Like many people have said, I've spent a lot of time on this website but have never posted. Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
I took the GMAT last Monday, Sept. 22, and made a 690 (Q40, V44). I wasn't terribly disappointed but was shooting for a 720 and have decided to retake in a month. My confusion lies in my quant score. I did better on quant than on verbal on all of my GMAT Preps (and I took the first one three times.) My math ranged from 44-48, but never as low as 40.
One possibility is that I was penalized more on the real exam for guessing on several questions at the end. There's a tutor in my town who made an 800 and convinced me to focus more on the first 15 questions, even if that meant spending more time on them. Once I started doing this, I began to run out of time around question 28-30, forcing me to randomly guess my way out. However, my math scores went up when using this technique on both Kaplan and GMATPrep.
On the real exam, I think I guessed on the last 7 questions. What should I make of this? Should I abandon this technique and focus on pacing, regardless of whether that means not spending more than 2 minutes on questions in the first 15?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again to everyone on this website. Without it I'd have nobody to talk about GMAT with as my girlfriend and coworkers are totally sick of hearing about scoring algorithms and data sufficiency. Thanks!
-Will
I took the GMAT last Monday, Sept. 22, and made a 690 (Q40, V44). I wasn't terribly disappointed but was shooting for a 720 and have decided to retake in a month. My confusion lies in my quant score. I did better on quant than on verbal on all of my GMAT Preps (and I took the first one three times.) My math ranged from 44-48, but never as low as 40.
One possibility is that I was penalized more on the real exam for guessing on several questions at the end. There's a tutor in my town who made an 800 and convinced me to focus more on the first 15 questions, even if that meant spending more time on them. Once I started doing this, I began to run out of time around question 28-30, forcing me to randomly guess my way out. However, my math scores went up when using this technique on both Kaplan and GMATPrep.
On the real exam, I think I guessed on the last 7 questions. What should I make of this? Should I abandon this technique and focus on pacing, regardless of whether that means not spending more than 2 minutes on questions in the first 15?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again to everyone on this website. Without it I'd have nobody to talk about GMAT with as my girlfriend and coworkers are totally sick of hearing about scoring algorithms and data sufficiency. Thanks!
-Will
