yashvic wrote:
Hey
AndrewN Firstly, Thankyou so much for taking out your time and giving me such a detailed response.
You are right that I should have been expecting a 740, but you see,in each test the variable part was verbal and not quant, being a non native speaker and someone who has always been good at quants, along with the fact that I was consistently scoring Q 50 on the practice tests, scoring a Q48 is disappointing. However, my Verbal score somehow made up for it on the test day.
Talking about anxiety,
I took the GMAT Online Exam and hence I believe that although it did play a role but not to a great extent.
About my prepI saw All the videos on
E GMAT forum
Quant
1. I did my prep
E GMAT and solved all the questions on the portal.The number of questions available were good enough for a lot of practice, and there were tough questions available on the topics like work/time as mentioned by you.
2. I consistently took Gmat Club Maths Tests everyday.
Verbal
1. Again, I solved all the questions on
E GMAT Platform
2. I solved all the SC questions from
OG and Verbal Review.
3. For, CR , i have honestly been a natural at this, but I did make sure that I solve complete all official questions.
4. RC : I just saw Veritas videos and practiced a few questions from 1000 RC.
Now, I do understand that it might be tough for me to go from V41 to V44+ could be a task because, it wasnt like I was scoring more than V42 before the exam as much as I would have loved to.
However, I strongly believe that I could have done a way better job when it comes to quant and therefore, plan to take the test again.
I would take your suggestions and go through
GMATNinja conceptual videos along with Thurdays with Ron Series and try to do maximum practice from the Question Directory.
Although, I do understand that everyone has their own pattern , but I would love to know your thoughts regarding my prep and the elements you think were lacking in my prep ,now that I have detailed it down.
Also, I am aim to take the test again in 15 days, Do you think that is a good idea?
Once again, thankyou for your time and reply!
Hello again,
yashvic. If you are pleased with the
e-GMAT platform, then why not utilize it some more while you have access? Go through the video tutorials again on questions you have missed or do not understand. If you still do not understand how to approach such a question, look it up on the forum and see if another explanation makes more sense to you. Just do not let matters stand still or tell yourself—lie to yourself—that you get it when you do not. (No one else has to know.)
Speaking directly to your question, a retake in 15 days puts you in that volatile area in which the pendulum could really swing either way, based on nothing more than different administrations of the test. This is why GMAC™ puts score estimates at +/-20 points of your actual score. I can think of numerous counterexamples to this supposed measure of ability, but it is rare that someone retakes immediately and walks away with a target score. In fact, sometimes the score drops the second time around. You have to put everything into each effort, and I think in some cases, test-takers may be mentally worn down after pouring so much into the initial effort that they go in overconfident about their prospects on the retake.
Put in the amount of time you need. If you can make demonstrable progress, say, two mock test scores in that 760+ range, with no outlier in between, then yes, you are probably ready to give this thing another go.
Keep your nose down and work, work, work. You can get there, trust me.
- Andrew
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