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11 Nov 2019, 03:02
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Hi,
So yesterday I scored a 560 on official GMAT mock. I am due to write my GMAT next week and I have a target score of 680 to 700. I wrote my first GMAT 2 years ago with minimal / no prep and got a similar score, however, over the last 5 months I have studied for over 25-30 hours a week, I have completed watching all quant & verbal lessons on Magoosh [more than once], I have solved all the practice questions on Magoosh with an accuracy percentage of over 80. I also feel the vast improvement, I know a lot more concepts in math, I can solve each question a lot faster, I have spent a lot of time understanding and applying the SC rules and my CR accuracy on the veritas mocks is over 90%. Prior to this, I have given 4 mocks on Veritas test prep and my score has been in the range of 620 to 630. So I have two fundamental problems here, even after preparing for a month - my Veritas mock test score did not improve - so I hired a personal trainer for math - since math was the problem and spent nearly 12-14 sessions of 2 hours each with him - and subsequently practised all the additional questions as part of homework [I did feel this helped me quite a bit ] - However despite all of this my score has not improved and to make things worse it has fallen by 70 points to 560 [on the official GMAT mock] despite preparing for over 2 months since my last 630. Extremely perplexed by this, though I feel I have come a long way in the last two months none of the effort put in seems to improve my score. B School deadlines are around the corner & with already 6+ years of experience this year could be my last chance. What am I doing wrong?
So yesterday I scored a 560 on official GMAT mock. I am due to write my GMAT next week and I have a target score of 680 to 700. I wrote my first GMAT 2 years ago with minimal / no prep and got a similar score, however, over the last 5 months I have studied for over 25-30 hours a week, I have completed watching all quant & verbal lessons on Magoosh [more than once], I have solved all the practice questions on Magoosh with an accuracy percentage of over 80. I also feel the vast improvement, I know a lot more concepts in math, I can solve each question a lot faster, I have spent a lot of time understanding and applying the SC rules and my CR accuracy on the veritas mocks is over 90%. Prior to this, I have given 4 mocks on Veritas test prep and my score has been in the range of 620 to 630. So I have two fundamental problems here, even after preparing for a month - my Veritas mock test score did not improve - so I hired a personal trainer for math - since math was the problem and spent nearly 12-14 sessions of 2 hours each with him - and subsequently practised all the additional questions as part of homework [I did feel this helped me quite a bit ] - However despite all of this my score has not improved and to make things worse it has fallen by 70 points to 560 [on the official GMAT mock] despite preparing for over 2 months since my last 630. Extremely perplexed by this, though I feel I have come a long way in the last two months none of the effort put in seems to improve my score. B School deadlines are around the corner & with already 6+ years of experience this year could be my last chance. What am I doing wrong?
11 Nov 2019, 10:16
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Hi,
So yesterday I scored a 560 on official GMAT mock. I am due to write my GMAT next week and I have a target score of 680 to 700. I wrote my first GMAT 2 years ago with minimal / no prep and got a similar score, however, over the last 5 months I have studied for over 25-30 hours a week, I have completed watching all quant & verbal lessons on Magoosh [more than once], I have solved all the practice questions on Magoosh with an accuracy percentage of over 80. I also feel the vast improvement, I know a lot more concepts in math, I can solve each question a lot faster, I have spent a lot of time understanding and applying the SC rules and my CR accuracy on the veritas mocks is over 90%. Prior to this, I have given 4 mocks on Veritas test prep and my score has been in the range of 620 to 630. So I have two fundamental problems here, even after preparing for a month - my Veritas mock test score did not improve - so I hired a personal trainer for math - since math was the problem and spent nearly 12-14 sessions of 2 hours each with him - and subsequently practised all the additional questions as part of homework [I did feel this helped me quite a bit ] - However despite all of this my score has not improved and to make things worse it has fallen by 70 points to 560 [on the official GMAT mock] despite preparing for over 2 months since my last 630. Extremely perplexed by this, though I feel I have come a long way in the last two months none of the effort put in seems to improve my score. B School deadlines are around the corner & with already 6+ years of experience this year could be my last chance. What am I doing wrong?
So yesterday I scored a 560 on official GMAT mock. I am due to write my GMAT next week and I have a target score of 680 to 700. I wrote my first GMAT 2 years ago with minimal / no prep and got a similar score, however, over the last 5 months I have studied for over 25-30 hours a week, I have completed watching all quant & verbal lessons on Magoosh [more than once], I have solved all the practice questions on Magoosh with an accuracy percentage of over 80. I also feel the vast improvement, I know a lot more concepts in math, I can solve each question a lot faster, I have spent a lot of time understanding and applying the SC rules and my CR accuracy on the veritas mocks is over 90%. Prior to this, I have given 4 mocks on Veritas test prep and my score has been in the range of 620 to 630. So I have two fundamental problems here, even after preparing for a month - my Veritas mock test score did not improve - so I hired a personal trainer for math - since math was the problem and spent nearly 12-14 sessions of 2 hours each with him - and subsequently practised all the additional questions as part of homework [I did feel this helped me quite a bit ] - However despite all of this my score has not improved and to make things worse it has fallen by 70 points to 560 [on the official GMAT mock] despite preparing for over 2 months since my last 630. Extremely perplexed by this, though I feel I have come a long way in the last two months none of the effort put in seems to improve my score. B School deadlines are around the corner & with already 6+ years of experience this year could be my last chance. What am I doing wrong?
Hi
First of all, I would like to tell that the official Gmatprep test is the closest to the actual test. So, you can expect a similar result in the Gmat. It is difficult to raise your score to ~680 in a week. So I would suggest to postpone the test until you are prepared. Alternatively, you can analyze the Gmat mock test and Veritas prep tests and work on your weak areas. Then appear for another Gmatprep test and check your preparedness. But you can only postpone your test 7 days before the test.
11 Nov 2019, 10:44
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Hi, thanks for your suggestion, by the way I think GMAT has changed its fee structure, it is no more $50 to reschedule before 7 days. I think they charge $150 for moving the date anytime between 0 to 14 days. Secondly the intent of my post is not to try and get a jump in my score in over a week but to get some insight on why so many months of preparations don't seem to help improve my score.
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