SCORED 550 (Q 43 V 23) AWA 4.5 - Q&V Help

[sphinxoduss]

Dear MGMAT instructor

I am an Comp Engg graduate (2004 Batch) and not happy with dream shattering score. After 5 years of continuous talking to my office PC, I felt that my basics have gone rusty. Therefore, to improve my basics in Quants as well as in Verbal, I took the following approach during my 25 days of official leave:

MGMAT Strategy Guides - Quants
MGMAT SC Guide
OG 11
CR Bible
3 MGMAT tests
3 GMATPrep tests

I gave myself 25 days to complete all the above material, although time seemed to be less.

I took my test on day 1 (GMATPrep) and scored a 570. At this moment, I knew that I lag in Basic Maths (Number Properties ate up most of my time & Probability Scared me to death) and CR & SC required a thorough brush up.

Other tests (taken in 2 days gap) revolved around below mentioned scores

MGMAT Test 1 - 630 (Q42 V34) Could not complete last 2 Quants
MGMAT Test 2 - 640 (Q43 V34)
MGMAT Test 3 - 640 (Q48 V30) CR dropped
GMATPrep 2 - 600 (Q45 V25)
GMATPrep 3 - 600 (Q46 V27)

I tried to take all the tests round about the scheduled time of my Actual GMAT appointment, so that I could tune my brain&body to the actual time of my test.

Although, the scores mentioned were low enough to encourage test postponement, I somehow felt that the scores did not reflect my true potential. Therefore, I decided to take test.

=============In the Actual Test ===============
Completed AWA on time, although committed a silly grammatical error in ISSUE essay.
Quantitative - Fell short of time and guessed on the last 2 questions.
Verbal - Fell short of time and guessed on the last one.
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When I look back, I feel that I tried to eat the full turkey in one go. I tried to complete things and although I knew the concepts I could not gather confidence due to lack of adequate practice.

I am planning to go thru the CR book once more whereas practice more quants this time. I am also planning to read another book on SC, TurboCharge Series of MGMAT.

Could you pls suggest me an approach to improve my CR and SC ?
Pls suggest me anything which could help me to plan my studies and increase my score to reach a 700+.

Thanks
S

[RonPurewal]

Could you pls suggest me an approach to improve my CR and SC ?
Pls suggest me anything which could help me to plan my studies and increase my score to reach a 700+.

Thanks
S

hi - this post is in the wrong folder; i'll move it to the correct one.

this is an awfully general question. it's hard to give a meaningful response to a question that covers so much territory, but here are a couple of hints:

* try not to concentrate too much on the specifics of any one question, especially in CR. instead, try to get GENERAL TAKEAWAYS from each problem. for more on what i mean about that, see here: http://www.beatthegmat.com/gmat-prep-pl ... html#52813

* try going through the problems (and responses) on these forums, if you haven't already.

good luck!

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by the way, MGMAT does not publish anything called "TurboCharge Series". you may want to check that material; it's not ours.