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16 Jul 2021, 21:37
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Hey everyone,
I just officially wrapped up my GMAT journey today with a score of 750 (Q50 V41). Before my memory fades, I want to write down what happened yesterday before my test and on the actual test day today.
(Spoiler alert: it was NOT smooth at all!!)
Yesterday - the day before my test:
Yes, yes, I've heard so many people say that you should study very light if at all the day before your test. And unfortunately I simply could not put down the books and make peace with myself. I kept thinking: what if I catch something that actually comes up in my test? So instead of relaxing and enjoying my day off, I got up early to take my final CAT at 8am, reviewed my mistakes, did more SC, which has been my weakest question type, took a walk outside, came back to review all of my notes, studied the AWA, which I had not touched at all until this point, and reviewed my notes again. Before I knew it, it was already 9:30pm.
Since my test is 8 am in the morning and I needed to get up at 6am, I took a quick shower and went to bed at 10pm. To loosen up the mood, I watched some Netflix and was ready to call it a day at 11pm. I've been changing my sleep schedule to 11:30pm-7am since the beginning of the week and I had never failed to fall asleep.
However, yesterday was an exception. I just could not fall asleep! I wasn't even nervous about test (or at least not consciously) but my body simply refused to shut down. I was awake until at least 2:30am, lying in bed, not checking my phone and not doing anything. As the night drags on, I became more and more anxious while counting down the hours I could still sleep. Finally my body gave in and the next thing I knew was the sunlight through my curtain.
Today - test day
I checked my phone and it was 5:30am, 30 mins before my alarm. In my mind, I knew I was screwed. The notion of having only three hours of sleep, before an 8am test that is physically and mentally draining really stressed me out and I could feel my heart racing. I started desperately searching in Google "3 hours of sleep GMAT". I was really hoping that someone would say somewhere that they slept only 3 hours, or even no sleep at all, and still killed the test. However, for a good 10 minutes, I wasn't able to find anything that would cheer me up. Someone said they bombed their test with a score that's lower than all of their CATs by 100 points, or someone just straight up canceled the test after a sleepless night. I became more and more nervous.
Despite my mental wreck, I actually didn't feel so bad physically - my eyes were a bit dry but my head didn't feel cloudy. So I thought I'd follow an advice I saw on YouTube for the test day, that is to practice a couple questions to get the body and mind in test mode. I picked one RC passage with 4 questions and two SC. I felt pretty good while doing it, only uncertain about one question but that's no surprise since I've been scoring around 37-39 on verbal consistently. But when I checked the answers, I got 5 out of 6 wrong. Ummm... what...ummm...okay...okay...fine......, not ideal but it's 7am already and I need to head out.
After I checked in at the test center, I felt okay. I could think straight and I wasn't sleepy and I was strangely feeling somewhat confident, even after my abhorring
performance this morning. So, I forged on and started my verbal section. It was not horrible, but wouldn't call it great either because I made quite a few guesses on SC. But hey, at least I was confident on most RC and CR questions. The only things that bugged me were 1) I felt the questions were overall easy compared to my other GMAC CATs, which could mean that I made a lot of mistakes and thus stayed at the easy level, and 2) I didn't have time to submit my selection for the last question.
Still I was feeling pretty clear-headed despite some concerns on my verbal section, and I decided not to take the break and to go straight into quant. Quant is something I've been pretty good at, scoring a 50 for the last 3 CATs. However, the first 3 questions today really got me. Instead of spending 2 minutes each, I spent about 9 minutes on them, forcing myself to rush through the next couple of questions. By the time I got down half of the question, I was falling 5 minutes behind schedule. I then guessed a probability question that I definitely would have gotten it right if I had enough time, rushed through two or three data sufficiency questions, and through some unexplainable force, ended up having 2 extra minutes when I finished the last question. Boy, was I relieved!
The rest of the test felt a lot more relaxed - I took a break, roughly answered the IR section, and typed some 300 words on AWA. After some clicks on the screen, I saw my score and I just couldn't believe it: 750 with V41, Q50 and IR7. Wow, just wow!! Given that my CATs have been around 700-720 and my 3-hour sleep, I was so pleasantly surprised and relieved. I am finally done with GMAT
Final words
If you're reading all the way till this point, thank you so much for the patience and sorry about my babbling. I am still in disbelief and that probably shows in my poor writing.
I want to make it clear that I am not writing this to brag about my score (I definitely got lucky) or to minimize other people's experience when they were sleep deprived. I simply want to share my experience so that if anyone is worried about not resting well, they know that it's till possible to do well on the test. However, this is by no means an endorsement of last-minute study. Quite the contrary, please DO NOT follow what I did. I wish I didn't study that much yesterday and I can confirm that nothing I learned yesterday showed up on the test. All that studying was just a fruitless effort that made my test day so much more stressful than it needs to be.
Anyway, this is my story and best of luck to everyone!!!
I just officially wrapped up my GMAT journey today with a score of 750 (Q50 V41). Before my memory fades, I want to write down what happened yesterday before my test and on the actual test day today.
(Spoiler alert: it was NOT smooth at all!!)
Yesterday - the day before my test:
Yes, yes, I've heard so many people say that you should study very light if at all the day before your test. And unfortunately I simply could not put down the books and make peace with myself. I kept thinking: what if I catch something that actually comes up in my test? So instead of relaxing and enjoying my day off, I got up early to take my final CAT at 8am, reviewed my mistakes, did more SC, which has been my weakest question type, took a walk outside, came back to review all of my notes, studied the AWA, which I had not touched at all until this point, and reviewed my notes again. Before I knew it, it was already 9:30pm.
