580(q 42 v27)

[aquaprincess007]

hey everybody just gave my actual gmat test last evening and the result wasn't that great.i was not aiming for 700+ but wanted to score withing the range of 650-680 as i know my capabilities in quant.had to rush through the quant section and i guess i messed in the last ten qts which were all ds.was relying on verbal but that just bombeb.sc's were just too different .was pretty well on sc's in mock tests!
took 3 months to prepare for gmat...went through kaplan
manhattan besides og 11,quant review and verbal review .
tetss which i gave were
kaplan 580 dnt recollect the break up
manhattan
test 1 640(q 45 v33)
test 2 630(q43 v33)
test 3 660(q44 v36)
test 4 620(q45 v31)
test 5 550 q64v31)dnt know how this happened coudn't even complete the exam.a real mess here
test 6 630(q46 v31)
test 7 680 (q48 v34) 2 qts in quant and 2 qts in verbal reapeated.

gmat prep scores were skewed because the qts were repeating.did not rely on them much.
scores 710
720
and 730
i plan to take the test again in a months time so that i can file applications for fall 2009.....
guys need guidance how to go about it now.your guidance will highly be appreciated....pls guide me how to go about it.
came across a lot of ds in quant.

[bekkilyn]

It sounds like you may need to put additional focus into DS for the quantitative section. Were there particular types of DS that gave you trouble? Was it mostly just because of the timing issues?

For verbal, did you have issues with the RC or the CR, or was it mostly just the SC that seemed to mess things up?

Good job on getting through the test though! It's not the score that you wanted, and your practice test results seem to indicate that it could have went better, but now you have at least had the experience of the real test and can use that experience to your advantage for the next time.

[aquaprincess007]

yeah it was mostly the ds that put me on back foot...in quant and with the clock ticking i was more concerned about finishing the section as i heard that completing the test is more important.after the quant i took a break and decided to concerntrate better in verbal but the reverse happened .i was comfortable though with the rc ...passages they seemed simple cr too was simple....sc i wasn't that comfortable.now i want to know how to go about it what materialsto go through for sc and others...if u can just guide me through it.
thanx for your reply that was reaaly nice of you.

[bekkilyn]

You might try going through a few sentences, maybe 5 or 10 depending on how much time you have available, and write down all the reasons you can think of for why each option is correct or incorrect. Don't look at any notes or grammar rules or anything else that could provide hints. The idea is to find out exactly how your mind is working when solving the SC problems, and that's why writing out the responses is very important for this exercise.

I'd use the OG since they are the closest problems to the real exam, and it doesn't matter if you know the right answer since you still have to write down why it is right.

Then once you've written out all of your responses, you can go over the answer descriptions and see what matches up and what you may have forgotten.

You obviously aren't going to be able to do all of this writing on a real exam, and you can probably do some or a lot in your head, but the writing will help to enforce your concentration and add more structure to your thinking process about these sentences so that it will be easier for the correct responses to look natural to you when you don't have the time on the test.

Another thing you could try is make flashcards of your most common errors to make sure you remember them for the next time. For example, you analyze a problem you got wrong, and realize you confused "when" with "if." You could then make a flashcard for "when vs. if". I'd avoid just trying to memorize hundreds of idioms and grammar rules though since you will want to remember them in-context with the problems you are studying.

At least unless you have astounding rote memory skills. Mine are pretty awful.