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17 Oct 2009, 15:21
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Today was a disaster, took the first MGMAT and got my behind handed back to me.
MGMAT#1: 630 (Q43, V33)
Quant misses: 20 misses (10 in a row, towards the end.) More on this later.
Verbal: 19 misses. (6 each in SC & RC, 7 in CRs.)
Q: Started of slow on quant, and a few problems in the middle took away a lot of my time, around 20 mins on 5-6 problems...this made me panic towards the end. At some point I was left with about 20 problems with 24 mins left. Normally, I do quant problems under a min and ½, with about 92% hit rate. But this test brought me down to earth.
V: I knew that I had already messed up quant, so never had the fire to get things 'right.' I finished the verbal section, with 15 mins to spare, and that pretty much sums it up.
Lessons learned: Pace yourself!
MGMAT#1: 630 (Q43, V33)
Quant misses: 20 misses (10 in a row, towards the end.) More on this later.
Verbal: 19 misses. (6 each in SC & RC, 7 in CRs.)
Q: Started of slow on quant, and a few problems in the middle took away a lot of my time, around 20 mins on 5-6 problems...this made me panic towards the end. At some point I was left with about 20 problems with 24 mins left. Normally, I do quant problems under a min and ½, with about 92% hit rate. But this test brought me down to earth.
V: I knew that I had already messed up quant, so never had the fire to get things 'right.' I finished the verbal section, with 15 mins to spare, and that pretty much sums it up.
Lessons learned: Pace yourself!
17 Oct 2009, 22:29
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Sometimes it is a real frustration to see a score much lower than your target score. But I would suggest NOT to get over thrown with the lower score. Many say that MGMAT is much harder than GMAT(especially in Quant). So don't get crarried away with lower quant. Do consider MGMAT CATs as a practice CATs, go thru their explanations for every answer. You will learn a lot of tips on how to solve similar type of questions.
One other thing to mention - (but not to discourage you) is that you might be scoring good scores in GMATPrep. But there can be many factors contributing to it - couple of hard questions might already have been solved by you, you already know the explanations for some of the questions by going thru the explanations in the forums - so it was easy to pick up the ans, and also the exam environment setup that you had such as are you frequently taking breaks, did you do the whole exam following perfect timings etc. If any of these are happening, then better don't get carried away that you are fully preparaed for the exam.
So I would suggest, MGMAT CATs are good predictors(assuming there is +/- 50 deviation) to find all your weak areas that you can improve in the coming days.
Happy preparation.
One other thing to mention - (but not to discourage you) is that you might be scoring good scores in GMATPrep. But there can be many factors contributing to it - couple of hard questions might already have been solved by you, you already know the explanations for some of the questions by going thru the explanations in the forums - so it was easy to pick up the ans, and also the exam environment setup that you had such as are you frequently taking breaks, did you do the whole exam following perfect timings etc. If any of these are happening, then better don't get carried away that you are fully preparaed for the exam.
So I would suggest, MGMAT CATs are good predictors(assuming there is +/- 50 deviation) to find all your weak areas that you can improve in the coming days.
Happy preparation.
19 Oct 2009, 11:56
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Hi Msmarthi, Thanks for the feedback.
No, that score didn't really discouraged me that much. To be very honest I think deserved it, specially for the quant section I underestimated it. The problems weren't too difficult, but my time-management was. So far pacing has never been an issue with me, specially in quant...so I was just tagging along, then all of a sudden I realise that I have only 24 mins for 20 problems, and that pretty much ended my test right there.
Regarding the GMATPrep test, when I re-took the #1 I decided that I will penalize myself 2 mins for every repeat problem I see. And in the test I had very few, like 2-3 in each section...and I still missed all the repeats but one.
Anyways, as you have suggested I do plan on taking the MGMATs more as a 'learning' experience than for actual scoring. I'm going to save the GMATPrep 2 for that, which I plan to do along with the AWA probably 2 days before the real test.
No, that score didn't really discouraged me that much. To be very honest I think deserved it, specially for the quant section I underestimated it. The problems weren't too difficult, but my time-management was. So far pacing has never been an issue with me, specially in quant...so I was just tagging along, then all of a sudden I realise that I have only 24 mins for 20 problems, and that pretty much ended my test right there.
Regarding the GMATPrep test, when I re-took the #1 I decided that I will penalize myself 2 mins for every repeat problem I see. And in the test I had very few, like 2-3 in each section...and I still missed all the repeats but one.
Anyways, as you have suggested I do plan on taking the MGMATs more as a 'learning' experience than for actual scoring. I'm going to save the GMATPrep 2 for that, which I plan to do along with the AWA probably 2 days before the real test.
Realised that Verbal is NOT a piece of cake for Non - Native English speaking people. 
