Hi Experts,
This is very unlucky tragedy happening with me, I am in urgent need of your advice.
I am a software engineer working for a good MNC Accenture in India, having 3 year of experience. B tech in ECE, 8.1/10 GPA, good in quant, poor in verbal.
7th september (today): Purchased Official exam pack 1 and today attempted GMATprep Mock 3 scored 540(44, 21) feeling dressed, mad, clueless
.
My exam is in 6 days on
12th sept, I dont know what should I do.
I studied daily from feb month almost effective 6 hours daily mostly 3.5 hours of it effectively.
I have exhausted all my study materials. wasted lot of money buying mocks series and courses, given a sufficient time and even priority to GMAT.
I dont know what to do now preparation time: 7 months
daily hours: 3.5 hours effectively out of 5 hours daily.
Past Exams scores: once rejected for not having passport, 2nd time score 500
Past GMATprep score: practice exam 1= 610 and practice exam 2=630.
upcoming Exam 12th sept: feeling depressed so see my mock marks 540
Number of question I end of getting wrong in my most of mocks:
quant 8-14 questions
Verbal 14-20 questions
Score (excluding GMATprep which is drastically low in comparison) got 660 it includes(Manhattan, Varitas, 800scores, Kaplan, Economist)
I started my preparation in the month of Feb 2013. I gave free mock from Economist Gmat and scored 550(40,25)
I was pretty comfortable solving Math than English, so I figured out that verbal need more attention while maths need little.
28Feb: To kick start my preparation I purchased Economist Course for Rs 28000. I finished my preparation in 3 months and attempted is 3 mocks scored 530, 550, 560, 580.
Felt sad that that I could not score 600 even.
8May: I started reading
Manhattan books, read verbal PDFs, finished all 3 books, found SC easy than rest.
I attempted few 6 mocks from Manhattan, got 500, 520, 540, 540, 530. I found maths tough and verbal as usual a hard nut to crack.
My friends told me that Math marks I can ignore as Manhattan has the hardest of all Quant and just concentrate on Verbal.
28May: I registered for my exam for 30 June, same day purchased
e-gmat verbal course and started preparing. Mid june I attempted first official Mock and score 610(46,27) felt better but my target was 700 so tied up laces to prepare next 10 days before exam. Last day before exam I attempted my 2nd Official mock and score 630, felt like lets see in exam only.
30th june: I arrived at the test center and they asked me my Passport, I said was that mentioned in any of you website or email, they said for India it is mandatory. I was about to cry
in the testing center itself, I requested them to reschedule or something, they said I have to again register for a date. For a moment I thought, Ok let it be I will prepare more and thn give my Exam.
I registered my exam for 4th Aug.
Purchased
magoosh course: attempted all 500 questions and got 350 around correct in 1st go.
Revised
e-gmat course fully, purchased Kaplan mock series and scored in 3 mocks 750, 750,750. even after doing so many wrongs. felt confused I doubted the algorithm.
I got 800score free mock got free with
e-gmat course, I attempted mocks the story was same Q ranged 42-48, Verbal 24-29 and score ranged from 580-660.
I did a reset to previous attempted official mock and reattempted, got 580 and 580 instead of doing wrong 12 questions in quant and 16 questions in Verbal.
4th Aug: Found quant too simple, Verbal kind of easy, while giving my exam my system got a restart but exam started with the same question.In the end when I saw the score the earth just moved from beneath, shocked to see I got 500.
same day I registered for 12th Sept felt mad at myself
slapped myself and gave myself some alone time to think what I was missing.
I figured out that:
1. Quant was not tough but in most of the mocks marks ranged from 48-50, so need to prepare less for it.
2. Verbal section is always missing speed, end up not attempting 4-5 question: always SC is 70% correct CR is 60% correct, RC is 40% correct so need to be focused on CRs and RCs.
Purchased Varitas mock series 6mocks: Qant score range was 48-51, verbal 29-31 felt better but overall score was 660 around in all these mocks.
Purchased Official exam pack and today attempted GMATprep Mock 3 scored 540(44, 21) feeling dressed, mad, clueless
.
My exam is in 6 days on
12th sept, I dont know what should I do.
I studied daily from feb month almost effective 6 hours daily mostly 3.5 hours of it effectively.
I have exhausted all my study materials. wasted lot of money buying mocks series and courses, given a sufficient time and even priority to GMAT.