pinakinjsaojoij wrote:
Greetings everyone, hope you all are doing well and preparing well for GMAT, here is my GMAT online experience.
I took the GMAT on 28 march 2022. experience was good But I didn't get the marks, what I was aiming for. I got 550 (Q49, V17) i don't know how I score this much less because in official GMAT test I was scoring 590 and 600 (Q50, V23). Otherwise, proctor was good, i had a taken each break and relaxed a bit. Quant part was easy for i had a 10 mins to spare, from starting i knew that i had time so I was not rushing but after completing 10 question I had 45 mins so after that I had given more time to each question then before then also I completed 10 mins before. One most Important tip for Quant after you tick you answer give about 5 sec before clicking next to check your answer so the mistakes would be minimized and it is the most important tip for higher accuracy.
For verbal part, I don't know what happened with me but I scored less, I Felt that question are easy in verbal which was not happed to me before.
I would suggest don't take the IMS classes, I did that and the verbal was so bad, go for only professional Course only.
planning to take second try after 2.5 months, planning to take
E-GMAT course for 2 months.
Any advice would be welcomed.
Thanks,
Pinakin Patel
Thank you for sharing, Pinakin Patel, and congratulations on the high Quant score. I have no idea what it feels like to finish the section with ten minutes to spare. It seems reasonable that, with a little extra care, you could raise that to a 50 or 51. The Verbal section was not too great, by your own admission. I am curious to learn more about what you disliked about the IMS Verbal course. (I did not even know that IMS was a company based in India.) Why was it
so bad? I press the issue because, without further information, it can appear as though you are using the course as a scapegoat for your performance. Did you take notes? Did you adhere to the methods taught? Were there assessments during the course that allowed you and your teacher(s) to gauge your progress? I simply do not know enough about the program to tell whether your experience was atypical.
In the next two and a half months, you will want to dedicate at least two of those months to making gains in Verbal, most likely across the board. If you decide to go for an e-course, get everything you can from it. Take notes, practice, review, and repeat the process. Set accuracy benchmarks for different types of questions (e.g., Medium), and see if you can reach them consistently when you work through practice sets. I know that some companies use in-house questions and provide the analytics for you through these sets, but there is near universal agreement among tutors and teachers of the test that nothing beats official material for Verbal preparation. Make use of official questions on a regular basis, even if you also supplement with questions by a third party. It is important to develop a sense of how official questions are phrased, as well as the type of logic that is tested. Many companies produce their own questions with good intentions, but sometimes these questions are not so tightly wound, and, in any case, they are not created by the same people who write the questions you will see on the exam.
Best of luck with your studies.
- Andrew
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10 Apr 2022, 07:16
