Not a flat-out beating, but just enough to let it know who's boss. 
Got a 710 ... Q48 V50
Not much in the way of traditional prep... I got an old Kaplan book (maybe from 2003...?) and went through EVERY question on there... went through every one that was wrong, found out why I got it wrong, etc. It wasn't as useful as I thought, however, since the Quant questions were easier than most of the questions I saw on the test, and I got very few of the geometry and probability questions I thought I would.
I also took two practice exams, timed, and got the EXACT same score on the 2nd one that I did on the real thing... Q48 and V40... how weird is that??
One thing that I did do which was helpful... for all of sentence correction problems I got wrong, I rephrased the right answer into my vernacular. For instance, if I got a problem wrong when the right answer was "With the exception of Sheila and me, everyone had gone to the ball game", I rephrased it into something like "With the exception of Jordan and me, everyone had taken a shot of whiskey". Studying a bunch of those was quite helpful!!
Also, during the Q version, I was getting freaked out... I was only 10 questions in with 45 minutes left... I thought I was completely choking. But I kept my composure, took a deep breath, and reminded myself that I couldn't spend 5 minutes on problems... if I couldn't get it in 2 minutes, it was time to eliminate the choices that it couldn't be, and take a guess from the rest if I needed to. I was able to finish all the questions without many wild guesses, and had 30 seconds to spare!
Composure and focus is HUGE!!
Best of luck, y'all.
Got a 710 ... Q48 V50
Not much in the way of traditional prep... I got an old Kaplan book (maybe from 2003...?) and went through EVERY question on there... went through every one that was wrong, found out why I got it wrong, etc. It wasn't as useful as I thought, however, since the Quant questions were easier than most of the questions I saw on the test, and I got very few of the geometry and probability questions I thought I would.
I also took two practice exams, timed, and got the EXACT same score on the 2nd one that I did on the real thing... Q48 and V40... how weird is that??
One thing that I did do which was helpful... for all of sentence correction problems I got wrong, I rephrased the right answer into my vernacular. For instance, if I got a problem wrong when the right answer was "With the exception of Sheila and me, everyone had gone to the ball game", I rephrased it into something like "With the exception of Jordan and me, everyone had taken a shot of whiskey". Studying a bunch of those was quite helpful!!
Also, during the Q version, I was getting freaked out... I was only 10 questions in with 45 minutes left... I thought I was completely choking. But I kept my composure, took a deep breath, and reminded myself that I couldn't spend 5 minutes on problems... if I couldn't get it in 2 minutes, it was time to eliminate the choices that it couldn't be, and take a guess from the rest if I needed to. I was able to finish all the questions without many wild guesses, and had 30 seconds to spare!
Composure and focus is HUGE!!Best of luck, y'all.
700+ or bust.
