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GMAT 1: 740 Q49 V42
10 Oct 2013, 00:52
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Hi guys!
I would like to get some advice from. Thanks in advance. Here is my story:
I took my gmat on july 26 and got a 690 -q44 v40-. I took again today and, sadly, got a 680 (q42 v41). However, I am going to take the test again on November 19, because my last practice tests where 710 and 720 from the gmat prep new exams and I think I can beat the beast. I saw no repeats.
So I improved my verbal. I really think I cannot do more on that. I (almost) only fail those questions in which some unknown words are critical or fundamental, and indeed I cannot guess the meaning. In this sense, I remember a SC question about the material which some planets are made. In this question, the underlined part began with a verb that I did not know and, additionally, the two precedent verbs -with which the underlined part had to be parallel- were also unknown for me. I cannot fight with this. My English is what it is. I wish the exam were in my mother tongue.
Actually, I think that my one point of improvement comes from SC, my weakest area in verbal.
That being said, I messed absolutely with quant.
First, I messed it when I study quant. As the last time I took the exam I saw two probability questions and combination questions that I think I got wrong (at least 3 of them), this time I study hard these areas but I did not put too much attention in other easier areas, areas in which today I think I missed several questions -otherwise I would have seen more Prob and Comb questions-.
Second, I messed with the time devoted to quant. Keeping in mind that I have historically loved heavy books and texts, grammar and logical reasoning and not so much math, I devoted half of my time to each. Now I realize that I should not have done it this way; I should have devoted 80 % of the time to quant, as the ROI was much higher. I will not happen again.
Third, I disregarded my weaknesses –except prob and comb, areas in which I put a lot of time perhaps because I saw them as the most difficult and the ones that would give the victory-. I did not keep an error log, and I regret now for that. In fact, I think while I trained in order to defeat the best team of the league, I have been beaten by an average one.
I also think that I did have a proper rest. I do not get so nervous at night because I am really used to stress. Every week I have a fatal deadline in my job as a lawyer. However, this time I had to work three weeks in a row, including the weekends. No single day of relax in almost one month. To study these lasts days, I had to stop working on my lawsuits and reports and begin with the gmat, putting no quality time. In fact, the day before the test – the day before yesterday- I worked from 8 o’clock in the morning to 9 at night, just had a little dinner and went to sleep.
So I think I have some clues concerning what to do before my third, and absolutely last attempt. I short:
-Rest one week and then put a lot of effort for a month, till November 19, when I will take my exam again.
-Devote 80 % of the time to my weaknesses, starting with fundamentals, while using the rest of time to make my best better.
-Take the day before of my exam off and do nothing except playing videogames and watching documentaries –can you recommend one for me?-. While I think this is always important, it is really important in my case. I am a night owl, and in Barcelona, where I live, the Gmat exam can only be taken at 9,15 in the morning, a time of the day when I do not work at 100 percent neither nearly. This makes that the day of the exam I have to wake up at 6 in order to have at least 3 hours awake before beginning the test. So if I have to work until 9 at night the day before, the result will be disastrous again.
-Keep an error log.
Do you have any idea? I know you guys always have good insights. In particular, I have realized that I am somehow slow in math –calculating-. I have been more than 10 years using calculator even for the easiest things –why should I make a silly mistake if the machine next to me can do the work?-.
I do not know what else I can do. It is hard to have been always one of the bests students/workers wherever I have been and now to be destroyed by an exam. Sincerely, 680-690 is not bad, but, hell, is not close to be great. I know I am not like some geniuses that flight around the forum, but I want to give the last try.
Thank you very much again. Any advice will be welcome.
I would like to get some advice from. Thanks in advance. Here is my story:
I took my gmat on july 26 and got a 690 -q44 v40-. I took again today and, sadly, got a 680 (q42 v41). However, I am going to take the test again on November 19, because my last practice tests where 710 and 720 from the gmat prep new exams and I think I can beat the beast. I saw no repeats.
So I improved my verbal. I really think I cannot do more on that. I (almost) only fail those questions in which some unknown words are critical or fundamental, and indeed I cannot guess the meaning. In this sense, I remember a SC question about the material which some planets are made. In this question, the underlined part began with a verb that I did not know and, additionally, the two precedent verbs -with which the underlined part had to be parallel- were also unknown for me. I cannot fight with this. My English is what it is. I wish the exam were in my mother tongue.
Actually, I think that my one point of improvement comes from SC, my weakest area in verbal.
That being said, I messed absolutely with quant.
First, I messed it when I study quant. As the last time I took the exam I saw two probability questions and combination questions that I think I got wrong (at least 3 of them), this time I study hard these areas but I did not put too much attention in other easier areas, areas in which today I think I missed several questions -otherwise I would have seen more Prob and Comb questions-.
Second, I messed with the time devoted to quant. Keeping in mind that I have historically loved heavy books and texts, grammar and logical reasoning and not so much math, I devoted half of my time to each. Now I realize that I should not have done it this way; I should have devoted 80 % of the time to quant, as the ROI was much higher. I will not happen again.
Third, I disregarded my weaknesses –except prob and comb, areas in which I put a lot of time perhaps because I saw them as the most difficult and the ones that would give the victory-. I did not keep an error log, and I regret now for that. In fact, I think while I trained in order to defeat the best team of the league, I have been beaten by an average one.
I also think that I did have a proper rest. I do not get so nervous at night because I am really used to stress. Every week I have a fatal deadline in my job as a lawyer. However, this time I had to work three weeks in a row, including the weekends. No single day of relax in almost one month. To study these lasts days, I had to stop working on my lawsuits and reports and begin with the gmat, putting no quality time. In fact, the day before the test – the day before yesterday- I worked from 8 o’clock in the morning to 9 at night, just had a little dinner and went to sleep.
So I think I have some clues concerning what to do before my third, and absolutely last attempt. I short:
-Rest one week and then put a lot of effort for a month, till November 19, when I will take my exam again.
-Devote 80 % of the time to my weaknesses, starting with fundamentals, while using the rest of time to make my best better.
-Take the day before of my exam off and do nothing except playing videogames and watching documentaries –can you recommend one for me?-. While I think this is always important, it is really important in my case. I am a night owl, and in Barcelona, where I live, the Gmat exam can only be taken at 9,15 in the morning, a time of the day when I do not work at 100 percent neither nearly. This makes that the day of the exam I have to wake up at 6 in order to have at least 3 hours awake before beginning the test. So if I have to work until 9 at night the day before, the result will be disastrous again.
-Keep an error log.
Do you have any idea? I know you guys always have good insights. In particular, I have realized that I am somehow slow in math –calculating-. I have been more than 10 years using calculator even for the easiest things –why should I make a silly mistake if the machine next to me can do the work?-.
I do not know what else I can do. It is hard to have been always one of the bests students/workers wherever I have been and now to be destroyed by an exam. Sincerely, 680-690 is not bad, but, hell, is not close to be great. I know I am not like some geniuses that flight around the forum, but I want to give the last try.
Thank you very much again. Any advice will be welcome.
10 Oct 2013, 07:32
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spla626
You may find this helpful some good strategies... should-i-retake-gmat-thread-retaking-gmat-strategies-83339.html
If you can work a but on Quant then it wont be difficult to get the score you are aiming for...Try some tough questions undertimed mode and give your self less than 90 seconds, just to get the pressure.
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