pragyasharma01 wrote:
Hi all!
First of all, I want to say thank you to this community, I have never really posted but been referring to GMAT Club for all my preparation, dilemma, burnout, and experiences inputs.
As evident from the title, I took the in person GMAT yesterday and scored a disappointing 660 (Q47,V35), which is an absolute shocker because my mock scores have consistently been in the 730 or plus range.
MOCK SCORE BREAKDOWN :
GMAT OFFICIAL - MOCK 1 - 710 (Q50, V35) - 18th October (I started majorly focusing my studies on Verbal after this attempt).
GMAT OFFICIAL - MOCK 2 - 730 (Q49, V40) - 1st November
GMAT OFFICIAL - MOCK 3 - 730 (Q50, V39) - 15th November
GMAT OFFICIAL - MOCK 4 - 740 (Q51, V39) - 23rd November (Weird about this one because I didn't get any Quant question wrong but still got all questions in the Medium difficulty level).
GMAT OFFICIAL - MOCK 5 - 760 (Q50, V42) - 24th November
GMAT OFFICIAL - MOCK 6 - 780 (Q51, V47) - 25th November (Got many repeat questions)
Given my mock scores, I was very well expecting a 720+ score on my GMAT and felt pretty confident on test date, so not sure if nerves played a part in the drop but I could feel while I took the exam that I wasn't doing well. I also found the exam to be particularly difficult than the mocks, both in verbal and quant sections. Maybe the mocks set my expectations in terms of difficulty level of questions too low, and I didn't prepare too many hard questions?
Mostly still in disbelief from yesterday. Maybe my learning has too many gaps the mocks didn't bring out? I am going to be taking the exam again, but not really where where to begin my preparations from this time. I don't think it was just a bad day, as too many questions on both sections had me struggling, and definitely there is something I am missing on my part.
Either way, can someone please help me navigate through my experience? I studied mostly from OGs, Verbal review, and quant review, as I thought sticking to official material would be the best. If it provides any insights, I am a Fashion Communication Design graduate, so didn't really study any maths or reasoning at the UG level.
Thank you!!
Hi Pragya,
First of all, sorry to hear about how things went with your GMAT. But don't get disappointed. An improvement is always possible. It's just that you have to identify what went wrong in your previous attempt and work on your weak areas. Let me help you here.
Ideally, you should be scoring similar to what you have scored in your official mocks. And your mock score are consistent. So, this is a little tricky situation to be in. Having said that, it might be due to test day pressure or due to inconsistent application skills. I have to know
whether you have consistently used the methodologies to solve questions in your mocks or did you somehow get lucky and ended up getting the right answer. Because, GMAT is an adaptive test and you need to use the right strategies to solve questions.
I would suggest you to connect over a zoom conference call and solve a few questions together. This will help me understand the flaw in your approach if any and based on that I can suggest you the further plan.
Because identifying what went wrong is the first step in the process of improving your score. You can use the below link to schedule a zoom conference call.
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