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26 Jun 2017, 03:50
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Hello everyone,
I gave my GMAT exam last weekend and got 420, I am surprised and stun to see my score. I got 32 in Quant, 16 in Verbal and 5 in IR.
A brief intro about myself- I am an engineer by profession, working in MNC for last 7 years and my job profile requires me to travel almost every alternate week and i work at odd hours and in different time zones. I have been 'practicing' GMAT since last 4 months. I have prepared by myself after religiously following OG, Manhattan ebooks and Veritas question banks (and offcourse 'THE GMAT CLUB').
Considering the fact that after 7 years, I sat down to study anything was not a piece of cake as i had thought earlier. I started from the basics first to re-learn and refresh what i had learned in my school time, on the concepts and etc. During, the last 4 months, I gave 15 GMAT practice exams and my score were on an average were approx 550 (quant 44 and verbal 24, IR - 1-3 range). Most of the exams, that i gave were at night(the complete set ie including AWA and IR), just before my bed time, so i thought since I am getting around 540-560 range I should be able to cross atleast 600 points on the actual exam. But on the game day my actual score was -130 points less than my average score.
Also here are a few things i would like to highlight from my error log -
1) for me to get 43-45 in Quant was never a challenged, and honestly i never practiced anything beyond OG.
2) In verbal section, SC is the strongest section (my accuracy is on an average 70%), followed by CR (50%)and then RC (30%).
3) in RC - out of 3 -4 RC in an exam i usually end up screwing all the questions of last RCs either because time management problem or focus problem. I realized that when my mind gets tired i subconsciously skim the para ad in the CR the ans choices.
I am here to seek support from the GMAT experts and GMAT assassins - on how to crack GMAT and to get some other useful tips that could help me nail this GMAT ( or to point out on my approach). I plan to retake my GMAT around 12 Aug now and reach to 680-710 range, and i think this is doable, also since the exam pattern is changing I plan to follow - V--> Quant--> IR and AWA pattern.
Thanks in advance
Best Regards.
I gave my GMAT exam last weekend and got 420, I am surprised and stun to see my score. I got 32 in Quant, 16 in Verbal and 5 in IR.
A brief intro about myself- I am an engineer by profession, working in MNC for last 7 years and my job profile requires me to travel almost every alternate week and i work at odd hours and in different time zones. I have been 'practicing' GMAT since last 4 months. I have prepared by myself after religiously following OG, Manhattan ebooks and Veritas question banks (and offcourse 'THE GMAT CLUB').
Considering the fact that after 7 years, I sat down to study anything was not a piece of cake as i had thought earlier. I started from the basics first to re-learn and refresh what i had learned in my school time, on the concepts and etc. During, the last 4 months, I gave 15 GMAT practice exams and my score were on an average were approx 550 (quant 44 and verbal 24, IR - 1-3 range). Most of the exams, that i gave were at night(the complete set ie including AWA and IR), just before my bed time, so i thought since I am getting around 540-560 range I should be able to cross atleast 600 points on the actual exam. But on the game day my actual score was -130 points less than my average score.
Also here are a few things i would like to highlight from my error log -
1) for me to get 43-45 in Quant was never a challenged, and honestly i never practiced anything beyond OG.
2) In verbal section, SC is the strongest section (my accuracy is on an average 70%), followed by CR (50%)and then RC (30%).
3) in RC - out of 3 -4 RC in an exam i usually end up screwing all the questions of last RCs either because time management problem or focus problem. I realized that when my mind gets tired i subconsciously skim the para ad in the CR the ans choices.
I am here to seek support from the GMAT experts and GMAT assassins - on how to crack GMAT and to get some other useful tips that could help me nail this GMAT ( or to point out on my approach). I plan to retake my GMAT around 12 Aug now and reach to 680-710 range, and i think this is doable, also since the exam pattern is changing I plan to follow - V--> Quant--> IR and AWA pattern.
Thanks in advance
Best Regards.
26 Jun 2017, 21:12
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Hi InsaneSatan,
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. If you can answer a few questions, then we should be able to figure this out:
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take any of them at the same time of day as when you took your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
Beyond those questions, I'm also curious why you didn't push back your Test Date. Based on what you described, you weren't scoring close to your score goal, so what were you expecting to happen on Test Day? And assuming that you had hit your 'practice average' score, then what were you originally planning to do next?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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. If you can answer a few questions, then we should be able to figure this out:
When you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take any of them at the same time of day as when you took your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
Beyond those questions, I'm also curious why you didn't push back your Test Date. Based on what you described, you weren't scoring close to your score goal, so what were you expecting to happen on Test Day? And assuming that you had hit your 'practice average' score, then what were you originally planning to do next?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
26 Jun 2017, 21:53
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InsaneSatan
Also here are a few things i would like to highlight from my error log -
1) for me to get 43-45 in Quant was never a challenged, and honestly i never practiced anything beyond OG.
2) In verbal section, SC is the strongest section (my accuracy is on an average 70%), followed by CR (50%)and then RC (30%).
3) in RC - out of 3 -4 RC in an exam i usually end up screwing all the questions of last RCs either because time management problem or focus problem. I realized that when my mind gets tired i subconsciously skim the para ad in the CR the ans choices.
I am here to seek support from the GMAT experts and GMAT assassins - on how to crack GMAT and to get some other useful tips that could help me nail this GMAT ( or to point out on my approach). I plan to retake my GMAT around 12 Aug now and reach to 680-710 range, and i think this is doable, also since the exam pattern is changing I plan to follow - V--> Quant--> IR and AWA pattern.
You might want to pick up something more than just the OG for quant practice. Also, if you want to give yourself a little more time on RC, you could try to practice SC with a target average time of 1 min in mind. Don't let your SC slip though (remember to go by scaled scores, as accuracy is not a very reliable measure of performance on the GMAT). 1) for me to get 43-45 in Quant was never a challenged, and honestly i never practiced anything beyond OG.
2) In verbal section, SC is the strongest section (my accuracy is on an average 70%), followed by CR (50%)and then RC (30%).
3) in RC - out of 3 -4 RC in an exam i usually end up screwing all the questions of last RCs either because time management problem or focus problem. I realized that when my mind gets tired i subconsciously skim the para ad in the CR the ans choices.
I am here to seek support from the GMAT experts and GMAT assassins - on how to crack GMAT and to get some other useful tips that could help me nail this GMAT ( or to point out on my approach). I plan to retake my GMAT around 12 Aug now and reach to 680-710 range, and i think this is doable, also since the exam pattern is changing I plan to follow - V--> Quant--> IR and AWA pattern.
