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Background:
I come from the most represented pool in GMAT, the clichéd Indian/Male/IT. Owing to my repetitive and lack of scope of the nature of my job as a Technical production support analyst it became very clear to me I needed a skill or an expertise in my professional career and hence a Master’s degree. I always saw that a business strategy or a financial decision was what navigated an Organisation’s directions and technology acts as a tool to achieve it. I wanted to be in such a position that my work would contribute to such decision making. Hence an MBA was the perfect course to realize this.
As opposed to the general expectation, inspite of being an Indian, I was quite poor at Mathematics starting from my secondary level and I thought English to be one of my strengths. Hence, I chose GMAT over CAT owing to GMAT’s balanced focus on language as well as quantitative analysis. Given my full-time job and personal commitments I knew from day 1 that to crack GMAT it would require a tremendous effort from me.
1st Attempt:
I started off by trying to find a good coaching institute. Based on my past experience from preparations for Engineering Competitive Exams, I never had faith in Big Brands of coaching institutes. So I selected a local coaching institute. Working a Full-time job, it was very difficult to attend the classes regularly. The classes also did not help much. Lack of proper focus, practise of sub-par level of questions and frequent changes in the trainers made the coaching very ineffective. However, I was not aware of these during that time. So, I booked a slot for the exam for June 2018. Exam Day – tensed, unprepared, and literally shaking with fear entered the Exam Centre. Guess-worked throughout the exam. Result: 570
However, something strange happened that time. Instead of being dejected with my score, my self-belief solidified. I could see my failure become an advantage to me. I now knew the level of GMAT, the type of questions asked in it, my level of preparation and how much more preparation was required by me.
Lesson: Every failure teaches you something towards success.
2nd Attempt:
Now I had the clarity on the type of coaching centre required for me. While browsing through to find a good fit, I came across E-GMAT. I attended one of their SC Webinars and instantly connected with it. Their ideology that one really needs to understand the question as to what the question wants to convey on top the grammar rules made sense to me. Not only for SC, this concept was applicable CR and RC as well. It was then that I understood that why the section was called Verbal Reasoning and not “English”.
After preparing for almost 6 months I felt ready and booked a slot for February 2019. I was consistently scoring 680 – 720 in mocks but this in turn led to set a very high level of expectation from myself. Exam Day – I was taking too much pressure, was worried what people would say if I couldn’t make it even in 2nd attempt. I completely blanked out. All my preparation and exam strategies went straight out of the window. I struggled throughout the exam. Result: 540. I was devastated. It felt like the end of the world. I cried a lot that day.
Lesson: GMAT is an exam of not only your knowledge but also of your nerves.
3rd Attempt:
After the 2nd attempt’s fiasco, it was my closest friends, with whom I live, who instilled the confidence back in me. They supported me in every way possible, stayed awake long nights because of me, gave up the AC room for me, watched TV in mute for months not to disturb me, and bought the E-GMAT extension and mocks for me. This time I assessed logically that what went wrong. I understood that I was aware of the concepts but not weary of them. I had a strategy for the exam but had never practiced it. Based on this analysis and how much it would take to correct them, I booked a slot once more for April 2018. The plan was simple:
• Maintain an error log, fill it and learn from it diligently.
• Become weary of the concepts to such an extent that they come from sub-conscious.
• 0 guesswork. If I won’t know that why I was choosing an option, I would consider it wrong.
24th March. A person very close to me and like a mother-figure to me had come to visit us. She had a cardiac arrest and expired that night. It was a shock and I was in such an emotional state that I completely forgot about my exam. By the time we were able to console and come to a somewhat stable emotional state, it was already mid-April. I re-booked a slot for 25th May and somehow started to focus back on my plan. With limited time in my hands, I started studying around 5 hrs on weekdays along with my job and 10 hrs on weekends. On working days I gave 2 mocks every day (1 in early morning and 1 at night) and 3 mocks on weekends. I had to give so many mocks that I would be fed-up of them. The actual exam would become just another mock test and I could overcome the nervousness. I found that the best and the cheapest Mock Test series was from Expert’s Global. They give 15 mock tests for $50. The tests replicate the GMAT screen and the level of questions also. After every Mock I used Scholaranium from E-GMAT to improve on selected topics in which I was lagging in the mocks.
Exam Day. Nervous but in a good way. 1st section – Quant. Had a good start. I was confident that I answered the first 15 questions correctly. Then just went with it. I don’t even recollect after that. 2nd Section – Verbal. Again off to a good start. Lagged a bit in couple of RC questions which resulted in hurry in the last 3 questions. But I was fine with it. Result: 710. My heart skipped a beat! I had always imagined myself to be relieved at this time but my heart was racing. I somehow managed to submit the score, collect the score-report and ran out to inform my friends and my family. I had done it.
Lesson: Always learn from your mistakes and keep trying.
