Suggestions on Improving GMAT Score (Assessment Report Incl)

[andy.wy.tam]

MGMAT team,

Do you guys have any suggestions as to how I can improve on my Quant GMAT score? From the looks of it, I should be focusing on Inequalities, Geometry, Lin. Eqn's Alg, and Data Suff on those topics right?

Do you experts have any other advice on what to focus on, and specifically what to do? I've been going over the incorrect answers on my CAT's and understand them, however seem to find that I forget them afterwards during the test... perhaps its a matter of doing the same questions every few days? My test is scheduled for May 2, just under one month left to go...

Any feedback is greatly appreciated - thanks MGMAT (and other forum members!)

Please see assessment reports below:









Here are my verbal reports the case that you have time to analyze and give some feedback as well:

[StaceyKoprince]

The images are not showing for me; you may just need to type in the relevant info. Basically, make your case by citing the data you used to draw your conclusions.

This article describes how to analyze our CATs:
http://tinyurl.com/analyzeyourcats

If you didn't already use that, take a look before you post again. In particular, that article has you focusing on your low-hanging fruit, not (necessarily) your biggest weaknesses. (This is a mistake a lot of people make.)

Next, on your comment that you understand the mistakes you're making, but later forget and make them again: this is because you're just telling yourself "oh, it should have been this, not that" but you're not actually fixing whatever the problem was in the first place.

If you have some bad habit that's leading to careless mistakes, you have to build a new, better habit in its place that minimizes the chances of making that mistake.

If you are making a mistake with some fact, rule, formula, or calculation, then you'll need to make flash cards or use some other memory device to memorize anything that needs to be memorized, and you'll need to keep coming back to that thing repeatedly over the course of a couple of weeks to imprint it in long-term memory.

If you are not using the best solution path (eg, you could test cases, but you keep trying to do the algebra), then you need to explicitly study how to know when you can use the alternative strategies, and then you need to practice those strategies until you feel comfortable with them. Don't just try them on the hardest questions (another mistake a lot of people make). Learn how to use those test-taking strategies on easier to medium questions first, then work your way up to the hardest ones.

Etc. Basically, you have to look at why you're getting something wrong or making the same mistakes (even when you think you understand) and figure out what you can do to combat the specific "why." (And don't forget that, on some questions, you're going to decide "I'm always going to get this wrong, so I just want to get it wrong fast."

Take a look at this:
http://tinyurl.com/2ndlevelofgmat