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08 Feb 2017, 22:10
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Calling all experts for suggestions.
Today I gave GMAT and scored 620 (Q49 V27). I only had 1 and half month of preparation and never scored more than 660 on any of the practice tests. even on those tests, I scored verbal of above 30. I am non-native english speaker and verbal is my weak section. I have taken next date for 8th march. what should I do to improve the score ? Any guidance or pointers are much appreciated.
I ordered ESR for my score to see what went wrong and below is summary of verbal section
YOUR OVERALL VERBAL SCORE:
27 (47th percentile)
Your Verbal score of 27 is higher than 47% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this section is 26.8.
Your performance on Critical Reasoning questions was equivalent to a score of 34, which is better than 66% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.61.
Your performance on Reading Comprehension questions was equivalent to a score of 25, which is better than 40% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.32.
Your performance on Sentence Correction questions was equivalent to a score of 23, which is better than 33% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.21.
You completed 41 of the 41 questions in the Verbal section.
You responded correctly to 75% of the first set of questions, 43% of the second set of questions, 71% of the third set of questions and 38% of the final set of questions.
The average difficulty of questions presented to you in the first set of questions was Medium, the average for the second set of questions was Medium , the average for the third set of questions was Medium and was Medium for the final set of questions.
The average time it took you to respond to the first set of questions presented was 1:44, the average time for the second set of questions was 2:26, the average time for the third set of questions was 1:30 and 0:42 for the final set of questions.
Today I gave GMAT and scored 620 (Q49 V27). I only had 1 and half month of preparation and never scored more than 660 on any of the practice tests. even on those tests, I scored verbal of above 30. I am non-native english speaker and verbal is my weak section. I have taken next date for 8th march. what should I do to improve the score ? Any guidance or pointers are much appreciated.
I ordered ESR for my score to see what went wrong and below is summary of verbal section
YOUR OVERALL VERBAL SCORE:
27 (47th percentile)
Your Verbal score of 27 is higher than 47% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this section is 26.8.
Your performance on Critical Reasoning questions was equivalent to a score of 34, which is better than 66% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.61.
Your performance on Reading Comprehension questions was equivalent to a score of 25, which is better than 40% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.32.
Your performance on Sentence Correction questions was equivalent to a score of 23, which is better than 33% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.21.
You completed 41 of the 41 questions in the Verbal section.
You responded correctly to 75% of the first set of questions, 43% of the second set of questions, 71% of the third set of questions and 38% of the final set of questions.
The average difficulty of questions presented to you in the first set of questions was Medium, the average for the second set of questions was Medium , the average for the third set of questions was Medium and was Medium for the final set of questions.
The average time it took you to respond to the first set of questions presented was 1:44, the average time for the second set of questions was 2:26, the average time for the third set of questions was 1:30 and 0:42 for the final set of questions.
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08 Feb 2017, 22:38
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Hey!
I was also on your boat too during my GMAT study time. From the ESR I could see that:
1. Your sentence correction is quite low compared to other components of your score. Luckily, SC is the easiest thing you can improve on in a short period of time. I suggest you to go through the questions you have practiced previously and dissect what went wrong. Try to study why YOU DID THOSE QUESTIONS THE WAY YOU DID and tweak your approach. For example, I used to answer sentence correction by ear even though I am not a native. However, after realizing by ear will get me nowhere I started learning grammar rules and reading up on how other test takers approach the question and became better at systematically tackling SC.
- TIP: Trying going through carcass' question bank and reading his explanations!
2. In terms of CR, the best for you to improve is know the questions type you will be tackling. AKA once you read the question you need to know what category it is and what type of wrong questions you could be seeing. The best books that covers this is Powerscore and in terms of online course it's e-GMAT hands down.
3. You are rushing towards the end of the exam. The best way to fix this issue is work on the timing. For each question you practice you should not go beyond 1 minute and 30 seconds. This timing will allow you to feel a bit more flexible during the exam.
4. I can't really give advice on RC other than the same thing with CR... work on knowing what questions you'll be facing and how to systematically tackle them.
I was also on your boat too during my GMAT study time. From the ESR I could see that:
1. Your sentence correction is quite low compared to other components of your score. Luckily, SC is the easiest thing you can improve on in a short period of time. I suggest you to go through the questions you have practiced previously and dissect what went wrong. Try to study why YOU DID THOSE QUESTIONS THE WAY YOU DID and tweak your approach. For example, I used to answer sentence correction by ear even though I am not a native. However, after realizing by ear will get me nowhere I started learning grammar rules and reading up on how other test takers approach the question and became better at systematically tackling SC.
