abhicoolmax wrote:
Please see my progress in my signature. After 2 weeks, since my last CAT test, I decided to take GMAT Prep today - at the same time as I am scheduled for the test - at 8AM, seriously who opens office at 8AM? (I had no choice!)
This messed up my body cycle, you know the normal morning routine. My stomach kept cramping during the Essay writing and early in the Quant section. Anyhow, I don't think that affected me as much as what happened next!
I OVER-STRATEGIZED quant. I felt like the GMAT Prep quant questions were relatively (to
MGMAT) very easy and I was finding answers in < 1 mins and sometimes < 30 secs. Then I started feeling as if I am missing some trick in these questions and started verifying my answers to EACH question. In turn, I wasted 30 secs-1min extra on each question; I don't remember any question that I had to change my answer after those 30 secs-1min. As a result, for the 1st time I reach the last question with ONLY 1 min remaining. I found the answer in 30 secs, and then started double checking and right when I was about to click end, the SECTION TIME-OUT before I could complete it. And I was like F', it will give me wrong analysis.
I tried hard but I could NOT get this feeling out of my mind when I went into verbal, and I just could NOT focus. I read 1st 3 question twice with full of disinterest and, guess what, I got all those 3 wrong
. Overall I had 15 incorrect, out of which 5 were in 1st 10 - moreover, I had already wasted a ton of time (25 mins) when I got to question 10. This affected my entire verbal section, as I could never recover from this decreased self-confidence! The result is obvious: 690 (q50, v31)
I am very sad right now. This morning, I was so confident to score somewhere close to 750, but FAILED miserably.
Any tips that would help me mentally stay at the same state throughout the tests: motivated, energized and determined? I think this story should be what NOT to do on the test day! :p I hope I witnessed the worst
Abhi chill maar!
690 is not a bad score - I too had a 710 on my GMATPrep. But the great thing is you caught your mistake! I too had the same fallacy. When I took the GMATPrep I found the quant too easy and it blew me off track. I made 5 really stupid mistakes because I was hard-pressed for time!
Verbal was also very bad 8 mistakes. My first 2 questions were SCs and I got both incorrect. Well I have read that mostly GMAT starts with 2 SCs before moving on to other sections. Why dont you post your detailed analysis - so we can discuss.
Also, now you know about GMATPrep Score - dont take any of it now! Exhaust all the other tests to build stamina and then come back to GMATPrep to get into the GMAT Mode - No non-standard- extra tough material - you wudnt believe whenever I see a variable say x, my mind immediately goes to fractions, negatives and zeros!!! But such complication is unnecessary.
Now try to solve all verbal questions, which you got incorrect, again in a more relaxed fashion and then see the answers! Then search for the same questions on
MGMAT Forums to understand each and every SC question!!!