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Anustup
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14 Oct 2019, 23:12
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I scored a 590 ,620,640,680 in my official practice test and finally scored 590 in GMAT.I had a horrible performance in Verbal (21) when I mostly used to score 30-35.I am planning to take the test again in two months time.
my questions are:
1.Why was there so much difference in my actual score and test score.
2.Should I enroll for online verbal classes(mostly for RC and CR)
I have gathered the courage to appear for the exam again but I lack the confidence and I am unsure if i will be able to it.
my questions are:
1.Why was there so much difference in my actual score and test score.
2.Should I enroll for online verbal classes(mostly for RC and CR)
I have gathered the courage to appear for the exam again but I lack the confidence and I am unsure if i will be able to it.
15 Oct 2019, 06:51
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Below are the suggestions from my experience
1. May be because of anxiety(which happened in my case), taking things too serious....which needs to be evaluated by yourself....other than that most of the cases there will be +/- 20 points in real gmat when compared to prep mocks if everything goes fine.
2. For CR if felt power score bible is very helpful....no other substitute is required and for Rc it's all about practice religiously.
1. May be because of anxiety(which happened in my case), taking things too serious....which needs to be evaluated by yourself....other than that most of the cases there will be +/- 20 points in real gmat when compared to prep mocks if everything goes fine.
2. For CR if felt power score bible is very helpful....no other substitute is required and for Rc it's all about practice religiously.
15 Oct 2019, 10:18
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Hi Anustup,
I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT.
It’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your verbal preparation, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your verbal preparation probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point. When you do dozens of questions of the same type one after the other, you learn just what it takes to get questions of that type correct consistently. If you aren't getting close to 90 percent of questions of a certain type correct, go back and seek to better understand how that type of question works, and then do more questions of that type until you get to around at least 90 percent accuracy in your training. If you get 100 percent of some sets correct, even better.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
Regarding how to move forward, you may consider using a verbal course. To see what is available check out course reviews here on GMAT Club.
If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out.
Good luck!
I’m sorry to hear how things went with your GMAT.
It’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your verbal preparation, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your verbal preparation probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point. When you do dozens of questions of the same type one after the other, you learn just what it takes to get questions of that type correct consistently. If you aren't getting close to 90 percent of questions of a certain type correct, go back and seek to better understand how that type of question works, and then do more questions of that type until you get to around at least 90 percent accuracy in your training. If you get 100 percent of some sets correct, even better.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
Regarding how to move forward, you may consider using a verbal course. To see what is available check out course reviews here on GMAT Club.
If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out.
Good luck!
