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Hi Experts,

I recently took the GMAT and scored a 730 (Q50 V38). I felt that I had done the test much better - I was expecting 750 plus. Hence, I decided to buy the ESR for the test. A few details from the ESR look strange - I scored a V38 with only 4 counted questions wrong. The SC sectional score is 35 - This is abysmally low given that I got only one of the counted questions wrong. I had to guess my last SC question because of lack of time, and from the timer stats of the last section, there is a high probability that I got this question wrong.

I understand that the GMAT is a remarkable test, but perfection is impossible in almost anything that humans have built. From this ESR, it looks like I have a reasonable case to request GMAC to reevaluate my test. Please give your thoughts and suggest the next course of action.

PS - I have retaken the test to get myself off the waitlist.
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I recently took the GMAT and scored a 730 (Q50 V38). I felt that I had done the test much better - I was expecting 750 plus. Hence, I decided to buy the ESR for the test. A few details from the ESR look strange - I scored a V38 with only 4 counted questions wrong. The SC sectional score is 35 - This is abysmally low given that I got only one of the counted questions wrong. I had to guess my last SC question because of lack of time, and from the timer stats of the last section, there is a high probability that I got this question wrong.

I understand that the GMAT is a remarkable test, but perfection is impossible in almost anything that humans have built. From this ESR, it looks like I have a reasonable case to request GMAC to reevaluate my test. Please give your thoughts and suggest the next course of action.

PS - I have retaken the test to get myself off the waitlist.
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Can you give your take on this? I scored a V38/39 when I guessed the last 3-4 questions on my previous attempts. This time, I guessed only the last SC question and got this wrong. The penalty for this mistake is 29 percentile points in SC.
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For Verbal, one thing you could look at would be your time management. Your Q4 was avg. was 1:08. If you feel your fundamentals are solid consider working on your solving approach. May boost your score a bit. Had a 6-hour student who went from a V41 to a V45 in about 10 days so this type of learning doesn't have to take very long. Perhaps work with a study buddy who has some strong Verbal skills. You could teach them Quant in return especially given your Q50.

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For Verbal, one thing you could look at would be your time management. Your Q4 was avg. was 1:08. If you feel your fundamentals are solid consider working on your solving approach. May boost your score a bit. Had a 6-hour student who went from a V41 to a V45 in about 10 days so this type of learning doesn't have to take very long. Perhaps work with a study buddy who has some strong Verbal skills. You could teach them Quant in return especially given your Q50.

All the best on your next attempt.
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Yeah - I have always had a problem with timing, and usually end up guessing all the answers for the last RC. This time I ensured to not guess any of the RC questions. My question is just that is it expected to score a 71 percentile in SC by getting only one counted SC question wrong ? This is extreme penalty and makes me feel that I would have been better off by not answering the last question.

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For Verbal, one thing you could look at would be your time management. Your Q4 was avg. was 1:08. If you feel your fundamentals are solid consider working on your solving approach. May boost your score a bit. Had a 6-hour student who went from a V41 to a V45 in about 10 days so this type of learning doesn't have to take very long. Perhaps work with a study buddy who has some strong Verbal skills. You could teach them Quant in return especially given your Q50.

All the best on your next attempt.

Yeah - I have always had a problem with timing, and usually end up guessing all the answers for the last RC. This time I ensured to not guess any of the RC questions. My question is just that is it expected to score a 71 percentile in SC by getting only one counted SC question wrong ? This is extreme penalty and makes me feel that I would have been better off by not answering the last question.

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Additionally, there have been cases ( I read from this forum) in which GMAT changed the verbal score from 50 to 51 - just wondering whether I have a reasonable case to appeal my SC section percentile score because the penalty looks dubious. A 40 plus score in SC should push my overall score above v40 because I have scored 42 and 40 in RC and CR respespectively.
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Hi Experts,

I took the GMAT twice now and my scores are as follows:
GMAT 1: 660 (Q49 V32) | GMAT 2: 700 (Q49 V32)

I'm planning a retake to reach around 730+ and needed some advice on improving my verbal. What areas should I focus on and how?
Not able to attach my ESR since I don't have 5 posts. Please let me know if I can DM.

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This person went from a V31 to a V40 on a retake. May be some quick tips you can take. All the best.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-online- ... 68599.html
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I took the GMAT twice now and my scores are as follows:
GMAT 1: 660 (Q49 V32) | GMAT 2: 700 (Q49 V32)

I'm planning a retake to reach around 730+ and needed some advice on improving my verbal. What areas should I focus on and how?
Not able to attach my ESR since I don't have 5 posts. Please let me know if I can DM.

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Here is a great article you can check out:

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I recently took the GMAT and scored a 730 (Q50 V38). I felt that I had done the test much better - I was expecting 750 plus. Hence, I decided to buy the ESR for the test. A few details from the ESR look strange - I scored a V38 with only 4 counted questions wrong. The SC sectional score is 35 - This is abysmally low given that I got only one of the counted questions wrong. I had to guess my last SC question because of lack of time, and from the timer stats of the last section, there is a high probability that I got this question wrong.

