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04 Sep 2020, 00:16
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Hi all,
I read a lot of debriefs and I thought to share my own experience. Sorry for the lengthy post. Badly need all your suggestions (Apologies if there are any mistakes, Its my first time)
I am a working individual. I used to spend 5hrs studying daily morning 3hrs and evening 2hrs, covering quant and verbal daily.
Took first mock in march from MGMAT-520(Q35, V26). Started my preparation in April by taking coaching from an institution. By mid-July I completed my coaching. In these 3&half months I solved OG, Quant review, Verbal Review, Manhattan Quant book.
In June 1st week, Gave GMAT Prep mock-1 580(Q50, V19) and I got very tensed with verbal. So I started studying MGMAT Guide SC as I heard great reviews about that.
I started taking mock weekly once in June. (My coaching institute provided me with Manhattan mocks)
MGMAT Mock 1 - 590 (Q44, V28)
MGMAT Mock 2 - 600 (Q44, V30)
MGMAT Mock 3 - 610 (Q41, V33)
MGMAT Mock 4 - 570 (Q40, V29)
I was very depressed with the MGMAT Mock 4 score, So I wanted to change the platform and took a E-gmat mock and scored 670(Q45, V36). It was a huge relief. I went through my mistakes after every mock and kept practicing the materials(600-700 and 700+ questions.) given by my faculty from coaching institute. Studied powerscore CR bible as I was very weak in CR.
I was unwell for 2 weeks and after that I continued my prep.
MGMAT Mock 5 - 650 (Q46, V33)
MGMAT Mock 6 - 620 (Q43, V32)
After completing Manhattan mocks, I did Advanced OG book. Completed Quant all 150 questions and verbal SC.
As I almost completed my preparation, I scheduled my exam for 03-09-2020.
In the mean while i practiced SC, CR and RC daily from GMAT club using tags. One day (I dont remember the date), Gmat club tests were free. So i took 2 quant tests (Q47, 46) and 1 verbal (V23)
GMAT PREP Mock 2 - 680 (Q50, V31) ( 6days before exam)
Veritas PREP Mock - 650 (Q49, V30) (5days before exam)
GMAT PREP Mock 4 - 650 (Q48, V30) (4days before exam)
My target score was 680. I was confident that I would atleast score above 650 in the actual exam.
Revised all concepts. The day before my exam I stopped studying at 7pm. Slept at 8.30 but couldnt sleep till 11
I was getting tensed as I needed 8hr sleep atleast as my exam was scheduled at 8 am. Finally woke up at 5 am. Reached the test center 1hr early. Went for a walk with my dad as they asked us to wait for 15min.
Done with all procedures and started my exam. I chose Quant first as usual. I got tensed in the starting questions but I am sure that i answered correctly as they were easy and after 2,3 questions I got used to the environment. Completed quant section. I thought I did a good job in quant. I took a break and sat for 3 min outside. Started my verbal. I felt the questions were pretty tough. Didn't see any SC question that I could answer in less than 45sec as my accuracy in SC was 80% most of the times. I was weak in CR but didnt feel any difficulty answering them and didnt spend more than 2mins on CR. Every RC I faced was of high level. But then I told myself that I can do it and focused on each question. IR and AWA was good.
Score 610 (Q47, V27, IR 6)
With a huge disappointment and heavy heart I came home. I requested ESR. Will update after receiving it.
I am planning to apply for MIM courses and ISB Early entry option. (I am less than 2yrs experienced)
As the deadlines are approaching, I dont know what to do. I want to retake the exam. Please help me what I can do next. I exhausted all my mocks.
Suggestions on material that I can practice further and which mocks should i take next?
Experts please help
Thanks in Advance!!!!
I read a lot of debriefs and I thought to share my own experience. Sorry for the lengthy post. Badly need all your suggestions (Apologies if there are any mistakes, Its my first time)
I am a working individual. I used to spend 5hrs studying daily morning 3hrs and evening 2hrs, covering quant and verbal daily.
