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10 Jan 2023, 03:43
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Hello Everyone, I really need your help.
I appeared for my GMAT exam (at a test center) on 27th December 2022. I was pretty confident with my prep and expected to get anywhere near 700 (maybe above). However, I was heartbroken on seeing the 670 (V36 Q46 IR2) appear on my screen.
My Goal - 740 and above
Prep Time - Took a course from 'Top OnePercent'. I was not serious earlier as I had my hands into too many dishes (My Job, Learning Spanish and Learning Cyber Security). From April, I decided to get serious and stopped Spanish and Cyber Security. I watched all the videos to get back into the game. From June, I started attempting questions.
Exam Scenario
Verbal looked like it was pretty easy for me on the exam. I finished it well within the time limit. I also got 4 passages to go through. I was not really confident about quant. My break time was extended by 1 minute but i was able to finish it on time. Overall, quant looked easier as compared to the official practice exams I gave.
IR was nothing like I had practiced. Every question I got was very voluminous and required deep reading. There were hardly any analysis questions (graphical ones). The questions I practiced for IR were mostly from OGs and GMAT Preptests. The real exam questions were nothing like them. I felt like the IR questions were going over my head
VERBAL
After having a fair command over sentence correction, critical reasoning and RC, I started timing myself on each question. I used to allow around 2-2.5 mins for difficult questions (CR), 1.15-2 mins for SC and 7-8 minutes for 1 RC passage. I felt I was pretty solid in Verbal with SC being my strongest weapon. I am currently at a position where many questions look familiar to me as I have already done them so many times. I even did some LSAT RC practice and sitting for 2 hours straight for the same in order to boost my stamina.
Hours I devoted everyday :-
SC - 1-1.5 Hours
CR - 1 Hour
RC - 3-5 Passages (sometimes 2)
Quantitative
Quant was okay to me. I was pretty good in quant in school. Over a period of time, I lost that grasp over the subject but tried to regain it as much as possible. At first i practiced without a timer to get hold of all the concepts and later decided to check my quant skills only with the practice exams.
After the prep exams I used to check my mistakes, solve them again and get to know my weak topics which I worked on through GMAT Club Resources.
PrepTests
As you can see, I took alot of mocks. The first diagnostic test was in 2021 with no practice. Just wanted to know where I stood. In the other mocks, there were hardly any questions repeated and the ones that repeated, I didn't remember them enough to get me the right answer. My last mock before the GMAT exam had a 760 where I was at a position in which i knew the answer to the questions i attempted before.
Currently, I have my busy season going on and am expected to work for 11 hours a day. I stopped going to the gym from January 2022 and thought will join once I get a good gmat score. I hardly had any physical activity in a day (apart from walking my dog).
Now, I've decided to give 1-1.5 hours a day to exercise and to give my exam near the month of May as my 11 hours plotting will end on 3rd March 2023. I don't really know what went wrong but am sure that there were some gaps in my preparation.
I really need someone to guide me on every step and help me achieve the desired score. I am a little low on funds so this will be my last attempt at GMAT. I really want an admit in a great school abroad.
Please tell me how should I go about this. Which course should I take to get to my desired score. Should I wait for the 11 hours plotting to end or should I start the prep right away.
Please Help
I have attached what all I did in the screenshot below. Please note, I have not included the gmat club questions i used once I ran out of question bank. For verbal, I made sure that I use only the official ones.
Update - I am unable to attach the screenshot of my study and Mock Tracker
I appeared for my GMAT exam (at a test center) on 27th December 2022. I was pretty confident with my prep and expected to get anywhere near 700 (maybe above). However, I was heartbroken on seeing the 670 (V36 Q46 IR2) appear on my screen.
My Goal - 740 and above
Prep Time - Took a course from 'Top OnePercent'. I was not serious earlier as I had my hands into too many dishes (My Job, Learning Spanish and Learning Cyber Security). From April, I decided to get serious and stopped Spanish and Cyber Security. I watched all the videos to get back into the game. From June, I started attempting questions.
Exam Scenario
Verbal looked like it was pretty easy for me on the exam. I finished it well within the time limit. I also got 4 passages to go through. I was not really confident about quant. My break time was extended by 1 minute but i was able to finish it on time. Overall, quant looked easier as compared to the official practice exams I gave.
