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06 Dec 2020, 08:36
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Hearing about other journeys to a target GMAT score helped me a lot during my prep, especially when it comes to handling my nerves. Since I have been reading a lot about people who have had bad luck during their exams, I hope my story gives hope to some upcoming test takers.
I bought the E-GMAT complete set in May of 2020, even though I did not start full fledged preparation until almost Oct. I went through all their resources but was extremely demoralized cause of how bad I was performing. Even though I understood the concepts, I wasn't getting many practice set questions correct, hovering around 65% accuracy overall on easy/medium/hard sets. My verbal was really poor, at least according to e-gmat tests. It got to a point where I had almost lost hope of a good score. I was doing self study and I wasn't able to pin point my issues with verbal at all, to me it seemed multiple choices in e-gmat answers looked correct and I almost always chose the wrong one. Due to corona I had moved back to stay with my parents and I asked my dad to take a test with me to see if I can get some insights into my mistakes by analyzing his though process. To my surprise he was making the same logical error in RC, this isn't any indication on the test but it was clear that I needed to find other resources.
By this time it was almost Sept and I wanted to set a date for the exam so that I can apply by 2nd round deadlines. So I ditched e-gmat and bought the official practice set 1 to see where I stand with the official GMAT prep questions. To my surprise I was hitting almost all my RC and CR questions at even the higher difficulties. It was a huge relief cause I was regaining my self confidence. So for the next 2 months I was doing 3 hours of Quant/ Verbal question sets from the Official practice set and decided to take my first official mock on Oct 15th. I had taken 2 mocks before this, both of them from e-Gmat Scholaranium, I scored 580 on July 26th and 590 on 16th Aug, so I was really nervous about the official mock. Oct 15th I took the official mock but got cut short cause of some maintenance that they had not mentioned when I started the test, so I finished the test the next day and to my surprise scored a 710! But I took it with a pinch of salt since I had not tested under realistic conditions.
At this point, with no clear score range I was getting really nervous. I bought the latest GMAT Prep official guide and kept practicing, went ahead and booked my Online At home GMAT for the 1st of Dec. I wanted to book it a bit early but wasn't able to, no dates were available for the last 2 weeks of Nov. I took my last mock on 28th Nov, the 2nd official mock, did it in normal testing conditions, ended up scoring a 720 (V38, Q49), I had around 3 min left after quants and finished verbal right on the dot. So I was hoping to score a 700+ at this point since it had been quite a lot of mental struggle to get here. I had mentally prepared myself to test again if my score goes below 700, since I had read online that many people were getting well below 700 after consistently scoring 720-750 in mocks.
Exam day in the beginning I was fully focused, in the zone if you may, to get the max I can, everything went smoothly but to my surprise I had 10min left after I finished the first quant section, I was dumb struck. Took a couple of minutes off from the last question to compose myself for verbal. I finished verbal with almost 3-4 min left. Lastly for IR the alarm on my phone started ringing! I forgot to switch it off, I tried not to pay attention to it, so that I don't look away from the screen and end up with a canceled exam, in all the panic I ended up missing my last IR question.
I was dreading the situation, super afraid I might have my test cancelled. But after 3 days got a score of 730! (Q49 V40) I am so happy but I feel now that I can do better given the fact that I had so much time left in hand, hindsight is always 20/20 I guess.
I want to get a profile evaluation done for M7 colleges I'll create a post under that section, please do check it out as well! Not sure if I should try and maybe improve on the 730.
I bought the E-GMAT complete set in May of 2020, even though I did not start full fledged preparation until almost Oct. I went through all their resources but was extremely demoralized cause of how bad I was performing. Even though I understood the concepts, I wasn't getting many practice set questions correct, hovering around 65% accuracy overall on easy/medium/hard sets. My verbal was really poor, at least according to e-gmat tests. It got to a point where I had almost lost hope of a good score. I was doing self study and I wasn't able to pin point my issues with verbal at all, to me it seemed multiple choices in e-gmat answers looked correct and I almost always chose the wrong one. Due to corona I had moved back to stay with my parents and I asked my dad to take a test with me to see if I can get some insights into my mistakes by analyzing his though process. To my surprise he was making the same logical error in RC, this isn't any indication on the test but it was clear that I needed to find other resources.
By this time it was almost Sept and I wanted to set a date for the exam so that I can apply by 2nd round deadlines. So I ditched e-gmat and bought the official practice set 1 to see where I stand with the official GMAT prep questions. To my surprise I was hitting almost all my RC and CR questions at even the higher difficulties. It was a huge relief cause I was regaining my self confidence. So for the next 2 months I was doing 3 hours of Quant/ Verbal question sets from the Official practice set and decided to take my first official mock on Oct 15th. I had taken 2 mocks before this, both of them from e-Gmat Scholaranium, I scored 580 on July 26th and 590 on 16th Aug, so I was really nervous about the official mock. Oct 15th I took the official mock but got cut short cause of some maintenance that they had not mentioned when I started the test, so I finished the test the next day and to my surprise scored a 710! But I took it with a pinch of salt since I had not tested under realistic conditions.
At this point, with no clear score range I was getting really nervous. I bought the latest GMAT Prep official guide and kept practicing, went ahead and booked my Online At home GMAT for the 1st of Dec. I wanted to book it a bit early but wasn't able to, no dates were available for the last 2 weeks of Nov. I took my last mock on 28th Nov, the 2nd official mock, did it in normal testing conditions, ended up scoring a 720 (V38, Q49), I had around 3 min left after quants and finished verbal right on the dot. So I was hoping to score a 700+ at this point since it had been quite a lot of mental struggle to get here. I had mentally prepared myself to test again if my score goes below 700, since I had read online that many people were getting well below 700 after consistently scoring 720-750 in mocks.
Exam day in the beginning I was fully focused, in the zone if you may, to get the max I can, everything went smoothly but to my surprise I had 10min left after I finished the first quant section, I was dumb struck. Took a couple of minutes off from the last question to compose myself for verbal. I finished verbal with almost 3-4 min left. Lastly for IR the alarm on my phone started ringing! I forgot to switch it off, I tried not to pay attention to it, so that I don't look away from the screen and end up with a canceled exam, in all the panic I ended up missing my last IR question.
I was dreading the situation, super afraid I might have my test cancelled. But after 3 days got a score of 730! (Q49 V40) I am so happy but I feel now that I can do better given the fact that I had so much time left in hand, hindsight is always 20/20 I guess.
I want to get a profile evaluation done for M7 colleges I'll create a post under that section, please do check it out as well! Not sure if I should try and maybe improve on the 730.
06 Dec 2020, 22:42
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Hi Gl0ntz,
First off, a 730/Q49 is an outstanding Score, so you can comfortably apply to any Business Schools that interest you. Depending on the Schools that you plan to apply to, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement. There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
First off, a 730/Q49 is an outstanding Score, so you can comfortably apply to any Business Schools that interest you. Depending on the Schools that you plan to apply to, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement. There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
