BM wrote:
I'm sorry for your difficulties, Baracuda123. Lack of sleep and anxiety can absolutely disrupt one's test performance. It seems that you were a vicitim of that. However, I would like to emphasize one point in your post:
Baracuda123 wrote:
As far as verbal is concerned a month ago I scored 38-39 on verbal but a week before the exam I killed it with v45 (although the score was inflated to an extent).
I bolded and italicized the last part of the sentence here. Inflated scores serve a purpose in terms of confidence, but sometimes people confuse this fiction for reality. Any perceived loss in the verbal section, then, might have been minimal - if anything.
As for nerves,
this discussion should be of some help. I would also advise you to focus most of your efforts on verbal, as math seems to be your strength.
Thank you so much for your answer! I cannot even explain the level of anxiety I endured the night before the exam and right before I entered testing room. It completely got me burned out. I believe that even though my last score on verbal on GMAT prep (45) was inflated, I still think that 38 was probably a bit lower than what I can do. Naturally, I could be wrong.
To shed some light on how exactly I felt throughout the test, my first quant problem was "A had 1\2 as much money as B while B had 20 more dollars than C. Together they have XYY dollars. How much does B have?" And I managed to mess up that problem, which is, you will agree, easy. When I got my first sentence correction problem I did not know what I was reading. It was the weirdest feeling ever. That is also how I felt throughout most of the verbal section but I think I managed to recover a bit and pick it up towards the end especially throughout the RC section (there was one short passage, two long passages, and one short scientific passage in the end) - It seems quite solid difficulty. If I got 40 on verbal I would be content but good overall score won't show up without good quant (to be safe I need minimum 48) regardless of 38 or 40 on verbal.
The biggest problem is, I am not sure when to take the test and how to gauge my quant level. I kind of lost confidence here