Guess-work, talent and luck do not work in GMAT. There is no easy way or shortcuts to it. Everything works against you in a GMAT exam only except your dedication, hard-work and will-power
I come from the most represented pool in GMAT, the clichéd Indian/Male/IT. Owing to my repetitive and lack of scope of the nature of my job as a Technical production support analyst it became very clear to me I needed a skill or an expertise in my professional career and hence a Master’s degree. I always saw that a business strategy or a financial decision was what navigated an Organisation’s directions and technology acts as a tool to achieve it. I wanted to be in such a position that my work would contribute to such decision making. Hence an MBA was the perfect course to realize this.
As opposed to the general expectation, inspite of being an Indian, I was quite poor at Mathematics starting from my secondary level and I thought English to be one of my strengths. Hence, I chose GMAT over CAT owing to GMAT’s balanced focus on language as well as quantitative analysis. Given my full-time job and personal commitments I knew from day 1 that to crack GMAT it would require a tremendous effort from me.
1st Attempt:
I started off by trying to find a good coaching institute. Based on my past experience from preparations for Engineering Competitive Exams, I never had faith in Big Brands of coaching institutes. So I selected a local coaching institute. Working a Full-time job, it was very difficult to attend the classes regularly. The classes also did not help much. Lack of proper focus, practise of sub-par level of questions and frequent changes in the trainers made the coaching very ineffective. However, I was not aware of these during that time. So, I booked a slot for the exam for June 2018. Exam Day – tensed, unprepared, and literally shaking with fear entered the Exam Centre. Guess-worked throughout the exam. Result: 570
However, something strange happened that time. Instead of being dejected with my score, my self-belief solidified. I could see my failure become an advantage to me. I now knew the level of GMAT, the type of questions asked in it, my level of preparation and how much more preparation was required by me.
Lesson: Every failure teaches you something towards success.
2nd Attempt:
Now I had the clarity on the type of coaching centre required for me. While browsing through to find a good fit, I came across E-GMAT. I attended one of their SC Webinars and instantly connected with it. Their ideology that one really needs to understand the question as to what the question wants to convey on top the grammar rules made sense to me. Not only for SC, this concept was applicable CR and RC as well. It was then that I understood that why the section was called Verbal Reasoning and not “English”.
After preparing for almost 6 months I felt ready and booked a slot for February 2019. I was consistently scoring 680 – 720 in mocks but this in turn led to set a very high level of expectation from myself. Exam Day – I was taking too much pressure, was worried what people would say if I couldn’t make it even in 2nd attempt. I completely blanked out. All my preparation and exam strategies went straight out of the window. I struggled throughout the exam. Result: 540. I was devastated. It felt like the end of the world. I cried a lot that day.
Lesson: GMAT is an exam of not only your knowledge but also of your nerves.
3rd Attempt:
After the 2nd attempt’s fiasco, it was my closest friends, with whom I live, who instilled the confidence back in me. They supported me in every way possible, stayed awake long nights because of me, gave up the AC room for me, watched TV in mute for months not to disturb me, and bought the E-GMAT extension and mocks for me. This time I assessed logically that what went wrong. I understood that I was aware of the concepts but not weary of them. I had a strategy for the exam but had never practiced it. Based on this analysis and how much it would take to correct them, I booked a slot once more for April 2018. The plan was simple:
• Maintain an error log, fill it and learn from it diligently.
• Become weary of the concepts to such an extent that they come from sub-conscious.
• 0 guesswork. If I won’t know that why I was choosing an option, I would consider it wrong.
24th March. A person very close to me and like a mother-figure to me had come to visit us. She had a cardiac arrest and expired that night. It was a shock and I was in such an emotional state that I completely forgot about my exam. By the time we were able to console and come to a somewhat stable emotional state, it was already mid-April. I re-booked a slot for 25th May and somehow started to focus back on my plan. With limited time in my hands, I started studying around 5 hrs on weekdays along with my job and 10 hrs on weekends. On working days I gave 2 mocks every day (1 in early morning and 1 at night) and 3 mocks on weekends. I had to give so many mocks that I would be fed-up of them. The actual exam would become just another mock test and I could overcome the nervousness. I found that the best and the cheapest Mock Test series was from Expert’s Global. They give 15 mock tests for $50. The tests replicate the GMAT screen and the level of questions also. After every Mock I used Scholaranium from E-GMAT to improve on selected topics in which I was lagging in the mocks.
Exam Day. Nervous but in a good way. 1st section – Quant. Had a good start. I was confident that I answered the first 15 questions correctly. Then just went with it. I don’t even recollect after that. 2nd Section – Verbal. Again off to a good start. Lagged a bit in couple of RC questions which resulted in hurry in the last 3 questions. But I was fine with it. Result: 710. My heart skipped a beat! I had always imagined myself to be relieved at this time but my heart was racing. I somehow managed to submit the score, collect the score-report and ran out to inform my friends and my family. I had done it.
Lesson: Always learn from your mistakes and keep trying.
Guess-work, talent and luck do not work in GMAT. There is no easy way or shortcuts to it. Everything works against you in a GMAT exam only except your dedication, hard-work and will-power
16 Jun 2019, 08:11
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arnavroy
Congratulation on your score. Thank you for sharing your great difficult journey to get your desired score.
16 Jun 2019, 09:38
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Amazing...quite a story to share with GMAT aspirants!!!
All the best
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