I took a full practice
MGMAT CAT with AWA this weekend. 540 Q39 V27. While my Quant went up 3 points my Verbal dropped 6 points. I'm happy to see the improvement in Quant even if its 3 points. I don't know what happened on Verbal because I definitely felt more confident and comfortable going through the Verbal section on this test. One thing I noticed on this CAT was that I had a huge timing issue, I ended up guessing on about last 7 to 8 questions on each section and the last question on verbal got left blank because I ran out of time. I didn't have this problem on my last CAT as I finished my Quant in 72 minutes and Verbal in 69 minutes on that one.
I'm not going to let this score disappoint me and am continuing with my planned study. I have planned to start EMPOWERgmat this coming week and have another practice CAT scheduled next weekend. I'm hoping I'll see improvement, maybe something in the 600s especially because my last CAT (GMATprep CAT) was 570 Q36 V33 with no essay though, which means I should be close.
I have to say I felt very comfortable with the most of the Quant content while reviewing it from
MGMAT books last week. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I guess its the application of it that I have to get used to.
In the mean time please let me know what I should be doing. I'll be posting regularly about my progress on here and hopefully one day this thread will become a source of inspiration for others in terms of what can be achieved if one puts their mind to it. But I will need advice from those of you who have made it past 700 to get there. So keep it coming guys and I will do my best to follow it.