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24 Feb 2015, 15:04
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I've taken a number of tests in Pearson centers and they have always provided normal earplugs on request. If you ask the proctor when they give you your notepad and marker you should get
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I would love to hear the story of how your username came to be.
17 Mar 2015, 04:55
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Hey all,
Just wanted to say that I retook the GMAT yesterday and got a score 200 points greater than the previous one, last month.Thankfully, the new score is above the minimum I needed (and was aiming for). I got a 600, and my CATS where these: 620, 620, 640, 650 (all veritas). The 600 I got yesterday at the real GMAT is also around the last CAT I took last month (620).
Both scores, math and verbal, are very different than the previous ones.
My math score was still abut 20% lower than the score I was receiving in the CATs I did this past month (I am usually around 55-60% and I got around 40%). This was about 30% higher compared to the math percentile I saw in the previous real gmat attempt I took, even though it was still low. This time though I felt that math was quite challenging and for sure I didn't manage my timing well. I was left with 10 questions in the end and with very little time in my hands. I think I responded to most of these last 10 almost randomly.
I have noticed that sometimes this happens to me in the math part. For sure, I am lacking in some conepts, but I also have the tendency to not be able to skip questions... What helps me is to make a conscious decision when I begin the test, sth like a personal contract, like "when a question seems too tough and the solution is not clear in my mind, I will spend at most 1' on it". When I do this, I am better able to skip questions and score higher because I have more time for the other questions. And this is helpful, because there are times when I will get stuck in a question for 5', pushing myself to solve it, and end up getting it wrong and wasting those 5'. I know I did it a few times yesterday, in the real test.
My verbal score was the biggest difference, and for sure this is not sth you can achieve within a month (and I didn't practice verbal at all, I only did a couple of passages and the CATs). I was around the 26th percentile last month when I took the real gmat, and scored at the 90th percentile this time on the real gmat (which is about the same as the CATs I have been doing, both this and the previous time). All of my mistakes are due to the passages (I get 50% wrong each time and sometimes an even higher % of wrong asnwers for passages), as I make virtually no mistakes in sentence correction or critical reasoning (when I do make mistakes they are no more than 2 in CR and 1 in sentence correction or the opposite).
Concerning my mistakes in passages, they happen for 3 main reasons:
1) I have a serious conentration problem when it comes to texts. I am a very slow reader, even in my own language. Even though I think I am a good writer (I score at the 90th percentile in the argument part of the GMAT), I cannot coprehend when I read quickly. It happens, but I need to be familiar with the topic or it must be a non-technical topic. Or I am in the mood...
2) When it comes to science passages (eg biology, space) or technical passages (eg computers) I understand less than half of what is happening in the passage! With all of the terminology, I have to spend 5' in each question before I realize what is happening.
3) Because I have this concentration issue, I spend more time than what I should to take notes. And funny thing, I never go through my notes afterwards.. It is only for me to remain engaged in the text. I am sure I would do much better in the paper version for this part..
Anyway, I wanted to share this, as this whole experience created some questions for me. I hope that it will at least be helpful for other test takers.
Just wanted to say that I retook the GMAT yesterday and got a score 200 points greater than the previous one, last month.Thankfully, the new score is above the minimum I needed (and was aiming for). I got a 600, and my CATS where these: 620, 620, 640, 650 (all veritas). The 600 I got yesterday at the real GMAT is also around the last CAT I took last month (620).
Both scores, math and verbal, are very different than the previous ones.
My math score was still abut 20% lower than the score I was receiving in the CATs I did this past month (I am usually around 55-60% and I got around 40%). This was about 30% higher compared to the math percentile I saw in the previous real gmat attempt I took, even though it was still low. This time though I felt that math was quite challenging and for sure I didn't manage my timing well. I was left with 10 questions in the end and with very little time in my hands. I think I responded to most of these last 10 almost randomly.
I have noticed that sometimes this happens to me in the math part. For sure, I am lacking in some conepts, but I also have the tendency to not be able to skip questions... What helps me is to make a conscious decision when I begin the test, sth like a personal contract, like "when a question seems too tough and the solution is not clear in my mind, I will spend at most 1' on it". When I do this, I am better able to skip questions and score higher because I have more time for the other questions. And this is helpful, because there are times when I will get stuck in a question for 5', pushing myself to solve it, and end up getting it wrong and wasting those 5'. I know I did it a few times yesterday, in the real test.
My verbal score was the biggest difference, and for sure this is not sth you can achieve within a month (and I didn't practice verbal at all, I only did a couple of passages and the CATs). I was around the 26th percentile last month when I took the real gmat, and scored at the 90th percentile this time on the real gmat (which is about the same as the CATs I have been doing, both this and the previous time). All of my mistakes are due to the passages (I get 50% wrong each time and sometimes an even higher % of wrong asnwers for passages), as I make virtually no mistakes in sentence correction or critical reasoning (when I do make mistakes they are no more than 2 in CR and 1 in sentence correction or the opposite).
Concerning my mistakes in passages, they happen for 3 main reasons:
1) I have a serious conentration problem when it comes to texts. I am a very slow reader, even in my own language. Even though I think I am a good writer (I score at the 90th percentile in the argument part of the GMAT), I cannot coprehend when I read quickly. It happens, but I need to be familiar with the topic or it must be a non-technical topic. Or I am in the mood...
2) When it comes to science passages (eg biology, space) or technical passages (eg computers) I understand less than half of what is happening in the passage! With all of the terminology, I have to spend 5' in each question before I realize what is happening.
3) Because I have this concentration issue, I spend more time than what I should to take notes. And funny thing, I never go through my notes afterwards.. It is only for me to remain engaged in the text. I am sure I would do much better in the paper version for this part..
Anyway, I wanted to share this, as this whole experience created some questions for me. I hope that it will at least be helpful for other test takers.
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