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

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

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