EMPOWERgmatRichC wrote:
Hi pragyasharma01,
I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:
Studies:
1) How long have you studied? How many hours did you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used so far?
Goals:
3) What is your overall goal score?
4) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?
If you took your GMAT at a Test Facility, then you might also choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report. While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Hi Rich, thank you for getting back to me!
1) I have studied about 3.5 months, and spent around 3-4 hours every day studying.
2) I mostly used official material, including a couple of OGs, Quant review, and verbal review, along wit official problem set 1.
3) My overall goal is 720-750.
4) I am planning to apply to mostly European Schools, my top two are HEC and LBS. I am particularly disappointed about this score because I planned to apply in the 4th/9th round by Jan 1st, but now I am definitely going to miss that deadline, and hurt my chances of admit only because I am applying in later rounds.
One thing that I would like to mention here is most mocks had particularly very easy questions, even when I wasn't getting many wrong. At one point I scored a V51 and didn't get any question wrong, but still did not get even one truly hard question on the mock.
I have gotten my ESR yes but am unable to post it here since I don't have enough posts. Maybe I can PM it to you?
Thank you sooo much for all your help!
Pragya