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firstly my online experience( only with the conduct not the score) was really good. Lately I read lots of negative feedbacks of online GMAT interface but my experience was very smooth.

Now to my score. I m perplexed 🤔 what happened to me.

Just a background run how prepared I was before my attempt
My mocks score ranges from 620 t0 670.
My verbal was 32-38
My quant was 40-46

I know that's not very good but the point is I had no pblm in understanding any of the question which unfortunately I was unable to during my exam.

So actually what happened......

As soon as I saw the first question ( verbal-quant-IR-AWA) I was not able to process a single word.

I m devastated not because I got questions wrong but because I was not able to process the questions at all inspite of reading on n on.

I am really unable to understand my problem.

This was my second attempt same thing happened to me in my first attempt which was also online.

My first half of exam is bad.
Last time I gave quant first and had same experience I was unable to solve a simple sets problem, simple means what I had to do was to put the formula and get the answer, but my brain just froze.

I need to get an answer for this problem.

All my efforts went in vain.
I missed my deadline
My another year got waste
My family is feeling bad

I am having so many mixed emotions that standing up again seems difficult.

Though I won't give up until I go through this(GMAT) beast.


What I m planning to do is to give another attempt in couple of months ofcourse it will be offline and will attempt IR and AWA first and then other two sections.

But I am really scared of what if I suffered from same kind of brain dead experience.

Please help me to sort it out.
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What was your section break up in this last attempt? and what was it in the previous attempt?

You first need to figure out whether the problem is actually psychological or is it just nerves. We all have nerves and we take time to settle in. If feeling very agitated, I advise my students to take a min away from the screen, close their eyes and breathe deeply. This is not a waste of time but instead helps relax and perform better going forward.

If your Verbal this time and Quant last time actually suffered exceptionally, then you can visit a psychologist to discuss how to deal with the "freeze response" of the brain. Knowing how to handle it effectively will give you more confidence and that itself would lead to a less severe freeze response.