550 -- Reaching for 600+

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550 -- Reaching for 600+

by furious_styles » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:59 am
My tests is in less than 48 hours!

After one week of earnest prepartion for the GMAT, I took two 2008 GMAT CAT Practice Tests this past weekend, scoring 530 and 550. Judging from the results, it was evident I needed to focus on Data Sufficiency and Reading Comprehension -- my two glaring weak areas. Accordingly, I focused on these two sections of the test by subsequently working through some of the practice problems in the OG GMAT text.

Last night, I took one of the 2007 GMAT CAT Practice Tests, scoring yet another 550. Here's the breakdown of my performance:

Q(37, 14 incorrect)
Problem Solving - 7 incorrect
Data Sufficiency - 7 incorrect

V(41, 15 incorrect)
Reading Comprehension - 9 incorrect
Critical Reasoning - 4 incorrect
Sentence Correction - 2 incorrect

At this point, I'm debating whether I'd be better served to continue taking practice tests to hone my time-management skills and overcome the shock-factor of taking a computer-based test -- or address the fundamentals of Problem Solving, Data Sufficiency, and Reading Comprehension by working through more of the practice problems in the OG text.
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by papgust » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:29 pm
hi,

You can take a single diagnostic test to see where you really stand. But taking multiple tests and focusing just on time-management rather fundamentals is sheer waste of time. If i were you, i would first take a sample diagnostic test to see where i stand, then look to build my fundamentals and practice easy questions. Then i would start doing medium-tough level questions and also going through the fundamentals on a regular basis. I would finally start takin multiple practice tests before my test (say 1 or 1.5 months before the actual exam)