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29 Jan 2024, 12:58
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Hi everyone,
Hope you are having a great start to 2024. I took the GMAT for the second time today. I had simulated 700+ scores - including my last simulation on practice test #6, in which I got 750, 48Q and 45V. Before I also simulated 740, 49Q and 41V.
My first attempt was 2 weeks ago. I was nervous, anxious, and slept a total of 6 hours in the previous 3 nights to GMAT - the night before the exam, I did not fall asleep at all. I ended up scoring 620 (44Q, 32V). I have always suffered from anxiety and insomnia, its very much genetically intrinsic (some relatives have similar issues).
My second attempt was today - my last shot on the original GMAT exam. I scored 660 (41V, 39Q). I slept better, however, yesterday I could not fall asleep either. I did feel tired, however I felt less nervous that on my first try. Its crazy to think that if I had performed in quant as I did in my first attempt - which was still far below my practice test scores - I would have scored ~700. Its also crazy to think how can one possible go from 32V to 41V in just 2 weeks. Clearly the 32V I scored in my first attempt was very far from reflecting my ability in verbal. Perhaps something similar is happening with Quant. I still can´t understand how I got 39 in Quant. Perhaps the order was not ideal - quant makes me more anxious because I have not obtained such high scores as I have in verbal (even though I was historically good in math, or at least I thought so). Starting the test with quant, I felt anxious, blocked, and perhaps needing some warmup. Although I have managed to get high scores in that same order in practice tests.
As you can see, I´m going through a very frustrating experience that requires some degree of resilience and optimism. I really wanted to get over with the GMAT, and get my 700 in the original GMAT. Unfortunately the friends from GMAC really rushed the transition, I´m pretty certain that in any other year, with 3 more attempts, I would for sure have been able to score 700+ in the real test.
Of course I will take the GMAT focus edition - it actually might benefit me, since Geometry and SC were overall my worst topics in Quant and Verbal, respectively. I will need to reinforce the IR part of DI, but I don´t think it should have a marginally negative or positive effect. By the way, I have cancelled both scores - I´m 100% convinced I can perform better, and perhaps its not a matter of GMAT content/studying.
I would really sincerely appreciate any points of views on my situation and how to move forward. What should I do? How to keep preparing, considering I will not have more than ~12h per week - I´ve had plenty of time to study in last 3-4 months, but that is now over - my job will have increase workload in following months. I will apply for R1 of this year. My goal is 720+.
Thank you very much!
Renato
Hope you are having a great start to 2024. I took the GMAT for the second time today. I had simulated 700+ scores - including my last simulation on practice test #6, in which I got 750, 48Q and 45V. Before I also simulated 740, 49Q and 41V.
My first attempt was 2 weeks ago. I was nervous, anxious, and slept a total of 6 hours in the previous 3 nights to GMAT - the night before the exam, I did not fall asleep at all. I ended up scoring 620 (44Q, 32V). I have always suffered from anxiety and insomnia, its very much genetically intrinsic (some relatives have similar issues).
My second attempt was today - my last shot on the original GMAT exam. I scored 660 (41V, 39Q). I slept better, however, yesterday I could not fall asleep either. I did feel tired, however I felt less nervous that on my first try. Its crazy to think that if I had performed in quant as I did in my first attempt - which was still far below my practice test scores - I would have scored ~700. Its also crazy to think how can one possible go from 32V to 41V in just 2 weeks. Clearly the 32V I scored in my first attempt was very far from reflecting my ability in verbal. Perhaps something similar is happening with Quant. I still can´t understand how I got 39 in Quant. Perhaps the order was not ideal - quant makes me more anxious because I have not obtained such high scores as I have in verbal (even though I was historically good in math, or at least I thought so). Starting the test with quant, I felt anxious, blocked, and perhaps needing some warmup. Although I have managed to get high scores in that same order in practice tests.
As you can see, I´m going through a very frustrating experience that requires some degree of resilience and optimism. I really wanted to get over with the GMAT, and get my 700 in the original GMAT. Unfortunately the friends from GMAC really rushed the transition, I´m pretty certain that in any other year, with 3 more attempts, I would for sure have been able to score 700+ in the real test.
Of course I will take the GMAT focus edition - it actually might benefit me, since Geometry and SC were overall my worst topics in Quant and Verbal, respectively. I will need to reinforce the IR part of DI, but I don´t think it should have a marginally negative or positive effect. By the way, I have cancelled both scores - I´m 100% convinced I can perform better, and perhaps its not a matter of GMAT content/studying.
I would really sincerely appreciate any points of views on my situation and how to move forward. What should I do? How to keep preparing, considering I will not have more than ~12h per week - I´ve had plenty of time to study in last 3-4 months, but that is now over - my job will have increase workload in following months. I will apply for R1 of this year. My goal is 720+.
Thank you very much!
Renato
29 Jan 2024, 17:48
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Might be worth getting the ESR. Perhaps there is something you notice you could leverage. Taking an Official Focus mock to see how you perform on the new version could also provide some helpful insight. In case time management is an issue, using question/time markers may help. For CR, consider checking out Manhattan-Prep's 6th Edition for Critical Reasoning. For RC, becoming familiar with how inference questions work could be useful, too.
How to score high on the GMAT. Why solving approach is important.
How to score high on the GMAT. Why solving approach is important.
30 Jan 2024, 10:50
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Hi Renato,
To start, why don't you take a practice GMAT focus exam just to see where you stand?
To start, why don't you take a practice GMAT focus exam just to see where you stand?
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