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Hi everyone,I really need your advice on my Verbal score. I retook the GMAT 3 days back & got a disappointing 600(Q-46, V-27). I could only improve my score by 10 points and my verbal score dropped from 29 to 27,that was the most shocking development.
My mock test scores were --
MGMT mock#1--620 [Q-39, V-35]
MGMT #2------670 [Q-44, V-37]
MGMT #3------690 [q-49, v--38]
Gmat prep1---620 [q--44, v-32]
MGMT#4-------700 [q--43, V-41]
gmat prep2---690 [q-48, v-37] (one week before the test)
MGMT#5-------720 [Q -47, V--42] (four days before the test)
Can't understand the cause of the huge discrepancy between the mock scores and the actual exam. This time around I had solved the OG 12 ,timing each question and revised all the questions I got wrong, questions I had to guess and the questions I solved after the 2 minute time limit.
Resources used--
OG 12, OG 11( RC and SC sections ) , OG verbal and quant supplements, Manhattan Gmat- SC, Number properties and Equation guides, Powerscore CR Bible,and Kaplan 800.
How did I study:---
This time around I had solved the OG 12 ,timing each question and revised all the questions I got wrong, questions I had to guess and the questions I solved after the 2 minute time limit.
QUANT-- DS was a weakness so practiced more problems with different solution techniques-- algebra, plugging in numbers, back solving.
PS --had to work on few topics such as inequalities, exponent equations, absolute values, rates and combination/permutation, to get my score from 44 to 48.
VERBAL--RC was never an issue, except some difficult inference and application questions, so I reviewed them and analysed where I was going wrong. Also noticed that for me RC topics involving science/technology and business were easy to do (got 5/6 or 6/6 correct in the OG),but Topics related to literature and sociology were a bit difficult (got 5/7, 3-4/6 correct in the OG)
CR--followed the method mentioned in power score CR and commonsense.I was facing a problem with Evaluate the plan questions, bold faced and few difficult assumption questions. After revision was able to increase my performance--3 questions wrong out of 15 on my last gmat prep.
SC--was difficult earlier, but did OG again with emphasis on meaning, parallelism, s-v and modifiers, timing myself. Thursday's with Ron sessions were a great help for SC.Improved my accuracy from 50% (7-8 questions wrong out of 17 SC questions) to around 4 questions wrong out of 17 questions)
TIMING--this was another BIG issue as I didn't let go off questions ,bad guessing strategy that resulted in solving(last 7 questions in 5 mins)and hence my errors were highest towards the end of the sections. This was an area which I could improve, but not in totality (last 4 questions in 5 mins)
Test day:---
AWA was good, Quant was ok and I had expected something around 47-48 since I couldn't solve 2-3 tricky geometry and time-rate questions, so I knew that 49 wasn't happening (actually got 46).
Verbal went smoothly. CR--got the usual strengthen, weaken , paradox questions and couple of parallel reasoning and abstract reasoning questions. Didn't get any Boldfaced and speaker 1 vs speaker 2 questions, so that did concern me a little, but one cannot say for sure how the test is going. So didn't let that affect me. SC-- except 2 SC questions, I could spot the spilts and traps in rest of them , so thought I was doing fine. RC-got 4 passages on different topics as expected, nothing out of the blue.
The end result a pathetic 27. If I could gauge a bit that the test was going in a wrong direction I would have spent a little more time on questions or cancelled my score. But was really shocked with the 27.
Can't understand what I am doing wrong. In spite of making constant progress in Manhattan mocks and GMAT prep mocks (last GMAT prep2 score was 690 --48q, 37v) how the actual score can be so low (around 100 point difference). Moreover, I don't know what section in verbal was wrong. My guesstimate is that for scoring a V-27 in gmatprep software one usually gets around 20-21 questions wrong. But is it-- SC, CR or RC where am I making mistakes I can't understand. How reliable are the Gmatprep and Manhattan mocks as indicators of improvement?
Any advice would really be appreciated. If I plan to retake I should know what am I doing wrong so that I can work on that weakness..Please Help!
My mock test scores were --
MGMT mock#1--620 [Q-39, V-35]
MGMT #2------670 [Q-44, V-37]
MGMT #3------690 [q-49, v--38]
Gmat prep1---620 [q--44, v-32]
MGMT#4-------700 [q--43, V-41]
gmat prep2---690 [q-48, v-37] (one week before the test)
MGMT#5-------720 [Q -47, V--42] (four days before the test)
Can't understand the cause of the huge discrepancy between the mock scores and the actual exam. This time around I had solved the OG 12 ,timing each question and revised all the questions I got wrong, questions I had to guess and the questions I solved after the 2 minute time limit.
Resources used--
OG 12, OG 11( RC and SC sections ) , OG verbal and quant supplements, Manhattan Gmat- SC, Number properties and Equation guides, Powerscore CR Bible,and Kaplan 800.
How did I study:---
This time around I had solved the OG 12 ,timing each question and revised all the questions I got wrong, questions I had to guess and the questions I solved after the 2 minute time limit.
