GMAT Strategy

I've kind of touched on this in one of my earlier posts, but now that I've gone through all of the verbal section of OG 11, I was looking for some input on how to study from this point on.

I got 88% of the Sentence Correction correct, 96% of Critical Reasoning, and 93% of Reading Comp.

I typically was mindful of time..in other words, I probably did the first 100 questions in under 90 seconds, but the last 30 or so that were really hard probably pushed the time limit, maybe hitting 2 minutes per question. In general I'm a good test taker, but the adaptive test feels weird because if I got a test full of questions that resembled the last 30 in each section, I'm not really sure I would finish.

I'm trying to save my two GMAT prep tests till I'm a little further along, but I've taken one Princeton Review test and got 710 and one MGMAT test and got 690. Personally, I think I should be at the 750 range already, but I definitely noticed that the critical reasoning/reading Comp questions on MGMAT and Princeton Review don't feel right. So I'm not really worrying too much about my score on those tests, but I'm trying to put together a solid one month study plan to make sure i get a 760-770, which I'm pretty confident is a reasonable goal.

Math is a whole different issue, because I took 4 old paper tests and got Q50 every time, but I got a 47 on Princeton Review and a 46 on MGMAT. I feel like a bit of review, and some getting used to the time crunch and I'll be back to 50 on Math, but I must admit, the questions on the practice CATs can be pretty challenging. I think I've resolved to practicing at the higher difficulty level, so that the real GMAT math feels a bit easier.

Any suggestions for prep over the next month would be very helpful. My goal is to take my first GMAT prep test in about 2 weeks. And then the second one in a month. Probably take the real test about 2 weeks after that.

In response to your comment about not finishing CATs, I can personally attest that you can get a really good score and still feel rushed. If you're doing well, you ARE going to get lots of difficult questions (that's the point of a CAT); no matter how well you're doing, you should feel like you're struggling. Further, remember that it's not the number of questions you get right, but the difficulty of those questions. You can get quite a few questions wrong and still score well, as long as those are the more difficult questions.

Dude, if you're getting 9 out of 10 correct in verbal OG, and you scored 50 in quant on a paper test, i don't know about 770 but you WILL be in the 99th percentile.

You should go ahead and take one of the GMAT Prep tests. They each have tons of questions. So you could take it again later and see maybe 2 repeated questions... Usually, if enough time has passed, you won't remember the answer or how you did it before, and if you do remember the answer when you see a repeat, a good tactic is answer it and dock yourself 2 minutes... i.e. finish the section in 73mins rather than 75.

So if I were you I'd go ahead and do GMAT Prep I just to see where I was and save GMAT Prep II for closer to G-day.

Good Luck! But sth tells me you don't need luck to rock the GMAT