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sb2702
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Hi BTG community!
I humbly come seeking advice on my study plan for the GMAT, which I take in 3 weeks.
I've been studying for the GMAT for about two months or so, and I'm doing well so far, getting consistent scores I'd be happy with on test day across several practice tests from different companies. I've still got 3 weeks until my exam though, so I'd still like to spend my time improving.
Quant:
I've been stuck on a score of 50 for a few weeks now.
So far, I've just been practicing Manhattan GMAT's "Challenge Problems" over and over again.
My errors on Quant seem to be split evenly between 1)Small errors on tough problems (forgetting to take into account a small piece of information in the prompt) and 2) Getting phased out/stumped by 1-3 really tough problems per practice test, problems on which I usually just eliminate what I can and then guess, when I can't think of a strategy to solve it in less then ~40 seconds.
Any advice/recommendations for pushing quant up to a 51? My only guess would be stay the course and try to practice minimizing stupid mistakes on test day.
Verbal:
On verbal, I've been consistently between 44-46. My most recent GMATPrep test indicates that all 5 of my wrong answers on verbal were sentence corrections.
My verbal strategy thus far has been doing Knewton's course, and reading Manhattan GMAT's Sentence correction guide. While I'm comfortable with Reading Comprehension, there's a couple tough Critical Reasoning questions that still get me, and some days it seems I just make a couple of SC errors.
I'd like to bump my verbal scores to a 46-48. Any recommendations from verbal experts? I'm contemplating right now just practicing a ton of official SC problems, as especially tough ones, and revising/cataloging/analyzing my errors.
Thanks a bunch, I promise I'll contribute to the forum after I'm done with my own GMAT.
-Sam
I humbly come seeking advice on my study plan for the GMAT, which I take in 3 weeks.
I've been studying for the GMAT for about two months or so, and I'm doing well so far, getting consistent scores I'd be happy with on test day across several practice tests from different companies. I've still got 3 weeks until my exam though, so I'd still like to spend my time improving.
Quant:
I've been stuck on a score of 50 for a few weeks now.
So far, I've just been practicing Manhattan GMAT's "Challenge Problems" over and over again.
My errors on Quant seem to be split evenly between 1)Small errors on tough problems (forgetting to take into account a small piece of information in the prompt) and 2) Getting phased out/stumped by 1-3 really tough problems per practice test, problems on which I usually just eliminate what I can and then guess, when I can't think of a strategy to solve it in less then ~40 seconds.
Any advice/recommendations for pushing quant up to a 51? My only guess would be stay the course and try to practice minimizing stupid mistakes on test day.
Verbal:
On verbal, I've been consistently between 44-46. My most recent GMATPrep test indicates that all 5 of my wrong answers on verbal were sentence corrections.
My verbal strategy thus far has been doing Knewton's course, and reading Manhattan GMAT's Sentence correction guide. While I'm comfortable with Reading Comprehension, there's a couple tough Critical Reasoning questions that still get me, and some days it seems I just make a couple of SC errors.
I'd like to bump my verbal scores to a 46-48. Any recommendations from verbal experts? I'm contemplating right now just practicing a ton of official SC problems, as especially tough ones, and revising/cataloging/analyzing my errors.
Thanks a bunch, I promise I'll contribute to the forum after I'm done with my own GMAT.
-Sam
In anycase, even with the improvement you seek i.e. Q50 ->51 and V 45->48 your score will only marginally move from a 770 to a 780. 
