GMAT Strategy

Hello all -

I am seeking advice for my final two weeks of preparation. Below are my test scores. My goal is to score higher than a 650.

October 14 - Exam 1: 640 Q46 V33
October 26 - Exam 2: 640 Q40 V38
November 10 - Exam 3: 630 Q48 V28

Preliminary analysis: I believe that I had timing issues in my last practice exam, where I rushed many questions and stayed too long on others. For my final two weeks, I am planning to do timed drills from the OG guide for quant, sentence correction, and critical reasoning. I am also planning on reviewing my MGMAT flash cards and notes from class.

If you have any advice or can offer any insight into an approach I should be taking, please let me know. It will be much appreciated!!

Some more insight of my last practice test:

1. Most of the quant questions i got wrong were Data Sufficiency (Focus on data sufficiency for timed drill sets)
2. 6 SC, 4 CR, and 7 RC questions wrong (Figured I do timed drill sets and review my answers in my final two weeks)

Hi All -

I took the test yesterday and didn't achieve my goal. Please provide some advice as to what I should do now. I plan to retake the test in a month from now. I don't want to waste my time.

Score on Test:
550 Q32 (28% percentile) V34 (70%)

The math really felt easy to me and I had no issues with timing. As I was thinking about how it went wrong, I realized that I may have guessed too much and under-thought some of the questions.

Background:
1. Taken MGMAT Course and did all HW
2. Taken all 4 GMAT Prep tests and scored 640 each time (don't know how)
3. Have completed all OG Guide questions
4. Have completed all Gmatprep Question Pack 1.

Hi Rich,

Thanks for responding.

1) I did take each ENTIRE CAT
2) I usually took my CATs at around 8 AM (EXCEPTION WHERE I TOOK THE LAST ONE AFTER WORK)
3) Test day involved some traveling and I had all morning to get nervous about the test. I bombed the Integrated reasoning too. It's like my brain was off for half the test it seems.
4) I try to take notes for each quant question. I might have done mental calculation during some DS. My pen sucked, but I used multiple so I let that go.
5) This time, I don't think i narrowed down my choices enough in the quant. It felt as if I was guessing more and assuming that the GMAT was testing a similar strategy that I've seen in the OG Guide so I tried to create clever approaches, whereas in my CATs I usually work throughout the entire section, this didn't feel like it.

However, I was pretty nervous in the beginning. Then after I finished the quant (thinking I did well), I was focused for the verbal.

Should I go back to the OG Guide and try the second half of the questions? I read an article about level 2 learning and learning how to recognize. I might just try to redo each problem and really go in depth (what are they testing, what's my strategy, and how do I obtain the wrong answers).

I was also thinking (since I have a month at least now) of reviewing my sentence correction book one more time and do those problems. Then take, maybe, 1-2 CATs.

Thank you all. I will be re-doing all the OG Guide Quant problems in an effort to solidify my strategies and capture all the content that I must know.

Hi all! thansk for your help! I got a 660 on the test!