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21 Dec 2020, 11:10
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Hello, I really need your help guys. I spent three months studying for GMAT. I was scoring in 620-670 range. However, on the final day I only scored 590. The division is verbal 25 and quant 47. I have to take another attempt in next 20 days. Pls help me out. I have my deadlines in mid to end Jan! I can send my ESR to anyone who is willing to evaluate it for me. Any help or advices are appreciated.
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21 Dec 2020, 11:43
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Maybe you’ve had a bad day....Try not to think about the GMAT for a couple of days.
Later, think about what happened during the exam. How were you feeling? Did you give up in between? Were you tensed? Did you find a few similar practice questions on the test? Just ask yourself these questions : you’ll find plenty more great answers.
I honestly think that if you’ve scored around 600-650 range or lower, on the GMAT and in the mocks, it’s because you’ve missed something big. The verbal score shows that you need to review those concepts across sentence correction and critical reasoning. I advise you to review all the official questions alone. Start from the 600-700 level questions in this forum. Time yourself better. Did you make an excel of all your mistakes and points to be noted? If not, then do that.
I might be ranting at this point, but I understand : it’s admissions time and people want to get into their favourite colleges but can’t seem to get past this GMAT. Putting all that pressure under one exam is pretty devastating, and as such leaves one clueless during the test.
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Later, think about what happened during the exam. How were you feeling? Did you give up in between? Were you tensed? Did you find a few similar practice questions on the test? Just ask yourself these questions : you’ll find plenty more great answers.
I honestly think that if you’ve scored around 600-650 range or lower, on the GMAT and in the mocks, it’s because you’ve missed something big. The verbal score shows that you need to review those concepts across sentence correction and critical reasoning. I advise you to review all the official questions alone. Start from the 600-700 level questions in this forum. Time yourself better. Did you make an excel of all your mistakes and points to be noted? If not, then do that.
I might be ranting at this point, but I understand : it’s admissions time and people want to get into their favourite colleges but can’t seem to get past this GMAT. Putting all that pressure under one exam is pretty devastating, and as such leaves one clueless during the test.
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21 Dec 2020, 12:06
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I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT.
The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.
Assuming that 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 V25. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also 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. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, 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.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. 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.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following article:
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!
The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.
Assuming that 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 V25. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also 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. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, 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.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. 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.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following article:
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!
