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cafholic: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 9; Joined: Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:07 am; Location: DC

Took the Test - Unexpected (bad) score and splits (good)

by cafholic » Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:01 pm

I wanted to get some advice and share some of the gory details.

My strategy was to keep math fresh, and do more on the Verbal. I heard about people doing LSAT CR, can someone recommend some LSAT books? For SC, any other sources beside MGMAT? Any other sources of GMAT questions besides OG since I've done all the questions (I plan on redoing them all again and again).

How bad would it be if I left my Quant score slip?
Any tips? Everyone here has been really helpful and brutally honest, and I would really appreciate any additional insight!

Thanks all in advance,

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by Dawgie » Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:15 pm

There are plenty of official LSAT materials, get the official LSAT SuperPrep book. They have tons of other books like "The Next 10 Actual LSAT Tests". Try those! Also can you give any tips for those struggling at quant (Me). I got a 35Q on the actual exam. This time, I am going through the MGMAT guides, but after going through them and at the end (OG problems) I am still struggling big time. Any advice would be appreciated!

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cafholic: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 9; Joined: Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:07 am; Location: DC

by cafholic » Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:30 pm

The only math prep materials that I used were the MGMAT guides, and it really is about 1) knowing the content, 2) knowing what the question is really asking.

One of my problems on the Quant was that I used to make careless errors: solving for the time for 1 trip when the question asked for 2 trips, forgetting that the questions stated that X was an integer. I think that's an easy way to raise your score: remove careless errors. I actually wrote on one of my flash cards "Read the F-ing Question!!" after one too many careless errors.

Sorry to say that the only way to learn to quickly recognize what the question is asking is practice (and the Word Translations - I used to get confused about how to organize all those numbers and rates and distance etc.) Someone on this forum told me basically that I needed to do math questions over and over and over, and that's pretty much what I did. Learning through repetition.

Again, I am not a math whiz or GMAT math expert; I am pretty sure my "decent" score on Quant was pure luck.

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by nikhilkatira » Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:42 pm

cafholic wrote:The only math prep materials that I used were the MGMAT guides, and it really is about 1) knowing the content, 2) knowing what the question is really asking.

One of my problems on the Quant was that I used to make careless errors: solving for the time for 1 trip when the question asked for 2 trips, forgetting that the questions stated that X was an integer. I think that's an easy way to raise your score: remove careless errors. I actually wrote on one of my flash cards "Read the F-ing Question!!" after one too many careless errors.

Sorry to say that the only way to learn to quickly recognize what the question is asking is practice (and the Word Translations - I used to get confused about how to organize all those numbers and rates and distance etc.) Someone on this forum told me basically that I needed to do math questions over and over and over, and that's pretty much what I did. Learning through repetition.

Again, I am not a math whiz or GMAT math expert; I am pretty sure my "decent" score on Quant was pure luck.

How is actual GMAT verbal - CR, SC and RC ?

Best,
Nikhil H. Katira