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06 Feb 2020, 09:29
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Dear,
I took my fourth GMAT today after a year of break. I've scored 580 (Q40; V29 ). Its been 1,5 months since I started my prep, going every single day to library for at least 4 hours. My first attempt I scored 500, second 500, third 540 after what I gave up.
I decided to start preparing again because my dream is to got at Bocconi. but I am loosing hope.
I need to score above 600.
I took several mocks, my lowest was 590, my highest was 690.
Any advices ? how to improve my verbal ? Any similar experience ?
Thank u for getting back to me
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I took my fourth GMAT today after a year of break. I've scored 580 (Q40; V29 ). Its been 1,5 months since I started my prep, going every single day to library for at least 4 hours. My first attempt I scored 500, second 500, third 540 after what I gave up.
I decided to start preparing again because my dream is to got at Bocconi. but I am loosing hope.
I need to score above 600.
I took several mocks, my lowest was 590, my highest was 690.
Any advices ? how to improve my verbal ? Any similar experience ?
Thank u for getting back to me
! 
06 Feb 2020, 12:31
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Hi ela900,
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 580. 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.
If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!
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 580. 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.
If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!
06 Feb 2020, 20:32
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Hi ela900,
With a 580, you're remarkably close to a 600+ right now; with just a few adjustments to how you 'see' (and respond to) the Exam, you'll have that higher Score locked up. Before I can offer you the specific advice that you’re looking for, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:
Studies:
1) On what dates did you take each of your Official GMATs and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
2) What study materials have you used over the course of ALL of your studies? What 'brands' of practice CATs/mocks have you used?
3) Over the last 1.5 months, on what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
4) What application deadline(s) are you currently facing?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
With a 580, you're remarkably close to a 600+ right now; with just a few adjustments to how you 'see' (and respond to) the Exam, you'll have that higher Score locked up. Before I can offer you the specific advice that you’re looking for, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:
Studies:
1) On what dates did you take each of your Official GMATs and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
2) What study materials have you used over the course of ALL of your studies? What 'brands' of practice CATs/mocks have you used?
3) Over the last 1.5 months, on what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
4) What application deadline(s) are you currently facing?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
