Need help!! First attempt- 610 23V 50Q 4IR

Hi Arvaindrk1111,

I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT.

Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than V23. Since nerves were not an issue, it’s possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your verbal preparation, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.

For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.

You also may find my article with more information regarding
how to score a 700+ on the GMAT helpful.

If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!

Hi Aravind, which resources have you been using for your prep so far?

The materials that I have used are listed below:
1.OG 18
2.verbal review 2019
3.Retiered prep question bank.
4.Gmat advanced official
I do not know how to restart my preparation need an insight.

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Hi Aravind, all the resources you've listed, are largely question compilations.

So, it seems that you did not really use any text to get hold of the theory part.

That could perhaps offer an explanation.

[quote="EducationAisle"]Hi Aravind, all the resources you've listed, are largely question compilations.

So, it seems that you did not really use any text to get hold of the theory part.

That could perhaps offer an explanation.[/quote

For the theory part i refferd MGMAT SC guide, CR powerscore bible and Gmat club for RC.
Verbal videos from Ron and gmatninja also helped.

Hi, please strengthen your SC.

Get Manhattan books SC and learn from that. Afterward, redo all OG2020 verbal parts and OGVR2020 questions.

I hope you will make improvements. GMAT is about comprehension and not about memorizing as many questions as we can

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Hi Aravindrk1111,

I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of 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. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) How many hours did you typically study each week?
2) Did you take any other CATs besides the 6 Official ones? On what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

Goals:
3) What is your overall goal score?
4) What application deadlines are you currently facing?

You might also choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report. While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich