Hi there, thank you very much for your comments!
After 1 month of intensive studies according to the plan, and first pass of (i) Foundations of Math and (ii) half of MP Strategy Guides, I decided to took a 2nd exam, to measure the progression made (I believed!).
And to my absolute surprise and disgrace, I managed to get an even worst result than my diagnostic test (400, I am even embarrassed to comment the percentiles as you can imagine)...
After this, and to be honest, i just think I should give up right now, I cannot even understand what happened...
Anyway, and trying to put in words what i think might have happened / be happening, so that you can send me your thoughts/advices:
I will now take more than the necessary time to review the exam, because I am aware of its utmost importance. Tomorrow that will be my only plan, to learn from my mistakes.
But in a sentence, I feel absolutely destroyed with this happening, with no motivation to keep going, and mostly to take the exam in the summer. How can I ever recover that? And believe me, I was full of it, everyday!
I have been studying everyday, in a very organised and diligent way, mixing up
OG problems, and understanding each and every aspect of problems. I still need more time than what is supposed to complete the problems, but at this moment I was still (almost only) focused on understanding rather than on speed.
I think one of the things that happened is that I finally started to recognize the categories of problems, and with that tried to solve the problems, taking more time (rather then gessing), not being able to finish any section of the exam.
Besides that, I am feeling tremendous difficulties in not using calculator for Quant, although practising everyday on my scrap paper (nothing is as fast as a calculator!).
But the worst disaster is certainly IR - i haven't studied it until now, but will introduce a chapter once a week. What do you think?
I normally stand as one of the smartest (in college, work, and every other challenge that I have accepted until now), but in this case (GMAT) I have never felt so dumb or incapable to progress. After all, how can that be that after 1 month of studying, practising, understanding, etc, I manage to get an even worst result?!
Should I continue? give up? rearrange our studying plan? is this normal to happen? I am having millions of doubts right now...
Could you please send me some positive vibrations, advices, experiences, etc., whatever you think makes sense at this delicate moment?
Thank you very much for you help. Have a nice week.