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Alright guys, second post of today and I'm gonna keep going now. I am attaching my "cropped" ESR and following is the analysis that I've done myself after checking out the video and post from GMATNinja. What I'd like you guys to help me with is: is there something else going on that I have missed? Here is my GMAT debrief just in case it helps you fill in more context to my story:
### General
> But if the purple line dips below the blue and green lines at any point, you missed at least one really easy GMAT question.
This happened in all of the verbal quarters and in the second quarter of the quant section. I view this drop across the section. For example, in quant, I got harder questions correct in the fourth quarter compared to the questions I got incorrect in the second one. This makes sense because after I got those questions incorrect, GMAT decreased the difficulty level and I was able to get all of them correct with time to spare. This goes on to tell that if I had eliminated those pesky errors, I could have pushed my score even further. Same goes for verbal, the level of questions I got incorrect in second, third, and fourth quarter was lower than the level of questions I got correct in the fourth quarter. For that matter, the questions I got correct in the firts quarter were harder than those I got incorrect in the second quarter.
### Verbal
- Compared to my mock tests, average time for sentence correction took 10 more seconds, average time for reading comprehension took 20-30 less seconds. It makes sense that I was able to get a higher accuracy on sentence correction but at the cost of dipping reading comprehension. Surprisingly, my critical reasoning score is within 5 seconds of my mock score. I was rushing way too much on RC.
- What I still don't understand is where did the remaining time go? I mean I took less time on reading comprehension on average but the difference isn't so big that my CR and SC accuracy shoot up substantially high.
- Reading Comprehension fundamental skills breakdown: My accuracy on identify stated idea is way lower than the inference type questions.
- Performance Progression
- - The time management shows rushing. I took above average time in the first section, even more time in the second section, then my average time dropped to lower than what is required, but by the time I reached the last quarter, I started panicking and spent less than half of what each question deserved.
- - In general, the purple section is greater than the blue section indicating that I am spending way too much time on the questions that I shouldn't be spending on, and that this time maybe better spent elsewhere. In the second section, I spent 3:12 on average on incorrect answer!
- - The first section took about 18 minutes, the second one took about 22.5 minutes. So by the end of second section, I was running ~4-5 minutes late. I rushed in the third section again but somehow got all of them correct. It seems that I started rushing on my first quarter, then I realised that I was rushing, so I started slowed down way too much than necessary.
- In general, I specifically remember that I could not get myself to skip that one CR question that I knew I should skip. But I just couldn't get myself to do it. I think this is the part where you need to improve on calculated risk taking.
### Quant
- I am spending way more time on PS problems than I should. On an average I spent only half the time on DS than I was supposed to spend and that caused a drop in accuracy for DS. I mean even after spending more time on average, my score on PS wasn't 51. It was just 50.
- Performance by fundamental skills: even after reading all the geometry material in the week before the exam, I could only achieve an accuracy rate of 33% which is pathetic compared to the above 80% accuracy on other questions. Now combining information from graphs, we see that I am spending more time on geometry questions but still getting them wrong.
- Performance Progression
- - I will need to analyse this keeping in mind that I did not get my break before Quant. But even then what could I have done better.
- - The average time it took me to respond to the first set of questions presented was 2:39 with 2:48 on correct questions and 1:43 on incorrect questions. After the first section I had 41 minutes left, assuming that the first section had 8 questions. I had targetted that 48 minutes should remain at the end of 6th question. Even if you add 4 more minutes, the total gets to 44 minutes remaining, which tells you that I took way longer to answer these questions than I should have.
-- According to my calculation, I took 4 minutes extra in the first quarter, even then I finished 3 minutes early in the second quarter (since I took 1.25 minutes on average), even paced more on the third section (I finished 7 minutes early) and finally, I finished quant 5 minutes early.
-- Now, if I could have stepped back on the first question, not skip it, just wait for two minutes to solve it, then I could have regained my focus.
Action item: Memorize Panicking and Flustered meditations in the SOS section of Headspace
### General
> But if the purple line dips below the blue and green lines at any point, you missed at least one really easy GMAT question.
This happened in all of the verbal quarters and in the second quarter of the quant section. I view this drop across the section. For example, in quant, I got harder questions correct in the fourth quarter compared to the questions I got incorrect in the second one. This makes sense because after I got those questions incorrect, GMAT decreased the difficulty level and I was able to get all of them correct with time to spare. This goes on to tell that if I had eliminated those pesky errors, I could have pushed my score even further. Same goes for verbal, the level of questions I got incorrect in second, third, and fourth quarter was lower than the level of questions I got correct in the fourth quarter. For that matter, the questions I got correct in the firts quarter were harder than those I got incorrect in the second quarter.
### Verbal
- Compared to my mock tests, average time for sentence correction took 10 more seconds, average time for reading comprehension took 20-30 less seconds. It makes sense that I was able to get a higher accuracy on sentence correction but at the cost of dipping reading comprehension. Surprisingly, my critical reasoning score is within 5 seconds of my mock score. I was rushing way too much on RC.
- What I still don't understand is where did the remaining time go? I mean I took less time on reading comprehension on average but the difference isn't so big that my CR and SC accuracy shoot up substantially high.
- Reading Comprehension fundamental skills breakdown: My accuracy on identify stated idea is way lower than the inference type questions.
- Performance Progression
- - The time management shows rushing. I took above average time in the first section, even more time in the second section, then my average time dropped to lower than what is required, but by the time I reached the last quarter, I started panicking and spent less than half of what each question deserved.
- - In general, the purple section is greater than the blue section indicating that I am spending way too much time on the questions that I shouldn't be spending on, and that this time maybe better spent elsewhere. In the second section, I spent 3:12 on average on incorrect answer!
- - The first section took about 18 minutes, the second one took about 22.5 minutes. So by the end of second section, I was running ~4-5 minutes late. I rushed in the third section again but somehow got all of them correct. It seems that I started rushing on my first quarter, then I realised that I was rushing, so I started slowed down way too much than necessary.
- In general, I specifically remember that I could not get myself to skip that one CR question that I knew I should skip. But I just couldn't get myself to do it. I think this is the part where you need to improve on calculated risk taking.
### Quant
- I am spending way more time on PS problems than I should. On an average I spent only half the time on DS than I was supposed to spend and that caused a drop in accuracy for DS. I mean even after spending more time on average, my score on PS wasn't 51. It was just 50.
- Performance by fundamental skills: even after reading all the geometry material in the week before the exam, I could only achieve an accuracy rate of 33% which is pathetic compared to the above 80% accuracy on other questions. Now combining information from graphs, we see that I am spending more time on geometry questions but still getting them wrong.
- Performance Progression
- - I will need to analyse this keeping in mind that I did not get my break before Quant. But even then what could I have done better.
- - The average time it took me to respond to the first set of questions presented was 2:39 with 2:48 on correct questions and 1:43 on incorrect questions. After the first section I had 41 minutes left, assuming that the first section had 8 questions. I had targetted that 48 minutes should remain at the end of 6th question. Even if you add 4 more minutes, the total gets to 44 minutes remaining, which tells you that I took way longer to answer these questions than I should have.
-- According to my calculation, I took 4 minutes extra in the first quarter, even then I finished 3 minutes early in the second quarter (since I took 1.25 minutes on average), even paced more on the third section (I finished 7 minutes early) and finally, I finished quant 5 minutes early.
-- Now, if I could have stepped back on the first question, not skip it, just wait for two minutes to solve it, then I could have regained my focus.
Action item: Memorize Panicking and Flustered meditations in the SOS section of Headspace
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