclusively to practicing your skills in reading and writing the english language in general.
what i mean is this: i can tell from the writing of your post that you have not yet learned written english to in extent that will allow you to achieve competence on this exam within the given time constraint. (i know that the correlation between one's reading and writing abilities is not perfect, but it is nevertheless a strong correlation.)
i would suggest that you step away from the specific GMAT verbal testing materials for the time being, and take at least a few months for intensive study of the written english language in general. try to expose yourself to high-quality written english materials (magazines, journals, etc.), so that you can get a sense for both the general rhythm and the particulars of the written language. if you see sentence structures that are new to you or with which you have trouble, mark them while you are reading, and then, once you are done reading, try to go back and write your own, similarly structured sentences.

Im confident in Quantitative side

if you scored q14, then you should also start reviewing your quantitative skills, starting from absolutely basic fundamentals.
if you are "confident in quantitative", that you should not be scoring anywhere close to q14; that is a score that reflects a rather severe lack of fundamental quantitative knowledge, UNLESS either (a) you took the practice test without understanding how the questions work, particularly data sufficiency, or (b) you basically just skipped through the quantitative section in order to get to the verbal part.

are either of the above things true? i.e., is it true that (a) you haven't yet learned how data sufficiency questions work, or that (b) you basically just skipped through the quantitative part, guessing on most of the questions, so that you could get the verbal part earlier?
if *neither* of these things is true, then a score of q14 indicates that you need to go back to first principles and start from there.

vidhya16 wrote:Ron,

Thanks for your suggestion. Im in no hurry to give the GMAT test.I took the GMAT prep diagnostic test with out knowing the rules of the game. I had no understanding how the question worked in any of the section except Sentence Correction. My understanding to sentence correction was also very limited. All I knew was to find correct choice that is concise and grammatically correct.

Though I have been preparing from past two months, I have not completed MGMAT material or Master GMAT course. I still need to do plenty of learning.

I will now give a serious thought and will take your suggestion on board.

Thanks

ok.

so, you probably knew this was the next question, but ...
if you had no idea how the questions even worked, why didn't you stop & reset the tests?
remember that there are only 2 distinct tests in the gmat prep software, so those tests are, so to speak, valuable real estate; why waste a whole test?

if the answer is "i just wanted to get a numerical score, even though i had no idea what i was doing", you should realize that this is the worst possible approach that you could take to the test -- i.e., you are elevating the importance of a random (and meaningless!) score over that of actually learning how to do the test!
if that's the way you're approaching the test, then it has to change right now, or else most of your time will be wasted (just as 100% of the time you spent taking this practice test was wasted).

vidhya16 wrote:Is it a good idea to wait giving practice test until I have covered 75% of material?

what do you mean by "75% of the material"?
remember that this test is ultimately a test of reasoning, not a test of knowledge or memorization; this isn't really a test for which there's a finite, quantifiable set of material to cover.
the above is true especially for the verbal section, on which the majority of problems (CR and RC) are reasoning exercises that don't require any outside knowledge, so i'm curious as to what you mean by this.
75% of what, exactly?

vidhya16 wrote:

what do you mean by "75% of the material"?

I meant that when I cover 75% of course material (MGMAT set of strategy) , I should start practising Qbank/CAT?.

Thanks,
Vidhya

you could probably do that for math, but it's not a good idea for verbal -- you can't realistically learn 75% of the verbal material in an academic/theoretical sort of way, and then suddenly try to put it all to work at the same time.

if you have those materials, you'll have lists of practice problems from OG, etc. that correlate to the different topics (these will be listed in the back of the strategy guide). when you're doing verbal, you should make sure to do at least some of the problems that go with each individual unit.