I've kind of touched on this in one of my earlier posts, but now that I've gone through all of the verbal section of OG 11, I was looking for some input on how to study from this point on.
I got 88% of the Sentence Correction correct, 96% of Critical Reasoning, and 93% of Reading Comp.
I typically was mindful of time..in other words, I probably did the first 100 questions in under 90 seconds, but the last 30 or so that were really hard probably pushed the time limit, maybe hitting 2 minutes per question. In general I'm a good test taker, but the adaptive test feels weird because if I got a test full of questions that resembled the last 30 in each section, I'm not really sure I would finish.
I'm trying to save my two GMAT prep tests till I'm a little further along, but I've taken one Princeton Review test and got 710 and one MGMAT test and got 690. Personally, I think I should be at the 750 range already, but I definitely noticed that the critical reasoning/reading Comp questions on MGMAT and Princeton Review don't feel right. So I'm not really worrying too much about my score on those tests, but I'm trying to put together a solid one month study plan to make sure i get a 760-770, which I'm pretty confident is a reasonable goal.
Math is a whole different issue, because I took 4 old paper tests and got Q50 every time, but I got a 47 on Princeton Review and a 46 on MGMAT. I feel like a bit of review, and some getting used to the time crunch and I'll be back to 50 on Math, but I must admit, the questions on the practice CATs can be pretty challenging. I think I've resolved to practicing at the higher difficulty level, so that the real GMAT math feels a bit easier.
Any suggestions for prep over the next month would be very helpful. My goal is to take my first GMAT prep test in about 2 weeks. And then the second one in a month. Probably take the real test about 2 weeks after that.
I got 88% of the Sentence Correction correct, 96% of Critical Reasoning, and 93% of Reading Comp.
I typically was mindful of time..in other words, I probably did the first 100 questions in under 90 seconds, but the last 30 or so that were really hard probably pushed the time limit, maybe hitting 2 minutes per question. In general I'm a good test taker, but the adaptive test feels weird because if I got a test full of questions that resembled the last 30 in each section, I'm not really sure I would finish.
I'm trying to save my two GMAT prep tests till I'm a little further along, but I've taken one Princeton Review test and got 710 and one MGMAT test and got 690. Personally, I think I should be at the 750 range already, but I definitely noticed that the critical reasoning/reading Comp questions on MGMAT and Princeton Review don't feel right. So I'm not really worrying too much about my score on those tests, but I'm trying to put together a solid one month study plan to make sure i get a 760-770, which I'm pretty confident is a reasonable goal.
Math is a whole different issue, because I took 4 old paper tests and got Q50 every time, but I got a 47 on Princeton Review and a 46 on MGMAT. I feel like a bit of review, and some getting used to the time crunch and I'll be back to 50 on Math, but I must admit, the questions on the practice CATs can be pretty challenging. I think I've resolved to practicing at the higher difficulty level, so that the real GMAT math feels a bit easier.
Any suggestions for prep over the next month would be very helpful. My goal is to take my first GMAT prep test in about 2 weeks. And then the second one in a month. Probably take the real test about 2 weeks after that.
