Hi
vyom001At the outset, kudos on a decent score of 680! However, we also feel that someone who can score a 680 with a Q48 has a 700+ scorer within him !
Thank you for the ESR !
Let’s try to deep dive on some key inferences from the ESR-
In Quant (Q 48)1. The timing has been well maintained across the quarters. Kudos !
2. You have done great in the first quarter with just one mistake and hence the difficulty level increased as you navigated to the next quarter. The green line shows a steady increase from the first to the second quarter.
3. In the second quarter, there are three mistakes and you can notice a sharp dip in the green line from first to second quarter.
However the timing has been well maintained to 1:48 sec. So you probably did not invest the same time of an average of 2:08 like the first quarter and got 3 questions incorrect here on the slightly more difficult questions.
4. From the second to third quarter, you have performed better with only 2 mistakes and the difficulty level has steadily increased.
Hence probably the mistakes you have made(as shown in the purple line here) are quite harder than the previous mistakes!
5. The last quarter where you made 3 mistakes again must have been with really tough questions and hence you were able to maintain the score of Q48. The timing here has been lowest of 1:30 (average) so chances are that you made some guesses (we could be wrong here though
).
What are the next steps? 
Try to analyze the mistakes from the
OG for the advanced and medium questions.
Use the Official Advanced Document that has 300 hard questions (150 verbal and 150 Quant) to try move the needle to a Q48+
At this stage of prep, you need consistency of strategies, quick thinking and confidence on your approaches on the advanced and medium questions. Both PS and DS need to be worked on and Geometry should be provided more practice since that is an area of improvement in your case.
In Verbal (V35)1. You have had 3 mistakes on the first quarter but you quickly restored the difficulty with 100% accuracy in the second quarter.
2. There has been a steady increase in difficulty as you reached the third quarter. There has been a sudden dip as you moved from the third to the final quarter since the mistakes you made were probably the easier questions. You again made only 2 mistakes in the last quarter and they were the harder questions possibly and this led to a V35 without any further drop which is the 74th percentile
3. Your timing has been well maintained again except for the third quarter. So you must have worked out the questions here instead of guessing but got the relatively easier ones incorrect.
What are the next steps?Analyze your mistakes from the
OG for all levels of difficulty.
Use the Verbal review to build up practice on easy and medium questions.
Once you set your skills for easy and intermediate, only then move to advanced questions for practice. Use only official questions.
You need to evolve with your skills across all the three levels to move the needle to a V39/40 from here but we highly suggest you to move in stages and not worry too much on advanced till you have nailed the easy and intermediate!
Hope this gives you some clarity and insights to plan a retake.
We hope you can move the needle to a Q48+ & a V38+ with the right strategies and score a 700 + on your next attempt !
All the very best.
Devmitra Sen
GMAT mentor 
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24 Aug 2022, 22:46
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