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24 Jun 2017, 07:59
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Hello everyone,
Just came back home from my second GMAT attempt. Ambiguous feelings right now. It seems quite good to score V42. Actually it is my record. Never scored more than V41 in preps. And last year that figure was V31. But I am so frustrated with my Q score. This is my anti-record. 37!!! Never scored anything below 41, which I got on my last year exam and in preps I usually score 46-49.
Verbal section was not a surprise for me. Most of the questions were typical. I am currently enrolled in E-gmat verbal course. Was very useful. And last year I also covered GmatPill verbal section. The most painful part for me is RC but I was lucky to get texts that I was able to comprehend.
Have no idea what to do now. I feel that I am able to score 44-47Q. I've covered all Q topics. I finished full Mathrevolution course. Have solved all OG questions. And still such a failure on an actual exam.
Have ordered detailed exam report. But have no idea when it'll be ready.
Any ideas on what to do next? Should I try a new online course? Try to resolve all OG questions over again? I can't solve preps anymore since all the questions are the same so this thing is not applicable anymore for me .
It would be great to get an advice from experienced forum dwellers. Would appreciate that.
SO sad. I was so close to achieve my goal of 720. Just needed to show average result in Q. Something like 46 would be enough. And such a failure has happened....
Just came back home from my second GMAT attempt. Ambiguous feelings right now. It seems quite good to score V42. Actually it is my record. Never scored more than V41 in preps. And last year that figure was V31. But I am so frustrated with my Q score. This is my anti-record. 37!!! Never scored anything below 41, which I got on my last year exam and in preps I usually score 46-49.
Verbal section was not a surprise for me. Most of the questions were typical. I am currently enrolled in E-gmat verbal course. Was very useful. And last year I also covered GmatPill verbal section. The most painful part for me is RC but I was lucky to get texts that I was able to comprehend.
Have no idea what to do now. I feel that I am able to score 44-47Q. I've covered all Q topics. I finished full Mathrevolution course. Have solved all OG questions. And still such a failure on an actual exam.
Have ordered detailed exam report. But have no idea when it'll be ready.
Any ideas on what to do next? Should I try a new online course? Try to resolve all OG questions over again? I can't solve preps anymore since all the questions are the same so this thing is not applicable anymore for me .
It would be great to get an advice from experienced forum dwellers. Would appreciate that.
SO sad. I was so close to achieve my goal of 720. Just needed to show average result in Q. Something like 46 would be enough. And such a failure has happened....
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Hey, there will always be bad days for GMAT exams and you will always have next time to improve your score. I think there are other ways you can improve your quant score. Mathrevolution probably owe you a refund as well (so don't forget to send an email on it). I started of with a Q37 as well and I can see why you are frustrated with the score.
The surprising thing you said about your debrief is that you have already gone through a lot of material for quant and see no score improvement. I have some suspicions as to why so it would be great for you to clarify some of it. I'm sure you can get a higher quant score, I still stand by the fact that quant is a practice game and the more right practices you do, the more you will get correct.
Mathrevolution aside, do you have great basics for quant? (For example, fast and accurate at basic addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication). I remembered that Q37 score for me was due to lack of basics, I keep on getting ridiculously easy questions wrong. I couldn't compute percentages and had a hard time dealing with estimation questions because I couldn't even do long division. Maybe you should consider redo-ing math basics and get to understand why math questions work the way they work. I know MR is super focused on two particular math strategies and the course is on the heavy side of remembering and not understanding.
I recommend MGMAT for quant boost. It definition helped me get from Q37 to Q47.
Second question would be, how were you doing your OG questions? Did you go through each answer and check how you got them right/wrong? I feel that a lot of people miss out on reviewing their progresses. It's not really about getting the questions right the first time but it's about knowing why you got something right. If you don't know why/how, it means that you can replicate the same process. GMAT is a game of skill and not luck.
What's your speed? Have you worked through improving time management on the GMAT? You do not have to do every single question to get quant higher than Q47. You can get 25% of the answers wrong, meaning you could also guess some and use the time you have left to work on other questions you judge as easier to do.
I think you have a shot at getting better score. Don't give up. If you do, this will be the only score you have. Better days are ahead my friend.
Good luck!
The surprising thing you said about your debrief is that you have already gone through a lot of material for quant and see no score improvement. I have some suspicions as to why so it would be great for you to clarify some of it. I'm sure you can get a higher quant score, I still stand by the fact that quant is a practice game and the more right practices you do, the more you will get correct.
Mathrevolution aside, do you have great basics for quant? (For example, fast and accurate at basic addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication). I remembered that Q37 score for me was due to lack of basics, I keep on getting ridiculously easy questions wrong. I couldn't compute percentages and had a hard time dealing with estimation questions because I couldn't even do long division. Maybe you should consider redo-ing math basics and get to understand why math questions work the way they work. I know MR is super focused on two particular math strategies and the course is on the heavy side of remembering and not understanding.
I recommend MGMAT for quant boost. It definition helped me get from Q37 to Q47.
