GMAT classic experience from Nov to Jan

Question

Hi everyone,
Can everyone who has given GMAT classic from Nov 2023 to (ongoing - Jan) can you please share your or your friends experience. I'll start - Teo official mocks 760 and final gmat 670 which felt suprisingly TOO tough. While I have booked gmat classic second attempt for January 29 already thinking whether I should cancel that basis the general pattern that classic takers are seeing now.

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Consider checking out/looking through the Share GMAT Experience subforum by post date for any classic GMAT debriefs. Ultimately, the classic version will no longer be available after January. If you have the flexibility, one option could be to take the classic and, later on, take the Focus in case you feel you're missing out for any reason.

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kpop1234567890 · Answer

I just want to know from others who have given classic. I have also paid the money for classic already but just want to know whether I should go ahead and give or waste my money abd cancel and take Focus if classic has been getting unusually harder for others as well

AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi kpop1234567890,

We should keep in mind that negative experiences may be overreported. It's extremely unlikely that the previous version of the GMAT has suddenly become harder. As an adaptive test, the GMAT would normally not be expected to give a test taker hard questions unless he or she is doing well on the test.

bb · Answer

How did you do on time? Did you end up running out of time more so than on a practice test? Did anything go differently on the real exam?

kpop1234567890 · Answer

Last 6 questions no time for each of quant and verbal sections. 
Practice test I always completed on time since I scored 760.
RC passages in gmat official mock 6 were each of 1 para. Actual exam had 4 RC passages each of 4 Paras.
The intial verbal questions felt tough so much so that it broke confidence and took the time away from the latter which could have been easy. 
Maths lot of questions felt seeing for the first time.

kpop1234567890 · Answer

Hey 
 KarishmaB 
 GMATNinja 
 MartyMurray 
 GMATCoachBen 
 ScottTargetTestPrep 
 MartyTargetTestPrep 
 bb 
 Bunuel

Asking for your advice here. Cancel gmat classic and move to focus.

This will be my second attempt. Its the gmat classic. Its in next 20 days so i roughly have 120 hours more.
I have studied Sentence correction for 3 months mostly from TTP and lot of webinars but I am still scared and confused as day 1. I took a few official questions today marked as 600 in gmat club and got all wrong. If i am getting 600 wrong, lets not even get to 700. Each question also felt more surprising than the other as if I was learning something new from each. I was seeing Thursdays with Ron and felt irriated that each video was teaching me something completely new that I had no idea before.(Not irritated at the fact that I was learning but more anxious and confused that there are just endless grammar rules)

I remember my first exam moment where I had 0 confidence in each sentence correction question and that fear continues. Its as if that visual has anchored in my mind deeply.

If I give 60 out of this 120 hours to sentence correction I lose out on other sections where too I need to work more. Its like that exercise of where to allocate your maximum resources. I would definitely need more practice on CR, RC and quant as well its not like i am perfect in those but I feel there is a greater upside to practising them more vs SC where despite all practice in world you can still land clueless. 
I also feel if i dont score again in this attempt it will further lower my confidence. Not to mention if I flunk this attempt, I have to start again and dedicate a month or two more. More so how will i write the attempt if i have no confidence whatsoever. My another bias against sentence correction is you can never be sure of answer vs some clarity on topics like quant.

I have heard from a few folks that data interpretation is easier than sentence correction however I haven't taken it myself. My work doesn't involve working with data at all so this will be a new learning and i would have to equally invest my time here.I was judicious on how I want to allocate my 120 pending hours.

However what if since I have already put so many hours it could just work out hence cancelling won't make sense.Maybe today was bad day and I need to revise a few more concepts and watch all of Ron's videos judiciously.I have dedicated myself to gmat since last August and have put so many things on hold so there is also this idea if i do clear it faster im finally gonna get done with it. Also if i give the attempt and still fail it could still be a learning opportunity. My brother mentioned maybe I am just too close and I can't see it. I should keep practising more sums. He said sentence correction is a known devil vs data insights is not.

So should I just wing it(because i have put so many hours so i am very close) and see how it goes or better to cancel(despite the financial burden) and stick to focus?

bb · Answer

Your problem is time management. I don’t think you need to take another course.

I think you are mistaken by expecting to taking a relaxed test after finishing a course. Nobody takes a relaxed test and very few people have time left over at the end. As a matter of fact, if you have time left over, you also not managing your time well.

The goal is not to answer every question correctly because that is impossible for all but four or five people here on GMAT club… the goal should be getting the maximum score that you can get in the most optimal time. To achieve that goal, means using the time wisely on the test. Unfortunately, it sounds like you had no time left for the last six questions in both quant and verbal. You need to have time left for those questions which means you have to guess some earlier questions and you have to move on and not take more than two minutes per question.

You took a test like a person who overspent their money on credit cards. You weigh out spent the time you had one way of courses to get a second or a third job and try to make more money so you can keep spending it but the other option is to not spend your money so use your time And cut your losses when you cannot answer your question .

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GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Ultimately, the classic version will no longer be available after January. If you're curious about the Focus, perhaps take an Official Focus mock to see how you find it.

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ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Getting the last 6 Q's wrong in each section will destroy your score. 
I suspect that, if you can manage your time more effectively, you should score 700+ on test day. 
Here are a couple of articles that will help:
-  Timing Strategies For a Higher GMAT Quant Score 
-  GMAT Verbal Timing Strategy

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