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23 Jun 2017, 00:53
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Dear All,
Thank you for taking time to read through this post. I am new to GMAT club and seek your advise/suggestion on retaking GMAT in 5 weeks time. I had been getting a consistent score of 720-740 in GMAT Prep, but very surprisingly got only 630 in my GMAT Exam last week ( Q49, V 27). I had even taken almost 30-35 mock CAT's before actual GMAT.
Here is a brief summary of my Enhanced Score Report:
1. Overall I did 28 correct and 13 incorrect questions in Verbal ( which does not seem to be too gad isnt?). However, I had a surprising very low percentile of 5 in CR, 46 in SC.
RC was good with 78 percentile.
2. The average difficulty of Verbal questions presented to me was Medium.
3. I completed all 41 questions, so no possibility of penalty.
I did feel tired in middle of verbal section and was getting distracted by keyboard noise. I am based out of London and did travel for around an hour to test center in time.
Appreciate your thoughts on how shall I prepare for Verbal for next 5 weeks or even build mental stamina to not feel drained in 4th hour of test.
Thanks in advance
Ankur
Thank you for taking time to read through this post. I am new to GMAT club and seek your advise/suggestion on retaking GMAT in 5 weeks time. I had been getting a consistent score of 720-740 in GMAT Prep, but very surprisingly got only 630 in my GMAT Exam last week ( Q49, V 27). I had even taken almost 30-35 mock CAT's before actual GMAT.
Here is a brief summary of my Enhanced Score Report:
1. Overall I did 28 correct and 13 incorrect questions in Verbal ( which does not seem to be too gad isnt?). However, I had a surprising very low percentile of 5 in CR, 46 in SC.
RC was good with 78 percentile.
2. The average difficulty of Verbal questions presented to me was Medium.
3. I completed all 41 questions, so no possibility of penalty.
I did feel tired in middle of verbal section and was getting distracted by keyboard noise. I am based out of London and did travel for around an hour to test center in time.
Appreciate your thoughts on how shall I prepare for Verbal for next 5 weeks or even build mental stamina to not feel drained in 4th hour of test.
Thanks in advance
Ankur
23 Jun 2017, 10:27
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Dear All,
Thank you for taking time to read through this post. I am new to GMAT club and seek your advise/suggestion on retaking GMAT in 5 weeks time. I had been getting a consistent score of 720-740 in GMAT Prep, but very surprisingly got only 630 in my GMAT Exam last week ( Q49, V 27). I had even taken almost 30-35 mock CAT's before actual GMAT.
Here is a brief summary of my Enhanced Score Report:
1. Overall I did 28 correct and 13 incorrect questions in Verbal ( which does not seem to be too gad isnt?). However, I had a surprising very low percentile of 5 in CR, 46 in SC.
RC was good with 78 percentile.
2. The average difficulty of Verbal questions presented to me was Medium.
3. I completed all 41 questions, so no possibility of penalty.
I did feel tired in middle of verbal section and was getting distracted by keyboard noise. I am based out of London and did travel for around an hour to test center in time.
Appreciate your thoughts on how shall I prepare for Verbal for next 5 weeks or even build mental stamina to not feel drained in 4th hour of test.
Thanks in advance
Ankur
Thank you for taking time to read through this post. I am new to GMAT club and seek your advise/suggestion on retaking GMAT in 5 weeks time. I had been getting a consistent score of 720-740 in GMAT Prep, but very surprisingly got only 630 in my GMAT Exam last week ( Q49, V 27). I had even taken almost 30-35 mock CAT's before actual GMAT.
Here is a brief summary of my Enhanced Score Report:
1. Overall I did 28 correct and 13 incorrect questions in Verbal ( which does not seem to be too gad isnt?). However, I had a surprising very low percentile of 5 in CR, 46 in SC.
RC was good with 78 percentile.
2. The average difficulty of Verbal questions presented to me was Medium.
3. I completed all 41 questions, so no possibility of penalty.
I did feel tired in middle of verbal section and was getting distracted by keyboard noise. I am based out of London and did travel for around an hour to test center in time.
Appreciate your thoughts on how shall I prepare for Verbal for next 5 weeks or even build mental stamina to not feel drained in 4th hour of test.
Thanks in advance
Ankur
Hi Ankur,
If you are stuck at a point, you can increase your score by drilling down deep.
SC: The questions test various concepts such as S-V agreement, modifiers, parallelism etc. Find out what troubles you.
As a general guide line, you can start solving a question by taking the following things in consideration:
1. Find out the subject and the verb
2. See that the S&V agree in number
3. Look out for the modifiers
4. Look out for parallelism
5. Look out for usage of certain words - such as vs like, few vs less etc.
CR: There might be certain types of questions that are troubling you. May be Assumption, may be conclusion, inference etc.
You need to find that out and then practice them
RC: This again can be drilled down into different types of questions and also different topics. See what questions and topics trouble you the most and then practice accordingly.
Quants: Again try to break the questions in topics such as Algebra, Number system (very important), Geometry, PnC etc.
As an addition, start preparing an error log and keep a note of all the mistakes you made and the lessons you learnt from the problems. This will ensure you do not make the same mistake again.
To build stamina, there is no substitute of practice. Try to solve mock CATs including the AWA and IR portion. This will help you stay attentive for the full time.
Did you solve Full length mock CATs in this round of preparation?
23 Jun 2017, 13:18
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Thank you very much Janielle for your tips and guidance. I actually took around 15 full four hour mock CATs and was scoring between 690-730 consistently.Therefore, I was really surprised to see a score of 630. Quant has always been area of my strength, so was satisfied with score of 49. Let me maintain a more detailed error log- specially the one you shared and drill down each verbal topic. I think SC should be so strong that one should be able to solve a question with 60-75 seconds, thereby giving enough time to get correct answers for CR and RC. Would you agree?
QQ: I actually got 28 correct out of 41 questions. So looks like reason for my low score was getting tougher problems incorrect. So may be I shall do more intensive study. Instead of 4 hour, may be take test for 5 hours ( preparing like an athlete).Moreover, should take tests in different locations including coffee shop etc to build focus and develop ability to manage distractions. Any thoughts
QQ: I actually got 28 correct out of 41 questions. So looks like reason for my low score was getting tougher problems incorrect. So may be I shall do more intensive study. Instead of 4 hour, may be take test for 5 hours ( preparing like an athlete).Moreover, should take tests in different locations including coffee shop etc to build focus and develop ability to manage distractions. Any thoughts
