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15 Oct 2014, 03:01
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I wrote GMAT exam on 13th Oct and got a devastating 620 (Q-47, V-28).
I got 700+ in my last 3 Mocks (GMATPREP). In the Exam,that i gave 2 days before GMAT i got 750 (Q-50, V-42).
I have imbibed the e-gmat process and it helped me a lot. I was feeling confident .
On D-day, I made a good start of verbal section and i know that i was doing good because i was getting hard questions.
I managed to complete 20 questions with 29 minutes remaining and when 2nd time i saw the clock i say 15 ques left in 15 min.
At this point, i came on backup strategy. I skip one SC, attempted two SC and then got a Passage again. i tried to complete RC passage carefully cause at least that could give me 3 correct answers but then in hurry, while trying to catch-up time i skipped few questions and attempted few and finally left one. In the end i got 28 in verbal.
I want to give GMAT again because i know that this score is not the true representative of my ability. I know the concept, i know that adherence to process is the key to solve any question but i need to work on time management and need to work on reducing time i take to solve RC and CR. I took few hours for recovery, but now i have decided that i will attempt GMAT next month.
I need you valuable guidance to proceed further. I don't know where to start and how to approach now. I have wasted all GMAT PREP test (i will get at least 5-6 repeated question on every attempt). I found 800 score and MGMAT verbal test easier than GMAT level (Though Quant is harder) . I have solved OG-13 and Verbal twice , i can explain problem in each and every choice for every question in official guide (For SC). Please help me in attacking GMAT, this time i want to nail it.
Thanks in advance.
I got 700+ in my last 3 Mocks (GMATPREP). In the Exam,that i gave 2 days before GMAT i got 750 (Q-50, V-42).
I have imbibed the e-gmat process and it helped me a lot. I was feeling confident .
On D-day, I made a good start of verbal section and i know that i was doing good because i was getting hard questions.
I managed to complete 20 questions with 29 minutes remaining and when 2nd time i saw the clock i say 15 ques left in 15 min.
At this point, i came on backup strategy. I skip one SC, attempted two SC and then got a Passage again. i tried to complete RC passage carefully cause at least that could give me 3 correct answers but then in hurry, while trying to catch-up time i skipped few questions and attempted few and finally left one. In the end i got 28 in verbal.
I want to give GMAT again because i know that this score is not the true representative of my ability. I know the concept, i know that adherence to process is the key to solve any question but i need to work on time management and need to work on reducing time i take to solve RC and CR. I took few hours for recovery, but now i have decided that i will attempt GMAT next month.
I need you valuable guidance to proceed further. I don't know where to start and how to approach now. I have wasted all GMAT PREP test (i will get at least 5-6 repeated question on every attempt). I found 800 score and MGMAT verbal test easier than GMAT level (Though Quant is harder) . I have solved OG-13 and Verbal twice , i can explain problem in each and every choice for every question in official guide (For SC). Please help me in attacking GMAT, this time i want to nail it.
Thanks in advance.
16 Oct 2014, 08:59
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First of all, you are not alone! Many people face such a situation. Just yesterday, a user sent me a pm in which he explained that he scored 620 (Q48 and V27) in actual GMAT though he scored in the range of 700-750 (with average score of 40 on verbal) in official GMAT prep tests and MGMAT tests. I see that your situation is very similar. So I will link him up to this thread and advise both of you here.
Let's first try to understand why your verbal score crashed in the actual test. Check out this post: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/2013/08 ... bal-score/
It discusses various possible reasons for less than expected verbal scores.
Sadly, when you make mistakes in verbal, you don't know it. In quant, if your answer doesn't match any option, you know that you made a mistake and if you go back to your calculations, you may be able to rectify it. On the other hand, verbal questions give no such clues.
There are various things you can do to improve your score. First, understand that SC is much more meaning based than before. Check out our SC class for free here - it's of more than 2 hrs duration and discusses everything that we discuss with Veritas Prep students in the actual SC class.
https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/free-gmat-lesson/
Also, CR and RC are very logical - once you understand how you have to handle various questions, the most difficult part is keeping up your speed. Our blog has many posts on CR and RC question types. Check them out here: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/category/gmat/
