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So I recently gave my GMAT test and got 600, in contrast to 680/700 scores that i used to get in official mocks. Now im getting somewhere near 770/780 in official mocks. Is there an advice to perform better on the official test?

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So I recently gave my GMAT test and got 600, in contrast to 680/700 scores that i used to get in official mocks. Now im getting somewhere near 770/780 in official mocks. Is there an advice to perform better on the official test?

Mocks are deceptive. Hope you are taking the mocks in exactly the same simulated environment as the actuals i.e. laminated sheets, markers (and not paper and pen).

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So I recently gave my GMAT test and got 600, in contrast to 680/700 scores that i used to get in official mocks. Now im getting somewhere near 770/780 in official mocks. Is there an advice to perform better on the official test?

I was getting 770/780 on my last 3 mocks and I got 760 in the real exam (granted, I took it at midnight so I was pretty exhausted before I even started it. Long story)

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I was getting 770/780 on my last 3 mocks and I got 760 in the real exam (granted, I took it at midnight so I was pretty exhausted before I even started it. Long story)

Your profile score is 750 - just fyi. Seems some kind of a mismatch 🤷‍♂️

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Mocks are deceptive. Hope you are taking the mocks in exactly the same simulated environment as the actuals i.e. laminated sheets, markers (and not paper and pen).

Not sure I would use the word deceptive. I would say that you can definitely get inaccurate results for a number of reasons but I don’t think Mocks are deceptive, especially GMAT prep which uses the same algorithm and question quality as OG 😬

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Hi Guys…I just gave mine a day back and got a pretty awful result. Just wondering how are you all going about it? Any tips or strategies that you guys recommend?

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I prepared from Kaplan and nothing came up similar to what they have got in their books

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yo plz listen to this.. I took a mock last week and got q35 v26… took gmat today and got q34 v41…. Not sure how

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but I just found the Manhattan one recently and they have got exact same questions as those in the real GMAT test

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You need to use official guide questions to prepare, especially for verbal

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I also took mine few days ago and got bad results as well. 44 quant and 16 verbal as i did not finish all verbal and integrated reasoning questions

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and for quant, if your score is very low, you may be missing key concepts and depending on how much time you have, look at some of the prep coures?

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For quant I find Manhattan Advanced Quant book really beneficial

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Where can I get that from?

Here on GMAT Club, search the practice question bank and filter for official guide question only. Pratice topic by topic. but you first need to have conceptual knowledge

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For quant I find Manhattan Advanced Quant book really beneficial

was your quant less than 43?

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Originally posted by Sania94 on 07 Jan 2023, 18:47.
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Yup I do have that

My concepts are all clear but they way to crack the questions needs a bit more practice

Yes my Quant score was below 40

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My concepts are all clear but they way to crack the questions needs a bit more practice

Ok if you are sure that your concepts are clear, then go ahead and practice official guide question. Topic by topic and start from the sub600 difficulty level

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Hello for MBA, verbal scores are really important ?

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I got 47/38 Q/V. Grammar and structure are poor. Not sure how to address that.

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