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losing interest in middle of practice test/happen to you? 09 Jul 2006, 09:07
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I was doing Kaplan CD2 today and somewhere after 12-13 questions in quant I saw a question that I couldn't understand at all. It was geometry but the wording did not make sense ...and for some reason, I completely lost interest in the test (I've been disliking kaplan tests but I do them anyway for quant practice) and then I just guessed most others, and completely randomly ticked verbal to see what happens.

When I analyzed the results, I saw that I got 12 correct in first 13 -so I was doing OK until I hit that "screw this test" feeling , and then it was horrible because I guessed most of the rest.

Anyway, do any of you face this once a while? suddent sharp loss of interest when doing the test so you just want to click random and get over with it?
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losing interest in middle of practice test/happen to you? 09 Jul 2006, 10:12
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Hi necro that also happened to me when I practiced full length tests before my exam I think is normal since then I have not toched anything yet and I am starting now to get back on the books, today I did not do anything yet but tonight there is going to be the final(worldcup) that I am about to go to watch with my friends, but tomorrow,..... is great that we are going to take the exam around the same period, hope to get to know you better,....
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losing interest in middle of practice test/happen to you? 09 Jul 2006, 10:34
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I've had that happen more times than I can count. Its hard to keep focused for 4 hours. Its particularly tempting once you get to the last few verbal questions to just click away.

I just forced myself to pick practice exam dates ahead of time so that I could feel more mentally prepared.

Don't have a solution for you- but know you are not alone.
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losing interest in middle of practice test/happen to you? 10 Jul 2006, 02:38
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Yes... Very hard to resist till end. It happens to me already 2 times as well.

I'm saying me on this next weekend, I will force me to practice full Math and full Verbal sections. I'm not ready to include AWA :)

One more in this case and with u ;)
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losing interest in middle of practice test/happen to you? 10 Jul 2006, 12:29
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Yeah... I know that feeling... I would hit question 6 or 7 and then I feel like it isn't going very well today and convince myself not to waste the test if I am feeling crappy about taking one... :oops:

Some days I just come into this all hyped up and ready to go and other times I really don't feel like wasting 4 hours that I could spend on something more productive for GMAT...

Don't know how to fight through this feeling yet, but every week now I would schedule the specific dates when I could have uninterruped 4-5 hours and force myself to finish the test without having part of my mind saying "STOP NOW"
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losing interest in middle of practice test/happen to you? 10 Jul 2006, 17:15
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Thanks folks, guess I'm not alone! Well, I did a rebound - again I sat in the afternoon and took an ETS paper test (but did it in a very cumbersome setting on the computer) and I did not do too badly...so guess It's all good. I have a long way to go..thanks for your kind words, or rather telling me you have the same trouble sometimes too :)
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losing interest in middle of practice test/happen to you? 11 Jul 2006, 21:14
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Oh yeah, that happens! It's because the GMAT sucks. :-D

Seriously, though, don't take tests you hate. That makes it much worse. I started doing PR tests after reviewing the Cracking book, and it didn't seem so bad because they totally rag on the test. I think Kaplan just makes it more stressful because they make it so hard. So I would stop doing Kaplan tests and just do official ones and the Princeton Review ones.
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