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09 Aug 2024, 04:07
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Hi everyone!
I took the GMAT yesterday and got a total score of 695 (Q84, V88, DI82) - here is my debrief
Prep
I started my prep with the first official mock on May 18, just to see where I stand, and got a 605 (Q78, V84, DI78). It became immediately obvious that my biggest issues were 1) the standardised test format and 2) quant.
As a bit of background, I went to Law School (so expected to do well in the Verbal section), but I was actually a math Olympic in high school and studied college-level math for that - so the quant score came as a disappointment and took me the most time to improve. This is mainly due to how math is tested in my country, focused on the method and not the actual result and never as a multiple choice. Oh, and always pure math
So I watched some videos on YT to recap my math (GMAT Ninja) and then just did a lot of practice questions - focusing on doing the harder ones.
Later on I realised my math weakness are the “easy” questions - and that’s because the solving methods used for those stop being taught in the 4th grade here. So my strategy became to avoid them) i readjusted my testing strategy and spent a lot of time in the beginning of the Quant section to get the “medium” questions right and then get on the “difficult” questions path (mostly pure math) which I knew i could do easily.
Took the second mock on June 15, with a total score of 655 (Q81, V83, DI84). I did not focus at all on Verbal because there I would always get 2-3 wrong and knew I could get them right in the exam setting.
After the second mock I did all my Quant prep here (thank you!!) and eventually purchased the Pro package to be able to run multiple Quant tests in a sort of exam setting.
I stopped prepping about a week ago and then one day before just refreshed my memory on math formulas / tricks I wrote down.
I did almost no DI prep because I don’t really think the existing prep materials are similar to the actual GMAT mock and test questions.
Test day
I did my sections Q-DI-V, just to go from my most difficult to my easiest. I started very stressed on Quant and got questions 1, 3 and 4 wrong (I did realise I was not getting them right). Took 10 seconds to calm myself and ultimately those ended up being my only mistakes.
I found the DI section similar to the mocks and a lot more accesible than the prep questions. Here the only three I got wrong were from the same MSR question, which I knew I wasn’t getting right cause I could not understand that graph for the life of me. So actually did not waste a lot of time there, guessed and moved on.
Finally for the Verbal, I was pretty chill at this point (this is my comfort section) and just took the time to thoroughly go through all of them and I got 2 wrong.
That is it! Hopefully never have to do this again cause it was stressful haha
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I took the GMAT yesterday and got a total score of 695 (Q84, V88, DI82) - here is my debrief
Prep
I started my prep with the first official mock on May 18, just to see where I stand, and got a 605 (Q78, V84, DI78). It became immediately obvious that my biggest issues were 1) the standardised test format and 2) quant.
As a bit of background, I went to Law School (so expected to do well in the Verbal section), but I was actually a math Olympic in high school and studied college-level math for that - so the quant score came as a disappointment and took me the most time to improve. This is mainly due to how math is tested in my country, focused on the method and not the actual result and never as a multiple choice. Oh, and always pure math
So I watched some videos on YT to recap my math (GMAT Ninja) and then just did a lot of practice questions - focusing on doing the harder ones.
Later on I realised my math weakness are the “easy” questions - and that’s because the solving methods used for those stop being taught in the 4th grade here. So my strategy became to avoid them
) i readjusted my testing strategy and spent a lot of time in the beginning of the Quant section to get the “medium” questions right and then get on the “difficult” questions path (mostly pure math) which I knew i could do easily.Took the second mock on June 15, with a total score of 655 (Q81, V83, DI84). I did not focus at all on Verbal because there I would always get 2-3 wrong and knew I could get them right in the exam setting.
After the second mock I did all my Quant prep here (thank you!!) and eventually purchased the Pro package to be able to run multiple Quant tests in a sort of exam setting.
I stopped prepping about a week ago and then one day before just refreshed my memory on math formulas / tricks I wrote down.
I did almost no DI prep because I don’t really think the existing prep materials are similar to the actual GMAT mock and test questions.
Test day
I did my sections Q-DI-V, just to go from my most difficult to my easiest. I started very stressed on Quant and got questions 1, 3 and 4 wrong (I did realise I was not getting them right). Took 10 seconds to calm myself and ultimately those ended up being my only mistakes.
I found the DI section similar to the mocks and a lot more accesible than the prep questions. Here the only three I got wrong were from the same MSR question, which I knew I wasn’t getting right cause I could not understand that graph for the life of me. So actually did not waste a lot of time there, guessed and moved on.
Finally for the Verbal, I was pretty chill at this point (this is my comfort section) and just took the time to thoroughly go through all of them and I got 2 wrong.
That is it! Hopefully never have to do this again cause it was stressful haha
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09 Aug 2024, 04:11
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Congratulations on the score 👍👍👍
And sorry about quant going the wrong way.
Did you warm up before the test? Did you have time to go back to review those first few questions at the end?
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And sorry about quant going the wrong way.
Did you warm up before the test? Did you have time to go back to review those first few questions at the end?
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09 Aug 2024, 04:19
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Thank you
I had about 5 mins at the end of the Quant section which I used for the question 1 and changed my answer (from incorrect to incorrect). It was a lot of fractions and percentages and I must have gotten lost in somewhere.
I also had a 4-5 mins gap at the end of the DI section and went back to the MSR but still could not figure it out and I did not change any answers there
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I had about 5 mins at the end of the Quant section which I used for the question 1 and changed my answer (from incorrect to incorrect). It was a lot of fractions and percentages and I must have gotten lost in somewhere.
I also had a 4-5 mins gap at the end of the DI section and went back to the MSR but still could not figure it out and I did not change any answers there
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