GMAT Prep Scores going Down?

Hi gamecock15,

Since you have so little time before your Official GMAT, you probably won't be able to make any huge adjustments in how you deal with the Exam. Since your score goal is modest though, you can take advantage of some of the design elements of the Test. To start, you won't need to correctly answer ANY of the questions that you think are too hard or too 'weird' to hit your goal score, so your best option is to quickly dump those questions (take a quick guess and move on) so that you can spend the bulk of your time correctly answering all of the 'gettable' questions you face. That will require taking notes, doing all of the work on the pad, limiting the silly/little mistakes, etc.

You should also plan to post back here after you've taken the GMAT on Thursday.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Try not to push the difficulty level up like this. There's no guarantee that you'll get all 10 correct, and your (interim) score will almost certainly drop when you start running out of time.

Hello everyone thanks again for all the help,

I sat for the GMAT last Thursday, I unfortunately didn't do as well as I thought I would. Finishing with a overall score of 450 Q31 V21.

Although that is a lower score than I thought I would achieve, I see tremendous potential in that low score. In the sense that I made the exact Quant score that I predicted. Unfortunately I thought I would make a score of at least 28 in verbal, regardless I plan to take the exam again in 1 months time.

I plan to focus more on verbal, any thoughts on how I can raise my verbal score from a 21 to 28-30 in one month? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will of course keep lightly studying the quant section also, as my target score for the quant was already reached.

During the test I was quite nervous, and I thought I did way worse on the Quant section than I actually ended up doing. I fell for the classic gmat mistake, in that I considered my quant score to be very low. Therefore I didn't focus on the task at hand (verbal), I very much think that in one months time I will be able to raise my verbal score. Next time around I will know what to expect, and hopefully will be able to reach my target score.

Thanks again for all the help!

Gamecock15

Your verbal score (V21 is 26%) is actually slightly better than your quant score (Q31 is 23%). Looking to get verbal up to 28-30 (50-58%) could be the right strategy, but I think it'd be better to work on both sections.

Hi gamecock15,

With these Scaled Scores, you have ample opportunity to pick up points in BOTH the Quant and the Verbal. Before I recommend any additional resources, I'd like to know a bit more about the work that you've done and your timeline:

1) What practice materials have you used so far?
2) Have you scheduled your next Test Date yet?
3) What application deadline are you facing?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich