[debitcash]

finished the cpa recently, thought i was done with these awful exams and was hit with the news recently that i must take the gmat to apply for school

ordered the 2017 official gmat book and flipped through the math portion,
not bad (if i was still in my prime high school years where i was a math genius) but here i am essentially six years removed and dont remember much

take away the calculator and put me into a significant time crunch (not to mention my cpa ptsd) i am at a complete loss.

firstly, i cannot go back and forth b/w questions so i must answer the question before moving on

what do i do if i am stuck?

how do i pace myself so i do not run out of time?

anybody have any quick tips or materials that i should reference?

exam is about 3 days away

i dont really have an issue with the verbal but the quant is killing me

helppp!

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[jeff]

I didn't study for the GMAT back in the day…I majorly bombed the qaunt (seriously…trig and crap like that)…scored a near-perfect on the verbal…and my MAcc advisor sat there staring at me in disbelief that I got in.

You'll be ok.

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS) | Another71 | NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE

[Scared-cpa]

Listen, if you can, take a short break before taking the GMAT if you finished the CPA exams recently. Your brain is not working at its prime and I promise you the GMAT will be much easier if you let your brain recuperate. I took the GMAT last August (2015) and it was NOTHING compared to these exams, so if you passed these you will breeze through the GMAT. I purchased the official GMAT book and thumbed through it. I “studied” it for 2 weeks between my summer and fall courses. By study, I mean looked at the material for a couple hours a day. I went in completely unprepared, sick with the flu, and still managed to get a score satisfactory to get into my graduate school. I can't remember what my score was at this point, but it was a normal score. Nothing unbelievable, but good enough to get me into most graduate programs. Let your brain rest for a week (or even two) and then study for the test a couple weeks and you will be fine. It is a far cry from the CPA exams, I promise you 🙂

[Stilgoin]

Buy the Kaplan book with the practice tests. It is 100x better than the official GMAT book. I studied for 3 days using those practice tests. I aced the verbal and did ok on the math. Also, at my school, the written communication meant nothing to my score, so I skipped it. See if your school puts any weight on that part because it will drain you before you even begin the real test. Many schools ignore it.

Good luck!

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[tcheney3]

Yeah three days away is way past being able to learn strategies and concepts. The GMAT is a comprehensive exam and every bit as difficult as one part of the CPA exam. I'll give you the best advice I can, but this should have been started earlier.

If you are stuck on a quant question and haven't made any progress on it after one minute, guess. Anything after a minute is wasted time. Remember you can guess on questions and not hurt your score that much, but you can't guess on multiple questions consecutively and recover.

Use the “yellow pad” method for timing. Separate each page of the yellow book into 4 sections like a graph chart, except the first page which has 5. Then write 64 mins on the first page and decrease by 8 for each page. If at the end of each page you aren't within 2 mins of that number guess on a question to catch up. DO NOT guess on more than one in a row.

Know your number properties and odd/even strategies.

I'm not sure what score you are trying to get, but if it's relatively high you are probably going to have to go back to study quant formulas. There are a lot of high scores on Quant from Indian born applicants so scoring in the high percentile is very, very difficult.

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[sulaiman]

Take GRE, much easier than GMAT & most business schools accept it

[debitcash]

i planned on applying to schools right after i was done with the exams
turned out i passed dec 16 of 2016

my schools deadline is jan 15
i could have either waited until the next window to apply (which would have been in august) and wasted 8 months of my life or crack down and slay this gmat with two solid weeks of “studying”.

im not as concerned about the other things like gpa and essays (because i think they are pretty good)

i am aiming for a 550? 570? 590? — essentially around there

nothing crazy like 650-700+

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BEC:76!
REG:71, TBD

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keep your cool

[debitcash]

thanks for your inputs so far!

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AUD:69, 63, 73, TBD
BEC:76!
REG:71, TBD

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keep your cool

[tcheney3]

If you are shooting for something in the 500's you should be good with two weeks.

BEC - 82
REG - 86
FAR - 85
AUD - 84 and I'm out!!!!!
Ethics - 95
In Skynet's Honor:
Act I: Shutdown Skynet and prevent Judgment Day.
Act II: Add a comma and three letters to my title.
Act III: Time Travel and marry a young Denise Richards (and prevent subsequent plastic surgery),return to present.
Act IV: Serve as Successor to Elon Musk as CEO of Tesla.
Act V: Ensure Judgment Day has been stopped. Utopia achieved.

[mitchvols]

I just did the practice exams they had online. I studied two days. Made around a 500. Not great, but good enough to get in the school I am in. I didn't even bother answering the essay questions because all applying for didn't need a score on them and told me they didn't count (all were instate programs, had no interest in Ivy League, etc). I scored higher on the real GMAT than the practice ones too.

[spsone07]

Rest your mind! Roll out of bed and just take the test. It's nothing to stress over, far less complicated than the CPA.

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