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25 Mar 2014, 10:55
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So I took my first GMAT and scored 640 q40 v 38. Could you please help me out here?
First of all, this is well below my expectations because my quant score was significantly lower than expected. To be more accurate, when I took my first GMAT Prep CAT I scored like 37 and that was many months ago. Normally I scored in the range q45-q49. As far as verbal is concerned a month ago I scored 38-39 on verbal but a week before the exam I killed it with v45 (although the score was inflated to an extent).
The night before the exam I got around 3-4 hours (tops) of sleep because I was very anxious. Furthermore, I was extremely nervous while I was waiting at the test center to be seated. I just could not do it and now I am trying to figure out what is the actual truth here. Did I score poorly on the quant because I did not sleep well and because I was super-nervous, or my score on the GMAT Prep did not represent my actual level? I think it is the first, but cannot tell for sure.
Was anyone else in similar shoes or has any advice to offer? I want to take the test in 30-45 days and want to get done with it. I expected to score around 700-710 and that is what I want to get the next time I take the test. Please help me out I got burned pretty hard.
First of all, this is well below my expectations because my quant score was significantly lower than expected. To be more accurate, when I took my first GMAT Prep CAT I scored like 37 and that was many months ago. Normally I scored in the range q45-q49. As far as verbal is concerned a month ago I scored 38-39 on verbal but a week before the exam I killed it with v45 (although the score was inflated to an extent).
The night before the exam I got around 3-4 hours (tops) of sleep because I was very anxious. Furthermore, I was extremely nervous while I was waiting at the test center to be seated. I just could not do it and now I am trying to figure out what is the actual truth here. Did I score poorly on the quant because I did not sleep well and because I was super-nervous, or my score on the GMAT Prep did not represent my actual level? I think it is the first, but cannot tell for sure.
Was anyone else in similar shoes or has any advice to offer? I want to take the test in 30-45 days and want to get done with it. I expected to score around 700-710 and that is what I want to get the next time I take the test. Please help me out I got burned pretty hard.
26 Mar 2014, 05:34
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I'm sorry for your difficulties, Baracuda123. Lack of sleep and anxiety can absolutely disrupt one's test performance. It seems that you were a vicitim of that. However, I would like to emphasize one point in your post:
As for nerves, this discussion should be of some help. I would also advise you to focus most of your efforts on verbal, as math seems to be your strength.
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I bolded and italicized the last part of the sentence here. Inflated scores serve a purpose in terms of confidence, but sometimes people confuse this fiction for reality. Any perceived loss in the verbal section, then, might have been minimal - if anything.
As for nerves, this discussion should be of some help. I would also advise you to focus most of your efforts on verbal, as math seems to be your strength.
26 Mar 2014, 14:53
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Thank you so much for your answer! I cannot even explain the level of anxiety I endured the night before the exam and right before I entered testing room. It completely got me burned out. I believe that even though my last score on verbal on GMAT prep (45) was inflated, I still think that 38 was probably a bit lower than what I can do. Naturally, I could be wrong.
To shed some light on how exactly I felt throughout the test, my first quant problem was "A had 1\2 as much money as B while B had 20 more dollars than C. Together they have XYY dollars. How much does B have?" And I managed to mess up that problem, which is, you will agree, easy. When I got my first sentence correction problem I did not know what I was reading. It was the weirdest feeling ever. That is also how I felt throughout most of the verbal section but I think I managed to recover a bit and pick it up towards the end especially throughout the RC section (there was one short passage, two long passages, and one short scientific passage in the end) - It seems quite solid difficulty. If I got 40 on verbal I would be content but good overall score won't show up without good quant (to be safe I need minimum 48) regardless of 38 or 40 on verbal.
The biggest problem is, I am not sure when to take the test and how to gauge my quant level. I kind of lost confidence here
