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28 Jun 2019, 00:52
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Hi everybody,
I just took the GMAT yesterday and, sadly, did not get the scored I was expecting. I got a 640 while my practice tests were usually around the 700 mark. My manhattan GMAT mocks had verbal scores on average around 40 but also had a test where I got 45 on verbal. I think I really underperformed on my verbal part because I never got anything below 40 on my GMAT prep mocks.
I'm just wondering what went wrong on test day? If anybody could help me out in analyzing my ESR, that would be greatly appreciated. I'm lost in terms of how to do future study. In terms of practice tests, I took it verbal first and then quant and thats how I did it on exam day. I would do the mock exams in realstic conditions regarding timing and breaks but I don't think I was too nervous during them.
What do you think the cause was for such a sway?
Thank you so much for your help!
I just took the GMAT yesterday and, sadly, did not get the scored I was expecting. I got a 640 while my practice tests were usually around the 700 mark. My manhattan GMAT mocks had verbal scores on average around 40 but also had a test where I got 45 on verbal. I think I really underperformed on my verbal part because I never got anything below 40 on my GMAT prep mocks.
I'm just wondering what went wrong on test day? If anybody could help me out in analyzing my ESR, that would be greatly appreciated. I'm lost in terms of how to do future study. In terms of practice tests, I took it verbal first and then quant and thats how I did it on exam day. I would do the mock exams in realstic conditions regarding timing and breaks but I don't think I was too nervous during them.
What do you think the cause was for such a sway?
Thank you so much for your help!
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28 Jun 2019, 09:51
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Hello Lukematic,
I am really sorry to hear about your GMAT day experience.
Even i wrote my GMAT on 27th June, and guess what, experienced the exact same thing. My last official mock (GMATPREP 6) was 740(Q50 V39), but ended up with only 650 on the GMAT(Q49 V31). Again, my verbal score dropped sharply just like you.
Now coming to your ESR, it seems that the time management didn't work well in the verbal section, given the average time spent in last quarter of questions is less than a minute. But surprisingly, even when you gave them such less time, you got 75% questions correct. Also, it seems that CR requires a considerable amount of effort.
Anyway, on a separate note. The website says that the ESR might take longer than 72 hours to generate. How long did it take for you? It seems you had it in less than 24 hours? Asking because I have made the purchase but not yet getting the "view ESR" option on my profile page.
Anyway, goodluck. Hope you get a 700+ soon.
Thanks,
Utkarsh
I am really sorry to hear about your GMAT day experience.
Even i wrote my GMAT on 27th June, and guess what, experienced the exact same thing. My last official mock (GMATPREP 6) was 740(Q50 V39), but ended up with only 650 on the GMAT(Q49 V31). Again, my verbal score dropped sharply just like you.
Now coming to your ESR, it seems that the time management didn't work well in the verbal section, given the average time spent in last quarter of questions is less than a minute. But surprisingly, even when you gave them such less time, you got 75% questions correct. Also, it seems that CR requires a considerable amount of effort.
Anyway, on a separate note. The website says that the ESR might take longer than 72 hours to generate. How long did it take for you? It seems you had it in less than 24 hours? Asking because I have made the purchase but not yet getting the "view ESR" option on my profile page.
Anyway, goodluck. Hope you get a 700+ soon.
Thanks,
Utkarsh
28 Jun 2019, 16:35
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Hi lukematic,
Although I don’t see your actual ESR attached, I’m happy to provide some thoughts regarding the score decrease from your practice tests to your actual GMAT.
Since you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than 640. Also, since nerves didn’t seem to affect you, it’s possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. To hit your score goal, your preparation probably needs to be more complete, particularly for verbal, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills. The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point. When you do dozens of questions of the same type one after the other, you learn just what it takes to get questions of that type correct consistently. If you aren't getting close to 90 percent of questions of a certain type correct, go back and seek to better understand how that type of question works, and then do more questions of that type until you get to around at least 90 percent accuracy in your training. If you get 100 percent of some sets correct, even better.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
Do you plan to retake the GMAT? If so, do you need any advice regarding your study plan?
Although I don’t see your actual ESR attached, I’m happy to provide some thoughts regarding the score decrease from your practice tests to your actual GMAT.
Since you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than 640. Also, since nerves didn’t seem to affect you, it’s possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. To hit your score goal, your preparation probably needs to be more complete, particularly for verbal, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills. The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point. When you do dozens of questions of the same type one after the other, you learn just what it takes to get questions of that type correct consistently. If you aren't getting close to 90 percent of questions of a certain type correct, go back and seek to better understand how that type of question works, and then do more questions of that type until you get to around at least 90 percent accuracy in your training. If you get 100 percent of some sets correct, even better.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
Do you plan to retake the GMAT? If so, do you need any advice regarding your study plan?
