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Hi everyone,
After 4 months of preparation, I finally took my GMAT yesterday. The score came below the expectations level (Expected/Desired Score was between 680-700).
GMAT Exam Date: August 08, 2015
IR - 6
Q - 48
V - 29
Total - 640
I always knew about my weaknesses - DS in Quant and SC in Verbal. But looks like my verbal score indicates weakness in all the sections. I used the following study material for preparation:
1. Manhattan SC
2. OG 13, Verbal and Quant Review
3. MGMAT 6 Mocks (600, 610, 630, 620, 600, 610)
4. GMATPrep 2 Mocks (600, 680)
5. Economist-GMAT Mock (710)
One week before the exam: Could not study at all due to 2 reasons - fell sick exactly 1 week before the exam and extra hours needed to put in office. Till the last day before the exam, I could not concentrate on the fact that I had an exam the next day.
Exam Day: After a good night sleep, was supposedly calm and composed. Exam center was a 10 minutes walk from home and I reached well before time.
I breezed through AWA section, could not attempt the last question in IR but tried to let the negative thought go away to focus on Quant as this was my strength area. In Quant, I actually didn't faced any difficulty till Question 20 or so. Was well ahead in terms of time and after tackling through 7-8 tough questions (that too mostly in DS) I managed to complete the quant section in 72-73 minutes. During the break I was kinda confident that I will get a 49-50 score in Qunat and it will all come to Verbal to decide my final score. With enough confidence, I started the Verbal section but somewhere down deep, I knew that this was my biggest weakness and I started getting jitters by the time I reached 4-5th question. I was very cautious at the starting and that led to me falling behind time and had to rush through few questions in the middle including one difficult RC passage to keep up with time.
One thing which I lacked and somehow ignored during my preparations was that, unlike in Quant, I was never confident enough while marking answers in Verbal which I think was because of the fact that something was/is wrong with my Verbal basics (which I actually realize now after giving my first attempt and trust me there is a big difference in knowing and realizing!).
Now that I have a below par score required for my applications, I am stuck with mixed emotions of either a re-take or entirely dropping the plan for this year application. I tried to find some additional resource for Verbal basics, specially SC, but could not find any convincing one. Any help on this aspect is welcome. I have enough time left for applications so retaking is not an issue. The only thing I am looking for is direction.
Any comments/feedback from the experts would be more than welcome.
Kunal
After 4 months of preparation, I finally took my GMAT yesterday. The score came below the expectations level (Expected/Desired Score was between 680-700).
GMAT Exam Date: August 08, 2015
IR - 6
Q - 48
V - 29
Total - 640
I always knew about my weaknesses - DS in Quant and SC in Verbal. But looks like my verbal score indicates weakness in all the sections. I used the following study material for preparation:
1. Manhattan SC
2. OG 13, Verbal and Quant Review
3. MGMAT 6 Mocks (600, 610, 630, 620, 600, 610)
4. GMATPrep 2 Mocks (600, 680)
5. Economist-GMAT Mock (710)
One week before the exam: Could not study at all due to 2 reasons - fell sick exactly 1 week before the exam and extra hours needed to put in office. Till the last day before the exam, I could not concentrate on the fact that I had an exam the next day.
Exam Day: After a good night sleep, was supposedly calm and composed. Exam center was a 10 minutes walk from home and I reached well before time.
I breezed through AWA section, could not attempt the last question in IR but tried to let the negative thought go away to focus on Quant as this was my strength area. In Quant, I actually didn't faced any difficulty till Question 20 or so. Was well ahead in terms of time and after tackling through 7-8 tough questions (that too mostly in DS) I managed to complete the quant section in 72-73 minutes. During the break I was kinda confident that I will get a 49-50 score in Qunat and it will all come to Verbal to decide my final score. With enough confidence, I started the Verbal section but somewhere down deep, I knew that this was my biggest weakness and I started getting jitters by the time I reached 4-5th question. I was very cautious at the starting and that led to me falling behind time and had to rush through few questions in the middle including one difficult RC passage to keep up with time.
One thing which I lacked and somehow ignored during my preparations was that, unlike in Quant, I was never confident enough while marking answers in Verbal which I think was because of the fact that something was/is wrong with my Verbal basics (which I actually realize now after giving my first attempt and trust me there is a big difference in knowing and realizing!).
Now that I have a below par score required for my applications, I am stuck with mixed emotions of either a re-take or entirely dropping the plan for this year application. I tried to find some additional resource for Verbal basics, specially SC, but could not find any convincing one. Any help on this aspect is welcome. I have enough time left for applications so retaking is not an issue. The only thing I am looking for is direction.
Any comments/feedback from the experts would be more than welcome.
