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Updated on: 01 Jan 2023, 22:14
Originally posted by asubhampanda on 01 Jan 2023, 20:57.
Last edited by asubhampanda on 01 Jan 2023, 22:14, edited 2 times in total.
Last edited by asubhampanda on 01 Jan 2023, 22:14, edited 2 times in total.
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Hi folks
I have prepared for GMAT from June 2022 to November 2022 putting almost 6 hours a day. I have attempted the official GMAT twice. In the first attempt I got a score of 690 (V37, Q47) in September and in the second attempt I got a 620 (V24, Q49) in November.
I started with a 510 cold mock test score and thanks to TTP materials, I could improve upto 690 in 4 months. However, after my first attempt I started using multiple other study materials for verbal resulting in a huge score drop of V37 to V24. I got a bit depressed after this attempt and couldn't continue my studies.
My score goal is 750 (Q50, V40) and I am planning to give two GMAT attempts (hope one will be sufficient) by March - April.
My concerns are below
1. I have exhausted almost all the official materials till now and this is making me think subconsciously that I can't get my target score.
2. I am not sure weather I should stick to a particular study materials or re-do the OG questions. Anyways I have exhausted the official mocks so I am not sure how I can assess my performance improvements.
3. Preparing alone seems like the toughest thing. I am lacking motivation to resume and I tend to give up when I get a sub 600 score in the mocks (mgmat mocks are good but they lower morale sometimes)
Conclusion - I am not sure whether it is possible to achieve my score goal of 750 as after putting in so much efforts in the last 6 months I could get upto a 690 - almost 60 points lesser than my target score. I don't want to waste a lot of time again sticking to a particular study material and score less. Is there an efficient way to measure performance improvement daily/weekly? How would you prefer resuming my preparation?
I have attached both my ESRs for your reference. I would highly appreciate your feedback and success stories. Thank you.
I have prepared for GMAT from June 2022 to November 2022 putting almost 6 hours a day. I have attempted the official GMAT twice. In the first attempt I got a score of 690 (V37, Q47) in September and in the second attempt I got a 620 (V24, Q49) in November.
I started with a 510 cold mock test score and thanks to TTP materials, I could improve upto 690 in 4 months. However, after my first attempt I started using multiple other study materials for verbal resulting in a huge score drop of V37 to V24. I got a bit depressed after this attempt and couldn't continue my studies.
My score goal is 750 (Q50, V40) and I am planning to give two GMAT attempts (hope one will be sufficient) by March - April.
My concerns are below
1. I have exhausted almost all the official materials till now and this is making me think subconsciously that I can't get my target score.
2. I am not sure weather I should stick to a particular study materials or re-do the OG questions. Anyways I have exhausted the official mocks so I am not sure how I can assess my performance improvements.
3. Preparing alone seems like the toughest thing. I am lacking motivation to resume and I tend to give up when I get a sub 600 score in the mocks (mgmat mocks are good but they lower morale sometimes)
Conclusion - I am not sure whether it is possible to achieve my score goal of 750 as after putting in so much efforts in the last 6 months I could get upto a 690 - almost 60 points lesser than my target score. I don't want to waste a lot of time again sticking to a particular study material and score less. Is there an efficient way to measure performance improvement daily/weekly? How would you prefer resuming my preparation?
I have attached both my ESRs for your reference. I would highly appreciate your feedback and success stories. Thank you.
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01 Jan 2023, 21:29
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asubhampanda
You can get plenty of good practice using the better third-party practice questions and practice tests. Using myself as an example, I learned a lot from the around 2000 third party questions and 16 third-party tests I used and did just fine on the GMAT.
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You can tell a lot about how you are doing from your practice question accuracy on new questions. There are more official questions in the two Official Practice Questions sets available on mba.com.
Also, you can use third-party tests and make adjustments for how the tests are known to score to get a sense of your readiness.
Meanwhile, you may still need to learn or review some concepts and strategies. So, it could make sense to use some test prep company materials for that purpose.
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For some motivation, see what Dalal said in this interview. You can certainly score 750+ by preparing effectively.
Also, for some ideas on how to increase your verbal score, see this video.
01 Jan 2023, 21:54
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Thanks MartyTargetTestPrep. Your suggestions have been quite helpful.
Just a few followups to your answer:
1. "I learned a lot from the around 2000 third party questions and 16 third-party tests I used" - anything specific you'd like to recommend for practicing? It seems like I have used a lot of materials and I am not able to track if I am progressing in the right direction.
e.g. When I was using TTP, I could track my progress and it improved my performance pretty well. But once I exhausted TTP's materials, I didn't want to go back and repeat the same questions. I used few other 3rd party materials and I have found those questions pretty irrelevant to GMAT - this resulted in a huge score drop in verbal section during my 2nd attempt.
2. "There are more official questions in the two Official Practice Questions sets available on mba.com" - I have exhausted all those Practice Questions as well. So, basically I don't have any official questions which I haven't attempted yet. However, does it make sense to repeat these questions and track accuracy on them?
3. Asking because I think I have spent a fair amount of time in attempting a lot of questions but still i am not even close to my target score - Do you think I am doing something fundamentally wrong? If yes, how do I recognise those fundamental mistakes and correct those habitual/behavioural issues?
Coincidentally I went through daldilaimi interview yesterday itself. It was quite inspiring for me to write this post and take another attempt to resume my prep! Thanks for posting this video.
Just a few followups to your answer:
1. "I learned a lot from the around 2000 third party questions and 16 third-party tests I used" - anything specific you'd like to recommend for practicing? It seems like I have used a lot of materials and I am not able to track if I am progressing in the right direction.
e.g. When I was using TTP, I could track my progress and it improved my performance pretty well. But once I exhausted TTP's materials, I didn't want to go back and repeat the same questions. I used few other 3rd party materials and I have found those questions pretty irrelevant to GMAT - this resulted in a huge score drop in verbal section during my 2nd attempt.
2. "There are more official questions in the two Official Practice Questions sets available on mba.com" - I have exhausted all those Practice Questions as well. So, basically I don't have any official questions which I haven't attempted yet. However, does it make sense to repeat these questions and track accuracy on them?
3. Asking because I think I have spent a fair amount of time in attempting a lot of questions but still i am not even close to my target score - Do you think I am doing something fundamentally wrong? If yes, how do I recognise those fundamental mistakes and correct those habitual/behavioural issues?
Coincidentally I went through daldilaimi interview yesterday itself. It was quite inspiring for me to write this post and take another attempt to resume my prep! Thanks for posting this video.
