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23 Mar 2014, 00:29
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I'll try to make this as short and to the point as possible. I've been studying for the GMAT 2-3x a week (Fridays, Saturdays, and sometimes Sunday or a weekday at work if it's a slow day) since the start of January. My actual GMAT test is scheduled for April 19th (4 weeks away). Back in December, when I decided I wanted to take the GMAT, I took a baseline practice test and scored a measly 550. When I took that first time, I literally knew absolutely nothing about the test such as how its graded or roughly how long I should be spending per question etc.
Since then, I've began studying at the frequency mentioned above, and have also taken another 4 practice tests scoring 620, 640, 630, and most recently today, another 620.
I find it extremely frustrating that I did not improve and honestly felt I was going to smoke it this time since on the last practice test that I got a 630, I got a 49 in the quant section and had a non-typical bad performance in the verbal scoring only a 27 (yes, terrible, I know. I'm not sure what happened their honestly). I say non-typical because my average verbal scores up until that point were approximately 34. I was slightly dumbfounded as to why I did so poorly on the verbal that go-around because I had actually been focusing on the verbal and studying sentence correction/critical reasoning problems the entire week and half prior.
Every time that I review the problems I answered incorrectly on a practice test, I review the problems and redo them. Nine times out of ten, I answer the problem correctly in under 2 minutes. I feel like I know the material and have the potential to do well, it's just that I start to get flustered when taking the tests because I know that they are timed. I get distracted thinking "I'm taking too long on this problem" as soon as I don't immediately recognize how I'm supposed to solve a problem.
I don't think as clearly when I have that "hurry hurry" mentality during the test.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get past that and perform during a practice test (and real test) as I perform on untimed practice problems and quizzes that I take while I'm studying??
Since then, I've began studying at the frequency mentioned above, and have also taken another 4 practice tests scoring 620, 640, 630, and most recently today, another 620.
I find it extremely frustrating that I did not improve and honestly felt I was going to smoke it this time since on the last practice test that I got a 630, I got a 49 in the quant section and had a non-typical bad performance in the verbal scoring only a 27 (yes, terrible, I know. I'm not sure what happened their honestly). I say non-typical because my average verbal scores up until that point were approximately 34. I was slightly dumbfounded as to why I did so poorly on the verbal that go-around because I had actually been focusing on the verbal and studying sentence correction/critical reasoning problems the entire week and half prior.
Every time that I review the problems I answered incorrectly on a practice test, I review the problems and redo them. Nine times out of ten, I answer the problem correctly in under 2 minutes. I feel like I know the material and have the potential to do well, it's just that I start to get flustered when taking the tests because I know that they are timed. I get distracted thinking "I'm taking too long on this problem" as soon as I don't immediately recognize how I'm supposed to solve a problem.
I don't think as clearly when I have that "hurry hurry" mentality during the test.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get past that and perform during a practice test (and real test) as I perform on untimed practice problems and quizzes that I take while I'm studying??
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Which practice tests are you taking? I know that when I was practicing with Kaplan I didn't do so well and then I did the practice ones with MBA.com and did MUCH better and the scores I got on those were close to what i got on the real test...
23 Mar 2014, 01:23
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I'm taking Kaplan practice tests. I signed up for the in classroom course and was given 9 practice tests as well as a ton of other resources online that I've been using primarily to study.
When did you take the GMAT? I read that Kaplan tests are harder than the real one, but I also read that that's been corrected. Whatever algorithm that they use to for their practice tests was updated or "fixed" so to speak. I don't know how much truth there is to that. I sure hope that they are still considered harder lol..
When did you take the GMAT? I read that Kaplan tests are harder than the real one, but I also read that that's been corrected. Whatever algorithm that they use to for their practice tests was updated or "fixed" so to speak. I don't know how much truth there is to that. I sure hope that they are still considered harder lol..
Best of luck! And I would troll around on the discussions and check out people's improvement. Some people posted all of their different attempts and increases in scores. Ask those people. I took it once and I was teaching verbal for two years before so I'm not a great person for reference as to how to increase your verbal score (since your quant is so good already.) The thing about studying in loud coffee places and such though I have advised to many of my old students and in most cases if they stuck with it, it really helped. 
