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Parnika182
Joined: 14 May 2019
Last visit: 21 Jan 2026
Posts: 19
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Location: India
Schools: Haas '23 (WD) HEC (WD) Kellogg '23 (D) Darden '23 (A) Ross '23 (WL) Tuck '23 (WD) CBS '23 (WD) Johnson'23 (WL) Tepper '23 (A$) Kenan-Flagler'23 (A$) Sloan '23 (WD) Stern '23 (WD) McCombs '23 (WD) Booth '23 (WD) Fuqua '23 (WD) ISB'22 (A) Kelley '23 (A$)
GMAT 1: 740 Q49 V42 (Online)
Schools: Haas '23 (WD) HEC (WD) Kellogg '23 (D) Darden '23 (A) Ross '23 (WL) Tuck '23 (WD) CBS '23 (WD) Johnson'23 (WL) Tepper '23 (A$) Kenan-Flagler'23 (A$) Sloan '23 (WD) Stern '23 (WD) McCombs '23 (WD) Booth '23 (WD) Fuqua '23 (WD) ISB'22 (A) Kelley '23 (A$)
GMAT 1: 740 Q49 V42 (Online)
Posts: 19
29 Jul 2020, 04:25
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Hi Everyone,
I wrote my GMAT on the 24th of July, i.e. last Friday and received my score early morning today. Gmatclub has been extremely helpful to me and I hope this debrief will help some of you.
Background: I am an engineer(from India) with 3 years of work experience. This was my first attempt at GMAT, though I had been thinking about it for quite some time.
Materials Used: Verbal: OG, Manhattan books; Quant: OG, Gmat club Math book; (I felt comfortable with most concepts, just needed something to brush up); CATs: Veritas CATs and GMATprep
The biggest obstacles for me were dealing with my test anxiety and making time for prep along with my office. I suffer from extreme test anxiety and have literal panic attacks during such exams.
I started my prep about 3 months ago and decided to make a plan.
After reading a lot of blogs on e-gmathttps://e-gmat.com/ and here on gmatclub, I decided to
1. Finish the OG and give a mock test
2. Depending on the result identify weaknesses and allocate time for verbal and quant
3. Finish the theory in 2 months, give another mock test
4. Focus on dealing with test anxiety and identify the best test-taking strategies.
According to the plan, I finished OG and gave my first mock test, scored a 680(Official). I was weaker in verbal than in quant, so I dedicated 70% time to verbal and the rest to quant. I did not have a lot of trouble understanding the material, manhattan books are pure gold!! Finished the theory and the next mock test I gave resulted in a 710(Official). I was happy with the progress but knew I could do better. 2.5 months had passed and I decided to book a date. The next few weeks were extremely hectic for me.
After analyzing my performance, I realized 2 things, 1. I wasn't very comfortable with my answers in SC and ended up choosing the wrong ones( and wasting a lot of time) if stuck between two options and 2. I was not managing my time properly. This meant I needed to work on my test-taking strategy. So I researched about the same, found some really nice blogs on Kaplan and e-gmat, and decided that I had to write down my strategy on my whiteboard so I can keep a check on time without panicking. This really helped me a lot. About being confused, I followed the eliminate the splits strategy suggested by e-gmat for SC. This raised my score to 750s and above in mocks.
To deal with anxiety and time management I did the following:
Anxiety: while making my timing strategy I decided to give myself 1.5-minute breaks after 10 questions to calm myself down, I took deep breaths and hummed a light tune in my head.
Time management: I made a time-table for myself, restricting my office work to 7 in the evening, a two hour break post that (which included dinner), and followed by 2-3 hours of studying. (I read this prioritizing strategy in the very famous book Eat that frog and it worked for me). On the weekends I had more freedom to study for 5-6 hours but my work sometimes required me to work on the weekends so that was that!
I got a whopping 780 on the final official mock I gave two days before the exam and was very confident for test day. A day before the exam I binge-watched Netflix and got a good night's sleep.