- TIP: Trying going through carcass' question bank and reading his explanations!
2. In terms of CR, the best for you to improve is know the questions type you will be tackling. AKA once you read the question you need to know what category it is and what type of wrong questions you could be seeing. The best books that covers this is Powerscore and in terms of online course it's e-GMAT hands down.
3. You are rushing towards the end of the exam. The best way to fix this issue is work on the timing. For each question you practice you should not go beyond 1 minute and 30 seconds. This timing will allow you to feel a bit more flexible during the exam.
4. I can't really give advice on RC other than the same thing with CR... work on knowing what questions you'll be facing and how to systematically tackle them.
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09 Feb 2017, 11:01
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Thanks for the reply and the valuable TIP..
I further analyzed my ESR report and here is how I did %correct for 4 parts of Verbal section..
Section 1: 75%
Section 2: 43%
Section 3: 71%
Section 4: 38%
Here is what happened before verbal seciton..
- I already had a feeling that I gave a very strong quantitative section and was happy in advance to know that I would get could score.
- I took a break before verbal section and when I returned to my desk, I saw that there was still some time left. I didnt check how much time was left, but I told proctor that I would like to take couple of extra minutes more. so she took me out and made me sit there only so as to avoid checkout. I chatted with them for 2 mins and told that I want to go back.. when we came back, 15 seconds had already passed for my section. I told her that show told me 5 minutes were left.. but in fact only 3 were left.. This kind of gave me a very shaky start to verbal section and for the 1st question I took around 4 minute and pep talk again to ignore the shaky start and focus..
Lesson Learnt: Dont lose focus during the break. Dont analyze how you did on the past section.. focus on current one.
During the Verbal section:
I remember that I had 10minutes left and 10 questions to answer. as evident from my report I spent on an average of only 1 minute per question to finish. but ended up getting most of them wrong.. only 38% right in a 10 question set.
Lesson Learnt: if you have 10 question and 10 minutes, spend 1.25-1.5 minute on every alternate question to avoid getting two consecutive questions wrong.. and spend 0.5-0.75 minute on other set of alternate questions. This ways GMAT maintains the same difficulty level if alternate questions are right. as oppose to getting 5straight right and 5 straight wrong.
Overall, the lost 10 questions of verbal hampered my score from probably 670 to 620.... The biggest lesson learnt are
- dont get excited too early
- Don't lose focus until the end. It ain't over till it is over.
Analyzing the above section wise correct percentage, it seems
I further analyzed my ESR report and here is how I did %correct for 4 parts of Verbal section..
Section 1: 75%
Section 2: 43%
Section 3: 71%
Section 4: 38%
Here is what happened before verbal seciton..
- I already had a feeling that I gave a very strong quantitative section and was happy in advance to know that I would get could score.
- I took a break before verbal section and when I returned to my desk, I saw that there was still some time left. I didnt check how much time was left, but I told proctor that I would like to take couple of extra minutes more. so she took me out and made me sit there only so as to avoid checkout. I chatted with them for 2 mins and told that I want to go back.. when we came back, 15 seconds had already passed for my section. I told her that show told me 5 minutes were left.. but in fact only 3 were left.. This kind of gave me a very shaky start to verbal section and for the 1st question I took around 4 minute and pep talk again to ignore the shaky start and focus..
Lesson Learnt: Dont lose focus during the break. Dont analyze how you did on the past section.. focus on current one.
During the Verbal section:
I remember that I had 10minutes left and 10 questions to answer. as evident from my report I spent on an average of only 1 minute per question to finish. but ended up getting most of them wrong.. only 38% right in a 10 question set.
Lesson Learnt: if you have 10 question and 10 minutes, spend 1.25-1.5 minute on every alternate question to avoid getting two consecutive questions wrong.. and spend 0.5-0.75 minute on other set of alternate questions. This ways GMAT maintains the same difficulty level if alternate questions are right. as oppose to getting 5straight right and 5 straight wrong.
Overall, the lost 10 questions of verbal hampered my score from probably 670 to 620.... The biggest lesson learnt are
- dont get excited too early
- Don't lose focus until the end. It ain't over till it is over.
Analyzing the above section wise correct percentage, it seems
