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I am currently studying to take the GMAT on 12th February. This means it's less than 1 week to the test.
2 weeks ago I scored 30 on the Verbal part and felt quite confident while doing so. That was the reason that I chose to focus more on quant problems to improve the score there and lift my total score to my goal, around 600 points. 1 week later I scored 23 on the verbal part and thought maybe I just had a bad day. Yesterday I scored only 19 points in verbal and was very furious how my score could decrease that much. The sad thing about it is that I didn't finish the ManhattanPrep Verbal Guide when I scored 30, but did so before my last try.
Is there a possibility to still get back on the track until 12th or should I consider moving the test to the 28th?
I was also quite disappointed with the GMAT Prep test, because it didn't show the correct way to solve the problems in the review. And it also marked correct answers wrong in the IR section (3 were marked wrong, even though they were correct).
I choose to do the GMAT on the 12th, because then I would still have a second chance on 28th (16 calendar days) to meet the deadline of application of my desired university.
Would you consider it smarter to move the test to the 28th or should I just take it and then if I'm not satisfied with my score to reject and retake it on 28th?
My desired university (University of Geneva) doesn't have a GMAT Minimum score. They just mentioned I should try to get above 550, which would be quite easy if I reach enough points in the verbal part.
Here are my scores:
Total Q V
500 38 21 (Manhattan CAT)
570 38 30 (Manhattan CAT)
540 42 23 (Manhattan CAT)
510 42 19 (GMAT Prep)
2 weeks ago I scored 30 on the Verbal part and felt quite confident while doing so. That was the reason that I chose to focus more on quant problems to improve the score there and lift my total score to my goal, around 600 points. 1 week later I scored 23 on the verbal part and thought maybe I just had a bad day. Yesterday I scored only 19 points in verbal and was very furious how my score could decrease that much. The sad thing about it is that I didn't finish the ManhattanPrep Verbal Guide when I scored 30, but did so before my last try.
Is there a possibility to still get back on the track until 12th or should I consider moving the test to the 28th?
I was also quite disappointed with the GMAT Prep test, because it didn't show the correct way to solve the problems in the review. And it also marked correct answers wrong in the IR section (3 were marked wrong, even though they were correct).
I choose to do the GMAT on the 12th, because then I would still have a second chance on 28th (16 calendar days) to meet the deadline of application of my desired university.
Would you consider it smarter to move the test to the 28th or should I just take it and then if I'm not satisfied with my score to reject and retake it on 28th?
My desired university (University of Geneva) doesn't have a GMAT Minimum score. They just mentioned I should try to get above 550, which would be quite easy if I reach enough points in the verbal part.
Here are my scores:
Total Q V
500 38 21 (Manhattan CAT)
570 38 30 (Manhattan CAT)
540 42 23 (Manhattan CAT)
510 42 19 (GMAT Prep)
06 Feb 2020, 18:41
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Hi demitdenase,
You bring up a number of different issues - and since your Official GMAT is scheduled for less than 1 week from now, we should first discuss taking the Exam on that date - and your Score Goal for that attempt. While it's understandable that you would want to score higher than whatever 'minimum score' is implied from the School's communications, it might be that you just need to score 550 or higher to put yourself in the proper position to apply. Even with a Goal Score of 600+, you do NOT need to correctly answer ANY questions on the GMAT that you think are too hard or too weird - but you have to keep the little mistakes to a minimum (especially on the questions that you DO have the capacity to correctly answer). That ultimately means that you have to be mentally ready to quickly 'dump' any questions that you think are too difficult - that way you'll have more time to spend on all of the other 'gettable' questions.
