560 mock to +600 pls help

Hi arielo,

Many Test Takers spend 3 months (or more) of consistent study time before they hit their 'peak' scores. Based on your answer, it's unclear how long you've actually been studying (it's in the range of 1.5 to 2.5 months) and how consistently you've studied during that time. If you've been studying for less than 2 months, then you might naturally improve over time. If it's closer to 2.5 months though, then "your way" of studying might not lead to any significant improvement.

With your current Test Date, you have about 4 weeks of study time remaining - and you could certainly pick up the necessary points in that time to hit your score goal. However, you'll have to make some significant changes to how you 'see' (and respond to) this Test, which will mean that you'll need to focus on learning and practicing some new Tactics.

I have a few questions about how you took these CATs:

1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Thanks again EMPOWERgmatRichC , these are the answers for the questions:


1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)? I'm not making Essays in the CAT
2) Did you take them at home? yes at home
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as your Official GMAT? same hour ,one CAT every 10 days
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)? I take the normal breaks that the CAT indicates
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE? all the CATS are new for me no repetition

hope this could work!!!

thanks

Hi arielo,

Test Day is a rather specific 'event' - the details are specific and they matter, so you have to train as best as you can for all of them. The more realistic you can make your CATs, the more likely the score results are to be accurate. The more you deviate, the more "inflated" your scores can become - and that's likely what happened here. By skipping sections and taking the CATs at home, you're making the Exam shorter and easier than it will be on Test Day. By extension, you have not been properly training for the FULL GMAT 'experience' and these scores are likely not completely accurate. If your actual ability level is closer to a 500, then you will likely need another 2 months of consistent, guided study to hit your score goal.

1) Do you have the flexibility to push back your Test Date?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Good to know that I have to take all the CAT test .Also do you mean I should need to present the CAT in other place different than home?
And regarding the real test ,I do not think I could push back the test , I have to talk with the university whether I can send the test score later.

thanks again

Hi arielo,

There are a variety of aspects to Test Day that you have to consider - and the more of them that you can incorporate into your practice, the better trained you should be to handle Test Day. For example, you will have to get dressed, leave your home and travel (for a certain length of time) to the Test Center - where you will take the Exam in a strange room surrounded by people who will be making a certain amount of noise. If you take your CATs at your home, then you will NOT be preparing to face ANY of these aspects of Test Day. This is meant to say that performing at your best on the Official GMAT will require that you try to 'mirror' as many aspects of Test Day as possible during your practice.

Training for the GMAT is probably unlike any type of studying that you've done before - and all of that work takes time (it cannot be 'rushed' through). If your score goal is an 'absolute' (meaning that you cannot accept anything less than that score), then an application deadline isn't relevant. If you cannot apply without that score, then doing the necessary work to earn that score IS the priority (even if that means that you have to apply to School at a later time).

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Well thanks for the advice EMPOWERgmatRichC , I'll try to change re-schedule test and change how I'm presenting the test.

Let's see what happen. I'll let you know