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Hi swastik3,

From your prior post, there were some 'red flags' in terms of how you took your CATs. Before we discuss those issues though, I have a few additional questions about the lead-up to Test Day and Test Day itself:

1) What did you do in the 3 days before your GMAT?
2) How did you sleep the night before your Test?
3) How long was the ride to the Test Center from your home?
4) Were there any distractions at the facility or during the Test?
5) What did you do during the two 8-minute breaks?
6) Did you finish any sections early?
7) Did you have to rush to finish any sections (and guess on questions just to finish on time)?

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Hi swastik3,

From your prior post, there were some 'red flags' in terms of how you took your CATs. Before we discuss those issues though, I have a few additional questions about the lead-up to Test Day and Test Day itself:

1) What did you do in the 3 days before your GMAT?
2) How did you sleep the night before your Test?
3) How long was the ride to the Test Center from your home?
4) Were there any distractions at the facility or during the Test?
5) What did you do during the two 8-minute breaks?
6) Did you finish any sections early?
7) Did you have to rush to finish any sections (and guess on questions just to finish on time)?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
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1-Took 2 veritas official papers on 13 and 14 may 2018
and rested on 15(revised notes i have for verbal and quant) and tried to relax as much as i could.
2-no not great at all .i slept in bits and pieces and was not feeling good in morning but still went with it(did not have breakfast as i was not feeling well in the morning). I agree that i have anxiety but it should not bring my ability so much down(around 150 points)
3-30 to 40 mins
4-mostly was feeling very disappointed but was trying to get myself going.I did drink water but have never eaten any thing in these breaks even in mocks.
5-no i am struggling in both the sections quant and verbal and nothing was going well(had to guess 4-5 question in quant and 5-6 last ones in verbal)
6-no none.
7-quant has always been strong area(got Q50(last attempt) and got Q51(all the mocks))so this time started but i believe after 10 mins into exam i knew it was not going well but after quant i decided to give my best in verbal as i was mainly looking for improvement in it but it also went badly.
I had to rush in both to complete. In quant in between question and in verbal last 6-7 question which had 1 RC)
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Hi swastik3,

I've sent you a PM with some additional notes/suggestions.

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