What should I do to go from current 680 to 740+

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by maihuna » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:36 am
Hi Stacey,
I am thankful from bottom of my heart for such an great help. I have got solid direction on ow to move forward. I have some tools as well from manhattan tests for example that will help me evaluate specific issues as mentioned by you.
One thing, I have always taken the AWA's in all the Manhattan tests and gmat preps, but too much concentration on AWA+Math made me poor in Verbal, while a light AWA plus little less concentration kept my verbal few points higher. Thank you, I still need the stamina of concentrating for all three sections.

I will be analyzing my subtopics and will get back to you with more specifics query. Thank you mam again, hope your help me fetch my dream of 750+.

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by maihuna » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:57 am
Hi Stacey,
Its long I am awaiting your response. Do let me know in case I need to answer any more Q.

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by maihuna » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:32 am
Hi Stacey,
I have uploaded the Manhattan analysis. Please look for doc. Here are points after analysis:

Weak: Math
QUANTITATIVE:
Geometry: Circle/Polygons
Number Properties: divisibility with primes
FDP's : FDPS's connections, digits
Word Translations: Combo/Probabilty, Overlapping Sets

Verbal:
Critical Reasoning:
Analyze Arg Structure 10 4 6 40% 2:49 2:28 SLOWEST
Evaluate A Conclusion 6 4 2 67% 1:34 1:53
Reading Comprehension:
Specific Detail 24 7 17 29% 2:03 2:48 SLOWEST
Main Idea 14 6 8 43% 0:32 1:14
Sentence Correction:
Parallelism 7 2 5 29% 1:36 2:12
Comparisons 9 5 4 56% 2:06 1:43
Pronouns 7 3 4 43% 1:06 1:30
Idioms 10 3 7 30% 1:17 1:25
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by JasLamba » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:25 pm
Hi,

I think if you took a look at this it would help:

He was in a similar situation as you and made it through. Here's his experience.

https://www.markrice.com/gmat/

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by Stacey Koprince » Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:29 am
Its long I am awaiting your response. Do let me know in case I need to answer any more Q.
I'm confused. In the post right before that, you thanked me for my advice in my previous post and said you would get back to me in future with any questions. Then your next post said you were waiting for my response. What response were you waiting for?

From your later posts, things I noticed from your data:

The number of problems is really high. It would be better to see data only from your most recent 1-2 exams, as your performance is presumably changing over time. Everything I saw below may not be entirely accurate in terms of your current performance, depending upon how things have changed over time (this data spans 10 months!).

You spend 30 seconds longer (2min28sec on average) on problem solving when you get the question wrong. Stop hanging on when you don't really know what to do - that's just an indication that you're going to get the problem wrong. If you're going to get them wrong anyway, get them wrong faster!

In particular, you tend to hang on too long when the problem is algebra, geometry, or word translations.

When quant problems get really hard, you're better at DS than PS. You're losing time on hard PS.

CR strong, though drops off at 700+. Start studying wrong answers.

RC struggling at lower difficulty levels. Why? What's giving you trouble there?

Spending extra time on hard SC when you get them wrong. Again, when you don't really know what you're doing, get them wrong faster.

Take a look at this article for more detail about how to assess your practice test results - but do it just for your last test or two, not tests going back 10 months.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/a/2009/09/23 ... tice-tests

(Note: it's a 2-part article; after finishing the 1st part, click the link within the article to read the 2nd part.)
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