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Updated on: 01 May 2008, 04:16
So I went through my first sitting yesterday. I thought I would do a brief recap.
7-11am:
Wake up at usual time (7:30am) and brush up on some last minute stuff while enjoying some slam bang 20/20 cricket courtesy IPL. I just chilled for the most part. I am from the school of thought which thinks, ‘If you dont know it the day of, you arent learning it then’ and consequently I just enjoyed my Saturday morning.
11am:
I learn that the TTC is on strike, this after 2 weeks of news suggesting that all was well between the corporation and the bargaining unit. Anyhow, I am able to get to the test center by the scheduled time. They inform me that they are running over time and hence my appointment doesnt begin till 12:10 am.
Start of Test:
The AWA is a breeze, or so I felt. The issues were actually not that boring and consequently I found writing about them unburdensome. I finished both essays with about 3-4 minutes in hand, I wrote at a steady pace and didnt find this section of the exam tiring.
1st Break:
Despite itching to call my better half and find out if the Rajasthan Royals defeated the Bangalore boys I refrained. I have heard of instances where people have been ‘failed’ for using mobile technology in between breaks.
Quantitative Section:
I start off decently, but soon enough I find myself getting stuck. There seem to be some question types/structures I havent seen before. I wasted some time on one of the new ones, and consequently was playing catch up the rest of the test. I felt like I did alright when it was all said and done. However, I could certainly not say with any level of confidence that I would hit anything more than 45.
2nd Break:
Get some water and chat up some of my fellow test takers. Most of them seemed to have breezed through their math, which seemed odd to me. Anyways, I quickly get back to the test center, which requires more security than Canadian immigration!!!
Verbal:
The verbal seemed to flow pretty nicely for me and as usual I finished with about 20 minutes to spare. I found some of the reading comprehension sections pretty tough, the sentence correction were easier than expected. I was hoping to see something north of 42 on it.
Drumroll: Score
So after answering some more questions about myself, my interests blah blah. I get the score:
Q - 47 , 81 percentile
V - 40, 89 percentile
Overall score - 710, 93 percentile
Summary:
This exactly the kind of score I was not looking forward to getting. It has left me in a quandary over whether I should do it once over to try and push the overall score to 760+. Anyhow, I am going to do some other things this weekend and figure out early this week whether I am going to give another run.
7-11am:
Wake up at usual time (7:30am) and brush up on some last minute stuff while enjoying some slam bang 20/20 cricket courtesy IPL. I just chilled for the most part. I am from the school of thought which thinks, ‘If you dont know it the day of, you arent learning it then’ and consequently I just enjoyed my Saturday morning.
11am:
I learn that the TTC is on strike, this after 2 weeks of news suggesting that all was well between the corporation and the bargaining unit. Anyhow, I am able to get to the test center by the scheduled time. They inform me that they are running over time and hence my appointment doesnt begin till 12:10 am.
Start of Test:
The AWA is a breeze, or so I felt. The issues were actually not that boring and consequently I found writing about them unburdensome. I finished both essays with about 3-4 minutes in hand, I wrote at a steady pace and didnt find this section of the exam tiring.
1st Break:
Despite itching to call my better half and find out if the Rajasthan Royals defeated the Bangalore boys I refrained. I have heard of instances where people have been ‘failed’ for using mobile technology in between breaks.
Quantitative Section:
I start off decently, but soon enough I find myself getting stuck. There seem to be some question types/structures I havent seen before. I wasted some time on one of the new ones, and consequently was playing catch up the rest of the test. I felt like I did alright when it was all said and done. However, I could certainly not say with any level of confidence that I would hit anything more than 45.
2nd Break:
Get some water and chat up some of my fellow test takers. Most of them seemed to have breezed through their math, which seemed odd to me. Anyways, I quickly get back to the test center, which requires more security than Canadian immigration!!!
Verbal:
The verbal seemed to flow pretty nicely for me and as usual I finished with about 20 minutes to spare. I found some of the reading comprehension sections pretty tough, the sentence correction were easier than expected. I was hoping to see something north of 42 on it.
Drumroll: Score
So after answering some more questions about myself, my interests blah blah. I get the score:
Q - 47 , 81 percentile
V - 40, 89 percentile
Overall score - 710, 93 percentile
Summary:
This exactly the kind of score I was not looking forward to getting. It has left me in a quandary over whether I should do it once over to try and push the overall score to 760+. Anyhow, I am going to do some other things this weekend and figure out early this week whether I am going to give another run.
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. I am in the same boat as you, and I've realised that to bump up the score significantly, I need to bump up my verbal score from 40 to 43+. This means actually learning sentence correction rules rather than just relying on the ear and volume practice. Also quant 48+ means not only developing fundamentals (I am talking hard number theory, inequalities, mathematically intensive word problems, probability and combinatorials ) along with eliminating all silly errors.
