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Updated on: 19 May 2012, 22:09
Originally posted by anordinaryguy on 03 Sep 2011, 14:11.
Last edited by anordinaryguy on 19 May 2012, 22:09, edited 4 times in total.
Last edited by anordinaryguy on 19 May 2012, 22:09, edited 4 times in total.
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Hello All,
Although I had thought of writing a debrief for the good news, I am writing this with a heavy heart and no silver line in the cloudy sky.
It's been a long time I had been preparing myself for the second date (first one was September 13, 2010) with GMAT but the day G-Day proved to be D-Day...literally Dooms-day. Just to make it explicit, I am doomed "once again".
My scores :
Last year (September 13, 2010) score : 660 (Q49, V31), AWA 5
This year (September 03, 2011) score : 680 (Q50, V31), AWA 5.5
what a meager improvement, and not of any help either. In fact, it made my score even more skewed.
My scores of practice tests were
31-Jul-11 : GMAT Prep - Old* - Test 1 : 680 (Q48, V35)
21-Aug-11 : GMAT Prep - New* -Test 1 : 720 (Q50, V38)
28-Aug-11 : GMAT Prep - Old* - Test 2 : 730 (Q48, V42)
August : OG 12 All questions : Accuracy ( CR : 79%, RC : 81%, SC : 80%, DS : 84%, PS : 93% )
1-Sep-11 : GMAT Prep - New* -Test 2 : 710 (Q50, V34)
3-Sep-11 : Final GMAT : 680 (Q50, V31)
* "GMAT Prep - Old" refers to the GMAT Prep test that was there before 2008 while GMAT Prep to the current one. None of these tests were repeat tests.
Diagnosis of my low score:
I am not very sure where, in the preparation, did I do wrong. I did everything whatever I could but definitely it was good enough.
One thing which I could think of is that I couldn't put enough "continuous efforts" in the preparation. I was studying almost 8-9 hours on weekends but hardly 1-2 hour on weekdays, thanks to the job of managing a new project with the responsibilities of handling a 20-member team. In last 2 months, my job made me work almost 13-14 hours / day in the office.
But definitely I can't blame anything but myself. I have read debriefs of people (working mother of a toddler, father of a 6 months old girl, soldier deputed in Iraq) who gave GMAT in tougher conditions than I did and they excelled as well.
Preparation Time
A> On and Off preparation for last 8-9 months, with lot many things came such as "2 months spent for an IT Architect Program", "2 months in selection process of Tata Administrative Service(TAS) just to face the rejection in final round", "few weeks spent in bidding for the multimillion dollar project" and so on and so forth.
B> Continuous preparation for last 2 months, but lot many unexpected challenges surfaced at work.
Where I failed - I think, I was not focused through-out and digressed multiple times from the ultimate goal. Couldn't set the priorities right. Couldn't concentrate well on the study in whatever little free time I had got. Too much procrastination.
My Study material :
1> SC : Manhattan SC guide (people swear by it, so do I. Though it doesn't seem to made much difference for me in final test)
2> CR : CR bible (It is a good book to read at least once)
3> All : Few videos of "Thursday with Ron" (only in last 2-3 days, in the hindsight I think I should have used these videos since start)
4> SC : 1000 SC (Good set of SC questions)
5> CR : 1000 CR (Good set of CR questions)
6> All : GMATClub Forum questions (I was so addicted to them)
7> All : OG 12 (Best by far among all the practice material)
8> Quants : Bunuel's Notes on Quants
9> AWA : Chineseburned template is a good starting point
Feedback On GMAT Test
AWA (AOA) : Topic was normal. I was able to attack the argument from multiple fronts.
AWA (AOI) : General topic on Business ethics. I favored the issue with 2-3 examples.
Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency : Same as GMATPrep. Not much difficult except few questions that took lot of time to solve. I remember I got 2-3 questions where I spent more that 2 minutes and ultimately had to guess the answer.
Reading Comprehensions : I used to think RC my weakest link, but i think I did good with RC. One RC was really big and was actually on something that was totally alien to me but with the help of transitions and structure words I think I cracked that monster.
Sentence Corrections : I used to think, I will be fine with SCs, considering I was doing well in SC during our GMAT Prep exams. But in real exam, these SCs were very confusing. For ex. same question had problem of idiom and parallelism, however, two different options were correcting each problem. I needed to choose which I can live with. There were multiple questions like these and I think I must have marked many of them wrong.
Critical Reasoning : they were fine except few in which, I was able to nail 3 choices down, but not able to chose between final two. In such questions also I had to made guesses. Not sure, how many of them I got right.
Despite of not achieving my goal of 730, I don't think I am going to retake this exam. Let's see if I can find anything to make this score of 680 (although seems to be below average for India IT male) decent enough for me to get admission into one of target schools (ISB, UNC, Booth, Kenan-Flagler). As of now all seem very difficult, if not impossible.
I just want to thank GMAT Club and all of its members. Its an example of a great symbiotic relationship.
-anordinaryguy
Although I had thought of writing a debrief for the good news, I am writing this with a heavy heart and no silver line in the cloudy sky.
It's been a long time I had been preparing myself for the second date (first one was September 13, 2010) with GMAT but the day G-Day proved to be D-Day...literally Dooms-day. Just to make it explicit, I am doomed "once again".
