scored 580 on gmat online

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i gave my gmat online on the 1st of july and i am really devasted with the result. the score on my gmat online is a q48 and v23. the gmat test prep mocks that i gave in the mocks my scores were around 700. i dont know what happened wrong on the test. any suggestion what i should do next ?
take a break from gamt and start after some time or start now ? i had prepared for gmat for around 3 months. 
the resources used for gmat verbal are as follows:
sc: manhaatan
cr: powerscore bile.
my target is score is above 700. what should be my next step?
any suggestion would be helpful,
thankyou..

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi tan1107,

I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

1) How many hours did you typically study each week?
2) Have you used any other study materials besides the 2 books that you mentioned?
3) On what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
4) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

You might also choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report. While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

tan1107 · Answer

i studied for around around 20 hours
i havent used any other material besides the two mentioned.
these score mentioned belwo are all offical mocks 
cat 1 q48 v30 
cat 2 q49 v28
cat 3 q48 v38 may 7 
cat 4 q50 v38 may 23
cat 5 q50 v39 jun 2
cat 6 q50 v34 jun 17
as i am sorry to inform you that the esr isn't available for gmat online 
 EMPOWERgmatRichC

Abi1995 · Answer

Take a short break, refresh yourself and then focus. With all the things happening around it, it is very important to be stable and focused

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EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi tan1107,

I've sent you a PM with some additional questions.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi tan1107,

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 V23. 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 my article with more information regarding
 how to score a 700+ on the GMAT  helpful.

If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!

EducationAisle · Answer

Unfortunately your Verbal score proved to be your undoing:(.

Anything specific and untoward that happened in the verbal section? Were you finding the questions tough? Any issues with time management? May be you can share your ESR with us.

tan1107 · Answer

EducationAisle 
there is no esr available for the gmat online.

vamshikaithi · Answer

Hi,
I was there in your situation a few months ago. I scored a 570 in my first GMAT test last November. I was looking for a 100 point improvement. That's when I got to know about GMATWhiz and how it helped a few people improve their scored by more than 100 points.

I eventually went with it and scored a 680 in my second attempt. I'm still trying for a 700+ score. I strongly believe that GMATWhiz will be helpful for you as well. You can check the free trial of t and then decide. You can also a schedule a call with the GMAT Strategy Consultant. You can find the link on their website.Their personal mentoring also helped me a lot to plan my studies well. Hope it helped.

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