Hello everybody, I sat for GMAT about two weeks ago and got a disappointing 650. I read about many other people who had similar expiriences but I thought I was immune to this. The most disappointing part is that I completely failed the quantitative part (q39) and did fairly well on verbal (40).
Coming out of the exam I reached certain conclusions that I want to share with others.
First and foremost, ever since I started my preparation in early August I have had a laser focus on quant (which was about q39 back then). More than half a year of preparation did not reflect. But to be honest the exam didnt really reflect my abilities in all respects. The reason is I prepared for all the major concepts such as r/s/w, probabilities, combinations, sets and other major topics but a vast majority of the questions I recieved were algebra and arithmetics, with a few simple major topics. and to be honest I didnt feel I was making a mistake but when easy questions kept recurring I knew it had flopped big time.
so my second round of preparation I will focus first of all on all gmat arithmetic and algebra questions and focus more on 600-650 level questions to increase my accuracy to near 100%. I know realize that I should have listened more to people who post here and focus on medium level questions more.
as for my verbal I increased it in a month from 30ish to solid 40 (all prep mocks were 40) by:
SC: practiced and analyzed the answers
CR: Powerscore CR
RC: LSAT videos and different tips and of course by getting myself acquainted with the major text topics (cosmology, history and so on)
I hope that this is useful to some of you
Will retake soon and write again