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24 Oct 2017, 14:38
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Yes, that sounds like the exact same position!
I like that approach quite a bit with the OG18. Luckily I have that too, so I think that will be a nice supplemental resource to have.
24 Oct 2017, 14:44
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jsheppa
Hi jsheppa,
I think that you have the right overall attitude to approach this process and score higher. Right now, it might be tempting to think about a lot of different aspects of the Exam (such as pacing and specific subjects in Quant and Verbal), but the key is to start developing specific Tactical skills that you'll end up using over-and-over on Test Day. You'll come to find that most GMAT questions are fairly straight-forward, but you have to stay calm, take the necessary notes and look for the built-in patterns that WILL be there in every question that you face.
If you have any additional questions, then you can feel free to contact me directly.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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Today was a complete disaster. I took a GMAC CAT and scored a 530, a 60 point drop from my most recent MGMAT CAT. Going into this, I probably psyched myself up a little bit because this was after ~3-4 weeks of using EMPOWERgmat and I was very eager to see my improvement from last time.
When I began this CAT, I began with verbal. I felt OK, throughout it, but was surprised to learn how poorly I did, especially on CR. I thought my RC would be OK because I did review this quite a bit through the first section of EMPOWER, and that did turn out to be my best. My CR/SC was pretty miserable, which I'm not terribly surprised by since I haven't done any review on that yet. The scary part was that I basically disregarded everything I learned in practice and just kind of went on gut. Little did I know that would be a taste of things to come.
For quant, I pretty much ignored everything I learned, especially my 2 biggest tools (TEST IT and TEST THE ANSWERS.) Although I acknowledge that now, it terrifies me that in the face of a test with a timer and no prompt on a syllabus telling me to use one of those, I completely disregard all tricks that were taught to me. It honestly felt as if I went into this test without having just sunk 100 hours into studying.
I also do not like these GMAC CATs. I understand that they are from the writers of the GMAT, but it is unfortunate that there are no detailed solutions, statistics of my right/wrongs, or really any indication of the level of questions I'm getting right/wrong. I wish there were something like MGMAT CAT results.
So at this point, I straight up want to quit. I just dumped 2-3 months of my life studying intensely and tricking myself into thinking I was retaining these strategies and instead I am regressing and doing worse than I did when I came in knowing nothing. REALLY depressing.
When I began this CAT, I began with verbal. I felt OK, throughout it, but was surprised to learn how poorly I did, especially on CR. I thought my RC would be OK because I did review this quite a bit through the first section of EMPOWER, and that did turn out to be my best. My CR/SC was pretty miserable, which I'm not terribly surprised by since I haven't done any review on that yet. The scary part was that I basically disregarded everything I learned in practice and just kind of went on gut. Little did I know that would be a taste of things to come.
For quant, I pretty much ignored everything I learned, especially my 2 biggest tools (TEST IT and TEST THE ANSWERS.) Although I acknowledge that now, it terrifies me that in the face of a test with a timer and no prompt on a syllabus telling me to use one of those, I completely disregard all tricks that were taught to me. It honestly felt as if I went into this test without having just sunk 100 hours into studying.
I also do not like these GMAC CATs. I understand that they are from the writers of the GMAT, but it is unfortunate that there are no detailed solutions, statistics of my right/wrongs, or really any indication of the level of questions I'm getting right/wrong. I wish there were something like MGMAT CAT results.
So at this point, I straight up want to quit. I just dumped 2-3 months of my life studying intensely and tricking myself into thinking I was retaining these strategies and instead I am regressing and doing worse than I did when I came in knowing nothing. REALLY depressing.
