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21 Sep 2014, 12:39
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Hi all,
I've spent about 200 hrs prepping for the GMAT since July and I performed pretty badly yesterday on the actual exam. I used Manhattan guides, GMAT club quizzes and guides, Magoosh quizzes and other content, and e-GMAT for CR and SC.
My practice CATs were as follows:
Veritas 1: 690
Veritas 2: 710
GMAT Prep 1: 590
GMAT Prep 2: 610
Actual GMAT: 560
I feel like I keep slipping lower and lower, no matter how well I think I'm doing on the exam. When I saw the 560 yesterday I was completely shocked because I believed that I had been doing well during the exam. Although I thought that I started out strong, I stated losing focus during the test and not really being present. I cancelled the score immediately.
More than just being unhappy with the score, I still don't really know where I stand in terms of the questions I'm getting right or wrong. Sometimes, I can get a number of really hard questions right in a row, and other times I will blow easy questions. Often times I can get 100% of 500-600 level questions correct on practice quizzes.
If anyone can help me understand what is going on here it would be of much help.
Thanks
I've spent about 200 hrs prepping for the GMAT since July and I performed pretty badly yesterday on the actual exam. I used Manhattan guides, GMAT club quizzes and guides, Magoosh quizzes and other content, and e-GMAT for CR and SC.
My practice CATs were as follows:
Veritas 1: 690
Veritas 2: 710
GMAT Prep 1: 590
GMAT Prep 2: 610
Actual GMAT: 560
I feel like I keep slipping lower and lower, no matter how well I think I'm doing on the exam. When I saw the 560 yesterday I was completely shocked because I believed that I had been doing well during the exam. Although I thought that I started out strong, I stated losing focus during the test and not really being present. I cancelled the score immediately.
More than just being unhappy with the score, I still don't really know where I stand in terms of the questions I'm getting right or wrong. Sometimes, I can get a number of really hard questions right in a row, and other times I will blow easy questions. Often times I can get 100% of 500-600 level questions correct on practice quizzes.
If anyone can help me understand what is going on here it would be of much help.
Thanks
21 Sep 2014, 16:22
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Sounds like a lot of confusion. You also used a lot of resources out there. Keep in mind you just have to really pay attention to each question. When you get it correct, find out exactly why you got that question correct. And if you got it correct, can you get it correct faster?
Same with wrong questions -- find out what made you get it wrong. See if you were to try the question from scratch -- run that process in your head -- would you still get it incorrect?
The amount of resources is not your solution. How you think while using your resources is a really important aspect you can't ignore. Hope that helps.
Same with wrong questions -- find out what made you get it wrong. See if you were to try the question from scratch -- run that process in your head -- would you still get it incorrect?
The amount of resources is not your solution. How you think while using your resources is a really important aspect you can't ignore. Hope that helps.
21 Sep 2014, 22:00
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That's a huge difference from Veritas Prep Mocks. It's too short a debrief to really understand where exactly could you have gone wrong. But yes, to begin with, I have been studying for this exam since past 6-7 months now. I started off with 490 and have seen fluctuations like no one else has. I scored a Q51 on gmatclub test, and on the very next test i ended up scoring Q32. Imagine, that's the level of fluctuation i've seen.
But what I learnt is, that the best way to improve is to work on your weakness. For instance, I was very bad with overlapping sets so I studied it for sometime and solved some questions, making myself comfortable with the topic. but then during the mock tests, I still used to feel thrown off by overlapping sets with 3 sets.So then I focussed just on the overlapping sets problems with 3 sets. Doing 30-40 problems of that kind made me a lot more comfortable with that topic. So you see, that's the kind of focussing on a weakness we're talking about here. Most of the times we think of our weaknesses in a very broader sense. but really what we should do is narrow down as much as possible.
Similarly I used to think of RC as a weakness, so at the very beginning I took RC head-on by watching all the Thursday's by Ron videos for RC, Solving 700+ RC question PDF from gmatclub, Solving RC questions from OG, and it was only after this that i was able to understand which subtopic in RC was my weakness. So you see, identifying weakness also requires some proficiency. The better you get at a topic, the better you'll be able to assess your weakness.
With SC, I first had to mast the basic parallelism, verb tense, comparison, modifier etc. to better identify my weaknesses.
Trust me it takes some time, but its not impossible. For some reason i've never performed well at these standardized tests, but that won't stop me. It's a TEST at the end of the day. If other people can do it, you can do it too.
Just take a break and start off. And please don't book a date right away. Take some time to assess your weaknesses and practice them a 1000 times until you master them. a boxer if better off by practicing one move a 1000 times than by practicing 1000 moves one single time.
Don't worry. Just do it!
