scored 620 (Q51 V23) - VERBAL NEMESIS

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Gave GMAT on 14th may with 610 (Q44 and V28)
Gave GMAT again on 10th August and scored 620 (Q51 V23)...

In mocks i was scoring pretty well.....(Scored V37 and V39 in 2 gmatpreps taken during last week). But the questions in real gmat were altogether different. My SC was the strongest area (even better than quant) but trust me I could not make out head/tail of SCs on the real test. SCs were so long.......Consequently it lead to anxiety/nervousness and impacted the RC and CR as well......Hah the vicious circle of GMAT.....Anways my scores in various mocks were :

MGMAT 1 630
MGMAT 2 660
MGMAT 3 690
MGMAT 4 720
MGMAT 5 740

GMATPREPS - ranging from 690 to 730

FOr QUANT!!! Thats all because of GMATCLUB tests that i did after my 1st attempt of Gmat wherein I scored a poor Q44.... Some questions in GMAT were really similar to GMATCLUB types.....

Thanks to GMATCLUB !!!

By the way... is it OK to give gmat 3 times??? What can be the impact on ADCOMS...?

LASTLY, i will not give up......this time its the turn of Verbal......I will kill it for sure........and that will come soon.....

THE BATTLE CONTINUES !!!\sqrt{}

Hussain15 · Answer

I think it was your bad day.

But kudos to you for not giving up. I dont think that third time appearance will be any issue. Did you go through paper tests or gmat prep SC document before real test??

rohinipathi · Answer

U r born for GMAT.. Dont worry.. u will achieve it

mustdoit · Answer

Thanks ROHINI !!!

akaydee · Answer

mustdoit,

You should easily be able to reach 700. If you manage to score 35 on the Verbal section and your quant scores falls by 1 or 2 points, in the worst case scenario, you'll touch 700.

nravi4 · Answer

Keeping fighting! All the very best for your next attempt

Cheers!
Ravi

smuvern · Answer

I'm sorry about your verbal. What resources did u use for SC. Did u use the Manhattan guides ? Did u try ur hands on the 1000SC doc. Maybe with a little more focused practice on verbal, u should be able to cross the line

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Anonymous · Answer

where can I find 1000sc, 1000rc and 1000cr. I tried searching but no luck.

mustdoit · Answer

Started with a few SC’s which were not straightforward by any means. Then, a few CR’s and around the 6th question an RC. Got 4 RC’s in the usual intervals (6th, 14th 23rd, 33rd). I didn’t get any boldfaced CR’s (which I realized only after stepping out), which perhaps was an indication that I wasn’t doing too well. But I decided not to analyse much after what I read from pandeyrav’s debrief hours before I went to take mine. The surprising thing about the Verbal questions was I wasn’t sure about 60% of the answers. Though, I was able to zero down to 2 options (sometimes 3), I wasn’t confident about my final choices and so I was wasting a lot of time deciding as a result. And to add to that misery, I got a looooong RC around the 14th question about history on literature which I didn’t follow. Those 4 questions took a huge chunk of time and I wasn’t even sure if I was getting them right. I started getting frustrated. The next few CR’s and SC’s, I didn’t spend much time analyzing/deciding. Finally, I ran out of time on the last SC. Chose A. I think the CR’s weren’t too difficult but I always was a person who had to spend more than the average time on every CR to get it right. I couldn’t afford to do that on the exam as I was running behind time after the 2nd RC. As a result, I answered the Critical Reasoning questions without much reasoning and solely based on instinct. CR turned CI.

Regarding the SC’s, GMATPrepSC’s are close to the actual exam, but for some strange reason I thought the Verbal section was tougher than what I expected reading the various de-briefs. The SC guide definitely helped but it is not sufficient. I realized that one needs to have some inherent capability to ace the SC’s and RC’s on the Verbal section, else it has to be such that you have to incorporate the learnings in your daily usage (as pandeyrav rightly said). CR is all about managing the time to get it right and concentrating hard.

On the whole i was pretty much scoring around 37-40 range in all GMATPREPS / MGMATS for verbal. But GMAT on D Day seemed to be different ball game altogether.

Regarding the SC’s, GMATPrepSC’s are close to the actual exam, but for some strange reason I thought the Verbal section was tougher than what I expected reading the various de-briefs. The SC guide definitely helped but it is not sufficient. I realized that one needs to have some inherent capability to ace the SC’s and RC’s on the Verbal section, else it has to be such that you have to incorporate the learnings in your daily usage (as pandeyrav rightly said). CR is all about managing the time to get it right and concentrating hard.

On the whole i was pretty much scoring around 37-40 range in all GMATPREPS / MGMATS for verbal. But GMAT on D Day seemed to be different ball game altogether.

akaydee · Answer

I wouldn't really agree with your comment that one needs an inherent capability to ace the SC section of the test. There are only a finite number of rules (though almost like an infinite number of idioms!) that the GMAT tests and most of these are covered in the MGMAT SC book.

RC is somewhat more difficult to improve upon. Though even in this section if you start looking at the way the passages are structured (e.g - one animal multiple traits, or one cell multiple functions etc.)/the way passages shift scope from paragraph to paragraph/or within a paragraph itself/or the way the answers are structured you should be able to make rapid strides.

bb · Answer

wow - great math score. Here is my suggestions: gmat fiction and verbal study plan (under construction still) study-plan-for-verbal-gmat-98342.html

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