Hello everyone
I'm writing rather disappointed because of what happened.
I studied for 4 full months in 2017-2018 (Mid November 2017 - Mid March 2018). Then, I stopped till November 2018 when I started again until monday.
I've been scoring 660+ (in veritas and in every single free gmat mock test). I even scored 660 and 680 in the official mocks. That's why I was expecting a similar score on gmat, but to my astonishment, I only received a 630 (Q43 V34).
I really don't know what happened.
First off, I started with Verbal. I got so nervous that I was literally stucked almost 1-2 minutes looking at questions without even understading anything from them, but even so the verbal score was decent (the minimum that I expected). Then, I continued with the Quant section, which I thought I was crushing (I didnt get nervous. I was super relaxed). Many questions were really tough in the middle of the exam, but then I saw a Q43.
To tell you the truth, Quant was my stronger side. I was getting really good scores in Veritas (Q49), in
gmatclub tests and in the official ones (at least q48).
The 630 score is not useful for me as I want to apply for top mba programs.
I was thinking about studying from
MGMAT and OGs... As I noticed almost 3 weeks before my exam that
MGMAT provides strategies tailored made to avoid stupid mistakes, which I used to make (4 or 3 every test). If you can provide me any suggestions on this, I will be glad. Please, consider that I will start studying in November, so I will have to start over again.
A little bit of background. I've been studying from
Magoosh,
Advanced Quant from
MGMAT,
PowerScore CR bible,
Powerscore RC bible, OGs 2018, LSAT RCs and LRs and an economist journal subscription. I would like to note that I first started in 2017, studying from
MGMAT, which I then stopped using as all the strategies developed to avoid silly mistakes seemed to be useless to me ( too much time to make a chart, but well, now I know what's the value of those strategies....). Regarding the tests, I used the official free ones, veritas ones and many free gmat tests.
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