pre-exam jitters!!

Question

so day after tomorrow is D-day .. i will be retaking the exam for the second time (and that too on my birthday) ..and my goal is to cross the 700 barrier! (i got a lousy 660 earlier)
i have done all the mgmat quant exercises - book, online question bank, 6 adaptive CATs...done the OR11 once back to back. took the GMATPrep exam yesterday ..scored a discouraging 710 on it. after all this practice ..i still make silly arithmetic mistakes, still run out of time ..and still get hyper nervous when i see an unfamiliar question type!! :arh

scared as hell!!

anyone else feel like me!?? just wanted to vent!!

thanks for listening!

scared as hell!! anyone else feel like me!?? just wanted to vent!! thanks for listening!

braindancer · Answer

Take one more GMATprep, get used to the pace. Don't avoid the essays as well. Practice will chill you down.

sm176811 · Answer

660 is not lousy! Just chill and attack the test confidently!

gauravgoyal_g · Answer

Hey, HongHu scored 710 on her GMATPrep test a day before her actual test and managed to get a 780 on it.
Having said that, I myself found the GMAT to be a nerve wracking experience. What I started telling myself a few days before the exam is that it is the process that is important and not the result itself. So just feel good about the fact that you've done a lot of hard work already. Keep concentrating on what you need to do before and during the exam and you'll automatically get a good result.

insmart · Answer

if in China、India......,there is ordinary of taking a exam many times...one of my friends took a exam likes sat in USA for 5!!!! times...and when he enroled the college...he still were not the oldest student in his class..

the exam is only a exam.pass it, u can get something u aim at,at opposed,u still get something from the process

solitaire11 · Answer

so after all that drama ... i finally scored a 710!!! feel so good now! more of a relief than anything else.

This was my final break up
Quant - 48, 86th percentile
Verbal - 40, 90th percentile
Overall - 710, 94th percentile

Took braindancer's advice ..and gave one more GMATPrep before the actual test. scored a 720 on it ...found that when i relaxed ..problems looked much simpler.

in fact during the actual test, i spent so much time checking and rechecking my answers (coz i felt each question was easier than the last one ...which really made me very nervous!!) ..that i had to click thru the last 2 questions. could have easily got a few pts more..but not complaining!!

Manhattan GMAt and the GMAT Club V1.2 and V2 questions helped tremendously! They get you thinking the right way for quant.

And apart from practice ..lots of it ..especially in the timed CAT environment ..attitude makes such a big difference.

thanks guys for all the great advice!!

braindancer · Answer

You're always welcome

Cheers, great result!

Fig · Answer

Congratulations :D

.... A great score ! :D

Would u share with us a debriefing?

By the way, good luck for the next comming steps ! :D

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