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Hi All,
I have taken the exam two times (on 10/31/16 & 12/22/16). The first time I studied heavily using the EmpowerGmat course, which helped me increase my score from a 570 to 640 (Q44,V34). I knew I was not going to break a 700 on the exam considering my highest gmatprep practice test score was only a 670. However, the 640 did give me confidence to study on my own - mainly verbal using Empower and a combination of LSAT CR & RC, & Aristotle prep SC. I also did GMATprep practice questions - all of CR and SC for which I was 75-80% accurate. To my surprise, I scored once again 640 with the same subscores. However, my RC and CR substantially improved while SC decreased. During the second exam (12/22), I felt very confident on both sections and thought I did extremely well on SC but I was shocked. I did fall behind in timing on verbal - around 20th question only had 28 minutes left to answer remaining questions with 2 short RC passages left. This led me to guess on at least 3 CR problems. For Math, my biggest weakness is geometry so I tend to punt those quickly and on the 12/22 exam I probably flat out guessed on 4 questions.
I am hoping to take the exam in the next 6 weeks - mid February and plan to apply to schools such as UCLA & Ross in round 3. Any advice on how to tackle the test and break the 700 barrier would be great! I hope to score 720+. Also, I have attached my ESRs from both tests - 10/31 & 12/22. Maybe I am not noticing something that other people might.
Thank you,
K.
I have taken the exam two times (on 10/31/16 & 12/22/16). The first time I studied heavily using the EmpowerGmat course, which helped me increase my score from a 570 to 640 (Q44,V34). I knew I was not going to break a 700 on the exam considering my highest gmatprep practice test score was only a 670. However, the 640 did give me confidence to study on my own - mainly verbal using Empower and a combination of LSAT CR & RC, & Aristotle prep SC. I also did GMATprep practice questions - all of CR and SC for which I was 75-80% accurate. To my surprise, I scored once again 640 with the same subscores. However, my RC and CR substantially improved while SC decreased. During the second exam (12/22), I felt very confident on both sections and thought I did extremely well on SC but I was shocked. I did fall behind in timing on verbal - around 20th question only had 28 minutes left to answer remaining questions with 2 short RC passages left. This led me to guess on at least 3 CR problems. For Math, my biggest weakness is geometry so I tend to punt those quickly and on the 12/22 exam I probably flat out guessed on 4 questions.
I am hoping to take the exam in the next 6 weeks - mid February and plan to apply to schools such as UCLA & Ross in round 3. Any advice on how to tackle the test and break the 700 barrier would be great! I hope to score 720+. Also, I have attached my ESRs from both tests - 10/31 & 12/22. Maybe I am not noticing something that other people might.
Thank you,
K.
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