Firstly thanks a lot for giving such good advices. Secondly, did you really get a GMAT score of 800? That's unbelievable....I mean seriously dude, how? So anyways congrats for that. Thirdly I cannot give the official GMAT prep exams coz I exhausted them during my first attempt. So right now the only tests available with me are 3 MGMAT tests. But I'm skeptical to give those coz of the marks I have got in the previous 2. So which practice tests should I give before the actual test and how many?
Thanks in advance.
Yes, I'm working. Till my actual exam, should I just practice with Veritas question bank?
I mentioned the question bank particularly as a means to getting the GMAT as video game experience that will give you confidence, endurance and calmness when you take the actual test. I guess you need to see how that goes for you and assess whether mostly just doing that is the way to go. If you do that, I do recommend not getting discouraged by any particular results, because you already know what your baseline on the actual exam is. So you can be pretty sure that by getting better at the game you will increase your score. What you are looking to do by using the question bank is get some practice, have fun playing the questions like a video game and learn some new concepts and tricks along the way.
That question bank, while fairly comprehensive, is not really meant to be the only tool someone uses for GMAT preparation. So pay attention to what you are learning and not learning from it, and consider using other avenues to work on things you think need more attention.
Much of what I did to attain my score goal involved playing questions like a video game. I also have learned from various life experiences that in any crisis or challenging situation keeping a cool head and continuing to make any progress one can tends to work well, and that is an approach that is certainly applicable to optimally handling the GMAT.
While the MGMAT CAT's are challenging and are useful in various ways, you are right to be skeptical of your scores on them. For more accurately scoring CATs, use the Veritas CATs. Some people seem to find them a little easier than the real thing. Others say they are more difficult. Either way, the scores tend to track real scores pretty well.
Also there are the old official PowerPrep CATs. They do contain questions that are in the OG. So you could see some repeats and get inflated scores. Still, in my experience those tests are pretty good.
They can be downloaded from here.
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/resources
Y'know what else? The GMAT Prep tests can be reused without one's running into too many of the same questions again, AND if you are scoring higher than you were when you used the CATs previously, then you will see even fewer repeat questions, because the tests will be serving you new sets of harder questions.
With just 8 days to the test, one or two more CATs seems to be the max you should take between now and the test. It also is probably a good idea to not take one the day before the test, maybe not even two days before. Takes a little while to recover from the intensity.
For what it's worth, I don't know much about strategies for CR and RC, and maybe that's part of what Rich was getting at, because you don't need to know that much to get lots of them right. You just have to be determined, logical and careful. So that's part of why getting verbal practice with a question bank can be helpful.
If you know nothing else for CR, know this. An inference must be true, not likely, not kinda seems like the case, but true, based on what's said.
The verbal section is not really all that hard. Verbal is full of little tricks that get you until you see what's going on, and then they don't any more.
Also, really, as I mentioned, the right mindset might be much of what you need to increase your score significantly.
So do lots of questions, work on some weak areas, see how you do on another CAT or two and learn how to rock this thing.
