Can someone do my ESR analysis?

Question

Hello,

I recently gave my exam on 2nd May and I am not happy about it.

My original exam was scheduled on 29th April,but because of technical issues my exam was rescheduled.

The fact that I had to call the Pearson customer service to reschedule the exam gave me additional stress the next day.

My exam was at 1pm,but the center was not good and there were lots of external noise,which distracted me.

I scheduled my exam on 22th 8am,and any tips from you would be helpful.

Thanks

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akela · Answer

Hi shubhams95 , What's your target score? What study materials did you use and how long have you been studying? It seems that you will have to work on CR and RC. How did you prepare for these sections? For quant, your score is good to start with. But I'm pretty sure with extra prep you'll be able to get a higher score. But it's gonna be pretty hard to improve it in 11 days. Here is a good thread for quant: https://gmatclub.com/forum/all-you-need ... 40445.html

DisciplinedPrep · Answer

I am sure that you aspire to achieve a score above 730 on the GMAT. However, to do so in just 11 days is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. Clearly, the Verbal section is your biggest challenge. Your SC score shows that your grammar may be good, but I would prefer having a look at a few other SC sub-section scores to confidently say that your SC skills are close to the 90 percentile. That said, I see your CR and RC scores are abysmally low. Therefore, I can say you lack critical reading skills. I do not wish to sound difficult but you would need a lot more time than 11 days, to surge your CR and RC sub-section scores from the current level. If I were in your position, I would give myself 2 to 3 months of time to master all the necessary skills to attack individual question types. I, therefore, recommend that you enroll in an online course, to improve your verbal score. Also, please remember that it is an uphill task to get a Quant score above 48 on the actual GMAT; Q43 is just around 50th percentile. So, you would have to brush your basic concepts in quant and practice a lot of questions, strategically. All the best.

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EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Shubham,

We last exchanged emails about 6 days ago, but I never heard back from you. If you respond to my last message and questions, then we can properly plan out this next phase of your studies.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

AjiteshArun · Answer

I can see how that would affect your score, so I'm not sure how much we can trust what your ESR says. There are a few things that stand out though:

1. As  DisciplinedPrep  mentioned, your SC score is  much  better than your CR and RC scores (you got almost every SC question correct). This could be because the question difficulty was very low, or it could be that you are very good at SC (good enough to get questions correct even when there are noise issues at the center). There could be other reasons as well, but this is where you must think about why whatever was happening outside the center had such a disproportionate impact on your CR and RC performance levels.

Your GMATPrep scores would really help here.

2. Your time management was completely off (2:14 and then 2:38 for the first two quarters), and this led to the 1:16 and the 0:47 in the last two quarters. Some test takers are comfortable adopting a flexible approach to timing (on the basis of what they see on exam day), but even then, you were left with just too little time towards the end. This is not something that you should allow to happen, even if there are issues at the test center.

3. The same thing happened in quant (2:52 for the first quarter). Once you start falling behind, it's very difficult to catch up. In case you're looking to make sure that you get the "first ten" questions correct (at any cost), I'd like you to think about how often the people who end up with good scores actually do that. I may be a little biased here, as most of the ESRs I see are from students who opt for an "even" timing strategy, but it's still worth thinking about.

Also, did they offer you something like ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones to help reduce the impact of the noise? If not, I suggest that you reach out to Pearson and let them know. Finally, which center did you choose for the next appointment? Is it the same one?

shubhams95 · Answer

Thank you for you detailed analysis. Here is my reply:-

1. I guess I answered most of SC right as it was the least amount of concentration needed. Hence,it explains the low average time.

2. Although I was aware of the "first 10 question" fact/myth,I believe that GMAC is aware of this and has made sure the algorithm in such a way so as to punish people who use this strategy.However, what threw me off was the noise,and I had to re-read the questions so as so answer them. However,despite that, my accuracy was 40%.Only when I got used to it,my accuracy started to improve. However, I got less time to answer per question,so my accuracy went down again.

After looking at ESR, I think GMAC was unfair starting me with medium high level question in the first quarter of quant test. I didn't understand why they did that since it's usually the other way around. Any comment on that would be helpful

After looking at ESR, I think GMAC was unfair starting me with medium high level question in the first quarter of quant test. I didn't understand why they did that since it's usually the other way around. Any comment on that would be helpful

3. Ear plugs were provided,but they were of poor quality. The test center is old ,GATS center in Pune. I have booked mine in the new Pearson Kharadi Pune center which started in January,2019. Many student on gmatclub complained about the noise issue at the old center and students reported no issue at the new one.I was unaware about the new center.

I am now using my ESR to focus on the week areas by practicing at GMATCLUB question bank and plan to use EP2 to perfect my timing few days before my exam.

Any suggestion from all would be helpful.

Thanks

IanStewart · Answer

The GMAT scoring algorithm is based purely on probability theory. It is not designed to 'punish' people using any particular strategy. In general, it rewards people who perform 'normally' -- it rewards people who answer the questions they can answer, and who guess fairly quickly at questions they can't. If you do that, you'll score as you expect, no matter how hard or easy your questions are. If you don't do that, though (if you invest a lot of time early on, say, trying to get the early questions right) you'll almost always score lower than you expect.

Whether your early questions are easy or hard (either can happen on a real test) will not affect your eventual score at all, provided you perform normally. If you get very hard questions early on, and you need to guess at some of them, those guesses just won't hurt you much at all, because it doesn't hurt you much to get very hard questions wrong. In that situation, where you see hard questions early in a test that you don't know how to answer, the only thing that can hurt you is wasting a lot of time on them.

Of course, if you find yourself in the opposite situation, where your early questions are easy, you'll really need to get almost all of them right in order to get a good score, because wrong answers on easy questions are hard to recover from.

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

I agree with much of what has been said. Looking at your ESR, you need to make a major improvement in CR and RC and improve your quant score by at least 4 points to come close to hitting your 730+ score goal. Since you are currently almost 200 points from your score goal, it’s clear that you won’t make the improvement you need in just 11 days. Are you able to push back your GMAT, study for a few more months, and take the GMAT once you are ready?

If you’d like specific advice on how to improve both your GMAT quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Also, you may find it helpful to read this article: How to Score a 700+ on the GMAT — A Mini Guide for Success.

Good luck!

If you’d like specific advice on how to improve both your GMAT quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Also, you may find it helpful to read this article:  How to Score a 700+ on the GMAT — A Mini Guide for Success .

Good luck!

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