Hi Rich,
You are right in everything you said.
Unfortunately my last 2 weeks were plagued with doctor appointments. I guess my illness didn't really help either with both studying and getting a good score !
But I am ramping up the pace and tweaking my strategy. Until now I just did all the PS problems from the
OG.
My plan is to:
- work on word problems (Engineering didn't really train me very well for very "fatty" in text word problems)
- attack verbal since I have defficiencies there
- keep PS in the background
Rich, I just wanted to say that your insights are very good. I really appreciate the time you took to reply to my post.
Sergiu
EMPOWERgmatRichC wrote:
Hi Sergiu,
The GMAT is remarkably good at giving you the score that you EARN. From what you've described, you haven't been approaching your studies in a particularly serious way (if you truly 'slacked' and didn't put in much study time over the last month, then this score isn't much of a surprise). The funny thing is that a 580 is so close to a 600+ that you could have very easily scored at that level on this CAT (but you haven't trained enough to earn those missing points).
Since it's been a month since your original post, and your two CAT scores are almost the same, you might want to rethink how you've been studying so far. It sounds like it's time to make some adjustments to your study plans.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich