GMAT Strategy

Hello Guys,

I am planning to take the exam on Tuesday. My initial target was 700+ but to be realistic it will not be very easy for me. I took 5 tests till now and havent scored more than 620. Okay I accepted that I am not going to run after 700+ score instead I will focus on getting more than 620.

I took two gmat preps
yesterday Prep 2: 540
Two weeks ago Gmat prep 1: 520
MGMAT 1 -- 620
MGMAT 2 -- 590
MGMAT 4 -- 600
Kaplan Paper test -- 540

Looking at the above scores I think right now I fit somewhere between 550 to 600. But if I want to score more than 620 now I wil have to do something different.

I am severely lacking in my verbal skills. Though I am able to complete 35 questions, finishing the rest has been a very daunting task for me. I have now accepted it, I am not going to make any miracle in last 2 days of exam. So here is my strategy.

I am planning to go after only 37 questions in verbal. I will keep one RC for option. Though it is very dangerous strategy I am sure that it will give me an opportunity to answer some of the unanswered questions from 35 to 41. Since my hit rate in the RC is pretty much close to 50%. Saving time in the RC will allow me to score few more points in verbal.

I am particularly looking to skip the RC between 20 and 30 questions.

Please guys can anyone please give me some inputs. I will update this post after I take my exam again. But please update on this post if anyone has obvious hints to score few more points.

Thank you

Hope I aunderstood u correctly.

Are u saying that u are going to skip questions in the sense that u r going to take a random guess???



Try this if u can:

Spend 3-4 minutes reading the passage thoroughly and take down notes(line-2) that u think were the takeaways from each paragraph. The 4 questions can then be answered in 3 minutes or so (it differs from person to person). What I am trying to say is try this strategy atleast for a 1hr-2 since u have 2 days and see what happens. The general opinion is that its too late to try a new startegy a day or 2 before the exam but what do u loose if the strategy that u have been followinghas given u only a 50% hit rate from what u say. What will cots u in terms of time witth RC is i u dint read the passage focussed and thoroughly to begin with and then u start reading the passage again and again for every question that u r trying to answer.

U should defnitely be making some gains on time in SC (1 minute - 1.25 should be more than sufficient once u have memorized the rules and applied them successfully by recognizing patterns). SC is more like quant in some ways.


I would hate for u to miss out on Verbal points if the RC that u gave a half hearted attempt on turns out to be a non experimental one and some others that u gave more focus to turns out to be experimental questions. This is the danger with ur startegy above as its very hard to predict which ones are experimental and which ones are not.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,
CR