I understand that the GMAT is a remarkable test, but perfection is impossible in almost anything that humans have built. From this ESR, it looks like I have a reasonable case to request GMAC to reevaluate my test. Please give your thoughts and suggest the next course of action.

PS - I have retaken the test to get myself off the waitlist.
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Sorry that I'm late to the party, Venkat000095! I don't think I have anything terribly useful to say at this point, but it's definitely an interesting ESR -- not the sort of thing that we see every day.

It's definitely unfortunate to miss only 4 questions and get a 38V, especially since you were perfect in the 1st quarter of the section. That really doesn't happen very often. Basically, the difficulty level of the questions barely increased, even though you were perfect in the first quarter of the verbal section, and didn't miss many questions after that.

Why did that happen? My hunch is that the question bank didn’t happen to have enough difficult questions in it, so the difficulty stayed relatively flat in your case. The same thing often happens in some of the mba.com tests (usually tests #3-6), for better or worse.

Is it worth asking for a re-grade? There’s no harm in asking, but it’s very unlikely to change anything. (In theory, they could also revise your score downwards, but score revisions are exceedingly rare in either direction — so in all likelihood, nothing at all will happen.)

I frankly don’t like what happened to you here — it feels like you deserved a shot at the harder questions. But the test’s algorithm can compute your score in exactly the same way, even though it didn’t give you hard questions in the ways that I would typically expect. So technically speaking, your score is probably “correct”, even though the experience itself was pretty atypical.

On SC, I think you’re just seeing a particularly dramatic version of the same general phenomenon. You didn’t see terribly difficult questions on the verbal section, fairly or unfairly. If the one SC question you missed was fairly easy — and the ones you got right weren’t very hard, either — it makes sense that your SC subscore wouldn’t be all that high. Again: it doesn’t feel fair that you didn’t see harder questions. But in theory, you could get 100% of the SC questions correct and get an even LOWER score, as long as the questions were super-easy.

Fun times. Welcome to computer adaptive testing, ladies and gentlemen!

Bottom line: I would probably ask for the re-grade, just to see what they say. And obviously, you’ll want to retake if you haven’t already. All signs point to the idea that you'll have a good chance at a higher score on a different day.

Sorry that you went through such an odd verbal section, and thank you for sharing such an interesting ESR!
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Hello Experts,
I recently took a GMAT and scored 720. This was my first attempt.
From my ESR analysis, I could infer that I need to work a lot on my RC skills. But it would help if you could have a look and give me your insights on which direction I should focus to get a 750.
Attaching my ESR for your reference.

Also, I need an advice on AWA and IR. My scores are very low in both the areas (4 and 4 respectively). Is this a big problem?
I would be deeply grateful for any insights on the ESR.

Thank you in advance! :)
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For RC, becoming familiar with how INFERENCE questions work on the GMAT could be helpful. Consider also working on time management. Your Q4 average on Verbal was 32 seconds.
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Hello Experts,
I recently took a GMAT and scored 720. This was my first attempt.
From my ESR analysis, I could infer that I need to work a lot on my RC skills. But it would help if you could have a look and give me your insights on which direction I should focus to get a 750.
Attaching my ESR for your reference.

Also, I need an advice on AWA and IR. My scores are very low in both the areas (4 and 4 respectively). Is this a big problem?
I would be deeply grateful for any insights on the ESR.

Thank you in advance! :)
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Regarding Reading Comprehension, here is a great article you can check out:

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Hello Experts,
I recently took a GMAT and scored 720. This was my first attempt.
From my ESR analysis, I could infer that I need to work a lot on my RC skills. But it would help if you could have a look and give me your insights on which direction I should focus to get a 750.
Attaching my ESR for your reference.

Also, I need an advice on AWA and IR. My scores are very low in both the areas (4 and 4 respectively). Is this a big problem?
I would be deeply grateful for any insights on the ESR.

Thank you in advance! :)
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Hi Mentis678

720 in the very first attempt is a great score. But if you feel you can take it up to 750, then I can definitely help you with that. The first thing in that process would be to identify your weak areas. As you have attached your ESR, that would be definitely helpful but I feel it's better to have a one-on-one discussion rather than responding here as the former would be more effective. We could connect over a zoom conference call and analyze your ESR together and at the same time come up with a study plan to improve your score to 750+. You can use the below link to get in touch with me.

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I took the GMAT twice now and my scores are as follows:
GMAT 1: 660 (Q49 V32) | GMAT 2: 700 (Q49 V32)

I'm planning a retake to reach around 730+ and needed some advice on improving my verbal. What areas should I focus on and how?
Not able to attach my ESR since I don't have 5 posts. Please let me know if I can DM.

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Hi ALEX4157

The ideal thing would be to identify your weak areas and work on them. You are almost there in quant but you can take your score to 42-43 in verbal. So, you have to analyze even the minute things and make sure to work on them. As you have an ESR, I can definitely help you in analyzing it. We can get in touch over a zoom conference call and we can analyze it together. This way we can figure out what exactly your weak areas are and then make a plan of action. I'll PM you the mail id to which you can send your ESR. You can use the below link to get in touch with me.

