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30 Oct 2013, 00:52
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Ideally after booking gmat date people increase their study time but something strange happening to me.
After booking my gmat date which is 38 days from now, i dont feel like studying at all. Before booking the date i used to study for 8 hours a day.I improved my score from 310 to 530 on mocks, target is 600.
What do i do now? I have so many questions to practice, so many mocks to take and so many concepts to re- learn. This should be the time where i should study like mad.
Please help, from last 3 days this is happening to me, the guilt for not studying is killing me and at the same time i am unable to study.
After booking my gmat date which is 38 days from now, i dont feel like studying at all. Before booking the date i used to study for 8 hours a day.I improved my score from 310 to 530 on mocks, target is 600.
What do i do now? I have so many questions to practice, so many mocks to take and so many concepts to re- learn. This should be the time where i should study like mad.
Please help, from last 3 days this is happening to me, the guilt for not studying is killing me and at the same time i am unable to study.
30 Oct 2013, 11:42
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PlanetEarth
Dear PlanetEarth,
I'm happy to respond.
First of all, stress sometimes can do strange things to one's motivation. Here are a few articles that look at stress:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/overcome-g ... y-breathe/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/beating-gmat-stress/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/the-gmat-b ... g-picture/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/zen-boot-c ... -the-gmat/
I will also ask you some simple question. Is this path something you really want to do? Do you want to go to business school? Do you want to get an MBA and pursue a career as a manager or entrepreneur? Some people really want that life for themselves. Other people don't want it at all. For example, I have no interest that particular lifestyle: I prefer being an educator. I would say, spend a little time getting clear on what you want.
If you really want a life that involves business school, an MBA, and everything to which these lead, then it might just be a matter of re-centering on your life goals. Yes, the GMAT is something you have to face on the way to business school, but if you think about it, the challenge of a GMAT is not that different from at least some of the challenges you will face in your career, once you have an MBA. If you don't like to be challenged, the world of corporate management is not really for you. You may find this blog helpful:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/how-hard-is-the-gmat/
If you DON'T want an MBA and the life to which it leads, if you are doing this simply because somebody else said your should, or because you feel you "ought" without knowing why, then STOP. It may be that you are just stressed or tired, or if may be that this lack of motivation is a very important signal from your psyche. Only you will know, when you are fully honest with yourself. When you are full of passion in pursing a path in which you deeply believe, motivation is usually not a problem. If you really don't believe in this path and really don't want it for yourself, then don't follow it conveyor-belt style just because you started. Instead, figure out what you do want to do with passion. It may sound odd to hear a GMAT expert saying this, but if you don't want an MBA and the life to which it leads, then don't take the GMAT. Figure out what you love, what you are passion about, what you believe in, and pursue that instead.
As far as this question, what you really want, I would strongly suggest --- if you try to reason this out with thinking, then your brain will concoct brilliant arguments for why you should pursue it as well as why you shouldn't pursue it. The brain can always concoct fantastic arguments justifying almost anything. For questions of what you really want, you need to get out of your head, put your thinking aside, breathe deeply, and feel your intuition, feel your core and its wisdom. Something deep within you knows exactly what you should be doing in life. Something deep within you knows exactly why you haven't had motivation over the past three days. If you are courageous about facing yourself, you can find out these answers.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
31 Oct 2013, 07:17
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mikemcgarry
Kudos to you Mike.
That was a great help, certainly it make sense too. I understand your logic that if you love something then you automatically gonna get the motivation to come across it.. But i really want to do MBA, i was studying really hard for it, i dont know suddenly what happened to me.May be i am nervous , maybe its the historic "Burnout" but i feel exhausted and tired.
Also i had planned MBA 2 years back, although with other commitments i coudnt focus . Also i miscalculated the gmat prep time for myself i thought around 3 months time would be enough to cross 650 but obviously that didnt happen.I will be very happy to get a 600(70points more) Although my friends told me that i will get that score on gmat prep software,since it was mgmat mock 530 it was tough.
I am only focusing on bshools beyond that top 30 USA(Public schools), although i havent shortlisted but thinking about few.
I always tell this to myself that this is the perfect time for gmat(Even with that score),this is the perfect time to start MBA.If its not now, it will never gonna be again.
