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GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   11 Apr 2021, 02:04
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I gave my Gmat this Friday i.e. 9th April. But I performed poorly. I got a score of 580( Q 47 V 24 IR 4). After 5 months of preparation and scoring well on the mocks i.e. consistently scoring well above 700 in the mocks, this score was unexpected for me. So I don't know what should I do now.

Since I have canceled my score and I am planning to give the GMAT exam again in a month or two, so can you please suggest to me what strategy should I adopt now and how should I proceed from now on, so that this time I can achieve my desired score.

Below I am attaching my ESR so that you can have a look at it and suggest to me for future strategy.

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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   11 Apr 2021, 03:17
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Hello Soumyadeep,

Your current GMAT score is shaky but you can surely achieve your target score. Keep your motivation high.

A score of 580 in the official GMAT test tells the entire story about how well prepared you are for the GMAT official test and how to change the gear now to meet the target score.

With my GMAT tutoring, guidance, and counseling experience, we have to accept the fact with a pinch of salt that diagnostic/ mock test scores are above then what one should expect in a real test. There is often dropping in the score. Some students have even experienced a drop of 100+ pointers. It is one of the realities, and your preparation should not sideline this fact.

You can schedule a Comprehensive counseling session for 30 mins with one of our experts:https://calendly.com/mathrevolution/1-on-1-session for detailed advice on your current study plans.

A couple of things that can be a noticeable barrier to your scores would be some or all of the below.

• No expert support (maybe) who can tutor, analyze, and guide you during your learning especially on hard level questions while stably hitting middle-level questions.
• Lack of many updated questions and practice in the recent exam trend
• Not well aligned with time to solve questions.

Since we are a math expert, we will recommend you go through our post on the GMAT club: Breakdown of GMAT math questions and types: https://gmatclub.com/forum/overview-of- ... l#p1641411

Register with MathRevolution https://www.mathrevolution.com/member/signup to get access to our 7-day full on-demand course (27 topics, 490 subtopics, and 1,500 questions) for free trial lessons.

700+ level questions https://www.mathrevolution.com/gmat/questionbank are separately available, too. Start with the learning of the concepts. Make a habit of taking notes during the initial learning of the concepts.

The day regular mock tests show the consistent score of Q48+ with V37+, then it will reflect the positive change in the score, and hence, your confidence will boost up. Gradually, with the help of mock tests, you will be able to compete with time and therefore, will be able to learn time management.

Follow the same procedure for Verbal.

We appreciate your time and patience in reading this reply.

Should you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@mathrevolution.com

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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   11 Apr 2021, 14:06
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Hi Soumyadeep,

I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though - and the data in your ESR - it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

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1) How many hours do you typically study each week?
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3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

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4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   11 Apr 2021, 14:18
Your Verbal is where you might want to focus your efforts. Getting the Quant to a Q48-Q49 level may be something to also do, but at a certain point it's going to be a steep hill for even a 1 Q increase (i.e. the Q49 to Q50 jump).

I enjoy tutoring Verbal and got a V48 on my last attempt. It's probably fair to say that there is a difference in what you need to focus on at different levels. A V24 probably means there are core fundamentals you still need to go over.

How is your logical trap recognition? If I said event B, follows event A, what is your immediate "test reaction"?
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   12 Apr 2021, 17:38
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Hi Soumyadeep,

I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT. The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.

Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than V24. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.

For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.

In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.

You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:

how to score a 700+ on the GMAT

Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   13 Apr 2021, 02:26
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Soumyadeeppal wrote:
Below I am attaching my ESR so that you can have a look at it and suggest to me for future strategy.

5th percentile in SC Soumyadeep!

How did you prepare in your first attempt?

Also, success in your second attempt has a lot to do with not doing what you did in the first attempt. You might want to go thru this article on retaking strategy.
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2021, 12:55
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Hi Soumyadeeppal.

To lock in a top quant score, you have to get stronger in your weaker quant areas. It's a little tough for me to tell what they are, because you ran out of time at the end of the quant section, so you may have missed questions that you would otherwise have gotten correct, but you can figure out which they are by considering which types of quant questions you'd rather not see when you take the GMAT. In any case, for each type of quant question that you have not yet fully mastered, make sure you know all the concepts involved, and then practice answering questions of that type, untimed at first, until you have mastered answering questions of that type. Then move on to the next type and do the same thing.

Also, your verbal score indicates that you likely have to adjust how you have been preparing for verbal. For a complete rundown on how to increase your verbal score, you could read this post. How to Score High in GMAT Verbal
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2021, 15:40
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Hello Soumyadeep,

Your current GMAT score is shaky but you can surely achieve your target score. Keep your motivation high.

A score of 580 in the official GMAT test tells the entire story about how well prepared you are for the GMAT official test and how to change the gear now to meet the target score.

With my GMAT tutoring, guidance, and counseling experience, we have to accept the fact with a pinch of salt that diagnostic/ mock test scores are above then what one should expect in a real test. There is often dropping in the score. Some students have even experienced a drop of 100+ pointers. It is one of the realities, and your preparation should not sideline this fact.

You can schedule a Comprehensive counseling session for 30 mins with one of our experts:https://calendly.com/mathrevolution/1-on-1-session for detailed advice on your current study plans.

A couple of things that can be a noticeable barrier to your scores would be some or all of the below.

