From 380 to 600...but stucked on 600...

[patriciacoronado]

Hello!

This is the first time I write on this forum. The first MGMAT CAT gave me a 380!! So I had lots of work to do! I started studying for the Gmat in november 2009. I´ve been seriously studying...2 hours everyday after my job and also 4 hours or more on saturdays and sundays. I have finished 5 Quantitative MGMAT books, Kaplan book and quantitative OG (quantitative review) and two weeks ago I took a Princeton CAT test and gave me a 590 (Q:43 V:28). After two weeks of strong preparation, yesterday I took the Gmat prep. CAT and got 600 (Q:39 V:34). I was supposed to take the exam in april, but I need at least a 700 as my GPA is very very low, so I will pospone the date of the exam, but I feel I am stucked in 600 and have a HUGE problem with pacing in Quantitative...

The last CAT I took, I only solve 30 questions!! After 6 months of study I cannot solve all the problems on the real time!!! This really worries me and makes me think if it is possible to improve pacing. There are questions that take me 100 years to figure how to solve. I feel, I know the background as I have studied very much.. I have a mix of feelings...

How much time it would take to improve 100 points? How much I should postpone the exam?
And it is possible to improve pacing (in Quant)?

I will appreciate your posts....

Thanks!!!

[thoppae.saravanan]

Hi,

I assume that you are happy with your Verbal score and just want to focus on quants. I think if you can make close to 14-16 more questions right from your current level in quans you will be able to add +100 to your score.

Tip:-

See the areas where you are spending lot of time and making more mistakes. Try to work on those areas for a week or two.

First week you may wish to focus on content rather than speed. So get the basics right and work on lot of questions without giving thought about speed.

Having grasped the concepts in the first week, work on speed the next week about how efficiently you can solve those questions.

If you are done with both these steps, then give a CAT and see what difference it makes. You should see a significance difference.

All the best! Don't give up at any cost :)