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05 Aug 2018, 08:24
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Hi, I took the GMAT two days back and scored a dismal 660 (Q48 V34) inspite of the following scores on the GMATPrep Tests (all taken within a two week span before the Test day):
Prep2: 730 (Q49 V40)
Prep5: 750 (Q50 V41)
Prep6 (the following day): 710 (Q50 V38)
Prep1: 750 (Q50 V42)
Prep3: 730 (Q49 V40)
Prep4 (two days before the actual test) : 740 (Q50 V40)
I took all of these at the same time as my testing slot and most of them away from home.
Though I did have slight trouble sleeping the night before, I felt pretty attentive on the day of the test. There were technical glitches at the centre, during both the quant and verbal section, but I was compensated for the time lost. I do not know if that might have also affected the mindset. During the quants section I felt I was answering well except that I got too attached to one particular question (thinking it might help me get to the perfect 51) and had to guess on the last 3 questions because of that. Other than that I cannot think of anywhere I might have messed up, even during verbal.
I'm completely rattled but I guess it's best to try one more time. I am mostly targeting ISB R1 (deadline: 15th sept) and this score won't help. Looking for suggestions on when to take it next and how to go about it a second time considering I'll have to be simultaneously working on the application and won't have much respite from work, this time around. Please help.
Prep2: 730 (Q49 V40)
Prep5: 750 (Q50 V41)
Prep6 (the following day): 710 (Q50 V38)
Prep1: 750 (Q50 V42)
Prep3: 730 (Q49 V40)
Prep4 (two days before the actual test) : 740 (Q50 V40)
I took all of these at the same time as my testing slot and most of them away from home.
Though I did have slight trouble sleeping the night before, I felt pretty attentive on the day of the test. There were technical glitches at the centre, during both the quant and verbal section, but I was compensated for the time lost. I do not know if that might have also affected the mindset. During the quants section I felt I was answering well except that I got too attached to one particular question (thinking it might help me get to the perfect 51) and had to guess on the last 3 questions because of that. Other than that I cannot think of anywhere I might have messed up, even during verbal.
I'm completely rattled but I guess it's best to try one more time. I am mostly targeting ISB R1 (deadline: 15th sept) and this score won't help. Looking for suggestions on when to take it next and how to go about it a second time considering I'll have to be simultaneously working on the application and won't have much respite from work, this time around. Please help.
05 Aug 2018, 09:40
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Hey Dp152,
First off, don't give up! Your CATs are all much higher than your real exam suggesting that the Test Day score was not indicative. Especially as you've spent the last two weeks taking a practice test almost every other day, you may have been a bit drained on test day itself.
Also, as I'm sure you've noticed, your Verbal score fell more than your Quant: a drop from V40 to V34 corresponds to a drop from 90th percentile to 71st percentile while Q49/Q50 to Q48 correspond to about a 12% drop. This suggests that while the last 3 questions may have affected your total Quant score, the larger difference was somewhere in your Verbal section.
Before offering any specific advice it would help quite a bit if you could answer the following:
1. Have you ordered the ESR? This will be very useful for debugging. Feel free to send it to me here, I will be happy to analyze it for you.
2. When you took your CATs, did you take a full-length exam under similar conditions to the real thing?
3. Which section order did you pick on exam day?
4. How much time do you reasonably think you'll be able to afford for study in the next month?
First off, don't give up! Your CATs are all much higher than your real exam suggesting that the Test Day score was not indicative. Especially as you've spent the last two weeks taking a practice test almost every other day, you may have been a bit drained on test day itself.
Also, as I'm sure you've noticed, your Verbal score fell more than your Quant: a drop from V40 to V34 corresponds to a drop from 90th percentile to 71st percentile while Q49/Q50 to Q48 correspond to about a 12% drop. This suggests that while the last 3 questions may have affected your total Quant score, the larger difference was somewhere in your Verbal section.
Before offering any specific advice it would help quite a bit if you could answer the following:
1. Have you ordered the ESR? This will be very useful for debugging. Feel free to send it to me here, I will be happy to analyze it for you.
2. When you took your CATs, did you take a full-length exam under similar conditions to the real thing?
3. Which section order did you pick on exam day?
4. How much time do you reasonably think you'll be able to afford for study in the next month?
05 Aug 2018, 13:19
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Hi Dp152,
The process of taking (and reviewing) a CAT requires a significant amount of energy and effort - and takes time to 'recover' from. This is one of the reasons why you typically shouldn't take more than 1 CAT per week - and your last CAT should be taken about 1 week before Test Day. From what you describe, you took 6 CATs in 2 weeks - including one just two days before your Official GMAT. Considering the fact that you also had trouble sleeping the night before your Exam, there's a good chance that you experienced some 'burn out' on Test Day - and it sounds as though you were not at your best.
Thus, it's certainly possible that you were just too tired when you took the Official GMAT. That having been said, there could be other factors in your performance, so I'd like to know a bit more about how you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Which CATs did you take them at home and what was the other location you mentioned for your other CATs?
3) What time did you take your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE (re: on a prior CAT, in an online forum or in a practice set)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
The process of taking (and reviewing) a CAT requires a significant amount of energy and effort - and takes time to 'recover' from. This is one of the reasons why you typically shouldn't take more than 1 CAT per week - and your last CAT should be taken about 1 week before Test Day. From what you describe, you took 6 CATs in 2 weeks - including one just two days before your Official GMAT. Considering the fact that you also had trouble sleeping the night before your Exam, there's a good chance that you experienced some 'burn out' on Test Day - and it sounds as though you were not at your best.
Thus, it's certainly possible that you were just too tired when you took the Official GMAT. That having been said, there could be other factors in your performance, so I'd like to know a bit more about how you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT each time (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Which CATs did you take them at home and what was the other location you mentioned for your other CATs?
3) What time did you take your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE (re: on a prior CAT, in an online forum or in a practice set)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