• No expert support (maybe) who can tutor, analyze, and guide you during your learning especially on hard level questions while stably hitting middle-level questions.
• Lack of many updated questions and practice in the recent exam trend
• Not well aligned with time to solve questions.

Since we are a math expert, we will recommend you go through our post on the GMAT club: Breakdown of GMAT math questions and types: https://gmatclub.com/forum/overview-of- ... l#p1641411

Register with MathRevolution https://www.mathrevolution.com/member/signup to get access to our 7-day full on-demand course (27 topics, 490 subtopics, and 1,500 questions) for free trial lessons.

700+ level questions https://www.mathrevolution.com/gmat/questionbank are separately available, too. Start with the learning of the concepts. Make a habit of taking notes during the initial learning of the concepts.

The day regular mock tests show the consistent score of Q48+ with V37+, then it will reflect the positive change in the score, and hence, your confidence will boost up. Gradually, with the help of mock tests, you will be able to compete with time and therefore, will be able to learn time management.

Follow the same procedure for Verbal.

We appreciate your time and patience in reading this reply.

Should you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@mathrevolution.com

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Hi Math Revolution,
Thank you so much for your feedback. I will definitely keep that in mind whatever you have mentioned.
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2021, 15:45
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Hi Soumyadeeppal.

To lock in a top quant score, you have to get stronger in your weaker quant areas. It's a little tough for me to tell what they are, because you ran out of time at the end of the quant section, so you may have missed questions that you would otherwise have gotten correct, but you can figure out which they are by considering which types of quant questions you'd rather not see when you take the GMAT. In any case, for each type of quant question that you have not yet fully mastered, make sure you know all the concepts involved, and then practice answering questions of that type, untimed at first, until you have mastered answering questions of that type. Then move on to the next type and do the same thing.

Also, your verbal score indicates that you likely have to adjust how you have been preparing for verbal. For a complete rundown on how to increase your verbal score, you could read this post. How to Score High in GMAT Verbal


Hi,
Thank you so much for your valuable feedback. Since I have exhausted all the OG 2020, OG Verbal 20, OG 20 Advanced, OG 20 Quant, and Gmat prep questions for quant, so which extra question source will you recommend if I want to practice fresh questions.
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2021, 15:49
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Soumyadeeppal wrote:
Below I am attaching my ESR so that you can have a look at it and suggest to me for future strategy.

5th percentile in SC Soumyadeep!

How did you prepare in your first attempt?

Also, success in your second attempt has a lot to do with not doing what you did in the first attempt. You might want to go thru this article on retaking strategy.


Hi,
Thank you so much for your valuable feedback. I followed the intended meaning-based approach in SC during my prep phase. But during the real exam, I completely lost focus during verbal and my head was feeling so heavy that I couldn't even focus properly. What strategies will you recommend for verbal?

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GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2021, 16:04
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Hi Soumyadeep,

I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though - and the data in your ESR - it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) How many hours do you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used so far?
3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

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4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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Thank you Rich for replying back.
To answer your questions.

I used to study around 35 hours on an average every week.

I used the Gmat whiz platform for preparation and OG 20, OG Verbal and Quant 20, OG Advanced, and Gmat prep questions for practice. For mocks I gave the Gmat official mocks from 1-4, Gmat club mocks, 1 Manhattan, and 1 Veritas mock.

I used to take mock after every 4-5 days and I used to get around 50-51 in quant except in the beginning one or two and in Verbal I used to get around V 41 on average except a few at the beginning in which I got V 26 and V 37. But the real issue I feel that I didn't follow the same exam-like conditions during mocks. That's why in the exam, I completely lost focus during verbal. I couldn't even focus properly during verbal and I was feeling stressed.

Goals:
Since I come from a vast pool of male Indians with an Engineering background, I am targeting a score of 750.

Since I already have 2.5 years of experience, I am planning to apply for the fall '22 session. I am targeting US, European B-schools.

What strategies do you think I should adopt from now on? ( I am planning to give it again within the next 50-60 days).

In case you need to know anything else, please feel free to ask.

Thanks
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2021, 17:06
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Hi Soumyadeep,

I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT. The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.

Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than V24. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.

For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.

In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.

You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:

how to score a 700+ on the GMAT

Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?


Hi Scott,
Thank you so much for your feedback. I will definitely keep that in mind whatever you have mentioned.
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GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2021, 18:29
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Thank you so much for your valuable feedback. I followed the intended meaning-based approach in SC during my prep phase. But during the real exam, I completely lost focus during verbal and my head was feeling so heavy that I couldn't even focus properly. What strategies will you recommend for verbal?

Soumyadeeppal, there isn't really an intended meaning of a sentence in a SC question. There is only a meaning that the best version conveys, whatever that meaning is. So, the fact that you were using an "intended meaning" approach may help to explain your low SC score.
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Re: GMAT Retaking Strategy [#permalink] New post   16 Apr 2021, 15:00
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Hi Soumyadeep,

I've sent you a PM with an analysis of your ESR and some additional questions.

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Hi Soumyadeep,

I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT. The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.

Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than V24. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.

For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.

In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.

You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:

how to score a 700+ on the GMAT

Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?


Hi Scott,
Thank you so much for your feedback. I will definitely keep that in mind whatever you have mentioned.


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