What is Your GMAT Strategy?

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gmat_700: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 8; Joined: Thu May 10, 2007 7:24 pm

by gmat_700 » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:53 pm

Even though I have been taking a GMATPrep class, having a private tutor for verbal section, reading different books, and taking online classes plus retaking real GMAT twice, I still can not improve my weak areas which are data sufficiency in math section and reading comprehension in verbal section. My target score is between 600 – 650.
These days when I took free Manhattan GMAT test and GMATPrep, I score between 510 – 580. In all of these tests, I score +35 in Math section, but in verbal section I score between 17 – 21). Therefore, I am thinking to only focus on my strong areas and make them stronger. In other words, I am focusing on “solving problems” questions and “sentence correction + critical reasoning” questions. Your thoughts?

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by mayonnai5e » Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:46 am

I think something is wrong with your study prep strategy - you are taking classes, working with a private tutor, and using different books yet are not seeing improvements in your weak areas. Working with a private tutor, in particular, should provide an avenue for improvements otherwise I think it's money wasted.

Now about your idea, it is usually a good idea to work on your strengths first until you've leveraged all you possibly can in those areas; at some point your weaknesses will force you to plateau and drag your score down enough to prevent any further gains. You can try to continue building on your strength and see if you score better, but at some point you will have to ask yourself if you hit that plateau at which point you should switch back to working on weaknesses.

P.S. Your time with your tutor should be spent 100% on weaknesses - do not waste precious tutor time on strengths.

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