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25 Apr 2011, 21:14
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Hello Everyone
I have been a member of Gmat Club for two months now and I have to say that there are really good posts in here. But the reason of me writing today is because I want to write about how sad and terrible I feel about myself today and because I think that I need to write this moment down to leave a reference and to look back into it in a few months laughing about how stupid I was for feeling this way.
Today I took the Gmat after 4 months of preparation and I got a terrible score (Q46 V23 Total 570). I have to say that I studied hard most of the time. As a context I am a Latin person having a full time job in a very competitive environment (some peer mates have had scores of 760 in the last months). I graduated from chemical engineering and was ranked among the top 5 - 10% of my class. Never in my life I felt this way about my grade in a exam. But tonight I am devastated. Many ugly thoughts passed through my mind all day long. Anyways...
How did I prepare?
Well, in January I formally started studying with the Princeton Review course (live course, not only the books). It was a 7 week course thought by two teachers (one of math and the other of verbal). My feedback is that this course is not designed for someone that wants to achieve a 700 or so. They say that it is very hard to get a verbal score higher than 38. Anyways, I followed the course and the methods by the book, and started seeing how my score went a little bit up (from around 500 to 590, then 610, 610, 640). After this point the course was over and I continued studying on my own. I have to say that at this point I had two or three weeks with a lot of work and couldn't study during the week and in those two weeks two friends got married and I had wedding parties for two consecutive weeks, so I couldn't keep the rythm. After that I was assigned to a project out of my country of residence and traveled. Since I noticed that I was weak on verbal and consistently above 45 in Math I only took the Verbal OG and some notes and traveled for the last 3 weeks. During this weeks I studied in the weekends and in the easter holidays (last thursday and friday) I prepared and took the Gmat Preps and got a 610 on friday and a 680 on saturday. After this I thought I was prepared to ace the test on monday, but a lousy 570 appeared in the screen and brought all down.
What will I do now?
well, Since I have read in this fantastic forum that the set of books from the Manhattan Gmat is the best way to increase one's score, I will purchase those books and start all over again. I will take the test again for sure. I have invested a lot of time, money, effort, social life, and feelings into this test that I dont think its a good idea to leave it this way. Besides, I know I can do better and that things can't go worse than they just did.
I would love to hear your input
Guys, I really need to read some stuff that helps me guide my study plan for the next weeks / month. I really don't have a study plan right now, and really need to hear from you what do you think is best?? what has worked well for you? is there another book or resource that I should consider besides MGMAT? I am really confused right now and I would love to read some ideas as in what should I do to better prepare for my second round. Verbal is definitely my major weakness. Any suggestion?
I have been a member of Gmat Club for two months now and I have to say that there are really good posts in here. But the reason of me writing today is because I want to write about how sad and terrible I feel about myself today and because I think that I need to write this moment down to leave a reference and to look back into it in a few months laughing about how stupid I was for feeling this way.
Today I took the Gmat after 4 months of preparation and I got a terrible score (Q46 V23 Total 570). I have to say that I studied hard most of the time. As a context I am a Latin person having a full time job in a very competitive environment (some peer mates have had scores of 760 in the last months). I graduated from chemical engineering and was ranked among the top 5 - 10% of my class. Never in my life I felt this way about my grade in a exam. But tonight I am devastated. Many ugly thoughts passed through my mind all day long. Anyways...
How did I prepare?
Well, in January I formally started studying with the Princeton Review course (live course, not only the books). It was a 7 week course thought by two teachers (one of math and the other of verbal). My feedback is that this course is not designed for someone that wants to achieve a 700 or so. They say that it is very hard to get a verbal score higher than 38. Anyways, I followed the course and the methods by the book, and started seeing how my score went a little bit up (from around 500 to 590, then 610, 610, 640). After this point the course was over and I continued studying on my own. I have to say that at this point I had two or three weeks with a lot of work and couldn't study during the week and in those two weeks two friends got married and I had wedding parties for two consecutive weeks, so I couldn't keep the rythm. After that I was assigned to a project out of my country of residence and traveled. Since I noticed that I was weak on verbal and consistently above 45 in Math I only took the Verbal OG and some notes and traveled for the last 3 weeks. During this weeks I studied in the weekends and in the easter holidays (last thursday and friday) I prepared and took the Gmat Preps and got a 610 on friday and a 680 on saturday. After this I thought I was prepared to ace the test on monday, but a lousy 570 appeared in the screen and brought all down.
What will I do now?
well, Since I have read in this fantastic forum that the set of books from the Manhattan Gmat is the best way to increase one's score, I will purchase those books and start all over again. I will take the test again for sure. I have invested a lot of time, money, effort, social life, and feelings into this test that I dont think its a good idea to leave it this way. Besides, I know I can do better and that things can't go worse than they just did.
I would love to hear your input
Guys, I really need to read some stuff that helps me guide my study plan for the next weeks / month. I really don't have a study plan right now, and really need to hear from you what do you think is best?? what has worked well for you? is there another book or resource that I should consider besides MGMAT? I am really confused right now and I would love to read some ideas as in what should I do to better prepare for my second round. Verbal is definitely my major weakness. Any suggestion?
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26 Apr 2011, 12:19
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Clearly your quantitative is solid. On the verbal practice tests are the majority of the wrong answers from a certain section (e.g SC)? Focus on one section at a time. Also you should read for pleasure, it helps!
26 Apr 2011, 17:42
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Thanks for your response.
I think I didn't do good in any part of the verbal section. But I think that I need to restart studying the grammar rules, idioms, common parallel mistakes etc... I have no idea if I did good or bad in CR in this last test. I think I felt very anxious in the RC section in the test and I couldn't read focused.
I will definetly focus on each section at a time and see how it works.
I think I didn't do good in any part of the verbal section. But I think that I need to restart studying the grammar rules, idioms, common parallel mistakes etc... I have no idea if I did good or bad in CR in this last test. I think I felt very anxious in the RC section in the test and I couldn't read focused.
I will definetly focus on each section at a time and see how it works.
