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16 Sep 2005, 08:44
I've just had something to eat, as I missed a meal somewhere today.
The first few questions on the quant seemed too easy, I must have been practising on much harder questions than that. The vast majority of the quant questions were very standard and doable in the time allotted. One or two hard and time consuming polynomial and fraction expansion questions. A couple of geometry questions were tricky, although that has always been my weakest area, so they may only have been tough for me. The combinatorial nCr questions were straight forward, much easier than the ones we have here.
The verbal was much tougher, but I expected that, and it is true for all that even very good people make a few mistakes. I really struggled on one of the four-questions-in-a-row reading comprehension sections. I sometimes lose morale on them, if they don't interest me ! Sentence correction was pretty standard, but there were two or three where I had to guess between two options which had no obvious errors in. I find that hard, particularly if A is one of the plausible options, as it gets lodged in my mind.
I had 12-13 minutes spare on both sections, so the timing was good. I only took one quick toilet break, as I wanted to get on before I ran out of brain fuel. I decided not to drink during the break, or eat within 3 hours of the test, as I don't like the risk of being sick or needing the toilet too much (which has caused me problems in other tests). I think I was perhaps a bit tired and hungry towards the end of the verbal, which is the trade-off. There were a couple of verbal questions I guessed at after 2 minutes, when I had a little bit of spare time from other quick questions.
I think I got enough that I won't retake, even though the verbal looks slightly weaker. With say V40 rather than V38, I would be absolutely delighted tonight. But it's pretty close.