IR was nothing like I had practiced. Every question I got was very voluminous and required deep reading. There were hardly any analysis questions (graphical ones). The questions I practiced for IR were mostly from OGs and GMAT Preptests. The real exam questions were nothing like them. I felt like the IR questions were going over my head
VERBAL
After having a fair command over sentence correction, critical reasoning and RC, I started timing myself on each question. I used to allow around 2-2.5 mins for difficult questions (CR), 1.15-2 mins for SC and 7-8 minutes for 1 RC passage. I felt I was pretty solid in Verbal with SC being my strongest weapon. I am currently at a position where many questions look familiar to me as I have already done them so many times. I even did some LSAT RC practice and sitting for 2 hours straight for the same in order to boost my stamina.
Hours I devoted everyday :-
SC - 1-1.5 Hours
CR - 1 Hour
RC - 3-5 Passages (sometimes 2)
Quantitative
Quant was okay to me. I was pretty good in quant in school. Over a period of time, I lost that grasp over the subject but tried to regain it as much as possible. At first i practiced without a timer to get hold of all the concepts and later decided to check my quant skills only with the practice exams.
After the prep exams I used to check my mistakes, solve them again and get to know my weak topics which I worked on through GMAT Club Resources.
PrepTests
As you can see, I took alot of mocks. The first diagnostic test was in 2021 with no practice. Just wanted to know where I stood. In the other mocks, there were hardly any questions repeated and the ones that repeated, I didn't remember them enough to get me the right answer. My last mock before the GMAT exam had a 760 where I was at a position in which i knew the answer to the questions i attempted before.
Currently, I have my busy season going on and am expected to work for 11 hours a day. I stopped going to the gym from January 2022 and thought will join once I get a good gmat score. I hardly had any physical activity in a day (apart from walking my dog).
Now, I've decided to give 1-1.5 hours a day to exercise and to give my exam near the month of May as my 11 hours plotting will end on 3rd March 2023. I don't really know what went wrong but am sure that there were some gaps in my preparation.
I really need someone to guide me on every step and help me achieve the desired score. I am a little low on funds so this will be my last attempt at GMAT. I really want an admit in a great school abroad.
Please tell me how should I go about this. Which course should I take to get to my desired score. Should I wait for the 11 hours plotting to end or should I start the prep right away.
Please Help
I have attached what all I did in the screenshot below. Please note, I have not included the gmat club questions i used once I ran out of question bank. For verbal, I made sure that I use only the official ones.
Update - I am unable to attach the screenshot of my study and Mock Tracker
10 Jan 2023, 07:04
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Hi beingappy.
Probably, your path to your 740 score goal is to score Q49 or higher and get the rest of the way to 740 by increasing your verbal score.
To get to Q49, you can do two things, strengthen weaker areas of quant and improve overall quant accuracy.
To strengthen weaker areas, you can work on one quant topic at a time in the following way:
- First, review the relevant concepts and strategies involved in the topic.
- Then do practice questions involving that topic UNTIMED until you're achieving high accuracy.
- Finally, work on reducing the time per question until you're correctly answering questions involving that topic at test pace.
Then, move on to the next topic and do the same thing.
To improve overall quant accuracy, you can use the tips in this post.
Improving Your Accuracy on the GMAT
Regarding verbal, in this video, I discuss exactly what you need to do to increase your verbal score from the 30s to 40+.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyyPP9XQBxI
Also, you can get some additional detail on how to increase your verbal score from this post.
How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
Probably, your path to your 740 score goal is to score Q49 or higher and get the rest of the way to 740 by increasing your verbal score.
To get to Q49, you can do two things, strengthen weaker areas of quant and improve overall quant accuracy.
To strengthen weaker areas, you can work on one quant topic at a time in the following way:
- First, review the relevant concepts and strategies involved in the topic.
- Then do practice questions involving that topic UNTIMED until you're achieving high accuracy.
- Finally, work on reducing the time per question until you're correctly answering questions involving that topic at test pace.
Then, move on to the next topic and do the same thing.
To improve overall quant accuracy, you can use the tips in this post.
Improving Your Accuracy on the GMAT
Regarding verbal, in this video, I discuss exactly what you need to do to increase your verbal score from the 30s to 40+.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyyPP9XQBxI
Also, you can get some additional detail on how to increase your verbal score from this post.
How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
10 Jan 2023, 08:27
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Hi beingappy,
670 is a great start! Regarding prep courses, in addition to seeking advice in this thread, take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses, and also read through some GMAT success stories to see what materials have worked well for other test-takers.
670 is a great start! Regarding prep courses, in addition to seeking advice in this thread, take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses, and also read through some GMAT success stories to see what materials have worked well for other test-takers.
