Is GMAT Focus worth 65$ for three tests if someone is looking to push quant from 50-51. Has it got sufficient questions in that level, won't the questions in that level run out by test number 2. AFAIK, it has got questions of all levels.tutorphd wrote:I have the advanced MGMAT book but haven't really read it so I can't comment how helpful it is. I think you should focus more on the verbal because it can be improved way easier and more reliably than jumping from 50 to 51 in quant.
If you insist you want 51 on quant, I suggest doing GMATPrep and GMATFocus tests and analyzing your errors. Most probably it is one of the scenarios I posted above. The most important ones are: speed, falling into traps, solving extremely tough problems with plugging in numbers.
Improving your verbal will help you avoid the verbal traps GMAT sets up in math problems - you will be able to disect the problem verbiage easier and make fewer errors due to not reading the question correctly and not marking key words that modify its meaning.
That is pretty sound advice.tutorphd wrote:
The difference between quant scores 50 and 51 is not so much answering the super-tough questions but not making silly mistakes on ones below level 50. Especially try to avoid mistakes in the begining of the test where the scoring algorithm is 'making its mind' about your level, avoid mistakes on easy questions (which tend to happen in the begining), avoid mistakes in a row. All these scenarios are penalized more than making mistakes on tough questions, not in a row.
Very soon I am going to make another experiment with GMATPrep to see how many of the super-tough questions in quant you can answer wrong and still get a 51 score. My current guess is about 4-5, not in a row.
