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From a bottom-percentile mock to 665 (V88, Q81, DI80), a behavioral comeback

The first time I sat a full official mock, just to see where I stood, I landed in the worst percentile on the board. I was the kind of student who could learn anything and, in my own words, just vomit it onto the paper in an exam hall. Content was never my problem. Put a two-minute timer on a single question, though, and I would panic, I can't finish this one, so I'll mark anything and move on, and that panic rolled like a domino down the whole section. The score wasn't telling me I was weak. It was telling me I couldn't perform under a clock.

Why I switched to e-GMAT
I had already tried another course before this. It was essentially here is an Excel sheet, here is how you work, and that did nothing for the actual problem, which was behavioral. A couple of friends who were already enrolled kept saying good things about e-GMAT, so I gave it a try. The difference I felt almost immediately was that the practice itself was built to fix the exact thing I was bad at.

Verbal: from the 6th percentile to a V88
My Verbal ability started in the 6th percentile. The course felt long at first, there is a lot to sit through, but it taught me a separate, repeatable process for every single question type, to the point where I never had to revise what do I do on an assumption question before the exam; I just knew. On CR and RC my real enemy was time and overthinking. I used to take ten to fourteen minutes on a single RC passage because I would zone out and re-read. The fix was learning to read it once, properly, the first time. By the end I was doing those passages in four to five minutes.

The behavioral fix that changed everything
The single thing that broke the panic was reframing it: the questions are meant to be solved. They are not impossible, plenty of people get them, so it is about how you behave in the chair, not whether the question is fair. What made that real was practicing inside a timer every time. The cementing quizzes are exam-level sets, thirty minutes, fifteen questions, so I was never just practicing, I was always practicing on the clock. That was my biggest flaw from day one, and it was finally being trained.

Letting the data tell me what was wrong
e-GMAT shows you the real accuracy on a question, how the wider pool did, and where you stand against them. That comparison was diagnostic gold. When a lot of people missed a question and so did I, I knew it was a genuinely hard concept and worth more time. When most people missed it and I got it, it was a confidence boost I badly needed. More importantly, the stats let me ask the right question of myself: is this a concept issue, a timing issue, or a behavior issue? The incorrect-questions view, sorted by section and topic, meant I never had to keep a manual error log, which I am honest enough to admit I would never have had the discipline to maintain.

Quant: making peace with advanced topics
Quant is four modules, Number Properties, Word Problems, Algebra, Advanced Topics, and Advanced Topics was a six-year-old fear for me. Probability, permutations, combinations: things I had remembered my way through since school and never actually understood. I told my mentor outright that I did not know how I would ever fix it. The process I was given, plus drilling it inside the sectional mocks, which are what actually build timed execution, took me to 80 to 90 percent accuracy on hard advanced-topic questions. I went from dreading those questions to being genuinely happy to see one. That single flip, a topic I had avoided for years becoming reliable, is the moment I knew the whole exam was within reach.

Data Insights and the mocks
DI wasn't my headline section, but the DI work mattered, especially because probability leaks into data sufficiency, into graphs, into everything, so I couldn't afford a blind spot. My mocks bounced around the way mocks do; my first e-GMAT mock was a 395. The job was never to chase a single mock number but to keep closing the behavioral gaps until test day, where it landed at 665 (V88, Q81, DI80).

The mentor who showed me the way
The weekly plan is great until your week-two score doesn't match the plan, and then what? That is exactly where having a mentor mattered. When the numbers didn't line up, I could go to mine and get told precisely what to do next. It felt, honestly, like being spoon-fed in the best way: I am someone who needs the path shown to me, and that is what I got, right through the final stretch. If you are starting where I started, look into e-GMAT's mentorship, the reassurance and the behavioral catches are the part that is hard to do alone.

If you're at a 400, read this
My score was bad enough that almost anyone would have quit. I didn't, and the only reason is that I was honest about what was actually broken, not my ability, my behavior, and then I let the process and the data fix it one weak point at a time. If I can do it, you can do it too. Be consistent, ask your mentor, and don't ignore your strong points while you fix the weak ones. It took me close to a year. It was worth it.
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congrats for score.. all the best with applications...
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Congrats on your achievement! 665 is an awesome score. If you are carrying on with this score, I wish you all the best with the applications.
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From a bottom-percentile mock to 665 (V88, Q81, DI80), a behavioral comeback

The first time I sat a full official mock, just to see where I stood, I landed in the worst percentile on the board. I was the kind of student who could learn anything and, in my own words, just vomit it onto the paper in an exam hall. Content was never my problem. Put a two-minute timer on a single question, though, and I would panic, I can't finish this one, so I'll mark anything and move on, and that panic rolled like a domino down the whole section. The score wasn't telling me I was weak. It was telling me I couldn't perform under a clock.