My scores :
Last year (September 13, 2010) score : 660 (Q49, V31), AWA 5
This year (September 03, 2011) score : 680 (Q50, V31), AWA 5.5
what a meager improvement, and not of any help either. In fact, it made my score even more skewed.
My scores of practice tests were
31-Jul-11 : GMAT Prep - Old* - Test 1 : 680 (Q48, V35)
21-Aug-11 : GMAT Prep - New* -Test 1 : 720 (Q50, V38)
28-Aug-11 : GMAT Prep - Old* - Test 2 : 730 (Q48, V42)
August : OG 12 All questions : Accuracy ( CR : 79%, RC : 81%, SC : 80%, DS : 84%, PS : 93% )
1-Sep-11 : GMAT Prep - New* -Test 2 : 710 (Q50, V34)
3-Sep-11 : Final GMAT : 680 (Q50, V31)
* "GMAT Prep - Old" refers to the GMAT Prep test that was there before 2008 while GMAT Prep to the current one. None of these tests were repeat tests.
Diagnosis of my low score:
I am not very sure where, in the preparation, did I do wrong. I did everything whatever I could but definitely it was good enough.
One thing which I could think of is that I couldn't put enough "continuous efforts" in the preparation. I was studying almost 8-9 hours on weekends but hardly 1-2 hour on weekdays, thanks to the job of managing a new project with the responsibilities of handling a 20-member team. In last 2 months, my job made me work almost 13-14 hours / day in the office.
But definitely I can't blame anything but myself. I have read debriefs of people (working mother of a toddler, father of a 6 months old girl, soldier deputed in Iraq) who gave GMAT in tougher conditions than I did and they excelled as well.
Preparation Time
A> On and Off preparation for last 8-9 months, with lot many things came such as "2 months spent for an IT Architect Program", "2 months in selection process of Tata Administrative Service(TAS) just to face the rejection in final round", "few weeks spent in bidding for the multimillion dollar project" and so on and so forth.
B> Continuous preparation for last 2 months, but lot many unexpected challenges surfaced at work.
Where I failed - I think, I was not focused through-out and digressed multiple times from the ultimate goal. Couldn't set the priorities right. Couldn't concentrate well on the study in whatever little free time I had got. Too much procrastination.
My Study material :
1> SC : Manhattan SC guide (people swear by it, so do I. Though it doesn't seem to made much difference for me in final test)
2> CR : CR bible (It is a good book to read at least once)
3> All : Few videos of "Thursday with Ron" (only in last 2-3 days, in the hindsight I think I should have used these videos since start)
4> SC : 1000 SC (Good set of SC questions)
5> CR : 1000 CR (Good set of CR questions)
6> All : GMATClub Forum questions (I was so addicted to them)
7> All : OG 12 (Best by far among all the practice material)
8> Quants : Bunuel's Notes on Quants
9> AWA : Chineseburned template is a good starting point
Feedback On GMAT Test
AWA (AOA) : Topic was normal. I was able to attack the argument from multiple fronts.
AWA (AOI) : General topic on Business ethics. I favored the issue with 2-3 examples.
Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency : Same as GMATPrep. Not much difficult except few questions that took lot of time to solve. I remember I got 2-3 questions where I spent more that 2 minutes and ultimately had to guess the answer.
Reading Comprehensions : I used to think RC my weakest link, but i think I did good with RC. One RC was really big and was actually on something that was totally alien to me but with the help of transitions and structure words I think I cracked that monster.
Sentence Corrections : I used to think, I will be fine with SCs, considering I was doing well in SC during our GMAT Prep exams. But in real exam, these SCs were very confusing. For ex. same question had problem of idiom and parallelism, however, two different options were correcting each problem. I needed to choose which I can live with. There were multiple questions like these and I think I must have marked many of them wrong.
Critical Reasoning : they were fine except few in which, I was able to nail 3 choices down, but not able to chose between final two. In such questions also I had to made guesses. Not sure, how many of them I got right.
Despite of not achieving my goal of 730, I don't think I am going to retake this exam. Let's see if I can find anything to make this score of 680 (although seems to be below average for India IT male) decent enough for me to get admission into one of target schools (ISB, UNC, Booth, Kenan-Flagler). As of now all seem very difficult, if not impossible.
I just want to thank GMAT Club and all of its members. Its an example of a great symbiotic relationship.
-anordinaryguy
03 Sep 2011, 14:19
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I'm sorry you couldn't achieve your target score. Nonetheless, 680 is a good score.
Take some time off GMAT or totally forget about it, but remember that even though your application is based on GMAT but it's not only based on the GMAT. Work on your application essays and stuff.
Good luck.
Take some time off GMAT or totally forget about it, but remember that even though your application is based on GMAT but it's not only based on the GMAT. Work on your application essays and stuff.
Good luck.
03 Sep 2011, 15:12
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anordinaryguy
Sorry to hear that man. The only issue I see if your debrief is 2 tests on the same day. Perhaps this caused the exhaustion that you had never experienced? According to most of the debrief on this forum, people who have achieve good score recommend to just take the last 2-3 days easy and definitely not take any test on the day before or the same day.
Having said that, I think 680 will qualify your application in all the schools. If you are not keen at hitting 750 (for scholarship or something else), I think 20-30 extra points won't much of a difference to your application; experts can confirm though, but that's my impression based on the ton of stories and articles I have read in-general for past 3 months. Good luck with you application man.
