EMPOWERgmatRichC wrote:
Hi Devansh,
Assuming that you took the FULL CAT (with the Essay and IR sections) and did so in a realistic fashion, you're remarkably close to a 700+ score right now. At this scoring level, the GMAT becomes really 'sensitive' to little mistakes - if you make too many, then a 700+ score simply becomes impossible to achieve. To that end, you have to really 'nitpick' WHY you're getting questions wrong.
After reviewing this CAT, how many questions did you get wrong....
1) Because of a silly/little mistake?
2) Because there was some math/verbal that you couldn't remember how to do?
3) Because the question was too hard?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Thanks a lot Rich for your help
. I did a thorough review of my CAT. And following are the responses of your questions:
ANSWER TO QUESTION 1Quant (Total: 16 incorrect q48 (78 percentile)):
It's very sad for me to convey this but, I made atleast 7 TRAGIC MISTAKES (SILLY ONES) in quant such as:
1.) reading the number 6 integer 1/8 as 6/8.
2.) reading the number 225 instead of 255.
3.) if 1st number is x with constant difference of 4, then writing the 10th term as "x + 40" instead of "x + 36"
4.) doing a simple percentage based question wrong (Formula application and logic application correct, did mistake in arithmetic calculation
)
5.) Didnt noticed a sensitive word "EACH".
6.) interpreting 40% discount on Selling price as 0.4*SP instead of 0.6*SP
7.) not considering that if u add 4 in an integer with non zero units digit, then its tens digit may change or may not change.
In all of the above questions, my approach, logic and formula application were correct. But i have no idea what should i do to avoid mistakes such as these that i made
Also, I was super nervous because the last GMAT PREP CAT #4 (Q 47, V 31) that i gave was about 3 months ago.
During these 3 months my MAJOR focus was on verbal, while also doing MATH in between. But for the last 4 CATS, I never made mistakes such as these ones.
Verbal ( Total: 16 incorrect, v35 74 ppercentile
Last 9 out of 11 questions incorrect)
I had significantly improved on verbal compared to my last official Cat.
But as I was approaching the end of test, I was getting more and more nervous. I was doing okay till question #32. I had about 12 mins and some seconds when I was attempting #32. So I had this strategy of attempting alternate questions. But on #33, a short but a very hard RC Passage came by. And I wasted a good amount of time on it, getting all 3 incorrect since I was not able to think and therefore, guessed.
Then after 1 CR question, another RC passage came ! I was completely horrified, but then I thought the only way to handle this is to give a cursory reading and attempt, I just gave a quick reading to it and got 2 of them correct. But then I had about 100 seconds to attempt 3 questions.
I prayed that atleast 1 SC question should come and the last one was SC. But made A TRAGIC
SUBJECT VERB Mistake in anxiety and time pressure and chose the wrong option.
in the End, I scored v42 on SC, and still I made a that stupid subject verb mistake in the End.
ANSWER TO QUESTION 2 and QUESTION 3In Quant, there was no such question in which I thought that I forgot any concept, or formula. However, I did wasted a good little time by trying to solve a question in which I knew I did some arithmetic mistake but is a simple question.
In verbal, I was able to hande Sentence correction questions. There was this 1 question which I got incorect (Total 3 SC Q's incorrect, 1 this and the other 2 guessed). But I did wasted a few minutes on 1 extremly hard CR question in the beginning due to which I had to guess in between couple of medlium level quesitons in between that I could have gotten correct if attempted.
Also, During the End of verbal, I also got so much nervous that I was literally listening my "heart beat" . Looking at 2 RC passages in last 10 questions made it worse.
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22 Aug 2016, 02:10
