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23 Aug 2023, 07:47
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Dear GMAT club,
My name is Akshay Srivastava. I have been studying for GMAT for about 4 months now (out of which 2 months were spent going to weekend batches at Jamboree coaching for GMAT classes and another 2 have been spent practicing material full time). I have given GMAT once before (about an year ago). In my first GMAT I scored a 570 with V29Q38. Initially I had used magoosh program to self study and I had exhaustively used their material to develop a basic understanding of the concepts. My initial mocks ranged anywhere from 550 to 650 Q45-46V34-35 (I have mentioned a range as I had gotten this score of 650 twice or thrice). I sat for my final exam under a lot of external stress due to personal reasons and scored poorly.
Finally I decided to get back up on the saddle and joined Jamboree coaching institute to improve my overall score. I still has retained my magoosh subscription as I paused it so I could use it in the future. I started the program which consisted of weekend batches of about 3.5hrs on both sat and sun for quant and verbal for about 3 months. I then decided to take a sabbatical from work to focus solely on my gmat prep and started to study 7 hours a day solving questions from both the jamboree portal and magoosh courseware (Not to badmouth any program, but personally I did not find the material in Jamboree portal for quant apt and preferred Magoosh). I stuck with Jamboree for my verbal prep owing to their exhaustive material, good explanation and frankly great English mentor.
I have given a couple of mocks (including the non-CATs offered by Jamboree, CATs by Magoosh and finally the official mocks). My first mock was in the beginning of my sabbatical on magoosh in which I got a mere 530V29Q33 which lit the fire under me to work hard. I have done about 2-3k questions intotal and suffer in SC and Quant. I worked alot exhausting all the material I could on Magoosh for Quant and using Jamboree for Verbal. I have not gone through OG as Jamboree material is primarily taken from OG so is automatically covers that. Once I was done with my prep I started giving my Mocks starting from Jamboree where my scores were as follows:
690 V33-35 Q45-47
630 V33-35 Q34-36
650 V31-33 Q39-41
670 V29-33 Q45-47
670 V29-31 Q46-48
After noticing a pattern I though I would start with my official mocks and here are the results from the official mocks
730 Q49V40 (Took a long pause between Q and V because of an emergency)
620 Q41V35
660 Q46V36
700 Q48V38
650 Q42V38
680 Q44V38
I though I would finally go and give the paper and booked it for the 23rd and got an abysmal 630 V31 and 45.
My profile: I haven’t been much of an academic performer and I had to work really hard to grasp concepts. More-so I don’t test very well and would call myself test-anxious. I wanted to give the GmAT online because it would be soothing to sit in the same environment but went against this gut feeling. I do not have a stellar academic profile but had been improving my CGPA in college from 6.14 in the beginning to 8.5 by the last semester constantly. I am kinda scared of Maths in general but I have worked as much as I could despite that fear
My situation: I have been given another month off from work and am planning to grind some more to get the fabled 700+. I wish to get into investment banking and am planning to give apply to colleges like Oxford or LBS as UK is known to be a great place to get into investment banking. I would consider myself a hard worker (who doesn’t, but anyway) and I believe that I can grind pretty hard in this final month and secure myself a decent score.
I am writing here to understand if this is a fruitful endeavor. I feel like with little bit of help I can get through this final blockade. I am thinking of getting TTP for 1 month and go through the material and work up mocks to see if I can improve my score. From today I have about 1 month and 1 week. I don’t want to take any days off, I have tried and I won’t be able to breathe freely unless I get this to be honest (Dramatic! I know, but true)
I need help in understanding how to move forward with this.
My name is Akshay Srivastava. I have been studying for GMAT for about 4 months now (out of which 2 months were spent going to weekend batches at Jamboree coaching for GMAT classes and another 2 have been spent practicing material full time). I have given GMAT once before (about an year ago). In my first GMAT I scored a 570 with V29Q38. Initially I had used magoosh program to self study and I had exhaustively used their material to develop a basic understanding of the concepts. My initial mocks ranged anywhere from 550 to 650 Q45-46V34-35 (I have mentioned a range as I had gotten this score of 650 twice or thrice). I sat for my final exam under a lot of external stress due to personal reasons and scored poorly.
Finally I decided to get back up on the saddle and joined Jamboree coaching institute to improve my overall score. I still has retained my magoosh subscription as I paused it so I could use it in the future. I started the program which consisted of weekend batches of about 3.5hrs on both sat and sun for quant and verbal for about 3 months. I then decided to take a sabbatical from work to focus solely on my gmat prep and started to study 7 hours a day solving questions from both the jamboree portal and magoosh courseware (Not to badmouth any program, but personally I did not find the material in Jamboree portal for quant apt and preferred Magoosh). I stuck with Jamboree for my verbal prep owing to their exhaustive material, good explanation and frankly great English mentor.
I have given a couple of mocks (including the non-CATs offered by Jamboree, CATs by Magoosh and finally the official mocks). My first mock was in the beginning of my sabbatical on magoosh in which I got a mere 530V29Q33 which lit the fire under me to work hard. I have done about 2-3k questions intotal and suffer in SC and Quant. I worked alot exhausting all the material I could on Magoosh for Quant and using Jamboree for Verbal. I have not gone through OG as Jamboree material is primarily taken from OG so is automatically covers that. Once I was done with my prep I started giving my Mocks starting from Jamboree where my scores were as follows:
690 V33-35 Q45-47
630 V33-35 Q34-36
650 V31-33 Q39-41
670 V29-33 Q45-47
670 V29-31 Q46-48
After noticing a pattern I though I would start with my official mocks and here are the results from the official mocks
730 Q49V40 (Took a long pause between Q and V because of an emergency)
620 Q41V35
660 Q46V36
700 Q48V38
650 Q42V38
680 Q44V38
I though I would finally go and give the paper and booked it for the 23rd and got an abysmal 630 V31 and 45.
My profile: I haven’t been much of an academic performer and I had to work really hard to grasp concepts. More-so I don’t test very well and would call myself test-anxious. I wanted to give the GmAT online because it would be soothing to sit in the same environment but went against this gut feeling. I do not have a stellar academic profile but had been improving my CGPA in college from 6.14 in the beginning to 8.5 by the last semester constantly. I am kinda scared of Maths in general but I have worked as much as I could despite that fear
My situation: I have been given another month off from work and am planning to grind some more to get the fabled 700+. I wish to get into investment banking and am planning to give apply to colleges like Oxford or LBS as UK is known to be a great place to get into investment banking. I would consider myself a hard worker (who doesn’t, but anyway) and I believe that I can grind pretty hard in this final month and secure myself a decent score.
I am writing here to understand if this is a fruitful endeavor. I feel like with little bit of help I can get through this final blockade. I am thinking of getting TTP for 1 month and go through the material and work up mocks to see if I can improve my score. From today I have about 1 month and 1 week. I don’t want to take any days off, I have tried and I won’t be able to breathe freely unless I get this to be honest (Dramatic! I know, but true)
I need help in understanding how to move forward with this.
23 Aug 2023, 11:09
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Consider getting the ESR. If you share it here (after wiping any personal info), people may provide some specific suggestions. The Share GMAT Experience subforum could also be helpful to see what others have done/used. Fair to say including Official questions (i.e. from the Official-Guide 2022) into your prep would be a solid choice. You can get e-versions of the guides from the MBA website.
How to get a V40 or higher on the GMAT? What about a V51?
23 Aug 2023, 20:12
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Hi Akshay1997,
Given your situation, I think TTP would be perfect for you! Did you have a chance to check out the trial?
Given your situation, I think TTP would be perfect for you! Did you have a chance to check out the trial?
