Hi all,
My first post here. This looks like a great community of people who all share the same goals, so I'm glad I found you guys and glad that I'm making this my home base for GMAT social prep.
Anyways, 3 years removed from undergraduate business school. Took the diagnostic GMAT from Kaplan (that comes free with the book you buy) and I got 500 on the nose. I saved my summary, but essentially my Quant, specifically data sufficiency is weak, hell all of it is weak. My verbal is slightly better, but not too much better.
What I think is:
- that my basic skills (high school math, algebra, arithmetic, geometry) are crap and need to be rebuilt
- I need to practice better grammer and understanding
- Integrated reasoning, which is essentially a case study, needs better practice, specifically graphical interpretation
- I need to be VERY fast with mental math.
Did anyone else identify similar problems with their base skills or low score? What strategy did you find worked the best? I was thinking of getting a bunch of high school math books for SAT prep and go over those. Then do university/college difficulty problems of those same topics, then start the specific GMAT prep so that it feels very redundant and also elementary.
Overkill? Not enough? If anyone has thoughts at all, please do post.
My first post here. This looks like a great community of people who all share the same goals, so I'm glad I found you guys and glad that I'm making this my home base for GMAT social prep.
Anyways, 3 years removed from undergraduate business school. Took the diagnostic GMAT from Kaplan (that comes free with the book you buy) and I got 500 on the nose. I saved my summary, but essentially my Quant, specifically data sufficiency is weak, hell all of it is weak. My verbal is slightly better, but not too much better.
What I think is:
- that my basic skills (high school math, algebra, arithmetic, geometry) are crap and need to be rebuilt
- I need to practice better grammer and understanding
- Integrated reasoning, which is essentially a case study, needs better practice, specifically graphical interpretation
- I need to be VERY fast with mental math.
Did anyone else identify similar problems with their base skills or low score? What strategy did you find worked the best? I was thinking of getting a bunch of high school math books for SAT prep and go over those. Then do university/college difficulty problems of those same topics, then start the specific GMAT prep so that it feels very redundant and also elementary.
Overkill? Not enough? If anyone has thoughts at all, please do post.
