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tae808
Joined: 03 Dec 2013
Last visit: 21 Feb 2020
Posts: 50
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Location: United States (HI)
Schools: Duke '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Tuck '19 (WL) Ross '19 (D)
GMAT 1: 660 Q49 V30
GPA: 3.56
Schools: Duke '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Tuck '19 (WL) Ross '19 (D)
GMAT 1: 660 Q49 V30
Posts: 50
Kudos:
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21 Aug 2016, 14:17
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I took GMAT 5th time and scored 660 (Q49 V30). Like everyone else in this forum, 700+ is my target score.
I ordered 3 ESRs hoping to see how I can improve my score.
For me, the two most helpful information from the 3 ESR are the sub-section rankings (Verbal) and Time management.
As you can see, I clearly need to improve my verbal score so I'll focus my story on verbal only.
For my last GMAT score (660), my ESR states:
First quartile, I spent 1:54 on correction questions and 4:27 on incorrect questions. (75% correct)
Second quartile, I spent 1:46 on correction questions and 3:07 on incorrect questions. (57% correct)
Third quartile, I spent 1:49 on correction questions and 2:19 on incorrect questions. (71% correct)
Fourth quartile, I spent 0:57 on correction questions and 0:19 on incorrect questions. (62% correct; I randomly guessed last 4-5 questions without reading the questions)
The trend continues for the 3 ESRs: I spent much more time on incorrect questions than on correct questions.
My questions:
1) Is this normal on actual GMAT that you spend more time on incorrect questions?
2) how do you know when to guess between 2-3 answers choices and move on? If you are struggling, it's probably a hard question and as we all know, you don't want to get the hard questions wrong. I know many on the forum advise test takers to guess and move on but it's just so difficult for me to do that. Part of that is because of my personality but I feel like if I read just little bit more, or thinking little bit more I can answer the question correctly.
Any suggestions?
I have taken over 20+ mocks in real setting and the time management wasn't a big issue.
I attached the ESRs. Please review and let me know if you have any suggestions to improve my score!
I ordered 3 ESRs hoping to see how I can improve my score.
For me, the two most helpful information from the 3 ESR are the sub-section rankings (Verbal) and Time management.
As you can see, I clearly need to improve my verbal score so I'll focus my story on verbal only.
For my last GMAT score (660), my ESR states:
First quartile, I spent 1:54 on correction questions and 4:27 on incorrect questions. (75% correct)
Second quartile, I spent 1:46 on correction questions and 3:07 on incorrect questions. (57% correct)
Third quartile, I spent 1:49 on correction questions and 2:19 on incorrect questions. (71% correct)
Fourth quartile, I spent 0:57 on correction questions and 0:19 on incorrect questions. (62% correct; I randomly guessed last 4-5 questions without reading the questions)
The trend continues for the 3 ESRs: I spent much more time on incorrect questions than on correct questions.
My questions:
1) Is this normal on actual GMAT that you spend more time on incorrect questions?
2) how do you know when to guess between 2-3 answers choices and move on? If you are struggling, it's probably a hard question and as we all know, you don't want to get the hard questions wrong. I know many on the forum advise test takers to guess and move on but it's just so difficult for me to do that. Part of that is because of my personality but I feel like if I read just little bit more, or thinking little bit more I can answer the question correctly.
Any suggestions?
I have taken over 20+ mocks in real setting and the time management wasn't a big issue.
I attached the ESRs. Please review and let me know if you have any suggestions to improve my score!
22 Aug 2016, 03:54
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tae808
Wonderful improvement. congrats! here is my analysis:
Verbal:
V22 - Avg Time (4th set) – 00:56 (1/8 correct)
V23 - Avg Time (4th set) – 01:15 (2/8 correct)
V30 - Avg Time (4th set) – 00:43 (5/8 correct) (Got Lucky & it helped?)
Investing more time in initial sets of verbal has become a habit that you need to get rid of. In all of three attempts you were left with less time. Accuracy seems to be improved but timing remained the same. You can tackle this problem by cutting down the time that you take answering a question. Sometimes we waste 5-10 seconds on every question by thinking more about it. If you may change it without hampering the accuracy, your score will improve. Practice!
Quant:
Q49: In quant you definitely have done a great job. Your Q49 for me is definitely Q50. In second set of questions you took lot of time on few questions which brought the average time for that set to 03:37min. Though you got ONLY 4/28 questions wrong, Looks like you marked a low difficulty level question wrong. But I am still amazed by the algorithm, your score should be Q50. Congrats on tremendous performance in quant!
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tae808
Joined: 03 Dec 2013
Last visit: 21 Feb 2020
Posts: 50
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 11
Location: United States (HI)
Schools: Duke '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Tuck '19 (WL) Ross '19 (D)
GMAT 1: 660 Q49 V30
GPA: 3.56
Schools: Duke '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Tuck '19 (WL) Ross '19 (D)
GMAT 1: 660 Q49 V30
Posts: 50
Kudos:
60
22 Aug 2016, 07:21
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HKD1710
Wow! Thank you so much.
I believed that first 10 questions were really important so I focused more on accuracy... I took over 20+ CATs and timing wasn't a issue for me.
I guess I just need to learn to guess and move on when I take the actual test but it's very difficult for me sometimes.
Anyways, I really appreciate it!!!
