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07 Dec 2023, 10:18
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Hi dear GMAT fellows,
I want to share with you a really puzzling yet interesting reality about the GMAT.
I have been studying this exam for 4 months and after 3 months of prep I took my first GMAT exam in October in a test center, where I scored a poor 500, despite having scored 670 just two weeks before.
During that day I completely froze. I remember I couldn’t compute even basic divisions or subtractions in the allowed time frame and I was sweating. I was indeed sleep deprived and anxious.
After one month of break I resumed my preparation and I reassessed my weaknesses. I noticed that although I had been stricken by an emotional hijack during test day, I had over-invested my time in Quant prep. Having said that, I immediately proceeded to purchase the TTP 6 month subscription (which I am still using), which helped me greatly in developing a clear and reliable method for approaching different quant (and also verbal) question types. Today I took another GMAT Prep mock test and I scored 690 (Q44, V39). That was really surprising since I never scored more than V36 until today in verbal and I am not a native speaker, which is something that more often than not discouraged me during my prep. What really made my score today was the fact that despite a not convincing quant performance (I was expecting ~Q35) I was able to keep my cool and remind myself that we are really terrible judges when it comes to guess the difficulty level of GMAT questions. Indeed that was true. I am still 2 weeks away from my official retake (online for the first time) and what I can say is that emotions and the ability to reason clearly may be even more important than your preparation, especially when you get tougher questions than you may have expected.
What do you think are the most important things to keep in mind during this GMAT journey and exam day?
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I want to share with you a really puzzling yet interesting reality about the GMAT.
I have been studying this exam for 4 months and after 3 months of prep I took my first GMAT exam in October in a test center, where I scored a poor 500, despite having scored 670 just two weeks before.
During that day I completely froze. I remember I couldn’t compute even basic divisions or subtractions in the allowed time frame and I was sweating. I was indeed sleep deprived and anxious.
After one month of break I resumed my preparation and I reassessed my weaknesses. I noticed that although I had been stricken by an emotional hijack during test day, I had over-invested my time in Quant prep. Having said that, I immediately proceeded to purchase the TTP 6 month subscription (which I am still using), which helped me greatly in developing a clear and reliable method for approaching different quant (and also verbal) question types. Today I took another GMAT Prep mock test and I scored 690 (Q44, V39). That was really surprising since I never scored more than V36 until today in verbal and I am not a native speaker, which is something that more often than not discouraged me during my prep. What really made my score today was the fact that despite a not convincing quant performance (I was expecting ~Q35) I was able to keep my cool and remind myself that we are really terrible judges when it comes to guess the difficulty level of GMAT questions. Indeed that was true. I am still 2 weeks away from my official retake (online for the first time) and what I can say is that emotions and the ability to reason clearly may be even more important than your preparation, especially when you get tougher questions than you may have expected.
What do you think are the most important things to keep in mind during this GMAT journey and exam day?
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07 Dec 2023, 11:13
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Hi Steven.
One key thing to keep in mind is that your abilities are certainly not fixed. So, for instance, even though you aren't a native speaker of English, you can continue to develop your verbal skills and score quite high on the Verbal section of the test. In fact, I've seen people with rather weak English skills score in the upper 40s on GMAT Verbal by doing things like learning to execute well and do whatever it takes to get GMAT Verbal questions correct.
Another useful idea is that high GMAT scores are usually preceded by high practice accuracies. So, to score higher on GMAT Quant, seek to achieve high accuracy on practice sets in one GMAT Quant topic after another, and it helps to first achieve high accuracy untimed and then move on to practicing timed.
Nice work so far. Now, you can just continue to strengthen one topic at a time over the next two weeks to continue to increase your expected score.
For some additional tips you can use to achieve your goal, see this post, which is written with the Focus Edition in mind but most of which applies to both versions of the GMAT.
[url=https://martymurraycoaching.com/how-to-score-705-on-the-gmat-focus-edition/]How to Score 705+ on the GMAT Focus Edition[/url
One key thing to keep in mind is that your abilities are certainly not fixed. So, for instance, even though you aren't a native speaker of English, you can continue to develop your verbal skills and score quite high on the Verbal section of the test. In fact, I've seen people with rather weak English skills score in the upper 40s on GMAT Verbal by doing things like learning to execute well and do whatever it takes to get GMAT Verbal questions correct.
Another useful idea is that high GMAT scores are usually preceded by high practice accuracies. So, to score higher on GMAT Quant, seek to achieve high accuracy on practice sets in one GMAT Quant topic after another, and it helps to first achieve high accuracy untimed and then move on to practicing timed.
Nice work so far. Now, you can just continue to strengthen one topic at a time over the next two weeks to continue to increase your expected score.
For some additional tips you can use to achieve your goal, see this post, which is written with the Focus Edition in mind but most of which applies to both versions of the GMAT.
[url=https://martymurraycoaching.com/how-to-score-705-on-the-gmat-focus-edition/]How to Score 705+ on the GMAT Focus Edition[/url
07 Dec 2023, 13:25
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