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Hi all,
I have a couple questions. I have been studying for almost the entire year, and have been working with a private tutor for the last 2 months, who has been great, but I want to get another opinion from the experts who may have more students and thus more experience with my situation. I took the gmat for the first time in mid October and got a 730 (49/41) (IR8/AWA6). For verbal, my subsection breakdowns were RC44, CR41, SC 39).
ESR #1:
This was a bit disappointing to me because my last 4 practice tests I got the following scores (in order):
Gmat Pack 1, Exam #4, 760 (50/42) RC 51, CR 47, SC 48
Gmat Pack 1, Exam #3, 730 (47/42) RC 35, CR 44, SC 46
Gmat Pack 2, Exam #5, 770 (49/48) RC51, CR 51, SC 46
Gmat Default Pack, Exam #1, 760 (49/45) RC 51, CR 44, SC 45
To be fair, I had taken all of those exams previously, but it had a been a few months, so it wasn't like I had the whole test memorized. But there were probably 4-6 questions on each exam in each section that I recognized (NOT MEMORIZED), but of those 4-6, only 1-2 of them I had the answer memorized (but I still went through the time to try to actually solve it). The rest I was 100% solving (even if I recognized the phrasing).
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I then signed up for the test again for this week, assuming that it was a bit of a fluke on my actual exam, feeling that I could have done better in all of my subsections of the verbal.
I took 2 more practice exams in between my official exams. and got:
Gmat Default Pack, Exam #2, 760 (49/45), RC 51, CR 44, SC 45
Gmat Exam Pack 2, Exam #6, 760 (49/45), RC 40 (only 1 question wrong), CR 51, SC 45 (1 question wrong)
(see link here for more details: https://gmatclub.com/forum/trying-to-un ... 52848.html)
However, I ended up doing much worse, as I got into a severe timing crunch and got a 700 (49/36. RC 29(!), CR 41, SC39). I basically had to completely guess on an whole RC passage at the end and 1 CR and 1 SC as I running extremely low on time. I got 4/8 of my last questions that counted, but obviously not sure what the breakdown is between which types I got wrong. I would guess I got at least 3/4 of the RC wrong in the end.
Additionally, I have done all the problems in the 2017 official guide and the 2015 guide. In the latter, I was getting about 90% correct of all the questions in each of the 5 sections (RC/CR/SC/PS/DS). A lot of the math errors I made in the book were due to carelessness, truthfully the book problems just feel much easier than exam questions.
The questions I have are as follows:
1) How long should I wait to retake it? I really want to get this over as I am getting pretty burnt out, but a 730 for my situation is not going to cut it. I would like to politely request to not get into a debate about whether a 730 is good enough. For my situation, it isn't, and I really feel like I can do better. I guess my official GMAT CATs are all skewed because I've taken them before, so perhaps a 49/41 is really indicative of where I am, and not the 45 range where I thought I was. In that case, should I give myself another month to study? Even though I did much worse in RC the 2nd time around, that was a timing issue. SC is my real weakness, and where I've always done worse.
2) What do I study from here? At this point, I've taken all the official practice tests at least 2 times and all 6 of them within the last month, so now I would have too many questions memorized. I have the MGMAT tests, but they are much different from than the regular exams, and my tutor really doesn't think they are good for me because so many questions are phrased in different ways. I am using some of the supplementary official guides (i.e. the thin books), but those problems are extremely easy. In the versions that I'm working on now, I've gotten 60/61 CR correct, 95% of the quant correct, and 91% of the RC and SC correct. So I just don't feel like these are preparing me well enough.
Any advice? Thank you so much in advance.
ESR #2
I have a couple questions. I have been studying for almost the entire year, and have been working with a private tutor for the last 2 months, who has been great, but I want to get another opinion from the experts who may have more students and thus more experience with my situation. I took the gmat for the first time in mid October and got a 730 (49/41) (IR8/AWA6). For verbal, my subsection breakdowns were RC44, CR41, SC 39).
ESR #1:
This was a bit disappointing to me because my last 4 practice tests I got the following scores (in order):
Gmat Pack 1, Exam #4, 760 (50/42) RC 51, CR 47, SC 48
Gmat Pack 1, Exam #3, 730 (47/42) RC 35, CR 44, SC 46
Gmat Pack 2, Exam #5, 770 (49/48) RC51, CR 51, SC 46
Gmat Default Pack, Exam #1, 760 (49/45) RC 51, CR 44, SC 45
To be fair, I had taken all of those exams previously, but it had a been a few months, so it wasn't like I had the whole test memorized. But there were probably 4-6 questions on each exam in each section that I recognized (NOT MEMORIZED), but of those 4-6, only 1-2 of them I had the answer memorized (but I still went through the time to try to actually solve it). The rest I was 100% solving (even if I recognized the phrasing).
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I then signed up for the test again for this week, assuming that it was a bit of a fluke on my actual exam, feeling that I could have done better in all of my subsections of the verbal.
I took 2 more practice exams in between my official exams. and got:
Gmat Default Pack, Exam #2, 760 (49/45), RC 51, CR 44, SC 45
Gmat Exam Pack 2, Exam #6, 760 (49/45), RC 40 (only 1 question wrong), CR 51, SC 45 (1 question wrong)
(see link here for more details: https://gmatclub.com/forum/trying-to-un ... 52848.html)
However, I ended up doing much worse, as I got into a severe timing crunch and got a 700 (49/36. RC 29(!), CR 41, SC39). I basically had to completely guess on an whole RC passage at the end and 1 CR and 1 SC as I running extremely low on time. I got 4/8 of my last questions that counted, but obviously not sure what the breakdown is between which types I got wrong. I would guess I got at least 3/4 of the RC wrong in the end.
Additionally, I have done all the problems in the 2017 official guide and the 2015 guide. In the latter, I was getting about 90% correct of all the questions in each of the 5 sections (RC/CR/SC/PS/DS). A lot of the math errors I made in the book were due to carelessness, truthfully the book problems just feel much easier than exam questions.
The questions I have are as follows:
1) How long should I wait to retake it? I really want to get this over as I am getting pretty burnt out, but a 730 for my situation is not going to cut it. I would like to politely request to not get into a debate about whether a 730 is good enough. For my situation, it isn't, and I really feel like I can do better. I guess my official GMAT CATs are all skewed because I've taken them before, so perhaps a 49/41 is really indicative of where I am, and not the 45 range where I thought I was. In that case, should I give myself another month to study? Even though I did much worse in RC the 2nd time around, that was a timing issue. SC is my real weakness, and where I've always done worse.
2) What do I study from here? At this point, I've taken all the official practice tests at least 2 times and all 6 of them within the last month, so now I would have too many questions memorized. I have the MGMAT tests, but they are much different from than the regular exams, and my tutor really doesn't think they are good for me because so many questions are phrased in different ways. I am using some of the supplementary official guides (i.e. the thin books), but those problems are extremely easy. In the versions that I'm working on now, I've gotten 60/61 CR correct, 95% of the quant correct, and 91% of the RC and SC correct. So I just don't feel like these are preparing me well enough.
Any advice? Thank you so much in advance.
ESR #2