Beyond that, the V30 you scored on your 2nd CAT is an 'outlier'; it's considerably higher than your other 3 Verbal Scaled Scores - so it's more likely that your current ability level in the Verbal is in the low-V20s (and the V30 involved some lucky/educated guessing - especially when it came to questions that you narrowed down to 2 choices). This does not necessarily mean that you have to improve a great deal in the Verbal section though; based on your Quant Scaled Scores for those CATs, you could potentially pick up a bunch of points in THAT section of the GMAT. For this most recent CAT, how many questions did you get wrong - in either section - because of a silly/little mistake? Those questions likely represent a significant block of points, meaning that your focus over the next several days should be spent on honing your general test-taking skills (your note-taking, organization, doing all of your 'steps' on your pad, etc.) so that you don't miss out on earning those points on Test Day.
The process of taking (and reviewing) a CAT requires a significant amount of energy and effort - and takes time to 'recover' from. This is one of the reasons why you typically shouldn't take more than 1 CAT per week - and your last CAT should be taken about 1 week before Test Day. While it might be tempting to take a lot of practice CATs during this last week, doing so would NOT be a good idea. All of that extra work would likely lead to 'burn out' (and that is something that we want to avoid). In these last few days, you should limit your studies to general practice and light review (NO CATs and NO 'cramming') - you would be better served by getting some extra rest so that you can go into Test Day calm, clear-headed and ready to work.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
You bring up a number of different issues - and since your Official GMAT is scheduled for less than 1 week from now, we should first discuss taking the Exam on that date - and your Score Goal for that attempt. While it's understandable that you would want to score higher than whatever 'minimum score' is implied from the School's communications, it might be that you just need to score 550 or higher to put yourself in the proper position to apply. Even with a Goal Score of 600+, you do NOT need to correctly answer ANY questions on the GMAT that you think are too hard or too weird - but you have to keep the little mistakes to a minimum (especially on the questions that you DO have the capacity to correctly answer). That ultimately means that you have to be mentally ready to quickly 'dump' any questions that you think are too difficult - that way you'll have more time to spend on all of the other 'gettable' questions.
Beyond that, the V30 you scored on your 2nd CAT is an 'outlier'; it's considerably higher than your other 3 Verbal Scaled Scores - so it's more likely that your current ability level in the Verbal is in the low-V20s (and the V30 involved some lucky/educated guessing - especially when it came to questions that you narrowed down to 2 choices). This does not necessarily mean that you have to improve a great deal in the Verbal section though; based on your Quant Scaled Scores for those CATs, you could potentially pick up a bunch of points in THAT section of the GMAT. For this most recent CAT, how many questions did you get wrong - in either section - because of a silly/little mistake? Those questions likely represent a significant block of points, meaning that your focus over the next several days should be spent on honing your general test-taking skills (your note-taking, organization, doing all of your 'steps' on your pad, etc.) so that you don't miss out on earning those points on Test Day.
The process of taking (and reviewing) a CAT requires a significant amount of energy and effort - and takes time to 'recover' from. This is one of the reasons why you typically shouldn't take more than 1 CAT per week - and your last CAT should be taken about 1 week before Test Day. While it might be tempting to take a lot of practice CATs during this last week, doing so would NOT be a good idea. All of that extra work would likely lead to 'burn out' (and that is something that we want to avoid). In these last few days, you should limit your studies to general practice and light review (NO CATs and NO 'cramming') - you would be better served by getting some extra rest so that you can go into Test Day calm, clear-headed and ready to work.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
10 Feb 2020, 19:01
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Hi demitdenase,
The first thing I see is that you’ve taken only one official practice exam, and that is the exam on which you scored lowest verbal in (V19). So, before making any suggestions about how to move forward, I’d love to see how you score on another GMAC practice exam. Would you be able to take another one and report back with your score breakdown? Also, could you tell me a bit more about how you have been preparing?
-- For how many months have you been studying?
-- What resources have you been using?
The first thing I see is that you’ve taken only one official practice exam, and that is the exam on which you scored lowest verbal in (V19). So, before making any suggestions about how to move forward, I’d love to see how you score on another GMAC practice exam. Would you be able to take another one and report back with your score breakdown? Also, could you tell me a bit more about how you have been preparing?
-- For how many months have you been studying?
-- What resources have you been using?
