Hi,
I took the GMAT on in July 29 and scored a poor score of 610 ( 44, V29) I am disappointed a lot, more so as the day before exam i took a GMAT official mock and scored 680 in same . I cannot fathom what happened to me during the verbal section of the exam, I couldn't understand any question, it was as if my brain froze during that time ( I have the verbal after my quant section) . In verbal section all the passages given to me very dense and from art, history & other not so easy topics. Even the questions of RC and their answer choices very obscure and I couldn't make out what they really wanted to state( I could pre think the answer in simple terms but the answers were not so direct). In CR also my experience was that the difficulty level was way high that the
OG and mock test that I gave and pre-thinking (
EGMAT approach) didnt work in all cases or I couldn't apply it well. SC is my weakest verbal section and no matter how I tried hard via
Magoosh and
E gmat I just cant understand how to spot the mistake leave alone how to rectify it , in simple topics of subject-verb and parallelism I can make out the difference a bit but not at all in topics like modifiers etc. I dont know how to approach SC at all.
During Quant initially my experience was good but I faced some difficulty in time data sufficiency questions. I also faced time constraint and had to just guess and quickly submit the answer or would have not completed the test , even in the last question I had just randomly chosen the option before calculating it and time ran out .
I have planed by next GMAT on 3rd September 2019 and need some counselling on how to reach the 720 level from 610 in the short time available. I guess giving more time to verbal might help( 10 days to each RC, CR AND SC and next 1 month to Quant and verbal practice). Below is my ESR report, kindly have a look and provide much needed guidance . I did not attempt the IR and AWA section afterthe bad verbal section I went through.
ESR-
Your GMAT Total score of 610 is higher than 59% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years.
◦ Your Integrated Reasoning score of 1 is higher than 0% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years.
◦ Your Verbal score of 29 is higher than 56% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years.
◦ Your Quantitative score of 44 is higher than 50% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years.
• Your Quantitative score of 44 and your Verbal score of 29 were used to calculate your GMAT Total score
Your Verbal score of 29 is higher than 56% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score
for this section is 27.04.
• Your performance on Critical Reasoning questions was equivalent to a score of 30, which is better than 55% of GMAT
Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.59.
◦ Your performance of 50% on Analysis/Critique questions is considered Weak.
◦ Your performance of 75% on Construction/Plan questions is considered Above Average.
• Your performance on Reading Comprehension questions was equivalent to a score of 34, which is better than 68% of
GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.29.
◦ Your performance of 83% on Identify Inferred Idea questions is considered Strong.
◦ Your performance of 50% on Identify Stated Idea questions is considered Weak.
• Your performance on Sentence Correction questions was equivalent to a score of 23, which is better than 34% of
GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.19.
◦ Your performance of 42% on Grammar questions is considered Weak.
◦ Your performance of 60% on Communication questions is considered Average.
• You completed 36 questions in the Verbal section.
• You responded correctly to 63% of the first set of questions, 43% of the second set of questions, 86% of the third set of
questions and 50% of the final set of questions.
• The average difficulty of questions presented to you in the first set of questions was Medium, the average for the
second set of questions was Medium , the average for the third set of questions was Medium and was Medium for the
final set of questions.
• The average time it took you to respond to the first set of questions presented was 1:33, the average time for the
second set of questions was 1:44, the average time for the third set of questions was 1:50 and 1:45 for the final set of
questions.
• Please Note: If you sat for the GMAT exam prior to April 16, 2018 this section contained 41 questions, on or after April
Your Quantitative score of 44 is higher than 50% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean
score for this section is 39.93.
• Your performance on Problem Solving questions was equivalent to a score of 47. Your score is better than 60% of all
sub-section scores recorded in the past three years. The mean for all test takers is 39.91.
• Your performance on Data Sufficiency questions was equivalent to a score of 36. Your score is better than 28% of all
sub-section scores recorded in the past three years. The mean for all test takers is 39.94.
• Your performance on Arithmetic questions was equivalent to a score of 46. Your score is better than 56% of all subsection
scores recorded in the past three years. The mean for all test takers is 40.02.
• Your performance on Algebra/Geometry questions was equivalent to a score of 44. Your score is better than 49% of all
sub-section scores recorded in the past three years. The mean for all test takers is 39.88.
• Your performance of 33% on Geometry questions is considered Weak.
• Your performance of 60% on Rates/Ratio/Percent questions is considered Average.
• Your performance of 37% on Value/Order/Factors questions is considered Weak.
• Your performance of 75% on Equal./Inequal./Alg. questions is considered Above Average.
• Your performance of 50% on Counting/Sets/Series questions is considered Weak.
• You completed 31 questions in the Quantitative section.
• You responded correctly to 86% of the first set of questions, 43% of the second set of questions, 29% of the third set of
questions and 43% of the final set of questions..
• The average difficulty of questions presented to you in the first set of questions was Medium, the average for the
second set of questions was Medium High, the average for the third set of questions was Medium High and was
Medium High for the final set of questions.
• The average time it took you to respond to the first set of questions presented was 1:50, the average time for the
second set of questions was 2:56, the average time for the third set of questions was 1:45 and 1:35 for the final set of
questions.
• Please Note: If you sat for the GMAT exam prior to April 16, 2018 this section contained 37 questions, on or after April
16, 2018 the section consists of 31 questions.