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Hi everyone,
After 4 months of preparation, I finally took my GMAT yesterday. The score came below the expectations level (Expected/Desired Score was between 680-700).
GMAT Exam Date: August 08, 2015
IR - 6
Q - 48
V - 29
Total - 640
I always knew about my weaknesses - DS in Quant and SC in Verbal. But looks like my verbal score indicates weakness in all the sections. I used the following study material for preparation:
1. Manhattan SC
2. OG 13, Verbal and Quant Review
3. MGMAT 6 Mocks (600, 610, 630, 620, 600, 610)
4. GMATPrep 2 Mocks (600, 680)
5. Economist-GMAT Mock (710)
One week before the exam: Could not study at all due to 2 reasons - fell sick exactly 1 week before the exam and extra hours needed to put in office. Till the last day before the exam, I could not concentrate on the fact that I had an exam the next day.
Exam Day: After a good night sleep, was supposedly calm and composed. Exam center was a 10 minutes walk from home and I reached well before time.
I breezed through AWA section, could not attempt the last question in IR but tried to let the negative thought go away to focus on Quant as this was my strength area. In Quant, I actually didn't faced any difficulty till Question 20 or so. Was well ahead in terms of time and after tackling through 7-8 tough questions (that too mostly in DS) I managed to complete the quant section in 72-73 minutes. During the break I was kinda confident that I will get a 49-50 score in Qunat and it will all come to Verbal to decide my final score. With enough confidence, I started the Verbal section but somewhere down deep, I knew that this was my biggest weakness and I started getting jitters by the time I reached 4-5th question. I was very cautious at the starting and that led to me falling behind time and had to rush through few questions in the middle including one difficult RC passage to keep up with time.
One thing which I lacked and somehow ignored during my preparations was that, unlike in Quant, I was never confident enough while marking answers in Verbal which I think was because of the fact that something was/is wrong with my Verbal basics (which I actually realize now after giving my first attempt and trust me there is a big difference in knowing and realizing!).
Now that I have a below par score required for my applications, I am stuck with mixed emotions of either a re-take or entirely dropping the plan for this year application. I tried to find some additional resource for Verbal basics, specially SC, but could not find any convincing one. Any help on this aspect is welcome. I have enough time left for applications so retaking is not an issue. The only thing I am looking for is direction.
Any comments/feedback from the experts would be more than welcome.
Kunal
After 4 months of preparation, I finally took my GMAT yesterday. The score came below the expectations level (Expected/Desired Score was between 680-700).
GMAT Exam Date: August 08, 2015
IR - 6
Q - 48
V - 29
Total - 640
I always knew about my weaknesses - DS in Quant and SC in Verbal. But looks like my verbal score indicates weakness in all the sections. I used the following study material for preparation:
1. Manhattan SC
2. OG 13, Verbal and Quant Review
3. MGMAT 6 Mocks (600, 610, 630, 620, 600, 610)
4. GMATPrep 2 Mocks (600, 680)
5. Economist-GMAT Mock (710)
One week before the exam: Could not study at all due to 2 reasons - fell sick exactly 1 week before the exam and extra hours needed to put in office. Till the last day before the exam, I could not concentrate on the fact that I had an exam the next day.
Exam Day: After a good night sleep, was supposedly calm and composed. Exam center was a 10 minutes walk from home and I reached well before time.
I breezed through AWA section, could not attempt the last question in IR but tried to let the negative thought go away to focus on Quant as this was my strength area. In Quant, I actually didn't faced any difficulty till Question 20 or so. Was well ahead in terms of time and after tackling through 7-8 tough questions (that too mostly in DS) I managed to complete the quant section in 72-73 minutes. During the break I was kinda confident that I will get a 49-50 score in Qunat and it will all come to Verbal to decide my final score. With enough confidence, I started the Verbal section but somewhere down deep, I knew that this was my biggest weakness and I started getting jitters by the time I reached 4-5th question. I was very cautious at the starting and that led to me falling behind time and had to rush through few questions in the middle including one difficult RC passage to keep up with time.
One thing which I lacked and somehow ignored during my preparations was that, unlike in Quant, I was never confident enough while marking answers in Verbal which I think was because of the fact that something was/is wrong with my Verbal basics (which I actually realize now after giving my first attempt and trust me there is a big difference in knowing and realizing!).
Now that I have a below par score required for my applications, I am stuck with mixed emotions of either a re-take or entirely dropping the plan for this year application. I tried to find some additional resource for Verbal basics, specially SC, but could not find any convincing one. Any help on this aspect is welcome. I have enough time left for applications so retaking is not an issue. The only thing I am looking for is direction.
Any comments/feedback from the experts would be more than welcome.
Kunal
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14 Aug 2015, 07:05
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