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30 Jul 2020, 05:04
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Hi Experts
Let me start off by thanking you all for contribution you have made in Gmat club, you have made lives of aspirants much easier
I gave my GMAT yesterday and bombed verbal(again), I have exhausted all the resources I had and what I thought my strong area was happened to screw me over like a bulldozer in the real thing
Anyways, here are the details for you to refer to before I go ahead and ask for your assistance
GMAT prep(all 6): got ~700 in all except one(670)
Manhattan prep:hovering around 630-650(with one exception of 700)
Veritas prep: 670-700
Study material: Verbal- Manhattan guide,Gmatclub articles and your videos
1st real GMAT (dec 2019): 580(Q45 V26- Bombed the first section(verbal) blacked out and couldn't recover)
2nd real GMAT(yesterday): 670(Q49V33- blacked out in first 5-6 questions in verbal but managed to hold it together after that)
I dont know what to do now, How to practice, and what study resource and practice test to use
I plan to retake in 1-2 months so that I am in a position to apply in R1
ESR link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gNEZD83M7cAqTpkx5JrqoprURoByllNb/view?usp=sharing
Please please please please help!! I am in a desperate need
Let me start off by thanking you all for contribution you have made in Gmat club, you have made lives of aspirants much easier
I gave my GMAT yesterday and bombed verbal(again), I have exhausted all the resources I had and what I thought my strong area was happened to screw me over like a bulldozer in the real thing
Anyways, here are the details for you to refer to before I go ahead and ask for your assistance
GMAT prep(all 6): got ~700 in all except one(670)
Manhattan prep:hovering around 630-650(with one exception of 700)
Veritas prep: 670-700
Study material: Verbal- Manhattan guide,Gmatclub articles and your videos
1st real GMAT (dec 2019): 580(Q45 V26- Bombed the first section(verbal) blacked out and couldn't recover)
2nd real GMAT(yesterday): 670(Q49V33- blacked out in first 5-6 questions in verbal but managed to hold it together after that)
I dont know what to do now, How to practice, and what study resource and practice test to use
I plan to retake in 1-2 months so that I am in a position to apply in R1
ESR link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gNEZD83M7cAqTpkx5JrqoprURoByllNb/view?usp=sharing
Please please please please help!! I am in a desperate need
30 Jul 2020, 08:00
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Hey Nityanshu1990
I know you are unhappy with your performance as of now but the way I see the data mentioned by you, I think it wasn't an unexpected score given the fact that most GMAT PREP give the score estimation on the higher side.
I believe that you need to check what areas you need real help with. Your ESR report clarifies that you need to emphasize on Critical Reasoning (CR) which has potential to give you quick improvement. CR can be improved in just 1-2 weeks time to a level where your accuracy doesn't gi below 80%. You just need to concentrate on that part with little practice of RC and SC as well so that you don't lose your command on SC.
If you want a session on CR where you can try a few questions and get a quick assessment and way forward to improve the part then I can arrange one. You can message me here or on w h a t s a p p +91-9999687183.
I am sure you will nail it the next time you take it which shouldn't be later than 25-30 days
I know you are unhappy with your performance as of now but the way I see the data mentioned by you, I think it wasn't an unexpected score given the fact that most GMAT PREP give the score estimation on the higher side.
I believe that you need to check what areas you need real help with. Your ESR report clarifies that you need to emphasize on Critical Reasoning (CR) which has potential to give you quick improvement. CR can be improved in just 1-2 weeks time to a level where your accuracy doesn't gi below 80%. You just need to concentrate on that part with little practice of RC and SC as well so that you don't lose your command on SC.
If you want a session on CR where you can try a few questions and get a quick assessment and way forward to improve the part then I can arrange one. You can message me here or on w h a t s a p p +91-9999687183.
I am sure you will nail it the next time you take it which shouldn't be later than 25-30 days
Nityanshu1990
30 Jul 2020, 09:26
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It's a mistake to read a lot into the question-type breakdowns in a single ESR. They're based on a very small sample of questions, so the margin of error is enormous. You should only consider them meaningful if they confirm impressions you had during your prep leading up to the test.
I'd be especially reluctant to read a lot into your ESR CR score since your Quant is so strong. It would be fairly rare that a test taker that good at Quant would be weakest at CR among the three Verbal question types (not impossible, but rare). If, during your prep, you had the impression you were weakest at CR, then your ESR is additional data pointing to that conclusion. But if during your prep you had the impression you were strong at CR, do not let one ESR change that impression.
