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14 Jul 2021, 11:32
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Hi All,
I have been preparing for GMAT since January 2021. Despite a demanding full time job and a horrific Covid wave in my country, I was able to remain consistent with my studies. And I could consistently see improvement in my mock test scores. However, this did not reflect on my GMAT. I need your support in understanding how should I take it forward.
Following are my scores in mocks and actual GMAT:
Official Practice Test 1: 710 (Q50, V36)
Official Practice Test 2: 660 (Q47 V35)
Official Practice Test 3: 720 (Q48 V40)
Official Practice Test 4: 690 (Q50 V31)
GMAT: 660 (Q48 V32 IR3 AWA6)
Official Practice Test 5: 730 (Q49 V41)
Official Practice Test 6: 740 (Q50 V40)
GMAT: 660 (Q48 V32 IR5) (Today)
Today, as I always do, I started with Quant. Quant seemed fine. I was confident that I'd be able to hit my target score of 680+
However, as soon as I started Verbal, I don't know why I went completely blank! I just could not understand what was written on the screen. I spent more than 4 minutes on my first question, but then chose an option that I was not really confident on. The same happened with the next two questions. I just could not understand what is written on the screen! This completely broke my momentum and I could not calm myself down for the rest of the test.
I am really demoralized! I don't know how to cope with this. Although I really want to reattempt, I feel that I have no energy left in me. Requesting your opinion on how should I go ahead! Please let me know:
(i) should I take a few days' break? I feel exhausted and overwhelmed and want to play videogames for a few days
(ii) what could be the reason for my unacceptable performance?
(iii) anything you think could be helpful
Looking forward for your response
Regards
ADITYA GANJOO
I have been preparing for GMAT since January 2021. Despite a demanding full time job and a horrific Covid wave in my country, I was able to remain consistent with my studies. And I could consistently see improvement in my mock test scores. However, this did not reflect on my GMAT. I need your support in understanding how should I take it forward.
Following are my scores in mocks and actual GMAT:
Official Practice Test 1: 710 (Q50, V36)
Official Practice Test 2: 660 (Q47 V35)
Official Practice Test 3: 720 (Q48 V40)
Official Practice Test 4: 690 (Q50 V31)
GMAT: 660 (Q48 V32 IR3 AWA6)
Official Practice Test 5: 730 (Q49 V41)
Official Practice Test 6: 740 (Q50 V40)
GMAT: 660 (Q48 V32 IR5) (Today)
Today, as I always do, I started with Quant. Quant seemed fine. I was confident that I'd be able to hit my target score of 680+
However, as soon as I started Verbal, I don't know why I went completely blank! I just could not understand what was written on the screen. I spent more than 4 minutes on my first question, but then chose an option that I was not really confident on. The same happened with the next two questions. I just could not understand what is written on the screen! This completely broke my momentum and I could not calm myself down for the rest of the test.
I am really demoralized! I don't know how to cope with this. Although I really want to reattempt, I feel that I have no energy left in me. Requesting your opinion on how should I go ahead! Please let me know:
(i) should I take a few days' break? I feel exhausted and overwhelmed and want to play videogames for a few days
(ii) what could be the reason for my unacceptable performance?
(iii) anything you think could be helpful
Looking forward for your response
Regards
ADITYA GANJOO
14 Jul 2021, 11:54
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Hi adityaganjoo,
I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT. The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.
Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than V32. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:
how to score a 700+ on the GMAT
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT. The good news is that you scored really well on quant, right? That said, I understand that you are not satisfied with your verbal score, so the question we need to ask is why you scored so high on your practice exams but lower on the real GMAT.
Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than V32. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:
how to score a 700+ on the GMAT
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
14 Jul 2021, 21:50
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ScottTargetTestPrep Thanks for the reply! Yes I wrote all my practice tests in realistic testing condition. In fact, in my last practice test, I took only 4 minute breaks, since I knew that my test centre has a washroom at least at a minute's walk, and used laminated sheet and marker for rough work.
The major problem that happened with me yesterday was that I just went blank when Verbal started. I could not interpret what was written on the screen. I consider myself good at Critical Reasoning (First attempt ESR attached), but I could not even understand the CR question. After first 3 questions, I panicked. I could not calm myself down for the next whole hour.
A few reasons that I can think about are:
(i) Invigilator started the Verbal part before I could properly settle down
(ii) My spectacle got dirty due to moisture and I wrote the rest of the test without spectacles
Please let me know your views on this.
