ScottTargetTestPrep wrote:
Hi Kjol,
I’m sorry to hear how things have gone with the GMAT. I’m happy to provide some advice but first can you provide some more information on your situation with the GMAT?
-- for how many hours a week did you study for the last 3 to 4 months?
-- what were the score breakdowns of your official practice exams?
-- what was the score breakdown of your actual GMAT?
-- what resources have you been using?
-- when are your application deadlines?
Hello Scott,
First, thank you for reading and replying to this.
As for the information you've asked for - I have written them down.
1) Approximately on an average about 6 hours on the weekdays and about 5 hours on the weekends. (I'm just talking in terms of hours I used to try to do qualitative study.)
2) 42 in Quant and 32 in Verbal was the breakdown. I scored 600 (
MGMAT mock 5 - taken two days before the exam) and though it wasn't the official test - because I have lost my scores as I accidentally clicked on reset - I did score 600 in the first official mock test that I had taken two weeks earlier and then scored a 630 in the second mock test (again scored more in Quant - which is surprising) in the second official mock. The second mock I had taken a week prior to my exam.
I would like to also mention that I'm quite better at verbal than quant but since I prepared more Quantitative focused - I lost my sight on Verbal and that's something I had to pay heavily on my paper.
3) My official GMAT score was 32 in Quant and 30 in Verbal. Total = 530.
4) I had joined private tutorials in my locality in early May uptil July mid. But I didn't find that quite useful so I shifted to
Expert's Global and then signed up for
Egmat (couldn't utilise much of it since I had other entrance exams as well).
Honestly, though I did get through my
Official guide and Quantitive Review - I feel I didn't pay much attention to them. I had done each of them once and Verbal Review (though I bought it - I didn't really make much use of that). Also, the Advanced Question set of GMAT questions from gmac is also something I tried doing but again, didn't complete it entirely.
I feel it's not about the lack of materials. What I have is more than enough but more of how to approach them is where I went wrong.
But then again that's my opinion and I would like to hear your thoughts on them.
5) The schools I'm trying for have the deadline of January 7th. I can send in the unofficial score to them. I'm trying for MIM (most of them are in France and some of my choice are in Spain and Italy)
I have already booked my next attempt for the 3rd since I have another exam on 5th. Since I'm not working exactly - I can dedicate myself entirely to GMAT but I do need help with the approach since this is the only attempt I'm going to get to try and go study abroad.
Thanks in advance.
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