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09 Nov 2015, 09:04
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Hello Everyone,
I took my GMAT exam a week ago and i am completely frustrated with my verbal score.
I have been practising for almost a month and half putting in atleast 4 hours of study time daily. The overall study experience was quite draining but at the same time Verbal part was a sweet spot until the real GMAT. I don't understand what actually went wrong in the actual exam. In terms of study material i used Mgmat Sentence correction guide and Powerprep for CR. I was good at RC and overall i used to get around 3 questions wrong for the entire RCs session. I practised 11 CAT tests and the overall scores averaged 700 including the verbal around 38. The CAT tests were taken at home at the same time as the real GMAT complete from AWA to Verbal. The only tests i retook were Mgmat tests after almost 3 years and GMAT prep in July 2015. Though i have paused sometimes on quant i didn't do the same in the verbal section on any of the CAT tests.
Except for some revisions i didn't study the last 3 days before the exam. I should say that the night before the exam i couldn't sleep well though the next day i was fresh ready to take the GMAT exam. I was neither blocked or tired during the verbal session in the actual test but i did feel that questions weren't tough enough as i used to encounter.
VERBAL CAT SCORES :
MGMAT from CAT 1 to CAT 6 : 40 ; 37 ; 40 ; 39 ; 37 ; 45
GMAT prep CAT 1 to CAT 2 : 38; 34 (34-because i had to hurry up for last 4 questions and got all of them wrong)
Economist Free CAT : 35
GMAT pill Free CAT : 39
Veritas Free CAT : 31 (Same as gmat prep CAT 2 where the last 3 questions were from RC and had to rush through)
Actual GMAT SCORE : 20
I want to nail the GMAT and my aim is to score in 700 score range. I have planned to give myself time to level up my verbal and take the test in January 2016. I am lost as i don't know where i should start from. Any suggestions would be very helpful to me.
Thank you.
I took my GMAT exam a week ago and i am completely frustrated with my verbal score.
I have been practising for almost a month and half putting in atleast 4 hours of study time daily. The overall study experience was quite draining but at the same time Verbal part was a sweet spot until the real GMAT. I don't understand what actually went wrong in the actual exam. In terms of study material i used Mgmat Sentence correction guide and Powerprep for CR. I was good at RC and overall i used to get around 3 questions wrong for the entire RCs session. I practised 11 CAT tests and the overall scores averaged 700 including the verbal around 38. The CAT tests were taken at home at the same time as the real GMAT complete from AWA to Verbal. The only tests i retook were Mgmat tests after almost 3 years and GMAT prep in July 2015. Though i have paused sometimes on quant i didn't do the same in the verbal section on any of the CAT tests.
Except for some revisions i didn't study the last 3 days before the exam. I should say that the night before the exam i couldn't sleep well though the next day i was fresh ready to take the GMAT exam. I was neither blocked or tired during the verbal session in the actual test but i did feel that questions weren't tough enough as i used to encounter.
VERBAL CAT SCORES :
MGMAT from CAT 1 to CAT 6 : 40 ; 37 ; 40 ; 39 ; 37 ; 45
GMAT prep CAT 1 to CAT 2 : 38; 34 (34-because i had to hurry up for last 4 questions and got all of them wrong)
Economist Free CAT : 35
GMAT pill Free CAT : 39
Veritas Free CAT : 31 (Same as gmat prep CAT 2 where the last 3 questions were from RC and had to rush through)
Actual GMAT SCORE : 20
I want to nail the GMAT and my aim is to score in 700 score range. I have planned to give myself time to level up my verbal and take the test in January 2016. I am lost as i don't know where i should start from. Any suggestions would be very helpful to me.
Thank you.
09 Nov 2015, 19:19
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Hi vkm,
A V20 is a big variation from your mock CAT scores.
Since you have told that you took the CATs with the AWA and IR, then your body and brain must have been prepared for the 4 hour marathon.
The first thing to do is to order the ESR and see which sections caused this huge downfall.
Were you feeling tired/sleepy during the verbal section?
Did you take the break before the Verbal section?
Once you have a look at the sections which were problematic, give a fresh mock CAT. You can buy ExamPack1 from mba.com
If your score is in the range, go ahead and book the GMAT.
All the best!
10 Nov 2015, 07:31
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Hi OptimusPrepJanielle,
Thank you for the feedback.
Yes, i managed to subscribe to ESR and the drop is in all sections with the worst in SC.
SC - 17% with mean response time of 1.63 sec
RC - 33% with mean response time of 1.73 sec
CR - 33% with mean response time of 1.73 sec
Were you feeling tired/sleepy during the verbal section?
=> I was a bit tired but not different from usual.
Did you take the break before the Verbal section?
=> Yes i took the break before the verbal section.
I don't know if it has got to do with the first 15 questions or mental stamina but i am no where near to correlate the mock test scores and the actual GMAT.
May be i was overconfident in verbal as sometimes it arrives that i choose the answer without reading through all the choices. Or it could be that except for RC i don't write down the scratch notes before attempting the answer. I pre-think and select the answer choice assuming that i have taken care of all the information before selecting the choice. Also i have noted that the exam in itself isn't tough to crack but the wordings are twisted or answer choices are similar to confuse the candidate compared to most mock tests. Could that be a reason as well for a drop in score ?
May be i should work on them before booking my next exam ?
Thank you for the feedback.
Yes, i managed to subscribe to ESR and the drop is in all sections with the worst in SC.
SC - 17% with mean response time of 1.63 sec
RC - 33% with mean response time of 1.73 sec
CR - 33% with mean response time of 1.73 sec
Were you feeling tired/sleepy during the verbal section?
=> I was a bit tired but not different from usual.
Did you take the break before the Verbal section?
=> Yes i took the break before the verbal section.
I don't know if it has got to do with the first 15 questions or mental stamina but i am no where near to correlate the mock test scores and the actual GMAT.
May be i was overconfident in verbal as sometimes it arrives that i choose the answer without reading through all the choices. Or it could be that except for RC i don't write down the scratch notes before attempting the answer. I pre-think and select the answer choice assuming that i have taken care of all the information before selecting the choice. Also i have noted that the exam in itself isn't tough to crack but the wordings are twisted or answer choices are similar to confuse the candidate compared to most mock tests. Could that be a reason as well for a drop in score ?
May be i should work on them before booking my next exam ?