It appears on this test two things were true:
- On Quant, it seems you were unlucky. In the first 3/4 of the test, you clearly performed at a Q50 level. On the last quarter of the test, your hit rate was similar to what a random guesser would get. You had more than 9 minutes though for that part of the test, so you probably weren't guessing randomly at every question. When you did, your guesses were unlucky. If it was true on this test that you rushed through the last quarter of the test, spending about 1m20s per question, you should change that. Notice how low your hit rate was doing that (and that's what almost every test taker would notice). If instead you had invested a full two minutes solving four questions properly, four questions that at first glance you thought you could answer, then you often would get four right answers, and quite often guessing at the other three questions you'd get one of those right too. So you could, with a small pacing adjustment, get five right answers at the end instead of two, and that would secure a Q50 for you.
- conversely, and this is probably not something you'd like to hear, it appears you got a bit lucky in Verbal. You were short on time at the end, but your hit rate was strong in the last quarter of the test. So your guesses probably worked out better than average there. That said, your ESR confirms what you say in your debrief: "blacked out in first 5-6 questions in verbal". You got off to a bit of a bad start because of that. Had that not happened, your score surely would have been higher. Many test takers describe their test day experience in a similar way ('blacking out' for part of the test), and if you can figure out how to ensure that doesn't happen, your performance on test day will be more in line with your performance on diagnostic tests. It's an issue unrelated to your ability level, and is instead related to test day anxiety. It's not something prep books or GMAT experts are generally qualified to help with. Instead you'd want to learn what you can from psychologists specializing in test anxiety and related issues. Otherwise your Verbal ESR looks quite normal -- you got the easier questions right and the harder ones wrong, from the difficulty graph. If you could learn to answer more of the medium-hard questions, probably across all three question types, your Verbal ability will improve, and your score will increase as long as you can perform normally on test day. So you should probably focus on practicing medium and medium-hard official questions (revisiting ones you haven't seen in a while, if you've done all available problems before), and try to work out why you got them wrong, and what you need to do to answer similar questions correctly in the future.
You're very close to the 700+ level, so if you can find a way to address the issues you've had, you should be able to get an even better score quite quickly (and a 670 is not bad at all). Good luck!
I'd be especially reluctant to read a lot into your ESR CR score since your Quant is so strong. It would be fairly rare that a test taker that good at Quant would be weakest at CR among the three Verbal question types (not impossible, but rare). If, during your prep, you had the impression you were weakest at CR, then your ESR is additional data pointing to that conclusion. But if during your prep you had the impression you were strong at CR, do not let one ESR change that impression.
It appears on this test two things were true:
- On Quant, it seems you were unlucky. In the first 3/4 of the test, you clearly performed at a Q50 level. On the last quarter of the test, your hit rate was similar to what a random guesser would get. You had more than 9 minutes though for that part of the test, so you probably weren't guessing randomly at every question. When you did, your guesses were unlucky. If it was true on this test that you rushed through the last quarter of the test, spending about 1m20s per question, you should change that. Notice how low your hit rate was doing that (and that's what almost every test taker would notice). If instead you had invested a full two minutes solving four questions properly, four questions that at first glance you thought you could answer, then you often would get four right answers, and quite often guessing at the other three questions you'd get one of those right too. So you could, with a small pacing adjustment, get five right answers at the end instead of two, and that would secure a Q50 for you.
- conversely, and this is probably not something you'd like to hear, it appears you got a bit lucky in Verbal. You were short on time at the end, but your hit rate was strong in the last quarter of the test. So your guesses probably worked out better than average there. That said, your ESR confirms what you say in your debrief: "blacked out in first 5-6 questions in verbal". You got off to a bit of a bad start because of that. Had that not happened, your score surely would have been higher. Many test takers describe their test day experience in a similar way ('blacking out' for part of the test), and if you can figure out how to ensure that doesn't happen, your performance on test day will be more in line with your performance on diagnostic tests. It's an issue unrelated to your ability level, and is instead related to test day anxiety. It's not something prep books or GMAT experts are generally qualified to help with. Instead you'd want to learn what you can from psychologists specializing in test anxiety and related issues. Otherwise your Verbal ESR looks quite normal -- you got the easier questions right and the harder ones wrong, from the difficulty graph. If you could learn to answer more of the medium-hard questions, probably across all three question types, your Verbal ability will improve, and your score will increase as long as you can perform normally on test day. So you should probably focus on practicing medium and medium-hard official questions (revisiting ones you haven't seen in a while, if you've done all available problems before), and try to work out why you got them wrong, and what you need to do to answer similar questions correctly in the future.
You're very close to the 700+ level, so if you can find a way to address the issues you've had, you should be able to get an even better score quite quickly (and a 670 is not bad at all). Good luck!