Took first mock in march from MGMAT-520(Q35, V26). Started my preparation in April by taking coaching from an institution. By mid-July I completed my coaching. In these 3&half months I solved OG, Quant review, Verbal Review, Manhattan Quant book.
In June 1st week, Gave GMAT Prep mock-1 580(Q50, V19) and I got very tensed with verbal. So I started studying MGMAT Guide SC as I heard great reviews about that.
I started taking mock weekly once in June. (My coaching institute provided me with Manhattan mocks)
MGMAT Mock 1 - 590 (Q44, V28)
MGMAT Mock 2 - 600 (Q44, V30)
MGMAT Mock 3 - 610 (Q41, V33)
MGMAT Mock 4 - 570 (Q40, V29)
I was very depressed with the MGMAT Mock 4 score, So I wanted to change the platform and took a E-gmat mock and scored 670(Q45, V36). It was a huge relief. I went through my mistakes after every mock and kept practicing the materials(600-700 and 700+ questions.) given by my faculty from coaching institute. Studied powerscore CR bible as I was very weak in CR.
I was unwell for 2 weeks and after that I continued my prep.
MGMAT Mock 5 - 650 (Q46, V33)
MGMAT Mock 6 - 620 (Q43, V32)
After completing Manhattan mocks, I did Advanced OG book. Completed Quant all 150 questions and verbal SC.
As I almost completed my preparation, I scheduled my exam for 03-09-2020.
In the mean while i practiced SC, CR and RC daily from GMAT club using tags. One day (I dont remember the date), Gmat club tests were free. So i took 2 quant tests (Q47, 46) and 1 verbal (V23)
GMAT PREP Mock 2 - 680 (Q50, V31) ( 6days before exam)
Veritas PREP Mock - 650 (Q49, V30) (5days before exam)
GMAT PREP Mock 4 - 650 (Q48, V30) (4days before exam)
My target score was 680. I was confident that I would atleast score above 650 in the actual exam.
Revised all concepts. The day before my exam I stopped studying at 7pm. Slept at 8.30 but couldnt sleep till 11
I was getting tensed as I needed 8hr sleep atleast as my exam was scheduled at 8 am. Finally woke up at 5 am. Reached the test center 1hr early. Went for a walk with my dad as they asked us to wait for 15min. Done with all procedures and started my exam. I chose Quant first as usual. I got tensed in the starting questions but I am sure that i answered correctly as they were easy and after 2,3 questions I got used to the environment. Completed quant section. I thought I did a good job in quant. I took a break and sat for 3 min outside. Started my verbal. I felt the questions were pretty tough. Didn't see any SC question that I could answer in less than 45sec as my accuracy in SC was 80% most of the times. I was weak in CR but didnt feel any difficulty answering them and didnt spend more than 2mins on CR. Every RC I faced was of high level. But then I told myself that I can do it and focused on each question. IR and AWA was good.
Score 610 (Q47, V27, IR 6)
With a huge disappointment and heavy heart I came home. I requested ESR. Will update after receiving it.
I am planning to apply for MIM courses and ISB Early entry option. (I am less than 2yrs experienced)
As the deadlines are approaching, I dont know what to do. I want to retake the exam. Please help me what I can do next. I exhausted all my mocks.
Suggestions on material that I can practice further and which mocks should i take next?
Experts please help
Thanks in Advance!!!!
04 Sep 2020, 13:10
Kudos
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Hi ksr0101,
I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT.
The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.
Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than 610. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:
how to score a 700+ on the GMAT
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT.
The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.
Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than 610. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:
how to score a 700+ on the GMAT
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
04 Sep 2020, 19:45
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi ksr0101,
I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:
1) Over the last 3 months, how many hours did you typically study each week?
2) How many of each "brand" of practice CAT have you used?
3) What are the exact application deadlines that you are facing?
While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). Once you have your ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you. If you would rather not post it publicly, then you can feel free to PM it directly to me.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:
1) Over the last 3 months, how many hours did you typically study each week?
2) How many of each "brand" of practice CAT have you used?
3) What are the exact application deadlines that you are facing?
While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). Once you have your ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you. If you would rather not post it publicly, then you can feel free to PM it directly to me.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
