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GMAT on 28th Octobre: How to score 700+ [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 03 Oct 2007, 04:00
Hi All,

I am a daily visitor of this forum but not an active user (yet). This forum helped me substantially in my prep for the last 3 months.
I am targeting to score 700+ end of October and until now my scores are looking as follows:

- MGMAT Online test 1: 710 (Q48, V38) Date 27/08 I paused on some Q questions
- CAT GMAT Powerprep 1: 700 (Q47, V38) Date 10/11 Q made 2 silly errors in the first 10 questions. Verbal had around 5 or 6 questions from OG and 1 familiar RC text
- MGMAT Online test 2: 700 (Q46, V39) Date 15/09 No pause on Q this time => Verbal increased by 1 point!
- GMAT Prep 1: 650 (Q45, V35) Date 16/09 ....I took the Q again and scored 49 moving my total score to 690.
- MGMAT Online test 3: 670 (Q45, V36) Date 22/09 First test with AWA issue....disapointed but need to keep the hard work. MGMAT showed that I still can progress in RC => this will be my focus next week.
MGMAT Online test 7: 710 (Q48, V39) Date 29/09 pause on Q this time - (Q is too much time consuming on MGMAT)
- CAT GMAT Powerprep 2: 760 (Q51, V40) Date 03/10 Q made 0 errors and I detected only 1 question from OG. Verbal score is not relevant since too many questions were repeated from OG.
- GMAT Club Challenges:

13 67%
14 64%
15 74%
16 78%
17 92%
18 85%
19 62% (I was really tired this night)
20 90%
21 93%
22 81%
23 81% (it seems now that all my errors are level 1. I am not missing any 1.5)
24 74% Oups...something wrong!

I still have 2 MGMAT CAT and 1 officials CAT.

Now, I need to dress my strategy for the next month to secure my 700+. I feel that my results are still weak and need more security to feel confident. I am hesitating between 2 strategies:

Strategy 1: Boost Q to reach 50+. I have an engineering degree so I should be able to do better. But, I am not sure if this goal can be done in 1 month.

Strategy 2: Boost V to 40+. V is my weak area but this strategy maybe more realistic. Until now, I was adopting the strategy of focusing on SC and CR to be able to solve questions in less than 1m30s and use the extra time to read carefully the RC passages.

Finally, I you think of an alternative strategy, don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thanks!

Originally posted by gmatmilitary on 10 Sep 2007, 04:07.
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[#permalink] New post   12 Sep 2007, 07:01
If you have not taken either of the GMAT Prep CAT's I suggest taking one of the two. That will give you the best picture of where you stand with one month left in your studies. It is the most accurate predictor of your actual GMAT. Then, I would save the other for the final week to see where you stand, and give you confidence before the test.

As far as strategy, I would only study things you feel weak in on Quant. Maybe its number properties, or Permutations and Combinations, but I wouldn't necessarily focus on raising your quant to 50. If you're around 48/49 you'll do fine. I would focus on Verbal. Also, you need to find out what your weak areas are in Verbal. Whether you're solid at RC and CR while weak at SC? Then focus on the category you have the least success on. You can definitely raise your verbal into the low 40's with 1 month of hard studying, possibly even higher. A 48Q and 43V will easily get you what you want.
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[#permalink] New post   12 Sep 2007, 07:46
Thanks Emoryhopeful for your help.
The problem with GMAT Prep is that I did them 3 month ago and there is a risk that I will get the same questions introducing bias in my scores.
Last time I took them I scored 600 so this time I think I will get some different ones. but still they wont be representative of my actual level.

Do you know a good test to measure in details the weak area?
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[#permalink] New post   12 Sep 2007, 07:52
I'm not sure if many of the CAT's actually breakdown how you scored in each section, but you can review each question, marking down which ones you got right and wrong by each category yourself. That's what I did on the GMAT Prep CAT's.

I also did one of the GMAT Prep's 2 months prior to my test. Then, I retook it one week before the test and got 6 repeat questions. I had done it so long ago, I didn't really remember the answers so had to solve them just as I would have any other problem. The score was very close to my actual GMAT. I think that after 3 months, you should atleast try one of them again and see how you do.

I know I went through after taking the GMAT Prep the first time without studying and made a breakdown of what I missed. I had only missed one or two CR and RC and missed a lot of SC. So, that's where I concentrated my prep. I think spending the time to review what you've missed and marking it down by each question type will really help.

Just for reference sake, I scored a 640 when I first took GMAT Prep Test 1. When I did the retake after 2 months, I scored a 740. Then a 740 on GMAT Prep Test 2, then 760 on the actual GMAT.
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Bad day! 650 on GMAT Prep1 [#permalink] New post   16 Sep 2007, 04:23
Hi All,
I just finished GMAT prep 1 and got a tiny 650 (Q45, V35). It is my lowest score for the last 2 months. I made some great silly mistakes in Q and a blow off to many SC questions in Verbal. The first question in Q was wrong! It was so simple that I won’t post it here.
In both parts, I was running late on timing. I noticed that this have always a bad influence on my score. When I know that I am late, my ratio of wrong answers increases.
My range is now 650-710. Does anyone know how to stabilise the score?
Do you have any method to increase focus and tackle easy/silly questions?
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[#permalink] New post   17 Sep 2007, 06:16
If you know that your main problem in Quant is silly mistakes on the early problems, but you do well on the medium and hard problems because you focus more, I'd suggest just doing the easy problems from OG and concentrate on making no mistakes. If you do a set of 37 easy questions, conentrate enough that you don't miss any, or maybe one or two. Its a good way to get used to easy problems that you are trying to be fast on, without making mistakes.
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Math GMAT Prep1 [#permalink] New post   18 Sep 2007, 08:03
Hi!

I just followed your advise. I did 80 PS and 30 DS from OG and I got 4 errors only. Then, I took again GMAT Prep1 Math section (scored randomly for Verbal). I got only 4 or 5 questions from last time and I took 2 min to do them.
The score is 49! (4 points increase moving my total score to 690)

Thanks for all!!!
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[#permalink] New post   18 Sep 2007, 08:46
Excellent! Keep up with it, and try to bring it to 50 or 51, and keep it consistent!

Wish you all the best!

I've just tried mine too, GMATPrep, Q50 (V random).
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