Miserably failed 1st attempt

So, I have a conditional offer to a business school. Condition being scoring a min 500 before March 31.

When I first got that offer in December I did a diagnostic test and got a 480, thinking I was right about there and just had to brush off some math skills. Went on a 1 month holiday around Europe for Xmas and came back to start studying beginning of January.

I scheduled the exam to give me a date to reach for and began just looking at the official guide. Seeing that just looking at a book wasn’t helping my family assisted me with getting the Kaplan prep.

I thought I had scheduled my test for March 2, but for some reason I must had made a mistake because it was scheduled for Feb 23. I got an email saying “3 days until test day” I went into panic mode, and instead of wasting 250$ I just would suck it up. Well that was a mistake. I bombed and got a 390. All three practice tests I got 480 every time, so a 90 point difference was a shock. I probably cried my entire way home from the testing center. I was aiming for above a 600, but at this point I’ll just take the 500.

I have really bad test taking skills and get bad anxiety. I do know math is a weakness of mine and I focused mostly on the quant section. But I did bad on the verbal as well. Despite always doing well on reading comprehension and grammar in school.

I know one major downfall of mine is that it’s on the computer and I can’t physically write on the tests. I noticed a few times on practice I would incorrectly write the problems down and with the time contraists I get anxious so that doesn’t help.

I sat down and made a plan, to do more practice questions and tests.

My question is how can I maximize my strengths and capitalize on my weaknesses when I’m currently confused to where I should even start.

Right now my plan is to study 57-60 hours between now and March 12th to give me some wiggle room just in case I do have to retake it. But I’m also on the fence of pushing it out til the end of March and risking losing my 1500€ program deposit for not meeting the conditions.

Help!!

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