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Hi guys,
I am quite new in this forum, though I have been reading many posts and threads.
I am not a native speaker, so the verbal section was more difficult than I thought.
On the actual exam (yesterday) - I scored 630:
Q: 50
V: 25
IR: 8
AWA: still waiting for the score.
*I felt a headache during the last 20 minutes of the exam, but i don't think this is an excuse for the poor verbal performance.
Study plan:
I started studying approximately 3 months ago.
I am working in a full time job (Tax consultant at EY), so I studied mostly at night and on the weekends.
In addition, 3 weeks before the exam I took a vacation from work, to study harder for the exam.
Practice materials: Magoosh online course, e-GMAT online course (especially SC and CR) and Veritas' books.
I also practiced the official books of 2016 (and the verbal 2016 book).
Practice tests:
In my last 5 practice test I scored as follows:
- October 2 (Gmat Prep 1st Exam - retaking): 680 (Q-50, V-32, IR-7)
- October 12 (Veritas 4th mock test): 650 (Q-48, V-31ׁ, IR-6)
- October 15 (Gmat Prep Exam 5 from package 2): 600 (Q-47, V-26, IR-3)*
- October 18 (Veritas 5th mock test): 660 (Q-47, V-34, IR-6)
- October 20 (Gmat Prep Exam 6 from package 2): 720 (Q-49, V-39, IR-5) + AWA section
*I did not feel well in that day.
My target score is 700, as I would like to apply for a top-10 business school.
I would like to re-take the GMAT, probably at the beginning of November.
I really need your help boosting my Verbal score.
In addition, please let me know whether you think i should cancel my score.
Thank you in advance.
Best,
KostEY
I am quite new in this forum, though I have been reading many posts and threads.
I am not a native speaker, so the verbal section was more difficult than I thought.
On the actual exam (yesterday) - I scored 630:
Q: 50
V: 25
IR: 8
AWA: still waiting for the score.
*I felt a headache during the last 20 minutes of the exam, but i don't think this is an excuse for the poor verbal performance.
Study plan:
I started studying approximately 3 months ago.
I am working in a full time job (Tax consultant at EY), so I studied mostly at night and on the weekends.
In addition, 3 weeks before the exam I took a vacation from work, to study harder for the exam.
Practice materials: Magoosh online course, e-GMAT online course (especially SC and CR) and Veritas' books.
I also practiced the official books of 2016 (and the verbal 2016 book).
Practice tests:
In my last 5 practice test I scored as follows:
- October 2 (Gmat Prep 1st Exam - retaking): 680 (Q-50, V-32, IR-7)
- October 12 (Veritas 4th mock test): 650 (Q-48, V-31ׁ, IR-6)
- October 15 (Gmat Prep Exam 5 from package 2): 600 (Q-47, V-26, IR-3)*
- October 18 (Veritas 5th mock test): 660 (Q-47, V-34, IR-6)
- October 20 (Gmat Prep Exam 6 from package 2): 720 (Q-49, V-39, IR-5) + AWA section
*I did not feel well in that day.
My target score is 700, as I would like to apply for a top-10 business school.
I would like to re-take the GMAT, probably at the beginning of November.
I really need your help boosting my Verbal score.
In addition, please let me know whether you think i should cancel my score.
Thank you in advance.
Best,
KostEY
29 Oct 2016, 08:43
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Hi Flis1986,
I’m sorry to hear about your recent GMAT. You mentioned that you had a headache during the last 20 minutes of the verbal section. Did anything else feel off to you? Were you nervous? Were you fatigued? If so, it’s quite possible that any of those factors could have affected your verbal performance.
However, to ensure that you are at your best for your next GMAT, it would not hurt to take a further dive into the verbal content to shore up any existing weaknesses that could have led to the drop in your verbal score. Since you seem to have a grasp of the fundamentals of GMAT verbal, you might consider a regimen of focused practice in Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning, and Reading Comprehension. By practicing one topic at a time, you will be able to locate your weaknesses within a specific verbal topic.
For example, if you are reviewing Critical Reasoning, be sure to practice a large number of questions just from Critical Reasoning: strengthen and weaken the conclusion, resolve the paradox, find the conclusion, must be true, etc. Once you complete that practice, thoroughly analyze your wrong answers to determine your weaknesses within Critical Reasoning and spend some time improving on those weaknesses. Once those weaknesses have been addressed, move on to the next verbal topic.
For some more verbal advice, you may find it helpful to read my latest Poets and Quants article, which provides further tips on how to improve your GMAT verbal skills.
Feel free to reach out to me directly with any other questions.
I’m sorry to hear about your recent GMAT. You mentioned that you had a headache during the last 20 minutes of the verbal section. Did anything else feel off to you? Were you nervous? Were you fatigued? If so, it’s quite possible that any of those factors could have affected your verbal performance.
However, to ensure that you are at your best for your next GMAT, it would not hurt to take a further dive into the verbal content to shore up any existing weaknesses that could have led to the drop in your verbal score. Since you seem to have a grasp of the fundamentals of GMAT verbal, you might consider a regimen of focused practice in Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning, and Reading Comprehension. By practicing one topic at a time, you will be able to locate your weaknesses within a specific verbal topic.
For example, if you are reviewing Critical Reasoning, be sure to practice a large number of questions just from Critical Reasoning: strengthen and weaken the conclusion, resolve the paradox, find the conclusion, must be true, etc. Once you complete that practice, thoroughly analyze your wrong answers to determine your weaknesses within Critical Reasoning and spend some time improving on those weaknesses. Once those weaknesses have been addressed, move on to the next verbal topic.
For some more verbal advice, you may find it helpful to read my latest Poets and Quants article, which provides further tips on how to improve your GMAT verbal skills.
Feel free to reach out to me directly with any other questions.
30 Oct 2016, 19:54
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Hi Flis,
First off, a 630/Q50 is a strong score (it's right around the 75th percentile overall), so it could be enough to get you into your first-choice School. Since you're planning on applying to some Top10 Schools though, it's understandable why you would want to retest. Since the level of competition at those Schools is so high, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile. There's a Forum full of them here:
ask-admission-consultants-124/
When these types of Official Score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. If you can answer a few questions, then we should be able to figure this out:
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
First off, a 630/Q50 is a strong score (it's right around the 75th percentile overall), so it could be enough to get you into your first-choice School. Since you're planning on applying to some Top10 Schools though, it's understandable why you would want to retest. Since the level of competition at those Schools is so high, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile. There's a Forum full of them here:
ask-admission-consultants-124/
When these types of Official Score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. If you can answer a few questions, then we should be able to figure this out:
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
