GMAT Strategy

Hi Vendi,

You say you've reviewed every question you got wrong, but have you carefully analyzed your practice tests to identify any remaining area(s) of weakness?

While analyzing your practice tests, there are four main types of weakness to watch out for:
1. specific Quant skills/concepts (e.g., algebra, standard deviation, etc.)
2. specific Verbal skills/concepts (e.g., verb tenses, assumption CR questions, etc.)
3. test-taking skills (time management, endurance, anxiety etc.)
4. silly mistakes

For the first two weaknesses, the fix is pretty straightforward. Learn the concept/skill and find some practice questions to strengthen that weakness. To focus on one topic at a time, you can use BTG's tagging feature to isolate one concept. For example, here are all of the questions tagged as statistics questions: https://www.beatthegmat.com/forums/tags/ ... statistics
See the left side of that linked page for more tag options.

If your test-taking skills are holding you back, then you need to work on these. For example, we have a free GMAT time management video at https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gener ... es?id=1244.

Finally, if silly mistakes are hurting your score, then it's important that you identify and categorize these mistakes so that, during tests, you can easily spot situations in which you're prone to making errors. I write about this and other strategies in the following article: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/articles/avo ... teaks-gmat

Cheers,
Brent

Hi Vendi,

Given your score goal and your impending Test Date, you're not likely to hit 720+ on August 17th (there's just no enough time to raise your score 100+ points in 5 days). Knowing that, and the fact that it's too late to pay the $50 rescheduling fee, you really have nothing to lose with this Test - so you should use your upcoming GMAT as a 'learning experience.' Do your best, note all of the 'details' that go into the Test Day 'event' and you can use that knowledge later to better prepare for your next attempt. Once you've taken the GMAT, you should post back here with your results and we can come up with a plan to help you improve.

I'd like to know a bit more about your studies so far:
1) How long have you been studying?
2) What materials have you been using?
3) What were your scores on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi Vendi,

A 640 is a solid score (it's just shy of the 80th percentile overall), so it could very well be enough to get you into Business School.

1) Which Round are you planning to apply to Business School?
2) Do you know which School you plan to apply to?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich