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18 Oct 2016, 08:35
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Today morning I took my exam. I spent 7-8hrs in bed so didn't feel any nausea or something during the test. My test was scheduled at 9:00AM , reached the test centre by 8:30. Everything was flawless - AWA, IR , quant - all 3 went well. Then came the verbal section. I had given 6-7 mocks at home with not much issues in verbal section. From the first question itself, I found that the verbal section was much harder, and I felt low and demotivated. My concentration was very bad and I screwed up the RC. It seemed to me much harder than GMATPrep and MGMAT questions. I have no clue what to do because I was scoring 670-730 in my mocks and my accuracy rate was ~70-75% in RC section. I also found SC text tougher than the sentences provided in GMATPrep. At first, I thought GMAC motive is just to earn money by making the candidates retake the exams after candidates find themselves comfortable solving the easy questions from OG and baffled by the actual GMAT verbal so as to skew their performance and retake the test, but then I am not sure what is the case because verbal seemed way harder to me and others ( Other test takers at the test center) find no issues.
Do LSAT RC passages provide the same challenging level or it was just my bad day.
P.S. - Score with split - 610 (Q47, V26)
Please help.....I am planning to retake after 3 months.
Thanks a lot!!!
Do LSAT RC passages provide the same challenging level or it was just my bad day.
P.S. - Score with split - 610 (Q47, V26)
Please help.....I am planning to retake after 3 months.
Thanks a lot!!!
18 Oct 2016, 12:58
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Today morning I took my exam. I spent 7-8hrs in bed so didn't feel any nausea or something during the test. My test was scheduled at 9:00AM , reached the test centre by 8:30. Everything was flawless - AWA, IR , quant - all 3 went well. Then came the verbal section. I had given 6-7 mocks at home with not much issues in verbal section. From the first question itself, I found that the verbal section was much harder, and I felt low and demotivated. My concentration was very bad and I screwed up the RC. It seemed to me much harder than GMATPrep and MGMAT questions. I have no clue what to do because I was scoring 670-730 in my mocks and my accuracy rate was ~70-75% in RC section. I also found SC text tougher than the sentences provided in GMATPrep. At first, I thought GMAC motive is just to earn money by making the candidates retake the exams after candidates find themselves comfortable solving the easy questions from OG and baffled by the actual GMAT verbal so as to skew their performance and retake the test, but then I am not sure what is the case because verbal seemed way harder to me and others ( Other test takers at the test center) find no issues.
Do LSAT RC passages provide the same challenging level or it was just my bad day.
P.S. - Score with split - 610 (Q47, V26)
Please help.....I am planning to retake after 3 months.
Thanks a lot!!!
Do LSAT RC passages provide the same challenging level or it was just my bad day.
P.S. - Score with split - 610 (Q47, V26)
Please help.....I am planning to retake after 3 months.
Thanks a lot!!!
Hi NonPlus,
I am sorry that the test day did not go as planned. The OG and the GMAT Prep CATs are indeed a true representation of your preparation.
There can be various things that affected your preparation. The next step should be to focus on your improvement areas.
1. What were your Verbal scores in the mock CATs?
2. Did you solve he Full length mock CATs including the AWA and IR?
I would recommend you to order the ESR and find out your weak areas. Post this, try to drill down deep into each question type:
SC: The questions test various concepts such as S-V agreement, modifiers, parallelism etc. Find out what troubles you.
CR: There might be certain types of questions that are troubling you. May be Assumption, may be conclusion, inference etc.
You need to find that out and then practice them
RC: This again can be drilled down into different types of questions and also different topics. See what questions and topics trouble you the most and then practice accordingly.
Quants: Again try to break the questions in topics such as Algebra, Number system (very important), Geometry, PnC etc.
As an addition, start preparing an error log and keep a note of all the mistakes you made and the lessons you learnt from the problems. This will ensure you do not make the same mistake again.
Make sure you complete all of the OG and the Verbal review and if required, you can buy the Question pack1 from mba.com
18 Oct 2016, 23:36
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Hi NonPlus,
I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. 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
I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. 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
