Raise quant score by 1-2 points

joannabanana wrote:My quant score seems to be stuck at 48. I've gotten that score in my last 3 GMAT Prep mock tests. I have about 4 days of studying left, so very little time. I'm not too unhappy with the 48, but feel that I have potential to get 49 or 50. In the past week I've done a TON of quant problems (gone through about 2/3 of the OG quant book, and did the whole quant section in Kaplan 800). I thought this would've improved my quant score a bit, but unfortunately on my test yesterday I got another 48.

I've noticed that I always get probability questions wrong in the exams (though get them right when I go back and review them) and I always take forever on inequality DS problems. I've just downloaded the Manhattan Inequaliites book (for Kindle) so I plan on going through the inequalities sections in that over the next few days. I'll also look through some probability questions just to improve my speed and confidence on those.

Any other tips for how to improve my score by 1-2 points in such little time?

My timing is good, I just seem to panic when I see some questions and give up on them, or make mistakes while solving them. (My verbal is good too. I'll do a few verbal problems over the next few days, but don't feel that I really need too much more practice there.)

joannabanana wrote:I use this for my timing:
When on question 11 - should have 54min left
Q16 - 44 min
Q 21 - 34 min
Q 26 - 24 min
Q 11 - 14 min

I make myself STICK to this during the test.

I haven't really kept track of how many guesses I make... In my last test I made 1 or 2 completely random guesses to get myself back on time (this was on questions that looked really difficult or wordy), and I think I made about 4 "educated guesses" where I had a bit of an idea of how to solve the question but it was taking too long for me to get the full answer.

joannabanana wrote:Yes, I do reach the question with ~2 minutes. Although I have to say, even when I'm on pace I almost always panic a bit on the last 2 questions because I'm really worried that I might not have time to click the answer and will get the unreached question penalty. So because of this while doing question 36 I'm constantly watching the clock - thereby not concentrating on the solution as much as I should be. On question 37 I'm usually less panicked because I first just click a random answer and then start working on the solution.