Test-Day: I was extremely nervous about the test, my appointment was at 3:15 PM, I logged into the system at 2:45. The check-in process was smooth and the test started right on time. I did not have issues navigating through quant and finished the section 10 minutes early. I relaxed for 8 minutes before the next section and began verbal. That's when everything went haywire, I started panicking a lot and was behind time. I murmured questions and the proctor came in to tell me not to do that, it increased my anxiety even more. I somehow managed to finish all questions but was mentally drained. I took my 5-minute break, stretched my legs a bit, and came back for IR which went smoothly.
The results came in 3 days later and though I did not jump on the score as it did not match my mock tests', I was satisfied because this will help me get into my target schools.
Some tips for GMAT online:
1. NEVER leave the camera without informing the proctor.
2. USE your optional break, it helps
3. ALWAYS practice your mock tests just as you would give your real one, especially if you get anxious ( I lacked here and that resulted in anxiety on test day)
4. ALWAYS run a system test one day before appearing
My purpose of writing this debrief is to talk about test anxiety and time management and how everyone can fight through these challenges.
Special thanks to egmat , abhimahna, GMATNinja , chetan2u , mikemcgarry , ScottTargetTestPrep and Bunuel , all of you made my life simpler.
All the very best to everyone!!
I wrote my GMAT on the 24th of July, i.e. last Friday and received my score early morning today. Gmatclub has been extremely helpful to me and I hope this debrief will help some of you.
Background: I am an engineer(from India) with 3 years of work experience. This was my first attempt at GMAT, though I had been thinking about it for quite some time.
Materials Used: Verbal: OG, Manhattan books; Quant: OG, Gmat club Math book; (I felt comfortable with most concepts, just needed something to brush up); CATs: Veritas CATs and GMATprep
The biggest obstacles for me were dealing with my test anxiety and making time for prep along with my office. I suffer from extreme test anxiety and have literal panic attacks during such exams.
I started my prep about 3 months ago and decided to make a plan.
After reading a lot of blogs on e-gmathttps://e-gmat.com/ and here on gmatclub, I decided to
1. Finish the OG and give a mock test
2. Depending on the result identify weaknesses and allocate time for verbal and quant
3. Finish the theory in 2 months, give another mock test
4. Focus on dealing with test anxiety and identify the best test-taking strategies.
According to the plan, I finished OG and gave my first mock test, scored a 680(Official). I was weaker in verbal than in quant, so I dedicated 70% time to verbal and the rest to quant. I did not have a lot of trouble understanding the material, manhattan books are pure gold!! Finished the theory and the next mock test I gave resulted in a 710(Official). I was happy with the progress but knew I could do better. 2.5 months had passed and I decided to book a date. The next few weeks were extremely hectic for me.
After analyzing my performance, I realized 2 things, 1. I wasn't very comfortable with my answers in SC and ended up choosing the wrong ones( and wasting a lot of time) if stuck between two options and 2. I was not managing my time properly. This meant I needed to work on my test-taking strategy. So I researched about the same, found some really nice blogs on Kaplan and e-gmat, and decided that I had to write down my strategy on my whiteboard so I can keep a check on time without panicking. This really helped me a lot. About being confused, I followed the eliminate the splits strategy suggested by e-gmat for SC. This raised my score to 750s and above in mocks.
To deal with anxiety and time management I did the following:
Anxiety: while making my timing strategy I decided to give myself 1.5-minute breaks after 10 questions to calm myself down, I took deep breaths and hummed a light tune in my head.
Time management: I made a time-table for myself, restricting my office work to 7 in the evening, a two hour break post that (which included dinner), and followed by 2-3 hours of studying. (I read this prioritizing strategy in the very famous book Eat that frog and it worked for me). On the weekends I had more freedom to study for 5-6 hours but my work sometimes required me to work on the weekends so that was that!
I got a whopping 780 on the final official mock I gave two days before the exam and was very confident for test day. A day before the exam I binge-watched Netflix and got a good night's sleep.
Test-Day: I was extremely nervous about the test, my appointment was at 3:15 PM, I logged into the system at 2:45. The check-in process was smooth and the test started right on time. I did not have issues navigating through quant and finished the section 10 minutes early. I relaxed for 8 minutes before the next section and began verbal. That's when everything went haywire, I started panicking a lot and was behind time. I murmured questions and the proctor came in to tell me not to do that, it increased my anxiety even more. I somehow managed to finish all questions but was mentally drained. I took my 5-minute break, stretched my legs a bit, and came back for IR which went smoothly.
