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05 Sep 2022, 09:30
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Hi
I prepared for 3 months for the GMAT starting from June 5. I appeared for my exam on September 5. I was doing this with a 10-6 job. But I had enough time in the evening to prepare, approx 3 hours. I took a 15 day off before the exam and devoted all my time to mocks.
I joined one on one classes and for the first two months, I worked on the concepts. I practiced various levels of questions from each topic in Quant. Likewise with Verbal, I practiced topic-wise and then did a mixed bag of questions from OG19.
Towards the end of the second month, I practiced half of Quant and Data Sufficiency from OG20. In the last month, I gave 10 sectional mocks each. I agree, I did not evaluate these well. However, when I gave the GMATPrep mocks (I gave 6) I scored an average of 590-600.
I did not understand some topics in quant and for the full-length mocks, I also prepared and worked with an Error Log after someone from this portal suggested the same. In verbal, I was not sure about the Critical Reasoning section as I had not practiced it enough, however, I was confident about RC and SC.
I scored only a 540 on the actual exam. I was not anxious because I am generally good at taking exams even when I am not prepared. The exam center was peaceful so that did not impact my performance either. Unlike during mocks, I did not face any time crunch in the Quant section and apparently thought that it was going well. This is why I was able to perform better in Verbal in the main exam. However, I am devastated as I cannot understand where I went wrong.
My scores:
Scaled Score Percentile
IR 5 47
Quant 35 20
Verbal 30 56
Total 540 31
I want to retake the exam and am hoping that people here can give me some guidance about how I should go about this.
Thanks a lot for taking out the time to help.
I prepared for 3 months for the GMAT starting from June 5. I appeared for my exam on September 5. I was doing this with a 10-6 job. But I had enough time in the evening to prepare, approx 3 hours. I took a 15 day off before the exam and devoted all my time to mocks.
I joined one on one classes and for the first two months, I worked on the concepts. I practiced various levels of questions from each topic in Quant. Likewise with Verbal, I practiced topic-wise and then did a mixed bag of questions from OG19.
Towards the end of the second month, I practiced half of Quant and Data Sufficiency from OG20. In the last month, I gave 10 sectional mocks each. I agree, I did not evaluate these well. However, when I gave the GMATPrep mocks (I gave 6) I scored an average of 590-600.
I did not understand some topics in quant and for the full-length mocks, I also prepared and worked with an Error Log after someone from this portal suggested the same. In verbal, I was not sure about the Critical Reasoning section as I had not practiced it enough, however, I was confident about RC and SC.
I scored only a 540 on the actual exam. I was not anxious because I am generally good at taking exams even when I am not prepared. The exam center was peaceful so that did not impact my performance either. Unlike during mocks, I did not face any time crunch in the Quant section and apparently thought that it was going well. This is why I was able to perform better in Verbal in the main exam. However, I am devastated as I cannot understand where I went wrong.
My scores:
Scaled Score Percentile
IR 5 47
Quant 35 20
Verbal 30 56
Total 540 31
I want to retake the exam and am hoping that people here can give me some guidance about how I should go about this.
Thanks a lot for taking out the time to help.
05 Sep 2022, 10:27
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Scoring 30 in Verbal in two months of preparation is surely an achievement. You must retake GMAT after two-three months of rigorous preparation. All the Best.
05 Sep 2022, 10:37
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Sorry to hear about your experience. Is your goal to get 600?
There’s a pretty good chance you got caught in a few silly mistakes or traps without realizing it in the beginning of your Quan section and you never recovered my guess is that would be the most likely explanation. What was the section order of the test that you chose? Did it start with quant?
I think you need to focus on the quant and based on the performance at least on the official test, it looks like you really need to focus on the fundamentals and not venture past medium level questions.
And in terms of your question if you should retake, that’s a personal question and really depends on a number of factors including your free time and ability to focus on it for the next month or so. My suggestion for retakes is to either restart a whole three month cycle after a break or to do it quickly within no more than four weeks. To me it seems that provides the best results.
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There’s a pretty good chance you got caught in a few silly mistakes or traps without realizing it in the beginning of your Quan section and you never recovered my guess is that would be the most likely explanation. What was the section order of the test that you chose? Did it start with quant?
I think you need to focus on the quant and based on the performance at least on the official test, it looks like you really need to focus on the fundamentals and not venture past medium level questions.
And in terms of your question if you should retake, that’s a personal question and really depends on a number of factors including your free time and ability to focus on it for the next month or so. My suggestion for retakes is to either restart a whole three month cycle after a break or to do it quickly within no more than four weeks. To me it seems that provides the best results.
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