One week left till test, not much hope and many mistakes. what to do?

Dear iliavko,

I'm happy to respond. A few points.

Read this post:
Getting a Good GMAT Score
Part of the issue is that you are way too attached to the outcome. If every incorrect answer upsets you or gets you down, you are actively blocking your own learning process. You just cannot be that emotionally involved: you can't take each and every thing so personally. I don't know how much you can let go between now and the GMAT, but this is a really important thing to master over time. If you are this emotionally attached to outcome at every point of your career, the business world will eat you alive. It's about disattaching from external motivation and cultivating internal motivation. Be committed to bringing the best of yourself to each attempt; don't be attached to the outcome.

I am going to recommend this blog also:
Zen Boot Camp for the GMAT
That blog, and the linked blogs, address stress management skills. Whatever GMAT stuff you practice in the next week, I think you need to learn to be a expert at stress management skills. Take every single recommendation in those blogs extremely seriously.

I don't know the whole of your situation, but if you have scheduled one GMAT in a week and plan to schedule another at the end of the month, isn't that essentially planning to fail on the first? Also, if you are caught giving less than full attention to either the GMAT or the CFA, isn't that planning to do less than your best on both? I don't know what your constraints are, and at this point, it sounds as if you have relatively few options. When you have a non-hectic moment at some point, I think it would be important to reflect on the quality of the choices you are making. What would you choose if you really wanted to support you greatest success? What conditions could you create that would support the emergence of your excellence? How would you treat yourself and prioritize your choices if you really expected the best from yourself? How would you live if you were going to live from the best of who you are?

Those are my thoughts. Let me know if you have any questions.

Mike

Hi mikemcgarry
Thank you so much for your reply

I am planning two GMAts because the only way I can get the Q48 I need is it I get extremely lucky with the questions I get. So I thought that since the only way to get the score I need is to be lucky then I'd rather have 2 shots.

And as you said I am taking this very personally.. Like when I get a Q wrong, usually its a Q that I have seen before, I know how to answer it when I see the solution and I realize that a) I simply dont have the brainpower for |GMAT b) I did my studying all wrong, so no time to correct it now.

I will read the Zen blog, hopefully I will get something out of it..

Thank you for your contribution :D