The results came in 3 days later and though I did not jump on the score as it did not match my mock tests', I was satisfied because this will help me get into my target schools.
Some tips for GMAT online:
1. NEVER leave the camera without informing the proctor.
2. USE your optional break, it helps
3. ALWAYS practice your mock tests just as you would give your real one, especially if you get anxious ( I lacked here and that resulted in anxiety on test day)
4. ALWAYS run a system test one day before appearing
My purpose of writing this debrief is to talk about test anxiety and time management and how everyone can fight through these challenges.
Special thanks to egmat , abhimahna, GMATNinja , chetan2u , mikemcgarry , ScottTargetTestPrep and Bunuel , all of you made my life simpler.
All the very best to everyone!!
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29 Jul 2020, 04:35
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Thank you Parnika182 for such a detailed debrief. There is a lot to learn from your experience.
I have my GMAT in one month from now.
I am successfully managing my time on mocks now. I wanted to ask some questions it will be helpful if you can answer those.
1. Did you give all gmatprep mocks?
2. There are some speculations regarding difficulty level of quant questions on real GMAT. I have read several times that quant in official exam is way tougher than official mocks. Is it a myth or true?
3. Have you struggled in improving CR part? If yes how did you overcome it?
4. Did you follow some verbal skipping or guessing strategy?
Thank you once again. And all the best for your future goals.
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I have my GMAT in one month from now.
I am successfully managing my time on mocks now. I wanted to ask some questions it will be helpful if you can answer those.
1. Did you give all gmatprep mocks?
2. There are some speculations regarding difficulty level of quant questions on real GMAT. I have read several times that quant in official exam is way tougher than official mocks. Is it a myth or true?
3. Have you struggled in improving CR part? If yes how did you overcome it?
4. Did you follow some verbal skipping or guessing strategy?
Thank you once again. And all the best for your future goals.
Posted from my mobile device
Parnika182
Joined: 14 May 2019
Last visit: 21 Jan 2026
Posts: 19
Given Kudos: 78
Location: India
Schools: Haas '23 (WD) HEC (WD) Kellogg '23 (D) Darden '23 (A) Ross '23 (WL) Tuck '23 (WD) CBS '23 (WD) Johnson'23 (WL) Tepper '23 (A$) Kenan-Flagler'23 (A$) Sloan '23 (WD) Stern '23 (WD) McCombs '23 (WD) Booth '23 (WD) Fuqua '23 (WD) ISB'22 (A) Kelley '23 (A$)
GMAT 1: 740 Q49 V42 (Online)
Schools: Haas '23 (WD) HEC (WD) Kellogg '23 (D) Darden '23 (A) Ross '23 (WL) Tuck '23 (WD) CBS '23 (WD) Johnson'23 (WL) Tepper '23 (A$) Kenan-Flagler'23 (A$) Sloan '23 (WD) Stern '23 (WD) McCombs '23 (WD) Booth '23 (WD) Fuqua '23 (WD) ISB'22 (A) Kelley '23 (A$)
GMAT 1: 740 Q49 V42 (Online)
Posts: 19
29 Jul 2020, 05:07
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Thelionking1234
Hi Thelionking1234 ,
I am happy to help.
1. Yes, I gave all the gmatprep mock tests because for me it was more important to get used to the testing pattern than to just practice questions.
2. I did not personally find the difficulty to be harder than mocks, I got similar scores on both, though I do make silly mistakes while doing maths and I think that happened to me during the test.
3. I did struggle with CR, I followed a strategy for each type of question, there are good strategies mentioned in the Manhattan CR book. For example, while doing boldface questions, divide the argument into P, C and X ( premise, conclusion, and everything other than that). In Assumption, I would focus specifically on the conclusion of the argument and always verify my answer via the negation technique. These are just a couple of strategies that helped.
4. Yes I had a guessing strategy in place and I think everyone should be prepared to let go of questions to enhance your overall score. This is a good youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIEpv3jptg0 to understand the trade-off between time and accuracy and importance of guessing.
All the very best to you!!
Thanks
Parnika
