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13 Dec 2018, 13:19
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I’ve hired several brilliant gmat tutors and they both said essentially the same thing...”you have a solid understanding of all the fundamentals (Quant) and can solve problems efficiently once you recognize the right way to solve, but for some reason you are not seeing the correct solutions the first time through.”
Unfortunately, these teachers don’t know how to prescribe a solution for this- and I’m running out of time!
I think I understand how stress works and have made many positive changes in my life over the past few years, from improved self-talk, visualization, goal-setting, and most of all to surrounding myself with positive people and things.
However, when I got into that test center last time it was as if I was being chased by a lion for 4 hours.
I finished the first 10 quant problems with 43 minutes remaining on the clock, and totally blanked on many of them. My first official score in October was 600 (Q32 V40), then after doing tons of additional training and official practice problems, I give a terrible performance of 550 (Q33 V33). I’ve been studying since late July.
I feel like I went stress-blind and scored way below my actual ability.
Have YOU overcome this? Or have you trained a student to overcome this? How? What was the root cause and solution?
I can score over 40 on both sections in practice. Next test is 12/29- help!
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Unfortunately, these teachers don’t know how to prescribe a solution for this- and I’m running out of time!
I think I understand how stress works and have made many positive changes in my life over the past few years, from improved self-talk, visualization, goal-setting, and most of all to surrounding myself with positive people and things.
However, when I got into that test center last time it was as if I was being chased by a lion for 4 hours.
I finished the first 10 quant problems with 43 minutes remaining on the clock, and totally blanked on many of them. My first official score in October was 600 (Q32 V40), then after doing tons of additional training and official practice problems, I give a terrible performance of 550 (Q33 V33). I’ve been studying since late July.
I feel like I went stress-blind and scored way below my actual ability.
Have YOU overcome this? Or have you trained a student to overcome this? How? What was the root cause and solution?
I can score over 40 on both sections in practice. Next test is 12/29- help!
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13 Dec 2018, 20:41
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V40 (90%) is a really good score, and what it tells me is that your reasoning skills are excellent. On the other hand, your Q32-33 (21-23%) scores are definitely not as good (such scores typically show that the test taker is not very comfortable with the basic concepts). Q40 (39%) is a better score, but even that score indicates that the test taker needs to continue working on the basics.
Because scaled scores don't mean much in quant, you should not assume right now that you need to work only on handling pressure. Take a look at the quant percentiles on this page and check what score you'd be comfortable looking at as a good indicator that your fundamental concepts are not whatever it is that is holding you back.
Additionally, you should check for comfort and time pressure as well. That is, there is a difference between simply knowing something and knowing it really well.
14 Dec 2018, 22:35
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V33 and V40 shows that you are pretty much fine with verbal, while Q32 and Q33 are low scores for quant. Looking at the time is counter productive, in a sense that you have to look at the watch but sometimes looking too much at watch end up in time wastage. I think there are time strategies for Quant; but create your own.
Time -- No. of questions left
62 -- 31
42 -- 21
22 -- 10
2 -- 1
Also look at the Verbal-Quant VS Quant-Verbal option on GMAT prep tests; Do you want to do verbal first to gain some confidence or want to do quant first to counter the weak areas with fresh mind. But before you attempt any other official test, you need to be comfortable with the basics. Test Anxiety can be lowered by not thinking too much during the tests. Take each question on merit and answer that. Even if you realize that you made a mistake in your last question, leave that thought out and concentrate on the current question. Consequent wrong answers have major impact on your overall score.
In your actual GMAT and mock GMAT prep test look what are the Quant areas that you can improve upon. Get the ESR for both the test. I am sure you are making too many mistakes in the first 10 questions and that is making it difficult for your score to go up.
Also create an error log to identify the type and cause of mistake. Sometimes you may be doing lot of silly mistakes (calculation/Oversight etc) that may be leading to a wrong answer. You will have to do a thorough analysis of your weakness and fix it one by one. Not everything will happen overnight but slow and steady effort will take you closer to your desired score.
I went from V23 to V38. Even though my score improvement was in verbal but the basics of score improvement can be applied in your case as well.
Below is the link of my experience.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/590-q48-v23- ... l#p1990093
