How does a 700+ Assessment report look like ?

[deepeshbhatia]

Hi Stacey,

I read your blog "4 Steps to Get the Most out of your CATs (part 2) http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index.php/2014/02/17/4-steps-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-cats-part-2/#more-7019 and have been looking for something similar for a while. You have posted sample assessment reports analyzing the weak areas and so on.

I have been consistently scoring 580-620 on the Manhattan Gmat prep tests and the Gmatprep and am wondering what a 700+ assessment report would look like and what I should really do, I do have timing and letting go issues, I am working on my weak areas, creating error logs, analyzing the questions I got wrong, or the questions I have spent more than 2 mins on, got right and got wrong.

My Quant score has been in the range 39 -47, but my verbal score has been consistently been in the range of 25-30, on SC : my timing is fine in the range of a 1:00 - 1:10 min but average right are 590-600, CR and RC have varied on the tests but as I can assess its the mix of % right vs average level questions right which are in the range 590-630. I am wondering what is it that will really boost my score ?

Referring this particular blog assessment report sample, what was this candidate's final score ?
I'd appreciate if you could share other assessment report snapshots with 700+ scores or would be great if other students could share their 700+ score assessment reports here under this stream , would really help in understanding how to arrive at a 700+ score.

Thanks,

Deepesh

[StaceyKoprince]

Your performance is not based upon any one metric - it really is a combination of all of those metrics. There are so many variations; I could show you one example of a 700 score report, but it's only one variation. It wouldn't necessarily help you to figure out what you need to do. (And, in fact, it would very likely hurt you - if you tried to make yourself have the same strengths as one example, you'd likely just drive yourself crazy because everyone has their own specific strengths and weaknesses.)

In a nutshell, you want to:
1) give yourself a chance to try every question, while
2) cutting yourself off on questions that are too hard or taking too long, and
3) not making too many careless mistakes on easier questions / questions that you do know how to answer

You will get a number of questions wrong; that's okay as long as you're not getting too many lower-level questions wrong. (The definition of lower-level, of course, varies depending on your desired scoring level.

If you have particular weaknesses in areas that are more commonly tested, then you need to work to lift up those weaknesses. You can spend less time studying weaknesses that aren't commonly tested, as long as you know how to recognize them and let them go faster.

If you are struggling with, say, functions, you're okay making a guess and moving on in less than 2 minutes - those aren't as commonly tested. But if you're struggling with linear and quadratic equations, then you've got to put in the work to lift your level. That area might still never be a strength for you, but if you want a (for example) 70th percentile score on quant, then you need to be able to answer linear and quadratic equation questions at a 60-70th percentile (or medium to medium-high) level.

If you would like, follow the analysis steps in the article and then post your analysis here for me to see. (NOT just the data - your analysis / what you think it means!) I'll tell you where I agree and disagree and we can discuss from there.