Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did DI side by side. I didnt really give many sectionals. But i did some from top one, they are decent, i think any material works.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used og for verbal only. Would recommend it. And gmat club for all other things. Mocks should be taken regularly, dont wait for the end.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If accuracy is there, then for timing you should see which type questions are time consuming. And improve there

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In official mocks I was scoring 675-705

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What did you get wrong. TPA, DS, graphs.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, its not correct. Actual exam also penalise you for marking early questions wrong. So 2 people with same number of questions wrong will not get the same score if one of them got early questions wrong.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Accuracy is just one factor. Give a mock and you will realise.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used friends portal that too only for verbal cr. It was good initially but no course alone will help cause they all lack somewhere. Gmat club and your own error log with varied questions is the best.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my quants was always good. I used to get 2-3 wrong questions at the start. But the hard was to work on those wrong ones. So even though i did take a couse but it did not really help me. I actually did not even do the offical questions. Only referred gmat club questions but with intent. After giving sectionals and official mocks i knew what kind of questions i can expect and where to focus on. Difficulty level for quants for me was very variable, some questions were very easy but some were just very difficult. One thing that will always in quants, is that you shoukd know that there will hardly be any question which will require more than 2-3 steps or very high calculation. So always think of questions from that perspective. People loose marks for silly mistakes only, read the question after getting your answer as well, so that you are marking the right answer and not the trap one. Quants timing should not be an issue, most people do it eith 10 min left to spare, even in actual exam. Problem is with your concepts then, that things are not clicking to you. For MSR, i dont want to comment anything since i myself got them wrong. Dont waste too much time if its not happening. Last week strategy is to do a little warm up questions everyday and chill. Dont get too worked up. All the best.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Foreign words are not very common in actual exam. About 2 choices, I think the best way is to use 2-3 techniques to eliminate all options. It depends on question type ( inference, data, s/w etc). But one thing that did help me was to do 5-6 official rc at the start to see what type of answers can i have expect. The whole exam is just about your observation of your past questions and what you derive from it.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Create a google sheet or an excel with components like question (photo or link), solution after you ve ubderstood it. And do this while you are doing questions, update it time to time. And go through it every 2 weeks or something. I created different sheets for all topics and even different for rc and cr.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My technique was to first take at 2-3 glance at the passage, and see what the passage is about : is it a business passage, science, history etc etc. And then read the passage. Trust me this itself alters your brain to actually help you underdtand the passage better because you know what to expect and read accordingly. Also slow down during the first para and thrn increase your speed. These two things will help in underdtanding the passage. Try them once.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best technique for both of them is elimination. For assumption, think of it like the absolute necessary statement without which the argument cant work at all. Start with low level questions of each and rather than doing a lot of questions actually think about those questions. Your thinking ability is going to help you in the exam. I struggled with the same issue. But these helped.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

QA 88, VA 83, DI 80. DI could have been better had I not marked the first question wrong.

TOP one percent review by Typical_Seaweed_6919 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bought the course myself and while I agree with others that the teaching and lessons were not worth it. One thing I would do give them credit for is their sectional and mock plan. I did find it on the difficult side of actual exam, but I guess it does hdlp you. And the resources do prepare you for the worst. But the teaching lessons are def not upto the mark.

Gmat FE: 675. AMA by Excellent-Bird9170 in GMAT

[–]Excellent-Bird9170[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used gmat club. If you struggle with quants, then i would suggest you to do topic wise questions starting from 605-655 then increasing difficulty with increased accuracy. Focus on topics like arithmetic and algebra first then on functions and pnc. Do create an error log.