EMPOWERgmatRichC wrote:
Hi GMP12,
From your prior post, there were a number of 'red flags' in terms of how you took your practice CATs. Before we discuss those issues though, I have a few additional questions about the lead-up to Test Day and Test Day itself:
1) What did you do in the 3 days before your GMAT?
2) How did you sleep the night before your Test?
3) How long was the ride to the Test Center from your home?
4) Were there any distractions at the facility or during the Test?
5) What did you do during the two 8-minute breaks?
6) Did you finish any sections early?
7) Did you have to rush to finish any sections (and guess on questions just to finish on time)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
[quote="EMPOWERgmatRichC"]Hi GMP12,
From your prior post, there were a number of 'red flags' in terms of how you took your practice CATs. Before we discuss those issues though, I have a few additional questions about the lead-up to Test Day and Test Day itself:
1) What did you do in the 3 days before your GMAT?
Ans :Nothing much, did a few sums/verbal here and there. Just one day before the test gave one of the Gmatclub Quant test,fully timed,no breaks or anything else.
Got Q-47. Lemme give you the level wise accuracy for this test :
500 LV - 16 sums - 88%(correct)
600 LV - 6 sums- 83%(correct)
700 LV - 15 sums- 20%(correct)
Above are GMATCLUB Quant test scores just one day before the exam.
2) How did you sleep the night before your Test?
Ans : I was anxious(even though this wasn't my D-day), I did sleep ok,not very bad either.I did wake up unusually early.I wouldn't say it was totally fine.Neither was it too bad.
3) How long was the ride to the Test Center from your home?
Ans : 1.5 hours on busy Indian(bangalore) road.
4) Were there any distractions at the facility or during the Test?
Ans : I did put on this unusually heavy noise cancellation headphones, which I was never used to. Nothing else as such.
5) What did you do during the two 8-minute breaks?
Ans: Nothing much, just went to the loo once.Started the test with 6 minutes of break still left. But I wasn't really jaded, that I had to take the full 8 minutes.
Took a stroll inside the facility and put some water on my face(at this point I knew, I bombed verbal,though not as bad as 23. I typically used to score 28-30(timed), and once took an un-timed verbal,got around 37(
egmat)).
6) Did you finish any sections early?
Ans: Quant? Yes.. Almost 2.5 minutes before.
7) Did you have to rush to finish any sections (and guess on questions just to finish on time)?
Ans : Actually yes. As I mentioned before in the previous post. I'll give a small example : The first sum I was in, I was solving it, and by the time 2 minutes had already past, and I at least required more 30-40 secs more to solve, I did not solve it. I guessed it and moved on. I did just guess quite a lot of the sums. I have a habit of silly mistakes too. Some times I even read 144.4 as 140(one of my mock issues). I have my enhanced score report. It seems , I got only 50% of the first 1-9 Quant correct, and only 86% of the next 9-16/17 correct.
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16 Aug 2017, 08:00