Why I switched to e-GMAT
I had already tried another course before this. It was essentially here is an Excel sheet, here is how you work, and that did nothing for the actual problem, which was behavioral. A couple of friends who were already enrolled kept saying good things about e-GMAT, so I gave it a try. The difference I felt almost immediately was that the practice itself was built to fix the exact thing I was bad at.

Verbal: from the 6th percentile to a V88
My Verbal ability started in the 6th percentile. The course felt long at first, there is a lot to sit through, but it taught me a separate, repeatable process for every single question type, to the point where I never had to revise what do I do on an assumption question before the exam; I just knew. On CR and RC my real enemy was time and overthinking. I used to take ten to fourteen minutes on a single RC passage because I would zone out and re-read. The fix was learning to read it once, properly, the first time. By the end I was doing those passages in four to five minutes.

The behavioral fix that changed everything
The single thing that broke the panic was reframing it: the questions are meant to be solved. They are not impossible, plenty of people get them, so it is about how you behave in the chair, not whether the question is fair. What made that real was practicing inside a timer every time. The cementing quizzes are exam-level sets, thirty minutes, fifteen questions, so I was never just practicing, I was always practicing on the clock. That was my biggest flaw from day one, and it was finally being trained.

Letting the data tell me what was wrong
e-GMAT shows you the real accuracy on a question, how the wider pool did, and where you stand against them. That comparison was diagnostic gold. When a lot of people missed a question and so did I, I knew it was a genuinely hard concept and worth more time. When most people missed it and I got it, it was a confidence boost I badly needed. More importantly, the stats let me ask the right question of myself: is this a concept issue, a timing issue, or a behavior issue? The incorrect-questions view, sorted by section and topic, meant I never had to keep a manual error log, which I am honest enough to admit I would never have had the discipline to maintain.

Quant: making peace with advanced topics
Quant is four modules, Number Properties, Word Problems, Algebra, Advanced Topics, and Advanced Topics was a six-year-old fear for me. Probability, permutations, combinations: things I had remembered my way through since school and never actually understood. I told my mentor outright that I did not know how I would ever fix it. The process I was given, plus drilling it inside the sectional mocks, which are what actually build timed execution, took me to 80 to 90 percent accuracy on hard advanced-topic questions. I went from dreading those questions to being genuinely happy to see one. That single flip, a topic I had avoided for years becoming reliable, is the moment I knew the whole exam was within reach.

Data Insights and the mocks
DI wasn't my headline section, but the DI work mattered, especially because probability leaks into data sufficiency, into graphs, into everything, so I couldn't afford a blind spot. My mocks bounced around the way mocks do; my first e-GMAT mock was a 395. The job was never to chase a single mock number but to keep closing the behavioral gaps until test day, where it landed at 665 (V88, Q81, DI80).

The mentor who showed me the way
The weekly plan is great until your week-two score doesn't match the plan, and then what? That is exactly where having a mentor mattered. When the numbers didn't line up, I could go to mine and get told precisely what to do next. It felt, honestly, like being spoon-fed in the best way: I am someone who needs the path shown to me, and that is what I got, right through the final stretch. If you are starting where I started, look into e-GMAT's mentorship, the reassurance and the behavioral catches are the part that is hard to do alone.

If you're at a 400, read this
My score was bad enough that almost anyone would have quit. I didn't, and the only reason is that I was honest about what was actually broken, not my ability, my behavior, and then I let the process and the data fix it one weak point at a time. If I can do it, you can do it too. Be consistent, ask your mentor, and don't ignore your strong points while you fix the weak ones. It took me close to a year. It was worth it.
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Congrats... You now have a decent enough score, V88 is a solid score... All the best with your applications.. I think you have good time to submit a competitive application .. All the best !
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Congratulations on the solid 665. All the best with your applications .
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