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02 Sep 2024, 21:06
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Hi everyone,
I've given the GMAT FE twice this year and needed some guidance. My first FE score was a 645(Q83, V84, DI79) and my second attempt was a 615(Q79, V82, DI81).
My official mock scores have always been between 685 and 735. I get really stressed out on the real exam day and my brain tends to stop working at the test center. I didn't sleep at all the night before the second attempt and I feel like that affected my mindset and thinking that day. I have a target score of 675-685. I'm not able to convert my mock scores and there's a big difference between my mock and the real exam. My concepts are all fine and I can solve most questions on a given day. I tend to make a lot of silly calculation mistakes unconsciously as well and I've noticed this happening a lot. Any tips on how to approach this?
Thanks in advance!
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I've given the GMAT FE twice this year and needed some guidance. My first FE score was a 645(Q83, V84, DI79) and my second attempt was a 615(Q79, V82, DI81).
My official mock scores have always been between 685 and 735. I get really stressed out on the real exam day and my brain tends to stop working at the test center. I didn't sleep at all the night before the second attempt and I feel like that affected my mindset and thinking that day. I have a target score of 675-685. I'm not able to convert my mock scores and there's a big difference between my mock and the real exam. My concepts are all fine and I can solve most questions on a given day. I tend to make a lot of silly calculation mistakes unconsciously as well and I've noticed this happening a lot. Any tips on how to approach this?
Thanks in advance!
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02 Sep 2024, 21:21
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Welcome to GMAT Club (congrats on your first post) and sorry to hear about the stress.
1. I would say that everyone is stressed the night before they take the test. I slept terrible and had to take the test at 8 AM in the morning or something like that. Now that you can take the test at any time, some people have been scheduling it late morning or early afternoon to make sure they sleep in and get a good rest.
2. Your second test result was not that much worse than the first. You didn’t do as well in quant and verbal but you improved data insights. It’s not that uncommon to underperform on a retake especially in the sections that you were thinking you were strong.
3. But if stress is your main problem, there are ways to train yourself. Warming up before the test and spending 15 or 20 minutes June question after question put you into this conveyor type of mentality where all you do is just answer question after question. I highly recommend warming up before the test, so that you don’t have to think and you just keep going.
There are always ways to increase the stress during your practice tests bye penalizing yourself somehow such as depriving phone use for a week if you mess up or you can always live stream your test to friends 😇 so that adds some additional pressure.
I would also make sure that other things are not playing a big role impacting your score as well such as time miss management, a lot of people try to solve every single question on the real test and won’t budge until they do, taking those questions with them to the grave basically. You definitely want to avoid that.
Hope some of this helped. You ultimately need to figure out how to crack the puzzle and trick your brain not to freeze.
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1. I would say that everyone is stressed the night before they take the test. I slept terrible and had to take the test at 8 AM in the morning or something like that. Now that you can take the test at any time, some people have been scheduling it late morning or early afternoon to make sure they sleep in and get a good rest.
2. Your second test result was not that much worse than the first. You didn’t do as well in quant and verbal but you improved data insights. It’s not that uncommon to underperform on a retake especially in the sections that you were thinking you were strong.
3. But if stress is your main problem, there are ways to train yourself. Warming up before the test and spending 15 or 20 minutes June question after question put you into this conveyor type of mentality where all you do is just answer question after question. I highly recommend warming up before the test, so that you don’t have to think and you just keep going.
There are always ways to increase the stress during your practice tests bye penalizing yourself somehow such as depriving phone use for a week if you mess up or you can always live stream your test to friends 😇 so that adds some additional pressure.
I would also make sure that other things are not playing a big role impacting your score as well such as time miss management, a lot of people try to solve every single question on the real test and won’t budge until they do, taking those questions with them to the grave basically. You definitely want to avoid that.
Hope some of this helped. You ultimately need to figure out how to crack the puzzle and trick your brain not to freeze.
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03 Sep 2024, 03:50
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Hi Sidthak,
Hope all is well. Sorry to hear about the exam day stress, i've been in the same boat and am looking to re-take soon.
I found this video from the legends GMATNinja quite helpful - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx3Vk6LuEqo&t=321s
- Slow is smooth, smooth is fast! I've found that repeating this has been helpful during practice sets/homework to remain focused on good process (e.g. sense checking calcs, re-focusing when my approach doesn't work)
I am sure you have what it takes and there are probably 100s of hours of study behind you. Mindset is really key - saw this post on reddit (in case useful)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/GMAT/comments/ ... to_655_fe/
Best of luck for the next attempt!
