Hey all,
So I recently sat for my GMAT on Saturday September 2nd, and scored a 640 (48Q, 29V, 7IR), totally bombing the verbal portion, after having scored 690-750-640-700 on my last 4 fresh, non-retake, practice exams, the first of which is from Veritas Prep, and the final two of which are from Exam Pack 2. Below is a list of all my exams taken chronologically...
GMATPrep 1, 4/22/17 - 640 (Q45, V33)
MGMAT CAT 1, 5/3/17 - 650 (Q41, V35)
MGMAT CAT 2, 5/21/17 - 580 (Q38, V31)
MGMAT CAT 3, 6/3/17 - 630 (Q44, V32)
MGMAT CAT 4, 6/12/17 - 610 (Q38, V35)
Veritas CAT 1, 6/15/17 - 660 (Q46, V35)
Veritas CAT 2, 6/22/17 - 620 (Q43, V33)
Veritas CAT 3, 7/8/17 - 660 (Q48, V33)
GMATPrep 2, 7/9/17 - 650 (Q48, V31)
MGMAT CAT 5, 7/11/17 - 630 (Q42, V34)
Veritas CAT 4, 7/15/17 - 680 (Q49, V32)
Veritas CAT 5, 7/27/17 - 660 (Q49, V32)
Veritas CAT 6, 8/2/17 - 670 (Q49, V33)
MGMAT CAT 6, 8/5/17 - 660 (Q44, V36)
Veritas CAT 7, 8/6/17 - 710 (Q50, V37)
GMATPrep 3, 8/9/17 - 690 (Q49, V35)
GMATPrep 4, 8/15/17 - 750 (Q51, V40)
GMATPrep 5, 8/28/17 - 640 (Q47, V31)
GMATPrep 6, 8/30/17 - 700 (Q49, V35)
On test day...I opted for Q-V-IR-AWA. During my first break, I had my granola bar, drank some Gatorade, and used the restroom. To my surprise when I asked how much time was remaining in my break, they had told me I had used 12 minutes. Stress level over 9000!!!! During all of my practice exams, I've never spent more than 5 minutes eating a snack and using the restroom... I lost 5 minutes of my time for the Verbal section, and feel like this contributed to my underwhelming Verbal score....Now when I received my score I was feeling just okay about my Quant score, however my my jaws dropped when I saw my verbal score... I just received my Enhanced Score Report and saw that although I had scored a 41 in CR and 37 in SC (which I believe is I could have definitely performed better on), my RC score was a measly 20!!! I felt absolutely crushed that my final score was the same as the score of my first practice exam...
Study Material-
OG'17
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OG Quant '16
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OG Verbal '16
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Manhattan Prep SC
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Manhattan Prep Numbers Properties
-GmatClub forums
I plan to sit for the exam again in 2 months (also have around 16 days of PTO to use before the new year and would be more than willing to take another week off to prep), and intend on nailing it this time around. I usually spent around 15-20 hours a week for the last 6 months preparing along with taking the week off before my exam to get in the zone. I've already ordered the
Manhattan Prep Critical Reasoning and
Manhattan Prep Reading Comp books and am heavily considering getting
Magoosh Premium for guidance, but if anyone can give me some advice on how to structure my studying to better solidify my verbal proficiency, that'd be much appreciated! I'd like to score 720+
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Updated on: 03 Sep 2017, 21:32
