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18 Jun 2017, 12:15
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Hi All,
I have been following gmatclub for my preparation for quite some time but this is the first time I am posting anything.
When I first appeared for the test in 2014, I had only one month time at hand to start from scratch and appear for the exam. Ideally, I shouldn't been disappointed because I was not well prepared but I got disheartened and gave up the idea. In 2016, I did finally came to terms with the fact that because I was not prepared, it was obvious to get a poor score. I finally appeared for the exam again on 9th June 2017. This time, I was preparing for quite some time (5-6 months) and that had started showing on my practice tests.
I was scoring 590-610 at my MGMAT tests and 640 at my GmatPrep practice tests. I was not expecting a very high score but was not expecting it to be that bad either (470). After my quant section I had a good feeling because I felt I did well. However, by the time I started doing verbal, my mind was exhausted and I had to re-read questions. I use experience this during my practice tests as well but still managed to score at least between 590 and 640. I really don't know what went wrong. I had achieved 80 % accuracy in sentence correction at my practice tests. I scored around 41-45 in Quant. I don't know how to comprehend this kind of failure.
I am hopelessly lost now.
My final score was 470 (Q39,V19)
Please advice.
Thankyou,
Urvi
I have been following gmatclub for my preparation for quite some time but this is the first time I am posting anything.
When I first appeared for the test in 2014, I had only one month time at hand to start from scratch and appear for the exam. Ideally, I shouldn't been disappointed because I was not well prepared but I got disheartened and gave up the idea. In 2016, I did finally came to terms with the fact that because I was not prepared, it was obvious to get a poor score. I finally appeared for the exam again on 9th June 2017. This time, I was preparing for quite some time (5-6 months) and that had started showing on my practice tests.
I was scoring 590-610 at my MGMAT tests and 640 at my GmatPrep practice tests. I was not expecting a very high score but was not expecting it to be that bad either (470). After my quant section I had a good feeling because I felt I did well. However, by the time I started doing verbal, my mind was exhausted and I had to re-read questions. I use experience this during my practice tests as well but still managed to score at least between 590 and 640. I really don't know what went wrong. I had achieved 80 % accuracy in sentence correction at my practice tests. I scored around 41-45 in Quant. I don't know how to comprehend this kind of failure.
I am hopelessly lost now.
My final score was 470 (Q39,V19)
Please advice.
Thankyou,
Urvi
18 Jun 2017, 20:39
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Hi Urvi,
I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. If you can answer a few questions, then we should be able to figure this out:
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you took your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. If you can answer a few questions, then we should be able to figure this out:
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you took your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
19 Jun 2017, 13:23
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Hi Rich,
Thank you for your reply.
Answers to your questions :
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
I did not take entire tests in the beginning but later on, closer to the test date, I had started taking the entire CAT
2) Did you take them at home?
Yes. All tests.
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you took your Official GMAT?
No, not at all times. Few tests were taken at the same time.
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
In the beginning, when I use to take full length tests at once, I was scoring around 560-580. This made me feel very nervous and I started getting anxious during my verbal sections(I use to have severe anxiety issues, which are somewhat in control now). Therefore, I decided to take sectional tests after preparing for each section separately.
Towards the test day, again, I had started taking full length tests.
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
No. I did not take the same CAT more than once. However, sometimes, I use to get questions which I had done before during practice.
Do you think I should think about preparing again?
I don't think even a 700 at practice test will put my confidence back.
Thank you for your reply.
Answers to your questions :
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
I did not take entire tests in the beginning but later on, closer to the test date, I had started taking the entire CAT
2) Did you take them at home?
Yes. All tests.
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you took your Official GMAT?
No, not at all times. Few tests were taken at the same time.
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
In the beginning, when I use to take full length tests at once, I was scoring around 560-580. This made me feel very nervous and I started getting anxious during my verbal sections(I use to have severe anxiety issues, which are somewhat in control now). Therefore, I decided to take sectional tests after preparing for each section separately.
Towards the test day, again, I had started taking full length tests.
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
No. I did not take the same CAT more than once. However, sometimes, I use to get questions which I had done before during practice.
Do you think I should think about preparing again?
I don't think even a 700 at practice test will put my confidence back.
