You may be trying to improve just 50 points, but that means picking up points on the hardest questions the test has to offer. This is really when identifying problem areas and focusing on those exclusively is going to count. Read through all of these tips and follow as many of them as you think apply to you. Get out your pen and paper and make two columns. Now, think back to the last time you took the GMAT, be that the real thing or a practice test. In the left column write down every single thing that went well, and every piece of material or question type that you felt confident on.
In the right column, list everything that went wrong. Literally everything. If you wasted time on a sentence corrections question, note it.
If the AC was super high and you felt too cold, write it down. If you missed a bunch of questions you felt like you really understood, write down what each and every one of those questions was about.
Point of fact, this tip is so important you should do it all the time! You need to answer as many questions correctly on this test as you possibly can. Well, yeah duh. But seriously! If you feel confident about geometry, work to make sure you can get every single geometry question you see on this test correct.
Make those free-throws. That will give you a good baseline to work with as you begin your work addressing your weaknesses. Simply sitting down and completing an entire GMAT prep book may take up 30 hours of your prep regiment, but those might not be 30 hours well spent.
Start by building a foundation of content you need to review. With the Quant section, go through every question you missed on your practice tests and figure out the exact topics they tested. Once you feel ok about content or at least, better , then evaluate which types of questions you commonly miss. Understand how they work, what common wrong answer choices look like, and what sort of approach you might be able to develop for them. But how? Find out what you need to know about your GMAT timing strategy!
How do you improve GMAT scores overall? Focus on boosting your scores in the individual sections! At a certain point you have to know the properties of a right triangle or the difference between dependent and independent events in probability. Of course the range of concepts tested on the GMAT is relatively vast. Say you studied math in college and have a solid grasp of the fundamentals. Surprisingly, you may not get a perfect score on the GMAT quant.
In fact you may miss a number of quant questions. Part of the reason is that the GMAT is designed in a way to trick the test taker. An indispensable skill—and one many do not learn in school—is approximating. Coming up with an answer that is close to the actual answer can help you save a lot of time.
Plugging in and backsolving are a few of the other techniques that will help you solve question quickly and efficiently. Do not spread yourself too thin by trying to learn a slew of different concepts at once.
Focus on a couple of areas and become relatively good at them. Learn the basics and approach problems at the easy to medium level. You may even want to segment geometry in the sense that you are focusing on one particular area, say triangles.
Learn the properties, and spend a day or two answering the easy to medium questions. On the other hand, do not spend two hours pulling your hair out over a difficult problem in which a triangle is inscribed in a circle and the explanation at the back of the Official Guide is leaving you flummoxed. You will come back to triangles — and other concepts of geometry — later.
Imagine you have a greenhouse, filled with a variety of plants: rhododendrons sit beside of marigolds, geraniums lounge next to chrysanthemums. What would happen if you only watered the geraniums? Well, the chrysanthemums and marigolds would wilt. But even the geraniums would not fare so well, glutted with too much water.
The different concepts on GMAT math are much like the different flowers in our imaginary greenhouse. You do not want to spend too much time on one concept, letting what you learned previously wilt, as it were. Nor, to continue the metaphor, do you want to overwater the same plants. Plants, just like the neural connections in our brains, need time to grow in between watering. A great way to do so is to work through the OG guides.
Concepts are scattered about randomly in both the Problem Solving and the Data Sufficiency sections. Skip these or try them anyways, as it is good to determine your weaknesses and strengths continuing the plant conceit — some plants need more water than do others.
This one is big—but is surprisingly oft overlooked. By doing mental math exercises multiplying, dividing, etc. Some of you might balk thinking that calculating in your brain is either a waste of time or, at best, a perilous route. However, like any skill, mental math is something that can be developed. By becoming adept at it you will move much faster through the test than you would furiously scribbling on the pad GMAT provides. Anyhow, writing numbers down hardly ensures that you will avoid making calculation errors.
Pay attention to what you learn. One small thing you incidentally found out o be true or false during your preparation could be the difference between a and a score. Better than gym motivation: "GMAT is a difficult test, it will try and beat you down, but you have to get back on your feet.
There are folks who score with a one-month study. I knew I was not one of them. I knew I had to grind it out and do it the hard way. Every day, slowly but steadily I would chip away. Try to constantly move ever higher up the score ladder. Practise every day, but do not be satisfied with what you reach. More practice will inevitably lead to higher scores. Not only do you have to learn to take it easy on yourself with the actual scores, you got to learn to manage your time-induced stress.
This is important. Try to give your best in the allotted time. With practice, you'll start scoring higher in the same time frame. Deadline frustration, however, will lead you to nowhere. Besides, there's plenty of that in the office. Speaking of pros, there is a certain way you must approach the course to get the best of it. Make detailed notes, ask questions, write an email, identify your weaknesses, set a prep-plan. Basically, you first have to learn how to learn.
Now, this comes from a prep centre, so surely, they'll say that, but truthfully, these kinds of courses really can make the difference between a mediocre score and a stellar one. Consider a prep course, no matter what. In the end, Taking it or not, is your decision. It's quite simple, really.
This comes from someone who aimed for a type of business school and got it. You could say their solution is quite practical indeed: instead of trying to cover a broad amount of questions, focus on the ones you know you can score more.
You know, "I'm bad with numbers, I should become a writer", kind of solution. Do not, ever, get into the vicious spiraling mindset of "What if I answered that super-easy question incorrectly? When it comes to the test itself, you must be absolutely resolute.
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