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GMAT 1: 540 Q41 V23
GMAT 2: 570 Q44 V24
GMAT 3: 550 Q44 V21
GMAT 4: 660 Q48 V33
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11 Sep 2015, 02:43
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I took my first GMAT test last year and I got 540 (Q42 V19 if i'm not mistaken)
Now I've had a few GMAT course in my country and gained a lot of confidence.
I learned that GMAT prep was the closest thing to the real GMAT. So, after I've done all of the OG questions (OG10,15,16) and a few from Manhattan GMAT's
I got 700(Q49V38 if i'm not mistaken) on the first GMAT prep, around 2 weeks before the real test, and 710(Q48V40) for the second one, exactly a week before the real test.
I saw that my performance was stable but in the real test I got only 570!!! What the hell happened?
I really had no idea what went wrong but I thought that SC in the real test was way harder than in OG.
Have anyone had the same problem like me?
What should I do next?
Is it because I overlooked to study a foundation and jump into all of the OG questions?
Now I've had a few GMAT course in my country and gained a lot of confidence.
I learned that GMAT prep was the closest thing to the real GMAT. So, after I've done all of the OG questions (OG10,15,16) and a few from Manhattan GMAT's
I got 700(Q49V38 if i'm not mistaken) on the first GMAT prep, around 2 weeks before the real test, and 710(Q48V40) for the second one, exactly a week before the real test.
I saw that my performance was stable but in the real test I got only 570!!! What the hell happened?
I really had no idea what went wrong but I thought that SC in the real test was way harder than in OG.
Have anyone had the same problem like me?
What should I do next?
Is it because I overlooked to study a foundation and jump into all of the OG questions?
11 Sep 2015, 05:50
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What was the split? And did you get the ESR?
Updated on: 08 Jan 2019, 09:11
Originally posted by MartyTargetTestPrep on 11 Sep 2015, 06:04.
Last edited by MartyTargetTestPrep on 08 Jan 2019, 09:11, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by MartyTargetTestPrep on 08 Jan 2019, 09:11, edited 1 time in total.
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First let's start with that SC issue. SC is evolving to be less idiom based and more reasoning based. Many of the questions in the OG, if I have it right, are from before this evolution. So it could be that the style was different enough to make the ones on the test seem harder to you.
Beyond that, what you describe is pretty surprising, in that the discrepancy between your practice scores and actual score is rather wide. 50 points would be one thing. 130 is another.
I don't think that what you said about the foundations really makes sense. I mean you need to understand the concepts and how to take the test in order to score high on a GMAT Prep test as much as you do on the actual test. I guess it's possible that you just got hit with just the wrong questions on the actual test, but enough to drop your score that much?
So there's a good chance that something else was going on.
When you took the practice tests, did you seek to duplicate the experience of the real test by not taking extra breaks and by doing all four sections?
Had you seen some of the questions on the GMAT Prep tests before, on GMAT Club or somewhere else?
Did you get enough sleep the night before the actual test? Did you make sure that you were not hungry or worn out? Was there a long trip to the test center?
Were you super nervous?
In general, was there about your taking the actual test something that was significantly different from how things were when you were taking practice tests?
Anything like that could explain much of the difference in scores.
So your next move could be to analyze the situation and see if anything that I mentioned could have affected your performance.
Then maybe you could take another practice test and see what happens. See what score you get, by taking the test in a realistic way, all four sections, etc., and that score could give you a good sense of what you are up against.
In any case, it seems apparent that you should increase your SC skills. Also, maybe there are some quant areas that you could be stronger in in order to be sure that you won't make lots of easily avoidable errors.
So there's a plan.
Beyond that, what you describe is pretty surprising, in that the discrepancy between your practice scores and actual score is rather wide. 50 points would be one thing. 130 is another.
I don't think that what you said about the foundations really makes sense. I mean you need to understand the concepts and how to take the test in order to score high on a GMAT Prep test as much as you do on the actual test. I guess it's possible that you just got hit with just the wrong questions on the actual test, but enough to drop your score that much?
So there's a good chance that something else was going on.
When you took the practice tests, did you seek to duplicate the experience of the real test by not taking extra breaks and by doing all four sections?
Had you seen some of the questions on the GMAT Prep tests before, on GMAT Club or somewhere else?
Did you get enough sleep the night before the actual test? Did you make sure that you were not hungry or worn out? Was there a long trip to the test center?
Were you super nervous?
In general, was there about your taking the actual test something that was significantly different from how things were when you were taking practice tests?
Anything like that could explain much of the difference in scores.
So your next move could be to analyze the situation and see if anything that I mentioned could have affected your performance.
Then maybe you could take another practice test and see what happens. See what score you get, by taking the test in a realistic way, all four sections, etc., and that score could give you a good sense of what you are up against.
In any case, it seems apparent that you should increase your SC skills. Also, maybe there are some quant areas that you could be stronger in in order to be sure that you won't make lots of easily avoidable errors.
So there's a plan.