QUANT-- DS was a weakness so practiced more problems with different solution techniques-- algebra, plugging in numbers, back solving.
PS --had to work on few topics such as inequalities, exponent equations, absolute values, rates and combination/permutation, to get my score from 44 to 48.
VERBAL--RC was never an issue, except some difficult inference and application questions, so I reviewed them and analysed where I was going wrong. Also noticed that for me RC topics involving science/technology and business were easy to do (got 5/6 or 6/6 correct in the OG),but Topics related to literature and sociology were a bit difficult (got 5/7, 3-4/6 correct in the OG)
CR--followed the method mentioned in power score CR and commonsense.I was facing a problem with Evaluate the plan questions, bold faced and few difficult assumption questions. After revision was able to increase my performance--3 questions wrong out of 15 on my last gmat prep.
SC--was difficult earlier, but did OG again with emphasis on meaning, parallelism, s-v and modifiers, timing myself. Thursday's with Ron sessions were a great help for SC.Improved my accuracy from 50% (7-8 questions wrong out of 17 SC questions) to around 4 questions wrong out of 17 questions)
TIMING--this was another BIG issue as I didn't let go off questions ,bad guessing strategy that resulted in solving(last 7 questions in 5 mins)and hence my errors were highest towards the end of the sections. This was an area which I could improve, but not in totality (last 4 questions in 5 mins)
Test day:---
AWA was good, Quant was ok and I had expected something around 47-48 since I couldn't solve 2-3 tricky geometry and time-rate questions, so I knew that 49 wasn't happening (actually got 46).
Verbal went smoothly. CR--got the usual strengthen, weaken , paradox questions and couple of parallel reasoning and abstract reasoning questions. Didn't get any Boldfaced and speaker 1 vs speaker 2 questions, so that did concern me a little, but one cannot say for sure how the test is going. So didn't let that affect me. SC-- except 2 SC questions, I could spot the spilts and traps in rest of them , so thought I was doing fine. RC-got 4 passages on different topics as expected, nothing out of the blue.
The end result a pathetic 27. If I could gauge a bit that the test was going in a wrong direction I would have spent a little more time on questions or cancelled my score. But was really shocked with the 27.
Can't understand what I am doing wrong. In spite of making constant progress in Manhattan mocks and GMAT prep mocks (last GMAT prep2 score was 690 --48q, 37v) how the actual score can be so low (around 100 point difference). Moreover, I don't know what section in verbal was wrong. My guesstimate is that for scoring a V-27 in gmatprep software one usually gets around 20-21 questions wrong. But is it-- SC, CR or RC where am I making mistakes I can't understand. How reliable are the Gmatprep and Manhattan mocks as indicators of improvement?
Any advice would really be appreciated. If I plan to retake I should know what am I doing wrong so that I can work on that weakness..Please Help!
08 Jan 2012, 11:56
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Hi dentobizz
Are you a native English speaker?
If not, you could have a look at the e-GMAT course. I think it is ideally suited for people who are stronger in quants than verbals.
I think the basic foundation of your verbal preps is still lacking - a structured verbal course could help you.
Santanu
Are you a native English speaker?
If not, you could have a look at the e-GMAT course. I think it is ideally suited for people who are stronger in quants than verbals.
I think the basic foundation of your verbal preps is still lacking - a structured verbal course could help you.
Santanu
08 Jan 2012, 14:58
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Hi Santanu, I am a non native speaker.I have looked at the free e-gmat course resources SC & CR video's . Most of them have good takeaways. My major areas of concern have been SC & tackling the timing aspect.I usually run out of time on last 7-8 questions or have to guess them in 10 mins(both Quant n Verbal) . So have to let go off questions & practice guessing as opposed to putting my worth while time in getting most of them correct.Moreover, earlier I rarely attempted the AWA (got 5/6) so now onward will take all my mocks with AWA to factor in the fatigue aspect and mimic the actual test conditions in a better way .
In Verbal- RC has never been a issue and CR accuracy has been around 75-80% on MGMT and Gmat prep mocks.But a verbal score of 27 does dent your confidence,and force you to rethink your strategy. So going out the whole nine yards this time round. Definitely verbal needs more smart practice starting from basics upwards and by now I know what rough areas need smoothing.
Any suggestions with respect to mock tests that could help me get a close to accurate self assessment?? (Gmat prep & MGMT mocks are exhausted) and retakes tend to inflate your score (which is definitely not desired). Also the algorithm of Gmat prep is less generous than MGMT.
In Verbal- RC has never been a issue and CR accuracy has been around 75-80% on MGMT and Gmat prep mocks.But a verbal score of 27 does dent your confidence,and force you to rethink your strategy. So going out the whole nine yards this time round. Definitely verbal needs more smart practice starting from basics upwards and by now I know what rough areas need smoothing.
Any suggestions with respect to mock tests that could help me get a close to accurate self assessment?? (Gmat prep & MGMT mocks are exhausted) and retakes tend to inflate your score (which is definitely not desired). Also the algorithm of Gmat prep is less generous than MGMT.
