gmat tomorrow--any advice?
Any last words of advice from you fellow monkeys?
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take 100mg of adderall.
In the event you start to panic, just think of this:
haha great, great stuff.
1) Take the full breaks 2) Answer every question 3) Ask for extra dry erase sheets well before you run out 4) Crush it 5) MBA 6) PROFIT
Take today off.
Keep on pace as you work through the test...You shouldn't be spending 3+ minutes on any one problem.
Hopefully you have a decent template for the essays - don't waste too much brainpower on them, and save your energy for the rest of the test.
Rest well tonight and good luck!
thanks for the advice guys..
Im right at 700 for my practices so its just a matter of bringing my A game on test day. Really hard to not keep studying today but i do want to keep my brain fresh as cinnamon suggested.
My only worry is keeping my full concetration for 4 hours straight, shouldnt be much worse than work though i guess haha
Good luck man, It sounds like you put in the prep work. The test should take care of itself.
Seriously, get a lot of sleep and relax. Maybe do some light exercise. Don't do what I did- stay up late, cram and then feel like you're going to fall asleep 3/4 of the way through the test. You're not going to learn anything now that you haven't already.
Really though, just relax - I just took the GMAT last Friday and scored a 730, you can definitely do the same. Take the day before as a personal day, I just sat in bed and watched Mad Men all day long. The morning before do some mid-level problems of whatever section you have the most trouble with (for me this was DS, Number Properties, and Word Translations). I also made a 2-page cheat sheet with all the formulas to review before the test.
Take 3 deep breaths before you start each section, and make SURE not to drink any liquids for like 3 hours before you take the test (you don't want to have to take any bathroom breaks). Also make sure to write out a timing chart if you don't already during your breaks/before you start. For the math have two columns - the number of minutes left, and the questions you need to have finished. 75 - 0, 65 - 5, 55 - 10, etc.
You'll do fine, just remember if it seems like your really fucking up (I thought I was bombing the Quant.) your probably doing really well - just how the test is designed.
GMAT Re-take tomorrow. Help! (Originally Posted: 03/25/2013)
Hello everyone,
Tomorrow I am retaking my GMAT at 4:00PM PST
Took a CAT last week, got 660 q44 v36 Took another CAT an hour ago after some major studying (both GMAT Prep) and got 660 q44 v37. I am pretty good with verbal, and at the end of my CATs the computer was throwing brutal SC (my strongest area) problems at me.
Do you guys have any tips for me? I have from now (7PM PST) to 4PM PST to get anything else done.
My weakest area is probably Number Properties, followed closely by functions and general algebra.
Thank you very much guys
Any prep you do now will probably just set you back. It is highly unlikely that you will learn anything new within the next few hours. If you still do not understand some of the quantitative sections, have a look at Khan Academy or the MGMAT books.
Yeah. You're just panicking if you're on this forum talking about it. I felt the same way also in my first exam. There is nothing you can do to really improve your score now. Just go in to the test center with your head up and try to own it.
Thank you!
You should probably just relax.
Regards
Sorry but if your verbal scores are 35-37 you are not "pretty good with verbal". Bumping your verbal score is the easiest thing to do, if you pulled that up to a 42/43 you would have around a 700. Review your SC strategies since thats about the only thing you could improve upon in 1 night.
Thank you for the tips everyone.
I just got back from the test center. Bummed out.
640 (q41 v35)
Looks like one more try!
Summary of GMAT:
Attempt 1: 500 (q35 v23) 6 weeks ago Attempt 2: 640 (q41 v35)
Shooting for the magic 7!
I reccommend you take a break unless you're applying this year. Some time for reflection will help you analyze your study program and put things in perspective. I recommend Thursdays with Ron videos. They will help you analyze harder quant and verbal problems, and hopefully help to raise your score.
If you have a ton of time, I'd maybe go through some LSAT prep materials. The CR (called LR on the LSAT) and RC are significantly harder on the LSAT so if you get good at those, the GMAT questions will be cake. For SC, internalize the SC MGMAT guide and do a ton of problems from the OG and verbal guides.
For the quant, definitely get the MGMAT guides if you haven't yet. Go through them, internalize the concepts, take notes, etc. Do OG problems and some hard problems from the MGMAT Advanced Quant book or from the GMATPrep question pack or from GMATClub. The questions they ask you when you're in the 49-51 range of questions on the test are different from and a bit more tricky than what you get in the OG book.
Most of all, keep a log of the questions you got wrong and make sure you thoroughly understand how to do them.
I would suggest to NOT follow that advice. If you spend five minutes Googling, you will see that many GMAT experts argue that you should NOT use LSAT materials to prep for the GMAT.
I would suggest just going through the MGMAT guides and then Googling "Chineseburned AWA" and clicking on the first link and reading that guide for AWA. If you are reasonably intelligent, which you score improvement suggests you are, that should be enough to break 700.
what do people recommend for quant prep? on all my practice tests i'm getting much lower on quant than verbal - which is not good...
That is actually very good. In my opinion. quant is a lot easier to improve on than verbal. The MGMAT books are great. If you need a 51Q, check out Jeff Sackman's materials too.
gmat tomorrow (Originally Posted: 03/30/2011)
Any last words of encouragement? Thanks :)
"Hold on to your butts."
Be extremely critical of whatever is said in the analytical writing section. But even if you get perfect on this section (as I did), it doesn't affect your overall score.
Other than that, relax. There's not much you can do to change your result now.
Relax...you are prepared! Best of luck!
Good luck.
Kill it bro!
stress will do nothing but hurt your performance. relax and rock it.
Confidence is everything.
Thanks guys! will let you know how i do.
Relax and good luck!
be the gmat, danny
The hell are you doing on WSO? You're supposed to be unwinding and doing brush-up problems just to "warm up your engine."
Well, how'd it go?
Are you kicking yourself, saying "I didn't do enough damn problems!" as I was after the test?
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