Little Background Knowledge: I had 1 month to study for the test, which is for admissions into a masters accounting program.
Skills regarding topics
-Quant material - remembered some, but extremely basic (Hand computation skills were horrid from excessive use of a calculator)
-Verbal material - did not remember much SC but CR and RC did not seem overly difficult. just oddly worded.
GMAT Prep 1 - 530 (no experience, lots of pausing, confusing)
-Went through MGMAT Foundations of Math book
MGMAT Cat 1 - 560 (no Essay or IR, struggled with higher level quant questions, stupid mistakes)
-Did lots of GMAT problems and focused on MGMAT Quant Guides. Tiny bit of Verbal.
MGMAT CAT 2 - didnt finish (Wrote the essay and did IR this exam)
- Quant - answered all the 300-500 correct, 60% of 500-600 and 25% of 600-700. Felt a lot stronger on quant but started to burn out half way through. I am thinking that due to the overabundance of 600-700 level questions I began to take way to much time on the questions.
-Verbal - With the amount of work I have managed to do the last week with verbal, I answered a great deal more SC correct than my previous tests. Felt extremely burnt out after Essay/IR/Quant.
QUESTION: From what I have gathered, most Masters in Accounting admissions departments strongly focus on the Quant/Verbal scores at the moment. This being said, I am thinking of putting forth a lackluster effort on the essay and IR to enable me to increase my performance in Quant/Verbal and decrease my risk of burning out. With the time I have been allotted, I cannot study for IR or the essay, and I have apparently not build up enough stamina for the test. Does anyone have an opinion on the matter?
Skills regarding topics
-Quant material - remembered some, but extremely basic (Hand computation skills were horrid from excessive use of a calculator)
-Verbal material - did not remember much SC but CR and RC did not seem overly difficult. just oddly worded.
GMAT Prep 1 - 530 (no experience, lots of pausing, confusing)
-Went through MGMAT Foundations of Math book
MGMAT Cat 1 - 560 (no Essay or IR, struggled with higher level quant questions, stupid mistakes)
-Did lots of GMAT problems and focused on MGMAT Quant Guides. Tiny bit of Verbal.
MGMAT CAT 2 - didnt finish (Wrote the essay and did IR this exam)
- Quant - answered all the 300-500 correct, 60% of 500-600 and 25% of 600-700. Felt a lot stronger on quant but started to burn out half way through. I am thinking that due to the overabundance of 600-700 level questions I began to take way to much time on the questions.
-Verbal - With the amount of work I have managed to do the last week with verbal, I answered a great deal more SC correct than my previous tests. Felt extremely burnt out after Essay/IR/Quant.
QUESTION: From what I have gathered, most Masters in Accounting admissions departments strongly focus on the Quant/Verbal scores at the moment. This being said, I am thinking of putting forth a lackluster effort on the essay and IR to enable me to increase my performance in Quant/Verbal and decrease my risk of burning out. With the time I have been allotted, I cannot study for IR or the essay, and I have apparently not build up enough stamina for the test. Does anyone have an opinion on the matter?
