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09 Nov 2022, 07:24
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Hi guys,
My exam is less than 1.5 days away and today I took a final practice test and the results felt like a tight slap on my face.
Here's some background. I started my GMAT prep in early September and focused mainly on Quant. Since Quant is easier to score in, I didn't want to lose any points there. For Verbal, I stuck to self study now and then, relying on YouTube videos and solutions provided on the forum. I know, not the best tactic but it seemed to work for a while. Before today's travesty, I had taken 3 Official GMAT Prep tests (1, 2 & 5). In each of them my verbal score stayed 40 (while my Quant fluctuated mildly). In the first two my pain point was SC so I devoted my time to fixing that. CR was in the middle and RC was the strongest. In PT 5 (which I took 4 days ago), the composition changed a bit, my SC and CR improved while my RC worsened slightly. Not surprising as I had practiced it the least. But my overall was the same.
Today was a completely different ballgame. My verbal score dropped to an abominable 29. Here are some of the contributors:
1. Renovation noise by my neighbours
2. I switched to a different room with a smaller desk and poorer lighting to muffle the noise.
3. Some interuptions (doorbells)
4. Devoting too much time on CR (many of which I got wrong) and losing track of the clock.
The CRs I got in this test seemed more confusing than usual. Probably I was not in my element, my mind felt clouded reading the passages and comprehending tricky sentence constructions (double negatives etc). I lingered too much on the answer choices to make sure I didn't fall for a trap, and in doing so, ended up deciding against answer choices tat were in fact correct but seemed like trap answers to me (overthinking much?).
My last 4 questions were on a science RC that was 4 fat paras long and read like a dissertation in greek (at least that's how it felt to my brain which was trying to grapple with the fact that it had less than 10 mins to read the entire thing, make sense of it and then answer 4 questions).I obviously couldn't do justice to the paras and got 3/4 wrong. Of the 5 RC-related Qs I got wrong, this accounted for 3. I'm pretty sure if I had the time I would have got these.
Anyway, that's that. I would like to believe that this is an anomaly bearing in mind all the aforementioned factors. Still, I would really appreciate any advice or suggestions by the experts on the forum
. I don't intend to practice more questions tomorrow, only reviewing my error log, so I can keep a clear head till D-day.
Regards,
A dejected test-taker
My exam is less than 1.5 days away and today I took a final practice test and the results felt like a tight slap on my face.
Here's some background. I started my GMAT prep in early September and focused mainly on Quant. Since Quant is easier to score in, I didn't want to lose any points there. For Verbal, I stuck to self study now and then, relying on YouTube videos and solutions provided on the forum. I know, not the best tactic but it seemed to work for a while. Before today's travesty, I had taken 3 Official GMAT Prep tests (1, 2 & 5). In each of them my verbal score stayed 40 (while my Quant fluctuated mildly). In the first two my pain point was SC so I devoted my time to fixing that. CR was in the middle and RC was the strongest. In PT 5 (which I took 4 days ago), the composition changed a bit, my SC and CR improved while my RC worsened slightly. Not surprising as I had practiced it the least. But my overall was the same.
Today was a completely different ballgame. My verbal score dropped to an abominable 29. Here are some of the contributors:
1. Renovation noise by my neighbours
2. I switched to a different room with a smaller desk and poorer lighting to muffle the noise.
3. Some interuptions (doorbells)
4. Devoting too much time on CR (many of which I got wrong) and losing track of the clock.
The CRs I got in this test seemed more confusing than usual. Probably I was not in my element, my mind felt clouded reading the passages and comprehending tricky sentence constructions (double negatives etc). I lingered too much on the answer choices to make sure I didn't fall for a trap, and in doing so, ended up deciding against answer choices tat were in fact correct but seemed like trap answers to me (overthinking much?).
My last 4 questions were on a science RC that was 4 fat paras long and read like a dissertation in greek (at least that's how it felt to my brain which was trying to grapple with the fact that it had less than 10 mins to read the entire thing, make sense of it and then answer 4 questions).I obviously couldn't do justice to the paras and got 3/4 wrong. Of the 5 RC-related Qs I got wrong, this accounted for 3. I'm pretty sure if I had the time I would have got these.
Anyway, that's that. I would like to believe that this is an anomaly bearing in mind all the aforementioned factors. Still, I would really appreciate any advice or suggestions by the experts on the forum
. I don't intend to practice more questions tomorrow, only reviewing my error log, so I can keep a clear head till D-day. Regards,
A dejected test-taker
09 Nov 2022, 08:30
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GC Forum Quiz will provide an excellent resource for revision of the concepts. You need to solve the varied difficulty level questions, and study the associated explanations.
09 Nov 2022, 09:02
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Unfortunately at this point, I don't think I can do a lot of practice questions without getting mentally saturated and fatigued before exam day.
