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by tracyyahoo » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:53 am
Now I stuck at score 550, but don't know how to improve.

here are my things, pls help me.

(1) I redid the prep2 and prep1 several times to get 700+, sometimes I get 700+ sometimes don't.
But the thing is, If I do it repeatedly, there are some new questions I can learn from, but hard questions's answer that I already know and I chose them, no matter what I still get 700+ anyway.But if I don't do this test repeatedly, I don't what material I can use to help me improve to 700+,

(2) Then you would say OG or manhanten materials, however I think when I do OG, (well, most of questions I already did and I know the answer), I am very confident at doing them, and I think I alraedy memories all the key points, there is no need for to redo OG again and again, I think it won't help to get 700+. Manhanten materials as well.

Here I come up strategy,

(1) I redo the prep1 and prep2 several times , and memerozie all the key knowledge points, and review them. Then I do the manhanten free test to get my score.

Does it helpful for me to get 700+ in real test.???

Right now I am fighting this test alone, and I quit my job to do it, and I really can't fail this time, but more I think about it I think more I will lose. I don't know what to do???

Pls help me and give me some advice, good or bad, all ok.


ps: Pls don't doubt I am wrong ,because when I do OG questions and memorize all points and do again and it is very easy to get all the answers right, but when I do the prep test on computer, I can't do all the questions right, that why I choose to do prep test to improve myself.

but I know that, gmat test is like there are several difficult questions you need to 100% get it right, otherwise it is impossible for you to get high score, and it is also psycological test, when you meet a difficult question, there will be another harder question come. So when I do the prep I already know the answer, but when I do the new test, I failed. then I look up the explanation, WOW, if I thought that way at beginning then I would get high scores.

Now I really frightened because I STUCK AT BOTTLE NECK and don't know how to improve myself not to get afraid of difficult questions.
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by sam2304 » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:10 am
You are more inclined in solving than on learning. Don't do that mistake. There is no point in solving more problems. All you get is to know the answer and nothing else. Change your approach.
(2) Then you would say OG or manhanten materials, however I think when I do OG, (well, most of questions I already did and I know the answer), I am very confident at doing them, and I think I alraedy memories all the key points, there is no need for to redo OG again and again, I think it won't help to get 700+. Manhanten materials as well.
Maybe you know the answers. But do you know the reasons why they are right and wrong ? If not go for it, do it again each and every problem and eliminate each and every answer choice with one concrete reason. It takes two mins to solve a problem but 5 mins to review the same.

Check out these links on how to learn from your mistakes.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/02/ ... sts-part-1
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/02/ ... sts-part-2
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2009/10/ ... ce-problem
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/02/ ... e-question
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/06/ ... on-problem

One more tip - Try to answer the questions posted in the forum with explanations that will help you improve a lot. Hope this helps.
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by tracyyahoo » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:15 am
I do the know the reasons behind it, but I think it is impossible to remember all. it is more like concept and idea. you see the SC, first is go for parallelism, and go the logic or tense, etc..

But When I do the real test, there are always somethings besides OG's knowledge points, I think. And I should be careful about it... So I gradually believe prep and manhanten's RON's explanations.... It's more helpful than OG I think... But improvement still quite little.

I don't know whether after I finish all the questions in Prep1&2, doing all the questions in manhanten CAT test will do me any good in real gmat test....

GMAT is really pain in my ass. I think I will never see the light in the future





sam2304 wrote:You are more inclined in solving than on learning. Don't do that mistake. There is no point in solving more problems. All you get is to know the answer and nothing else. Change your approach.
(2) Then you would say OG or manhanten materials, however I think when I do OG, (well, most of questions I already did and I know the answer), I am very confident at doing them, and I think I alraedy memories all the key points, there is no need for to redo OG again and again, I think it won't help to get 700+. Manhanten materials as well.
Maybe you know the answers. But do you know the reasons why they are right and wrong ? If not go for it, do it again each and every problem and eliminate each and every answer choice with one concrete reason. It takes two mins to solve a problem but 5 mins to review the same.

Check out these links on how to learn from your mistakes.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/02/ ... sts-part-1
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/02/ ... sts-part-2
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2009/10/ ... ce-problem
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/02/ ... e-question
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/06/ ... on-problem

One more tip - Try to answer the questions posted in the forum with explanations that will help you improve a lot. Hope this helps.

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by IJR » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:20 am
It sounds like you are using the right materials. For Quant, you could also use the gmatclub.com math tests. They contain all 700+ level questions, so if you can understand the theories behind how to solve those questions, you will get better. Other than that, you need to reflect on each problem you get wrong and figure out why you missed it and how you can avoid missing a similar question going forward. Then think of how a similar question could be varied and think how you would solve that question. Focus on quality and not quantity of practice problems and you should do better.

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by tracyyahoo » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:01 pm
I don't know whether you have done the prep test repeatedly before, because when I finish the hard questions and understand the theory behind it, still there will be another different hard question pop open, and i don't know how to solve.

that leaves to do lot of questions to fullfil myself.... In the end, in the real test, when I get nervosu or become stupid at a period, I will fail again, I am afraid that.

IJR wrote:It sounds like you are using the right materials. For Quant, you could also use the gmatclub.com math tests. They contain all 700+ level questions, so if you can understand the theories behind how to solve those questions, you will get better. Other than that, you need to reflect on each problem you get wrong and figure out why you missed it and how you can avoid missing a similar question going forward. Then think of how a similar question could be varied and think how you would solve that question. Focus on quality and not quantity of practice problems and you should do better.

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by tracyyahoo » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:03 pm
tracyyahoo wrote:I don't know whether you have done the prep test repeatedly before, because when I finish the hard questions and understand the theory behind it, still there will be another different hard question pop open, and i don't know how to solve.

that leaves to do lot of questions to fullfil myself.... In the end, in the real test, when I get nervosu or become stupid at a period, I will fail again, I am afraid that.

all I am saying is how I am going to get 700+ difficult question 100% all right.
IJR wrote:It sounds like you are using the right materials. For Quant, you could also use the gmatclub.com math tests. They contain all 700+ level questions, so if you can understand the theories behind how to solve those questions, you will get better. Other than that, you need to reflect on each problem you get wrong and figure out why you missed it and how you can avoid missing a similar question going forward. Then think of how a similar question could be varied and think how you would solve that question. Focus on quality and not quantity of practice problems and you should do better.

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by thunderdan » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:29 pm
You do not need to solve all the questions correct to get nice score in GMAT. You need to pace properly in the test, a little more in the beginning of the test and gain momentum on the second half of the Quant section.

Do not panic if you are getting easier questions later in the test, I got some and still got decent over all score. Pacing is important along with being correct. If you have already spent time on a tough question, it helps to move on to next one after guessing this question than wasting too much extra time
(Be aware some of the questions are not considered for final score and are for experimental purposes)

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by tracyyahoo » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:29 pm
My question is I can't get 100% correct on first ten questions.

I might be good at some medium level question but hard question I spent too much and trying to solve but failed, test score won't be good.

so My question is how to solve harder question and make it 100% correct?

thunderdan wrote:You do not need to solve all the questions correct to get nice score in GMAT. You need to pace properly in the test, a little more in the beginning of the test and gain momentum on the second half of the Quant section.

Do not panic if you are getting easier questions later in the test, I got some and still got decent over all score. Pacing is important along with being correct. If you have already spent time on a tough question, it helps to move on to next one after guessing this question than wasting too much extra time
(Be aware some of the questions are not considered for final score and are for experimental purposes)