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13 Jul 2015, 17:33
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Hello.
Today I pass GMAT and received 660 (q48, v33). This was really unexpected for me because during last month I usually received 37-41 in verbal part.
I learn for a really long time. Begin from Magoosh, then Veritas videos, and finally I took EGmat on-demand course. After EGmat I was really excited because thought that I finally grasp SC. In last 1,5 month I direct my efforts mainly to verbal part, did all OG, VR, QP1, Prep questions with error log and analysis.
I saved GMAT prep 3 and 4 exams for last month and received 41 and 37 score for Verbal. So I was quite sure that I would receive at least 37-38.
Exam was perfect: little nervous at beginning but this is not impair my math, so I don’t think that my nerves crash my Verbal. I was not tired because I get good rest in last day and I did a lot of exams at home with immediate analyses, so I used to work for 5-7 hours without breaks (results in attachment). I was not hungry and had good concentration on the tasks. RC and CR were quite obvious, I don’t think that they are the reason, but SC part was a nightmare: in 7-8 tasks I even couldn’t find any errors in most variants. This was like half year ago when I completely didn’t understand difference betweeen ‘that’ and ‘which’ modifiers or difference between –ing modifier with comma or without comma, let alone the knowledge of idioms.
During the last month I so get used to the results like 7XX that when I saw the 660 it was a real shock for me. Looks like my arrogance catch me. I cancelled scores and now think about retaking during the month because I want to applies in 1 round.
I am a litlle confused because I exhausted OG, VR, Prep and question pack 1 bank, so I will be really appreciated for any advices about strategy for verbal part revision during this month.
Today I pass GMAT and received 660 (q48, v33). This was really unexpected for me because during last month I usually received 37-41 in verbal part.
I learn for a really long time. Begin from Magoosh, then Veritas videos, and finally I took EGmat on-demand course. After EGmat I was really excited because thought that I finally grasp SC. In last 1,5 month I direct my efforts mainly to verbal part, did all OG, VR, QP1, Prep questions with error log and analysis.
I saved GMAT prep 3 and 4 exams for last month and received 41 and 37 score for Verbal. So I was quite sure that I would receive at least 37-38.
Exam was perfect: little nervous at beginning but this is not impair my math, so I don’t think that my nerves crash my Verbal. I was not tired because I get good rest in last day and I did a lot of exams at home with immediate analyses, so I used to work for 5-7 hours without breaks (results in attachment). I was not hungry and had good concentration on the tasks. RC and CR were quite obvious, I don’t think that they are the reason, but SC part was a nightmare: in 7-8 tasks I even couldn’t find any errors in most variants. This was like half year ago when I completely didn’t understand difference betweeen ‘that’ and ‘which’ modifiers or difference between –ing modifier with comma or without comma, let alone the knowledge of idioms.
During the last month I so get used to the results like 7XX that when I saw the 660 it was a real shock for me. Looks like my arrogance catch me. I cancelled scores and now think about retaking during the month because I want to applies in 1 round.
I am a litlle confused because I exhausted OG, VR, Prep and question pack 1 bank, so I will be really appreciated for any advices about strategy for verbal part revision during this month.
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14 Jul 2015, 03:39
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I order ESR and looks like I failed not only SC but all parts of Verbal. That's strange because usually I have really good results for CR.
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14 Jul 2015, 04:54
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Harley, I am sorry to see that your score declined from your mocks to actual GMAT. For me, it came as a surprise for both the times as well. I was scoring 720-750 for the both the instances in my mocks. What I realised was that I was not sticking to the pattern of solving verbal questions that used to work for me in my mocks that I gave in the comfort of my home. The added pressure of the actual GMAT with the new surroundings do play their part in increasing the anxiety levels to an extent. I know most of us will say that they are good at controlling their anxiety but we are humans and as humans we tend to subconsiciously think about these things. I realised that I stopped following the tried and tested method after the first 15 question and due to this deviation, I ended up getting V34 when I was comfortably getting V38+ in my mocks.
I would advise you to analyse your ESR a bit more to see where and how you should be tackling your retake (if you are going to retake!).
A couple of things did jump out to me from your ESR:
1. Your time taken for SC questions was a bit too much for this type of questions and this might have eaten into the time you would normally devote to RC and CR. This would have an effect on the accuracy of your strong suit (CR) and this would have brought down your CR score lower than what you had imagined. With less time for RC and CR and not doing so well in SC, you might have made mistakes in easier questions for CR and this would have resulted in a cascading effect of lowering your overall scores. Answering easier questions penalises you a lot more than any other difficulty level questions.
2. Your average time for Algebra/geometry was 2.35 which for an 'average' value might be a bit high and again as mentioned above, would have eaten into your time for other questions/sub sections. Rushing in the GMAT has a very bad chain reaction and can hamper your scores by a lot more than you could imagine.
All the above points might have played a role in making you rush through some of the easier questions that you should have answered correctly. I remember reading Stacey Koprince's article on Manhatten GMAT forums that even 760 scorers answer a few questions incorrectly and thus it is important for us to choose our battles in GMAT. The more we take questions as a question of ego , the more we will falter.
Hope this helps and all the best for your future plans.