Since my test is 8 am in the morning and I needed to get up at 6am, I took a quick shower and went to bed at 10pm. To loosen up the mood, I watched some Netflix and was ready to call it a day at 11pm. I've been changing my sleep schedule to 11:30pm-7am since the beginning of the week and I had never failed to fall asleep.
However, yesterday was an exception. I just could not fall asleep! I wasn't even nervous about test (or at least not consciously) but my body simply refused to shut down. I was awake until at least 2:30am, lying in bed, not checking my phone and not doing anything. As the night drags on, I became more and more anxious while counting down the hours I could still sleep. Finally my body gave in and the next thing I knew was the sunlight through my curtain.
Today - test day
I checked my phone and it was 5:30am, 30 mins before my alarm. In my mind, I knew I was screwed. The notion of having only three hours of sleep, before an 8am test that is physically and mentally draining really stressed me out and I could feel my heart racing. I started desperately searching in Google "3 hours of sleep GMAT". I was really hoping that someone would say somewhere that they slept only 3 hours, or even no sleep at all, and still killed the test. However, for a good 10 minutes, I wasn't able to find anything that would cheer me up. Someone said they bombed their test with a score that's lower than all of their CATs by 100 points, or someone just straight up canceled the test after a sleepless night. I became more and more nervous.
Despite my mental wreck, I actually didn't feel so bad physically - my eyes were a bit dry but my head didn't feel cloudy. So I thought I'd follow an advice I saw on YouTube for the test day, that is to practice a couple questions to get the body and mind in test mode. I picked one RC passage with 4 questions and two SC. I felt pretty good while doing it, only uncertain about one question but that's no surprise since I've been scoring around 37-39 on verbal consistently. But when I checked the answers, I got 5 out of 6 wrong. Ummm... what...ummm...okay...okay...fine......, not ideal but it's 7am already and I need to head out.
After I checked in at the test center, I felt okay. I could think straight and I wasn't sleepy and I was strangely feeling somewhat confident, even after my abhorring
performance this morning. So, I forged on and started my verbal section. It was not horrible, but wouldn't call it great either because I made quite a few guesses on SC. But hey, at least I was confident on most RC and CR questions. The only things that bugged me were 1) I felt the questions were overall easy compared to my other GMAC CATs, which could mean that I made a lot of mistakes and thus stayed at the easy level, and 2) I didn't have time to submit my selection for the last question.
Still I was feeling pretty clear-headed despite some concerns on my verbal section, and I decided not to take the break and to go straight into quant. Quant is something I've been pretty good at, scoring a 50 for the last 3 CATs. However, the first 3 questions today really got me. Instead of spending 2 minutes each, I spent about 9 minutes on them, forcing myself to rush through the next couple of questions. By the time I got down half of the question, I was falling 5 minutes behind schedule. I then guessed a probability question that I definitely would have gotten it right if I had enough time, rushed through two or three data sufficiency questions, and through some unexplainable force, ended up having 2 extra minutes when I finished the last question. Boy, was I relieved!
The rest of the test felt a lot more relaxed - I took a break, roughly answered the IR section, and typed some 300 words on AWA. After some clicks on the screen, I saw my score and I just couldn't believe it: 750 with V41, Q50 and IR7. Wow, just wow!! Given that my CATs have been around 700-720 and my 3-hour sleep, I was so pleasantly surprised and relieved. I am finally done with GMAT
Final words
If you're reading all the way till this point, thank you so much for the patience and sorry about my babbling. I am still in disbelief and that probably shows in my poor writing.
I want to make it clear that I am not writing this to brag about my score (I definitely got lucky) or to minimize other people's experience when they were sleep deprived. I simply want to share my experience so that if anyone is worried about not resting well, they know that it's till possible to do well on the test. However, this is by no means an endorsement of last-minute study. Quite the contrary, please DO NOT follow what I did. I wish I didn't study that much yesterday and I can confirm that nothing I learned yesterday showed up on the test. All that studying was just a fruitless effort that made my test day so much more stressful than it needs to be.
Anyway, this is my story and best of luck to everyone!!!
16 Jul 2021, 21:51
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Wow! Congratulations! Fantastic score!!!
I think it was a good idea to take a practice test 24 hours before your test. I know many people think you should do nothing but I actually think simulating your Thursday experience is a great idea for the day before the test.
Most people cannot fall asleep the night before the test. I don’t think I know anyone who gets a great night of sleep. I remember reading a dBrief about someone booking their appointment in the afternoon because they knew they wouldn’t be able to fall asleep for a long time so they wanted to sleep in. It worked OK for them but it wasn’t their normal schedule….
Super happy for you! Some people do perform a lot better under stress and can have very good focus even with little sleep. Congrats! That’s a strength to count on potentially though plenty risky 😂
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I think it was a good idea to take a practice test 24 hours before your test. I know many people think you should do nothing but I actually think simulating your Thursday experience is a great idea for the day before the test.
Most people cannot fall asleep the night before the test. I don’t think I know anyone who gets a great night of sleep. I remember reading a dBrief about someone booking their appointment in the afternoon because they knew they wouldn’t be able to fall asleep for a long time so they wanted to sleep in. It worked OK for them but it wasn’t their normal schedule….
Super happy for you! Some people do perform a lot better under stress and can have very good focus even with little sleep. Congrats! That’s a strength to count on potentially though plenty risky 😂
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16 Jul 2021, 22:17
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I guess you did everything wrong and ran out of things that you could get wrong. 😂
and nailed the test.
Congrats congrats!
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and nailed the test.
Congrats congrats!
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