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17 Aug 2024, 23:30
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Hi All,
I have been preparing for a year on and off. I took the classic GMAT in January
8th Jan - 700 Q47 V40
28th Jan - 670 Q50 V36? (not sure what the verbal score was - but I ended up cancelling)
Took a break and restarted prep in June
Mock 1: 655 Q85 V80 DI82
Mock 2: 635 Q84 V80 DI80
Mock 1 (retake): 645 Q81 V85 DI80
Mock 3 (Took this yesterday): 645 Q82 V82 DI81
Not sure how to go about it. I felt the quant in mock 3 was definitely tougher than it is on the exam. I ended up making silly mistakes like not reading the question properly or missing a few words in quant and DI.
The order i’ve been following is Q-DI-break-V.
Since quant is my strongest and verbal my weakest. I also need a fresh mind to focus in verbal specially long RCs.
Material I’ve been using - OG, Gmat club for verbal, Gmat club - tests (quant), CR bible for revising concepts, TOP portal.
I’ve been planning to apply to ISB for R1 and the deadline is 15th September. I am not sure if it’s even feasible.
Any advice/tips would be helpful
I have been preparing for a year on and off. I took the classic GMAT in January
8th Jan - 700 Q47 V40
28th Jan - 670 Q50 V36? (not sure what the verbal score was - but I ended up cancelling)
Took a break and restarted prep in June
Mock 1: 655 Q85 V80 DI82
Mock 2: 635 Q84 V80 DI80
Mock 1 (retake): 645 Q81 V85 DI80
Mock 3 (Took this yesterday): 645 Q82 V82 DI81
Not sure how to go about it. I felt the quant in mock 3 was definitely tougher than it is on the exam. I ended up making silly mistakes like not reading the question properly or missing a few words in quant and DI.
The order i’ve been following is Q-DI-break-V.
Since quant is my strongest and verbal my weakest. I also need a fresh mind to focus in verbal specially long RCs.
Material I’ve been using - OG, Gmat club for verbal, Gmat club - tests (quant), CR bible for revising concepts, TOP portal.
I’ve been planning to apply to ISB for R1 and the deadline is 15th September. I am not sure if it’s even feasible.
Any advice/tips would be helpful
18 Aug 2024, 06:10
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One thing you could consider is including working with a study buddy. If you can find someone who, for example, is really strong on Verbal and needs help with Quant, that could be a good fit (there's a study buddy thread on gmatclub you could check out). Another thing you could try is leveraging your error-log to figure out/identify weak areas or situations you may make careless errors.
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18 Aug 2024, 06:50
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On the positive side, your tests seem to be fairly consistent. There is some variances you can see from section to section but that’s normal, there’s always some degree of variance and error, Especially now that the test is a little bit shorter.
The negative news Is that your scores seem to be not progressing upward. You’re still at the 700 level you were at back in January. (By the way that is not the worst case as many people degrade overtime).
Anyway, I would say a few potential avenues:
1. On the tests such as the Mock one retake which had a lower quant score, figure out why your score was lower and see how you can bump it up to your usual or average performance level. Do this for every section and see how you can improve each section and score a day upper end of your range. This will likely entail working with concentration and being methodical and things that are not study related. Sometimes either easy and sometimes either very hard to execute.
2. What can you improve in verbal? Is there any material or studying you can do too a couple more points? It will probably be hard after you’ve been studying for close to a year. I’m sure you’re tired of going over the same stuff over and over.
But as you are planning to take the test fairly soon, start looking at your patterns and areas where you can improve even if it’s very little because even one single point on a section can result into 10 points on the final score. (The relationship is actually 1 to 6.7).
I would definitely recommend looking how you can get even the smallest incremental gains on the test and maybe that means warming up before the test, maybe that means adopting more stringent time enforcement policy or figuring out that when you don’t know the C.R. answer most the time you guess the wrong one see you forced yourself to guess the other one. There are many such small little areas where you can Get some incremental gains.
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The negative news Is that your scores seem to be not progressing upward. You’re still at the 700 level you were at back in January. (By the way that is not the worst case as many people degrade overtime).
Anyway, I would say a few potential avenues:
1. On the tests such as the Mock one retake which had a lower quant score, figure out why your score was lower and see how you can bump it up to your usual or average performance level. Do this for every section and see how you can improve each section and score a day upper end of your range. This will likely entail working with concentration and being methodical and things that are not study related. Sometimes either easy and sometimes either very hard to execute.
2. What can you improve in verbal? Is there any material or studying you can do too a couple more points? It will probably be hard after you’ve been studying for close to a year. I’m sure you’re tired of going over the same stuff over and over.
But as you are planning to take the test fairly soon, start looking at your patterns and areas where you can improve even if it’s very little because even one single point on a section can result into 10 points on the final score. (The relationship is actually 1 to 6.7).
I would definitely recommend looking how you can get even the smallest incremental gains on the test and maybe that means warming up before the test, maybe that means adopting more stringent time enforcement policy or figuring out that when you don’t know the C.R. answer most the time you guess the wrong one see you forced yourself to guess the other one. There are many such small little areas where you can Get some incremental gains.
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