I completed 2 month study plan and took foundation quizzes. My score was (Arithmetic: 29/49, Algebra: 28/36, Coordinate Geometry: 27/38, Geometry: 37/44, DA-1: 22/30, DA-2: 30/41). Then I had gone through I’m Overwhelmed plan for my weak sections and scored in tickbox quizzes (Arithmetic: 77/90, Coordinate geometry: 57/68, DA: 44/69). Now, I need advice for what should I do next. I should move forward to strategies or I should work more on Foundation?
Take #1 for each category in Quant Fundamentals Quizzes - GregMat and post your results here.
I attempt them once previously which feels like ages ago so I’ll take them again and revert my scores here.
If you haven’t done #2, one option is to do that instead.
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Arithmetic - 67%, Algebra - 58%
Sounds like you need to review foundation again then.
Actually, I tracked that my main weakness which is not reading questions properly. Same happens in these quizzes because after submitting the quiz I tried to solve the questions which I did wrong and I did them correctly (without watching solutions). Particularly in Algebra quiz I did 6 wrong and 4 of them I correctly solve them.
Well the quiz is untimed so that isn’t a good excuse. The advice remains the same.
Fair enough.
Well the advice is for arithmetic and algebra? Because I didn’t attempt the other topics quiz yet.
You can try the other quizzes if you like, but the evidence we have suggests that your foundation as a whole doesn’t look good.
No I will like not to ruin other quizzes for the sake of my future practices. My only point of saying this because starting from scratch second time for every topic required a lot of time and I have less then 2 months now.
I completed the Algebra section again of I am Overwhelmed plan and gave both flashcard quiz and I got 66% in it.
Sounds like a review would be a good idea - we prefer scores at least 75-80%.
Again review?
Yes, as your foundation isn’t sufficient. I’ll also have @gregmat comment to see if he thinks otherwise.
Yeah, I would go through the I’m Overwhelmed Plan again (or for the first time). Once that foundation is really strong, you can move on to strategies and problem-solving.
The thing is that I have one weakness (silly calculation mistake) even I know the correct way to do it. And Greg I already did Algebra 3 times (Once in 2 month study plan and twice in I am overwhelmed plan).
In my opinion, if that were your only mistake, your quant foundation scores would be much higher. Whenever we ask someone to take quant foundation quizzes, we give them “all the time in the world.” We say they can’t look anything up or cheat, but we don’t time them. So in theory you could look over every question ten times before submitting the quiz.