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Hi everyone,

trust I have hit a stagnant point with GMAT as I got the same score as in my previous GMAT exam though with a different score distribution, i.e. I gained two points in Verbal but lost two points in Quant which is so frustrating. From the ESR I understand that my biggest weaknesses are in CR (Construction/Plan and Analysis/Critique), RC (Identify inferred ideas) and Quant in general (especially Equality/Inequality/Algebra, Counting/Series and Rates/Ratio/Percent). I have booked another exam in one month but not totally sure how to properly address the above improvement areas in the most efficient way. Any recommendations? Happy to share my ESR if that could be useful. My target score is around 750.

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trust I have hit a stagnant point with GMAT as I got the same score as in my previous GMAT exam though with a different score distribution, i.e. I gained two points in Verbal but lost two points in Quant which is so frustrating. From the ESR I understand that my biggest weaknesses are in CR (Construction/Plan and Analysis/Critique), RC (Identify inferred ideas) and Quant in general (especially Equality/Inequality/Algebra, Counting/Series and Rates/Ratio/Percent). I have booked another exam in one month but not totally sure how to properly address the above improvement areas in the most efficient way. Any recommendations? Happy to share my ESR if that could be useful. My target score is around 750.

Many thanks in advance for any comment.
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Hi Laila12618,

That's a very strong performance in the verbal section. The only thing I'd ask you to look into is your time management right at the end (1:31). Were you able to finish comfortably, or did you have to rush through the last few questions? And if you did, do you remember how many of CR questions you got at the end?

You already know this, but you most likely need to focus on quant. All the best for the retake.
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trust I have hit a stagnant point with GMAT as I got the same score as in my previous GMAT exam though with a different score distribution, i.e. I gained two points in Verbal but lost two points in Quant which is so frustrating. From the ESR I understand that my biggest weaknesses are in CR (Construction/Plan and Analysis/Critique), RC (Identify inferred ideas) and Quant in general (especially Equality/Inequality/Algebra, Counting/Series and Rates/Ratio/Percent). I have booked another exam in one month but not totally sure how to properly address the above improvement areas in the most efficient way. Any recommendations? Happy to share my ESR if that could be useful. My target score is around 750.

Many thanks in advance for any comment.
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Working on your time management may be helpful. Your average time per question was 1:32 in Q1 Quant but 2:29 in Q3, for example. Consider checking out Manhattan-Prep's 6th Edition for CR. Might also be helpful to use question/time markers to pace yourself during the exam.

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Got a 680(Q49 V34) recently. Had scored at least 720 in each official mock (>= Q48 V38 every time). The night before the test, I could hardly sleep for 3 hours.
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- I have fared poorly in SC despite putting most of my preparation time into SC preparation. I had reached around 80% accuracy in OG 500/600 level questions and around 60-70% accuracy beyond that.
- In my mock exams, I usually ran out of time with 2-3 question left for the last 1 minute. However during the actual GMAT, I fared even worse. I was left with 4-5 questions for the last 1-2 minutes.
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Got a 680(Q49 V34) recently. Had scored at least 720 in each official mock (>= Q48 V38 every time). The night before the test, I could hardly sleep for 3 hours.
Please have a look at my Verbal ESR and suggest some strategy.

- I have fared poorly in SC despite putting most of my preparation time into SC preparation. I had reached around 80% accuracy in OG 500/600 level questions and around 60-70% accuracy beyond that.
- In my mock exams, I usually ran out of time with 2-3 question left for the last 1 minute. However during the actual GMAT, I fared even worse. I was left with 4-5 questions for the last 1-2 minutes.
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Hello, sk69. Sleep deprivation alone could impair your decision-making processes, not to mention nerves. Many people find that a retest aligns more with their expectations based on practice results. By Q4, you were basically guessing at random—0:38 is barely enough time to process the information on the screen. One part of your self-report above that I find concerning is that you say you reached around 80% accuracy in OG 500/600 level questions. 80 percent accuracy might be good enough on Medium questions to see more challenging ones, but 80 percent accuracy on Easy questions is not. Your accuracy at such a difficulty should be hovering around 100 percent, as far above 90 percent as you can manage. The reason is that these questions often test the fundamental concepts, the nuts and bolts of grammar and construction, in less subtle ways than their more challenging counterparts. Until you spend adequate time studying these fundamentals and can apply your related knowledge accurately to SC questions, you should not be looking at 700-level questions. One result of nearly mastering SC content at a lower level is that your timing on such questions will come down, not just at the 500 level, but at upper levels as well. I would recommend checking out the GMATNinja series of articles and videos, whichever you prefer. (Look in the signature of any post by Charles.) If you have already invested in a guide, put it to use. Go back through questions you missed and see if you can connect the content areas of your guide book with the errors you made. Doing so is a good way to teach yourself how to approach SC questions once you get past the more mechanical concerns.

Best of luck to you.

- Andrew
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Hello experts,
 
I'm confused about the bad verbal score. Can you help me understand how my verbal score got dragged down so much even though I had a low error rate during the first two quarters? It's even more puzzling when compared to my quant performance, where Q2 was atrocious.
 
Any further insights and recommended courses of action to improve my CR and RC would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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