quant : 49 to 51

HI Rich,

thanks for the response.
my analysis is there are a couple of types of mistakes i make
a) I am not sure what can qualify for a hard question. I find questions with too much of calculations as hard and if i see those I try to make an intelligent guess and move on but I generally fall in trap of questions which require some trick and i get into the trap that i can really do it. So, thats why this notion of "ALL" trick questions came into picture

b)Other mistake i do is when i have misread/misinterpreted the question sometime
OR
skipped a part of information given in the starting of question

c) since it is the countdown timer so i loose track of time left. I have observered that I tend to subtract the question number and 37 and see the time remaining to see if i still have 2 mins per question. It is easier for me when i use GMAT timer, which beaps as soon as i cross 2 mins.

I am working on Verbal, it hovers around 30 and i know i can improve a lot, but since I feel quant can be my saving grace so i want to do all i can to reach 51.

Let me know in your experience what i should be doing.

Thank you for your time.