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27 Dec 2021, 14:41
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Hello everybody,
I took my GMAT last week and I scored 680 (Q:46,V:38, IR:3, AWA:5). The score was surprising for me especially since I dedicated most of my study time to the Quant section and I was expecting a higher score in Quant. I have been scoring Q48-Q49 consistently in my mocks, including the official mocks.
I'm not sure what went wrong in the quant section
. The section started ok and the problems were good. I did not feel that they were hard but I was shocked at the end when the last question was testing PEMDAS operations. When I saw the question I anticipated a 42 score for the Quant but I'm glad that it wasn't. Anyway, is it normal to have this kind of question and still score 46? Does that indicate that I was doing really bad at the end of the section? 
Also, during the last 10 minutes of the verbal section, the connection, at the center, went bad and the screen kept loading and I lost around 3 minutes because of this. Of course, I got nervous, lost my focus, and completely blew the last couple of questions and the IR section after. Is it worth it to report this issue to GMAC? Will they allow me to retake the test free of charge? Also, if they did, would my last exam count towards my 8 attempts lifetime limit?
Last question, in my ESR the sentence correction communication subsection is 0%. Does that mean I answered all questions of this type wrong?
Attached is my ESR and I would really appreciate any insight or tips on what my next steps should be.
I took my GMAT last week and I scored 680 (Q:46,V:38, IR:3, AWA:5). The score was surprising for me especially since I dedicated most of my study time to the Quant section and I was expecting a higher score in Quant. I have been scoring Q48-Q49 consistently in my mocks, including the official mocks.
I'm not sure what went wrong in the quant section
. The section started ok and the problems were good. I did not feel that they were hard but I was shocked at the end when the last question was testing PEMDAS operations. When I saw the question I anticipated a 42 score for the Quant but I'm glad that it wasn't. Anyway, is it normal to have this kind of question and still score 46? Does that indicate that I was doing really bad at the end of the section? Also, during the last 10 minutes of the verbal section, the connection, at the center, went bad and the screen kept loading and I lost around 3 minutes because of this. Of course, I got nervous, lost my focus, and completely blew the last couple of questions and the IR section after. Is it worth it to report this issue to GMAC? Will they allow me to retake the test free of charge? Also, if they did, would my last exam count towards my 8 attempts lifetime limit?
Last question, in my ESR the sentence correction communication subsection is 0%. Does that mean I answered all questions of this type wrong?
Attached is my ESR and I would really appreciate any insight or tips on what my next steps should be.
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27 Dec 2021, 16:59
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Hi Polaris94,
To start, a 680/Q46 is a solid Score, so it could be enough to get you into your first-choice School. As such, a retest might not be necessary. Depending on the Schools that you plan to apply to, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement.
There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
In regards to the tech issues that you faced during the latter part of the Exam, did any of the Test Center staff (such as the Moderator, etc.) talk to you about the issue afterward, give you an 'incident number', etc.? From what you describe, it's not clear whether your situation was properly 'documented' or not (and did it happen to multiple Test-takers or just you?). You should certainly file a complaint, but there might be some delay in investigating it if there wasn't much on-site documentation done.
I've sent you a PM with some notes and additional questions.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Contact Rich at: [email protected]
To start, a 680/Q46 is a solid Score, so it could be enough to get you into your first-choice School. As such, a retest might not be necessary. Depending on the Schools that you plan to apply to, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement.
There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
In regards to the tech issues that you faced during the latter part of the Exam, did any of the Test Center staff (such as the Moderator, etc.) talk to you about the issue afterward, give you an 'incident number', etc.? From what you describe, it's not clear whether your situation was properly 'documented' or not (and did it happen to multiple Test-takers or just you?). You should certainly file a complaint, but there might be some delay in investigating it if there wasn't much on-site documentation done.
I've sent you a PM with some notes and additional questions.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Contact Rich at: [email protected]
28 Dec 2021, 21:25
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Polaris94
First off, your quant score was only about 2 to 3 points off the score from your practice exams, so I would not look at your GMAT as a total disaster. Also, it's tough to say whether getting a PEMDAS question definitely means that you were doing poorly at the end of your GMAT. I mean it could have even been an experimental question.
Regarding your issue with the verbal section, I would reach out to the folks at GMAC right away to see what they can do for you.
Lastly, if your ESR shows zero percent in any question type, then yes, that means you did not get any of those question types correct.
Regarding how to work on improving your GMAT score, you need to go through GMAT quant and verbal carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills. The overall process will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable, and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving up your score point by point. For example, if you find that you are not strong in answering Number Properties questions, then carefully review the conceptual underpinnings of how to answer Number Properties questions and practice by answering 50 or more questions just from Number Properties: LCM, GCF, units digit patterns, divisibility, remainders, etc. When you are working on learning to answer questions of a particular type, start off taking your time, and then seek to speed up as you get more comfortable answering questions of that type. As you do such practice, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get right. If you got a remainder question wrong, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not properly apply the remainder formula? Was there a concept you did not understand in the question? By carefully analyzing your mistakes, you will be able to efficiently fix your weaknesses and in turn improve your GMAT quant skills. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant topics.
Each time you strengthen your understanding of a topic and your skill in answering questions of a particular type, you increase your odds of hitting your score goal. You know that there are types of questions that you are happy to see, types that you would rather not see, and types that you take a long time to answer correctly. Learn to more effectively answer the types of questions that you would rather not see, and make them into your favorite types. Learn to correctly answer in two minutes or less questions that you currently take five minutes to answer. By finding, say, a dozen weaker quant areas and turning them into strong areas, you will make great progress toward hitting your quant score goal. If a dozen areas turn out not to be enough, strengthen some more areas.
You can work on verbal in a similar manner. Let’s say you are reviewing Critical Reasoning. Be sure that you practice a large number of Critical Reasoning questions: Strengthen and Weaken the Argument, Resolve the Paradox, find the Conclusion, Must be True, etc. As you go through the questions, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get correct. If you missed a Weaken question, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not recognize what the question was asking? Did you skip over a key detail in an answer choice? Getting GMAT verbal questions right is a matter of what you know, what you see, and what you do. So, any time that you don't get one right, you can seek to identify what you had to know to get the right answer, what you had to see that you didn't see, and what you could have done differently to arrive at the correct answer.
So, work on accuracy and generally finding correct answers, work on specific weaker areas one by one to make them strong areas, and when you take a practice GMAT or the real thing, take all the time per question available to do your absolute best to get right answers consistently. The GMAT is essentially a game of seeing how many right answers you can get in the time allotted. Approach the test with that conception in mind, and focus intently on the question in front of you with one goal in mind: getting a CORRECT answer.
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