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Hi sairam595,

From your original post, it sounds like you're unhappy about this Official Score, but you haven't provided much information about WHY you're unhappy about it. As such, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

1) How long have you studied?
2) What materials have you used?
3) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?

4) What is your goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School?
6) What Schools are you planning to apply to?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi EMPOWERgmatRichC,

Please find my responses below:

1) How long have you studied? Today was my 2nd attempt. I gave 1st attempt last year sept 12th. I have been studying for 9 months..Bit serious preparation from last 4 months.
2) What materials have you used? I used e-gmat,Manhatten prep books, question pack and gmatclub.
3) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
CAT1 gmatprep exampack1 -650,(quant-48,verbal-31)
Veritas paid test - 650 (quant 46, verbal 34)
Economist gmat-tutor - 680 (quant 48, verbal 34)
Gmatprep exampack1 - 710 (quant 48, verbal 40) got some known CR questions
4) What is your goal score? (My goal score 700; 690 is also suffice)
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School? Planned to apply in round 1, but as today exam was disaster i must try for next round atleast)
6) What Schools are you planning to apply to?
Am planning to apply ASU(W.P Carey) & BYU as of now..Planned of investigating more about bschools once done with gmat

Regards,
sairam.

Hi sairam595,

To start, what was your Official GMAT Score from back in September? Is that the 570/Q44 in your profile?

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. If you can answer a few questions, then we should be able to figure this out:

When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?


GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi EMPOWERgmatRichC,

To start, what was your Official GMAT Score from back in September? Is that the 570/Q44 in your profile? yes

When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)? yes
2) Did you take them at home? Yes. faced no disturbance during exam.
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as your Official GMAT? Yes. i took same time
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
No.
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
No except exampack1 2nd exam.

Regards,
sairam

Hi sairam595,

From your prior post, there was one potential 'red flag', but before we come back to that, I have a few additional questions about the lead-up to Test Day and Test Day itself:

1) What did you do in the 3 days before your GMAT?
2) How did you sleep the night before your Test?
3) How long was the ride to the Test Center from your home?
4) Were there any distractions at the facility or during the Test?
5) What did you do during the two 8-minute breaks?
6) Did you finish any sections early?
7) Did you have to rush to finish any sections (and guess on questions just to finish on time)?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi EMPOWERgmatRichC,

Please find my responses below:

1) What did you do in the 3 days before your GMAT? I just did revision for few hours each day. But i am in very much relax state.
2) How did you sleep the night before your Test? I slept for 8 hours.
3) How long was the ride to the Test Center from your home? It was 1 hour
4) Were there any distractions at the facility or during the Test? No distractions
5) What did you do during the two 8-minute breaks? I just washed my face with cold water & had snickers. (I have done the same during mocks)
6) Did you finish any sections early? No
7) Did you have to rush to finish any sections (and guess on questions just to finish on time)?
Yes. one long RC killed my time in the middle of verbal section and when am at 31st question only 7 min left.
So 31-41 qstns section might got disaster.

Regards,
sairam

Hi sairam595,

Using this recent GMAT score as reference, the bulk of the missing points that you're looking for are going to be found in the Verbal section, so you're likely going to need to invest in some new study materials and learn/practice some new Tactics. In addition, there's a significant aspect of Test Day that you did NOT factor into your practice CATs. When you took your CATs at home, you just sat down and began the Test. However, on Test Day, you had 1 hour of travel, plus however long you had to wait before you were let into the Computer Lab. That could have been upwards of an extra 1.5 hours of activity/anxiety/etc. that you had to work through BEFORE you even began your Test. During practice, you began the Verbal section after about 3 hours of working on other things, but on Test Day, you didn't begin the Verbal section until after 4.5 hours of working on other things. As such, your CAT scores were a bit 'inflated' and you had not built up enough 'endurance' during your training to properly prepare for Test Day.

Thankfully, these are relatively easy problems to 'fix', but it will take some time to build up the necessary skills and hone your Verbal Tactics (so that you can properly use them, even when you're a little tired).

1) Did you purchase the ESR?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi EMPOWERgmatRichC,

Thanks for above mentioned points.

Yes I have purchased ESR. Please find attached.


Regards,
sairam

Hi Sairam! Few things are very clear from your ESR:

i) Verbal is your primary area of concern

ii) Within Verbal, SC is the specific pain area. Not only is your percentile in SC the lowest (at 17%), you spent more time on SC than you should ideally have, possibly impacting your accuracy in other areas in Verbal.

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Hi sairam595,

I've sent you a PM with some notes/suggestions.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich