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kagrawal16
Joined: 31 Jul 2018
Last visit: 01 Dec 2022
Posts: 90
Given Kudos: 76
Location: India
Schools: ISB '23 (S) IIMA PGPX'23
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V36
GPA: 3
07 Jan 2021, 23:41
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Hey,
I am slightly disappointed with my score. I was averaging between 730-770 on the mocks. I expected to atleast hit the lower 730 as I know that there is a realistic 30 points drop in final.
I studied from the below materials.
CR: Powerscore, Veritas Blogs by VeritasKarishma - mam you are amazing, CR from gmatwithcj ChiranjeevSingh and from egmat CR pdfs (which are mostly be CJ himself)
SC: CJ website - awesome, GMATNinja & VeritasKarishma explanations for each question on SC / CR, GMATGuruNY - thank you Mitch, e-gmat SC free pdfs.
RC: thegmatblogger has a good note on RC.
Quant: Jamboree-helped to Q48, QWQW blogs by VeritasKarishma - this helped me get to Q50, GMATClub tests beautiful - Thanks Bunuel for organizing, maintaining and posting solutions to all problems.
Jamboree tutors in Pune - Bharat and Shreeyas when I took class about 2 years back. They helped me get to Q48 and a decent verbal foundation. Shreeyas is a great motivator.
Posts from AjiteshArun and Sayant (xmod). Also I read a few concepts of EducationAisle (your book is detailed and awesome for advance SC, but a wee bit dense)
I heavily relied on the club.
I believe the best experts are online on the Club and honestly, I didn't find a need of a tutor. Karishma mam was always online. This awesome club - thanks bb - made me feel like I was studying under the best tutors.
The responsiveness of all moderators is amazing.
I am very grateful for all your help.
10 years ago I gave the gmat once and scored 650 (Q48, V31). I quit the prospect of giving the exam but didn't find much satisfaction later. Studied again in 2018 with Jamboree, but could not give the exam although I reached mock levels.
This year again I studied with Corona saving office travel time. I work full time @ Amdocs as an expert(IT).
Also, I am a part of my family business. That leaves me really no time to study. So I am grateful in a way I got this time.
My exam day or previous night was bad. I slept 4 hours and wasn't well on exam day. But while giving the exam, I didn't feel that less sleep impacted me. So I won't attribute my failure to external reasons.
I want to pull up 50 points.
I am attaching my ESR. I really don't know what to make of it. Can some one help guide where I need to improve. Is it timing or skill.
Also, I have run out of colleges for this sem. I am currently drafting my ISB applications. Though I will take the gmat again in 3-4 weeks for the upcoming year.
I am slightly disappointed with my score. I was averaging between 730-770 on the mocks. I expected to atleast hit the lower 730 as I know that there is a realistic 30 points drop in final.
I studied from the below materials.
CR: Powerscore, Veritas Blogs by VeritasKarishma - mam you are amazing, CR from gmatwithcj ChiranjeevSingh and from egmat CR pdfs (which are mostly be CJ himself)
SC: CJ website - awesome, GMATNinja & VeritasKarishma explanations for each question on SC / CR, GMATGuruNY - thank you Mitch, e-gmat SC free pdfs.
RC: thegmatblogger has a good note on RC.
Quant: Jamboree-helped to Q48, QWQW blogs by VeritasKarishma - this helped me get to Q50, GMATClub tests beautiful - Thanks Bunuel for organizing, maintaining and posting solutions to all problems.
Jamboree tutors in Pune - Bharat and Shreeyas when I took class about 2 years back. They helped me get to Q48 and a decent verbal foundation. Shreeyas is a great motivator.
Posts from AjiteshArun and Sayant (xmod). Also I read a few concepts of EducationAisle (your book is detailed and awesome for advance SC, but a wee bit dense)
I heavily relied on the club.
I believe the best experts are online on the Club and honestly, I didn't find a need of a tutor. Karishma mam was always online. This awesome club - thanks bb - made me feel like I was studying under the best tutors.
The responsiveness of all moderators is amazing.
I am very grateful for all your help.
10 years ago I gave the gmat once and scored 650 (Q48, V31). I quit the prospect of giving the exam but didn't find much satisfaction later. Studied again in 2018 with Jamboree, but could not give the exam although I reached mock levels.
This year again I studied with Corona saving office travel time. I work full time @ Amdocs as an expert(IT).
Also, I am a part of my family business. That leaves me really no time to study. So I am grateful in a way I got this time.
My exam day or previous night was bad. I slept 4 hours and wasn't well on exam day. But while giving the exam, I didn't feel that less sleep impacted me. So I won't attribute my failure to external reasons.
I want to pull up 50 points.
I am attaching my ESR. I really don't know what to make of it. Can some one help guide where I need to improve. Is it timing or skill.
Also, I have run out of colleges for this sem. I am currently drafting my ISB applications. Though I will take the gmat again in 3-4 weeks for the upcoming year.
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10 Jan 2021, 07:51
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I wonder why my name is not there lol when you are speaking of verbal. I guess the tutors are hyperactive.
Anyhow. To crack a 750, you require a Q50 (1 POINT IMPROVEMENT) and a V40 (4 point improvement)
Given you're Indian (Assuming- forgive me if I am wrong- even I am one), I am pretty sure you can make the jump from 49 to 50 with a slight improvement. Plus for us Indians, GMAT quant is fairly scorable.
As for Verbal, good thing is you cracked the plateau (occurs at 35), I have so much advice for my clients when it comes to RCs because that is where you make the most out of your score.
Please refer to this- Verbal GMAT Strategy
Make sure you keep your focus on RC and SC and have an above average performance in CR. If you can excel in all three you might even score V42-44.
Lot of room to improve and you can just get a major score jump even with a 4 point improvement.
Reach out to me if you have any further questions.
Anyhow. To crack a 750, you require a Q50 (1 POINT IMPROVEMENT) and a V40 (4 point improvement)
Given you're Indian (Assuming- forgive me if I am wrong- even I am one), I am pretty sure you can make the jump from 49 to 50 with a slight improvement. Plus for us Indians, GMAT quant is fairly scorable.
As for Verbal, good thing is you cracked the plateau (occurs at 35), I have so much advice for my clients when it comes to RCs because that is where you make the most out of your score.
Please refer to this- Verbal GMAT Strategy
Make sure you keep your focus on RC and SC and have an above average performance in CR. If you can excel in all three you might even score V42-44.
Lot of room to improve and you can just get a major score jump even with a 4 point improvement.
Reach out to me if you have any further questions.
kagrawal16
Joined: 31 Jul 2018
Last visit: 01 Dec 2022
Posts: 90
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 76
Location: India
Schools: ISB '23 (S) IIMA PGPX'23
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V36
GPA: 3
10 Jan 2021, 10:39
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Hey Businessconquerer,
I appreciate your input. I scored Q50-51 on mocks. On test day, I took 15 mins for the first 10 questions to be comfortable with the remaining section. The strategy helps. I had a difficult weighted average sum that I could not solve, absolutely unexpected given I solved all questions of the club and did Karishma’s blogs that are next level. The sum was twisted with costs. My errors were mostly in DS. If you see my PS was good. Not sure why I messed that up.
Verbal- I actually read every expert post. I left SC in between to focus on CR. Then I did veritas’s CR blogs and practised veritas questions. Corrected few concepts and gained some confidence. RC I found veritas difficult. I was comfortable with Jon Clark and the tedious OG ones. But my accuracy was high if I spent around a minute more than is prescribed reading the RC. I realised that I was running out of time in my official mocks and tuned my timing again in the last 2 mocks. My percentage accuracy kind went down linearly from the first to the last quarter. Fatigue maybe 🤔
I will work on verbal. I think one - two sets a day.
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I appreciate your input. I scored Q50-51 on mocks. On test day, I took 15 mins for the first 10 questions to be comfortable with the remaining section. The strategy helps. I had a difficult weighted average sum that I could not solve, absolutely unexpected given I solved all questions of the club and did Karishma’s blogs that are next level. The sum was twisted with costs. My errors were mostly in DS. If you see my PS was good. Not sure why I messed that up.
Verbal- I actually read every expert post. I left SC in between to focus on CR. Then I did veritas’s CR blogs and practised veritas questions. Corrected few concepts and gained some confidence. RC I found veritas difficult. I was comfortable with Jon Clark and the tedious OG ones. But my accuracy was high if I spent around a minute more than is prescribed reading the RC. I realised that I was running out of time in my official mocks and tuned my timing again in the last 2 mocks. My percentage accuracy kind went down linearly from the first to the last quarter. Fatigue maybe 🤔
I will work on verbal. I think one - two sets a day.
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