GMAT Scores going down

[mailsunild]

Hi,
   
I will give GMAT on 30th of May and preparing since 3 months. The below are my online CAT scores that I took from KAPLAN & MANHATTAN. The scores especially Quant score is dropping; I am worried and need your help in prepping in RIGHT way in the next 20 days...
Percentile
Date Prep Co. Q V TTL Score
22-Apr-12 KAPLAN-2 79% 48% 76% 640
25-Apr-12 PREP -1 620
29-Apr-12 MGMAT-1 73% 81% 86% 660
01-May-12 KAPLAN-3 70% 53% 75% 630
06-May-12 KAPLAN-5 59% 78% 75% 630
08-May-12 MGMAT-2 52% 89% 80% 640
10-May-12 KAPLAN-6 53% 64% 66% 600

I have access to another 4 MGMAT CAT and 3 KAPLAN tests, and ofcourse 2 GMAT PREP. I took off from work and planned to do all the CATs on alternate days. Should I reduce the number of CATS/limit to ONLY MGMAT/ONLY KAPLAN.

Simultaneouly, I am working on my weak areas and putting a lot of efforts. It is really disheartening to see the scores going down (By the way, does the difficulty of Question pool change in subsequent CAT)

Thanks in advance..
Sunil

[bradfordcastro]

I'm having the exact same problem! My math used to usually be around 75-90% (I've taken a total of 8 CATS), now it's around 60% (past 2)... on the other hand my verbal has gone from about 50% to 90%.

One thing I think is that I'm stressed and making a few basic mistakes by misreading things/miscalculating things (however, this isn't accounting for all of my errors). I've made a couple mistakes doing basic math, say I get 43 and 40, i might write down 93 by accident. This is partly a result of my timing, I've noticed that as I got better, my timing got worse, because I'd be working on harder problems for longer. So, take this as a sort-of answer, as I haven't found a solution. I guess the best thing to do will be to try to relax somehow, I'm having trouble doing this myself. Luckily I have until Saturday. Additionally, I think a bit of this is that I'm thinking too much about the procedure rather than the result; I'm pretty good at solving things unconventionally, whereas I think now I'm trying to remember what I've read too much - remember it's all about the answers! If you need to FORGET WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED - just think how you will get an answer. Finally, don't do anything today except go over some basic things you need memorized (for me, Friday I'm just going to have a sheet with basic things like special triangle ratios, common triangle sides, common squares, etc.).

anyone else's input would be appreciated

[khandelwal.arpit]

Sunil,How much did you score in the original Gmat?