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08 Apr 2025, 03:31
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I have been preparing for past 2 months for GMAT FOCUS clocking in around 10 hours a day without a fail.
Completed TTP’s entire portal and all tests with the following accuracy :-
Quant - 91%
Verbal - 68%
DI - 87%
After that,
I bought GMAT Official Guide and realised that the questions were way difficult than the TTP. Anyways, I completed all the OG questions and moved to GMAT Club for Practice.
These were my Mock Scores
Practice Test #1 - 595
Practice Test #2 - 645
Practice Test #3 - 635
Practice Test #4 - 655
I gave my paper at centre yesterday and I knew that Verbal is my weak part and it’s gonna decline my desired score but what happened in exam was completely opposite.
I wasn’t stressed out, wasn’t anxious.
I started with V-DI-Q; Verbal was difficult as expected but maths and DI has always been my strong point, haven’t scored below DI80 in any mock but the paper was extremely tough. I hadn’t seen any questions like those in DI. I have practiced around 10,000 questions and now I feel depressed because I couldn’t even score in my strong points.
I have no idea how to go about it now? The questions were on some other level, the paper didn’t adapt and I scored 100 points lower than my mocks.
I don't know where to start, which prep should I take? What should I do because now I remember answers to these practice mocks.
No prep provider/neither GMAT OG is even close to the questions that I faced in my exams!
Please help!
Completed TTP’s entire portal and all tests with the following accuracy :-
Quant - 91%
Verbal - 68%
DI - 87%
After that,
I bought GMAT Official Guide and realised that the questions were way difficult than the TTP. Anyways, I completed all the OG questions and moved to GMAT Club for Practice.
These were my Mock Scores
Practice Test #1 - 595
Practice Test #2 - 645
Practice Test #3 - 635
Practice Test #4 - 655
I gave my paper at centre yesterday and I knew that Verbal is my weak part and it’s gonna decline my desired score but what happened in exam was completely opposite.
I wasn’t stressed out, wasn’t anxious.
I started with V-DI-Q; Verbal was difficult as expected but maths and DI has always been my strong point, haven’t scored below DI80 in any mock but the paper was extremely tough. I hadn’t seen any questions like those in DI. I have practiced around 10,000 questions and now I feel depressed because I couldn’t even score in my strong points.
I have no idea how to go about it now? The questions were on some other level, the paper didn’t adapt and I scored 100 points lower than my mocks.
I don't know where to start, which prep should I take? What should I do because now I remember answers to these practice mocks.
No prep provider/neither GMAT OG is even close to the questions that I faced in my exams!
Please help!
08 Apr 2025, 08:07
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Hi Shividivi,
I'm sorry to hear about your experience. The kind of discrepancy you described sounds shocking!
Before the experts weigh in, maybe you can provide some more information so that people can potentially help diagnose your situation:
1. What's your section scores, in the actual exam and in previous mocks?
2. How have you been practicing the OG questions?
3. How have you been using the GMAT Club question bank to practice?
4. What's your review process like when practicing OG and GMAT Club questions?
5. Since you mentioned Verbal is your weak area, have you been using any other materials for Verbal?
It sounds to me, very preliminarily, that you have employed a "quantity over quality" approach, where you have done a large number of questions but the foundations in certain topic areas have not been built up solid enough. But let's see what the experts say.
In the meantime, take it easy. Two months are not a crazily long time, and there are people spending years to get to their desired level.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience. The kind of discrepancy you described sounds shocking!
Before the experts weigh in, maybe you can provide some more information so that people can potentially help diagnose your situation:
1. What's your section scores, in the actual exam and in previous mocks?
2. How have you been practicing the OG questions?
3. How have you been using the GMAT Club question bank to practice?
4. What's your review process like when practicing OG and GMAT Club questions?
5. Since you mentioned Verbal is your weak area, have you been using any other materials for Verbal?
It sounds to me, very preliminarily, that you have employed a "quantity over quality" approach, where you have done a large number of questions but the foundations in certain topic areas have not been built up solid enough. But let's see what the experts say.
In the meantime, take it easy. Two months are not a crazily long time, and there are people spending years to get to their desired level.
Shividivi
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08 Apr 2025, 08:59
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What was your sectional score?
Practicing more number of questions doesn't guarantee high score.. you should evaluate topice you are weak at and Practice accordingly
Practicing more number of questions doesn't guarantee high score.. you should evaluate topice you are weak at and Practice accordingly
