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Updated on: 04 Jul 2020, 00:45
Originally posted by jimmyvithalani on 01 Jul 2020, 15:49.
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Hi All,
Today I took the GMAT online, first GMAT for me, in fact my first exam of any kind in last 11 years!
First of all, thank you to this great platform, the founder, the team, the experts, and the contributors. This platform has helped me so much.
Now, about my experience.
I had been preparing on and off for last 4-5 months, was still pondering whether I need GMAT or not, and decided to take the exam to get over with it because I had spent some time on it. I am not from a pure engineering background, so most concepts were either new or I was looking at them after approx. 20 years. But I had covered enough and had gone through all Q questions of the official question bank. Plus had given 4 practice tests.
I had booked the offline exam but switched to the online exam as soon as the physical whiteboard announcement was made.
Exam day:
Quant:
Verbal:
Break:
IR:
That's it. Exam was done.
I am expecting the score in similar range as my practice tests, I would be happy
if I get that given my nightmares in Quant section.
Thank you.
UPDATE:
Today I received my score. It's a disappointing 640.
What is more disappointing is that I got 31 in Verbal. My 4 practice test scores for verbal were: 34 (diagnostic), 37, 37, 37. So I am really perplexed with this score.
Thinking to take the in-center exam in next 2 weeks. Let's see.
Thanks,
Jimmy.
Today I took the GMAT online, first GMAT for me, in fact my first exam of any kind in last 11 years!
First of all, thank you to this great platform, the founder, the team, the experts, and the contributors. This platform has helped me so much.
Now, about my experience.
I had been preparing on and off for last 4-5 months, was still pondering whether I need GMAT or not, and decided to take the exam to get over with it because I had spent some time on it. I am not from a pure engineering background, so most concepts were either new or I was looking at them after approx. 20 years. But I had covered enough and had gone through all Q questions of the official question bank. Plus had given 4 practice tests.
I had booked the offline exam but switched to the online exam as soon as the physical whiteboard announcement was made.
Exam day:
- I had done the system test till the photo upload step earlier as well, but did not go further because my desk had a lot of clutter and that's not how I would have it on the exam day.
- So on the day itself, I cleaned up the desk, removed things which were around my desk like bag, notes and even a dustbin just to be safe.
- I started the exam 25 mins the scheduled time, uploaded the photos of myself, ID doc, and the room.
- Overall, within 5 minutes the exam started with instructions.
- Note: During the initial screens, there was a screen where I had to show the whiteboard on the camera.
Quant:
- First, a little bit of background. As I said, during the study, many concepts in Quant were new to me, but I had done well to prepare. But the two most difficult concepts for me were probability and geometry, especially coordinate geometry. I could do most Easy problems of those concepts, and many medium ones, but rarely the hard ones.
- In the Quant section, out of the first 10 questions,
- 2 were probability
- 3 were coordinate geometry
- 3 were other crazy geometry (two of these had multiple circles put into a rectangle and a square!!)
- At this point, I knew I was in soup. I was confident on 2 of those 8 questions but others I tried and had to finally guess. Not my day I guess.
- After the first 10, things were more comfortable for me. The areas of the next set of questions more to my strength and were ok.
- I finished the section right on time, did have to hurry in the last 2 Qs, but I think I did alright in the second half of this section.
- Once Quant section was done, there was 30 seconds wait for Verbal, I took the time to breathe and relax.
Verbal:
- Then verbal started. The second Q was RC, and third and fourth naturally followed.
- Post the RC questions at 2,3,4 next 8 questions were all SC.
- I finished verbal 1 min early.
- Overall, I think I did well on the Verbal. Same or better than my usual performance on Verbal.
Break:
- Once Verbal section was done, there was 30 seconds on a screen which had buttons for 'Begin Break' and 'Skip Break'. I did not click because after waiting for 30 seconds, it would anyway start the break.
- Once the break started, I stood up at the same place just to stretch, I did not need the break as such but just wanted to stretch.
- After I sat, suddenly the chat window popped up, and it showed message that the proctor is typing.
- She told me that the break is after the written test and before the Integrated Reasoning test. I guess she referred to Verbal as written test because its English?!
- And she said, I need to be seated and face should be visible to camera at that time.
- I told her that I am seeing the break timer on my screen and that its a break. Then she apologized and said that she couldn't see that on her side so was confused.
- I said its ok and started next section.
- Note: This was my only interaction with the proctor.
IR:
- I had not done any prep for IR. I had only solved IR questions in 3 of my 4 practice tests, that's it.
- The IR questions in the beginning were tough. A question with 3 tabs, two of them had text and a table and a graph.
- I took some time in first few questions in IR, but later I increased my speed and finished it on time.
- Once the IR section ended, there was a message to show the blank whiteboard again, which I did.
That's it. Exam was done.
I am expecting the score in similar range as my practice tests, I would be happy
if I get that given my nightmares in Quant section.Thank you.
UPDATE:
Today I received my score. It's a disappointing 640.
What is more disappointing is that I got 31 in Verbal. My 4 practice test scores for verbal were: 34 (diagnostic), 37, 37, 37. So I am really perplexed with this score.
Thinking to take the in-center exam in next 2 weeks. Let's see.
Thanks,
Jimmy.
01 Jul 2020, 17:18
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Congrats on being done! Thank you for sharing and let us know when you get your score.
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