Second question would be, how were you doing your OG questions? Did you go through each answer and check how you got them right/wrong? I feel that a lot of people miss out on reviewing their progresses. It's not really about getting the questions right the first time but it's about knowing why you got something right. If you don't know why/how, it means that you can replicate the same process. GMAT is a game of skill and not luck.
What's your speed? Have you worked through improving time management on the GMAT? You do not have to do every single question to get quant higher than Q47. You can get 25% of the answers wrong, meaning you could also guess some and use the time you have left to work on other questions you judge as easier to do.
I think you have a shot at getting better score. Don't give up. If you do, this will be the only score you have. Better days are ahead my friend.
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Hey, there will always be bad days for GMAT exams and you will always have next time to improve your score. I think there are other ways you can improve your quant score. Mathrevolution probably owe you a refund as well (so don't forget to send an email on it). I started of with a Q37 as well and I can see why you are frustrated with the score.
The surprising thing you said about your debrief is that you have already gone through a lot of material for quant and see no score improvement. I have some suspicions as to why so it would be great for you to clarify some of it. I'm sure you can get a higher quant score, I still stand by the fact that quant is a practice game and the more right practices you do, the more you will get correct.
Mathrevolution aside, do you have great basics for quant? (For example, fast and accurate at basic addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication). I remembered that Q37 score for me was due to lack of basics, I keep on getting ridiculously easy questions wrong. I couldn't compute percentages and had a hard time dealing with estimation questions because I couldn't even do long division. Maybe you should consider redo-ing math basics and get to understand why math questions work the way they work. I know MR is super focused on two particular math strategies and the course is on the heavy side of remembering and not understanding.
I recommend MGMAT for quant boost. It definition helped me get from Q37 to Q47.
Second question would be, how were you doing your OG questions? Did you go through each answer and check how you got them right/wrong? I feel that a lot of people miss out on reviewing their progresses. It's not really about getting the questions right the first time but it's about knowing why you got something right. If you don't know why/how, it means that you can replicate the same process. GMAT is a game of skill and not luck.
What's your speed? Have you worked through improving time management on the GMAT? You do not have to do every single question to get quant higher than Q47. You can get 25% of the answers wrong, meaning you could also guess some and use the time you have left to work on other questions you judge as easier to do.
I think you have a shot at getting better score. Don't give up. If you do, this will be the only score you have. Better days are ahead my friend. Good luck!
The surprising thing you said about your debrief is that you have already gone through a lot of material for quant and see no score improvement. I have some suspicions as to why so it would be great for you to clarify some of it. I'm sure you can get a higher quant score, I still stand by the fact that quant is a practice game and the more right practices you do, the more you will get correct.
Mathrevolution aside, do you have great basics for quant? (For example, fast and accurate at basic addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication). I remembered that Q37 score for me was due to lack of basics, I keep on getting ridiculously easy questions wrong. I couldn't compute percentages and had a hard time dealing with estimation questions because I couldn't even do long division. Maybe you should consider redo-ing math basics and get to understand why math questions work the way they work. I know MR is super focused on two particular math strategies and the course is on the heavy side of remembering and not understanding.
I recommend MGMAT for quant boost. It definition helped me get from Q37 to Q47.
Second question would be, how were you doing your OG questions? Did you go through each answer and check how you got them right/wrong? I feel that a lot of people miss out on reviewing their progresses. It's not really about getting the questions right the first time but it's about knowing why you got something right. If you don't know why/how, it means that you can replicate the same process. GMAT is a game of skill and not luck.
What's your speed? Have you worked through improving time management on the GMAT? You do not have to do every single question to get quant higher than Q47. You can get 25% of the answers wrong, meaning you could also guess some and use the time you have left to work on other questions you judge as easier to do.
I think you have a shot at getting better score. Don't give up. If you do, this will be the only score you have. Better days are ahead my friend.
Good luck!Hi, Mimster
Thank you for a great response. Actually I am not sure what is the case about me. I've actually came home and replicated 4 questions I had struggled on the exam today. And I solved them all easily and without any problems. And I got them wrong on the exam. Today I ran out of time for sure. Obviously, my ESR is not yet ready. But I am almost sure that I did somewhat well on the first 10 questions and then spent a tremendous amount of time on the questions 10 to 20. When I was on my 22nd question I had 25 minutes left.
Regarding math topics I am not sure which of them I prefer. Definitely the most comfortable for me are work questions. I solve 100% of them regardless of difficulty on preps, OG or anywhere else. Today I got one such question correct. More or less solve well absolute value and inequalities questions in both DS and PS. But I am really bad with problems when formulas are not so applicable and logic is the main thing. All those questions about huge sequences with some pattern like "How many integers there are from 700 to 900 that have at least one 7 digit". These type of questions frustrate me completely. And I also struggle with most "what is v in terms of x" questions regardless of math topic that they represent. And you were right on calculations. Although, I usually solve questions with basic math principles, it takes me a while to calculate everything.
For example today from 37 questions I did not know how to solve at most 1-2 questions. But I spent a tremendous amount of time on calculations and thus quickly ran out of time. The result was such that I just randomly answered 7 last questions without even trying to solve them.
