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Background: Indian IT product manager with 8 years of work experience. Appeared for GMAT 6 years ago and ended up with a 700 then (Q47 and V 37). I started prepping for the GMAT from Late December 2015. Ended up with a 710 (Q 49 , V 36)
The Journey
I am working full time
Consistently dedicated 15 hrs per week for GMAT starting January 2016
Took Mocks at regular intervals as follows
1)MGMAT 1-12/25 - 640-Q 42 V 35
2)MGMAT 2-02/06 - 710-Q 42 V 45
3)MGMAT 3-03/12 - 640-Q 44 V 34
4)Veritas prep test 04/15 - 680 - Q 48 V 38
5)MGMAT 4-06/04 - 710-Q 48 V 38
6)GMAT Prep1-06/25 - 750 Q50 V41
7)GMAT Prep 2 - 07/09 - 750 Q 49 V 42
8)EP1 - 07/17 - 750 Q 49 V 42
Actual GMAT : 07/30 - 710 Q 49 V 36
Note: All my mocks were under actual test conditions
1)Took these mocks at the same time of the day as the actual test
2)Did the AWA and IR on every mock
3)Took exactly two 8 minute breaks
4)Snacked on the same stuff all along
5)I got lucky on a few problems(<3 problems on the GMAT prep and EP1 exams) . My guesses were accurate.
Test Day:
Things that were in line with Mocks
1)Felt absolutely relaxed. I did not feel this good on any other mock that I had given earlier
2)The sequence of events were in line with what I felt on the mock
3)No panic at all - Infact never felt this confident on any other mock
4)Was ahead of the clock most of the time. I had to slow down a little both on the quant and the verbal sections
Additionally Quant felt super easy - Frankly was hoping for a 50 at worst
Verbal During Mocks
1)I was becoming more confident on verbal towards the end of my prep.
2)Attacking SC ,CR and RC felt more of an instinct rather than step by step breakdown and analysis.
3)CR was my strength. I absolutely love solving CR and got 90% and 100% of the CR right on both of my GMAT preps
That said, here is what the verbal section of the test felt like
SC: Felt relatively easy . I was able to identify the traps pretty fast and I probably did well on SC (I’ll leave it to the enhanced score report for a confirmation)
RC:
1)First two passages were convoluted. Each of these passages felt as one of those tough LSAT passages that everyone dreads
2)There was at least one passage on which I felt that I wouldn’t have answered even one question correctly
CR:
1)If I have to tag one word to the test CR - INSANE
2)Very few strengthen/weaken/assumption/inference questions (hardly one each of these types)
3)Most of the other questions were of the type
4)Evaluate the argument
5)Complete the blank
6)Explain the reasoning
7)There was a weird question with a triple negation not-not -not . For a moment I felt like calling the instructor and checking whether this was a typo lol
8)I was switching answers multiple times and never felt so low on confidence attacking a CR[/list]
Whats Next?
I am going to retake GMAT for sure . I consider myself a 750+ guy than a low 700 guy. In retrospect here are few things that I could have done better on the test day
1.I was little overconfident on verbal and many times shrugged off and picked an answer choice answers (I was like hell yeah! I know what you are talking about)
vs spending that extra 30 sec to analyse critically
2.I should have been a little more careful when reading passages. I felt that I got a little impatient and wanted to get done with this (Thanks to my verbal scores on mocks). This attitude could have costed me heavily on the verbal section. I got this same feeling for both RC and CR
I feel one of the three things below could have happened
1)Yesterday was just a nasty day (not my day types)
2)Could there be something fundamentally wrong in my instincts on certain question type? Could it be possible that I am just picking answers since I’ve seen many questions of that type and my ear knows what the right answer sounds like
3)Something other than one and two
I would appreciate if any expert could help me understand what could have gone wrong. I would like to understand make peace with what went wrong first before I get level set for a third attack.
The Journey
I am working full time
Consistently dedicated 15 hrs per week for GMAT starting January 2016
Took Mocks at regular intervals as follows
1)MGMAT 1-12/25 - 640-Q 42 V 35
2)MGMAT 2-02/06 - 710-Q 42 V 45
3)MGMAT 3-03/12 - 640-Q 44 V 34
4)Veritas prep test 04/15 - 680 - Q 48 V 38
5)MGMAT 4-06/04 - 710-Q 48 V 38
6)GMAT Prep1-06/25 - 750 Q50 V41
7)GMAT Prep 2 - 07/09 - 750 Q 49 V 42
8)EP1 - 07/17 - 750 Q 49 V 42
Actual GMAT : 07/30 - 710 Q 49 V 36
Note: All my mocks were under actual test conditions
1)Took these mocks at the same time of the day as the actual test
2)Did the AWA and IR on every mock
3)Took exactly two 8 minute breaks
4)Snacked on the same stuff all along
5)I got lucky on a few problems(<3 problems on the GMAT prep and EP1 exams) . My guesses were accurate.
Test Day:
Things that were in line with Mocks
1)Felt absolutely relaxed. I did not feel this good on any other mock that I had given earlier
2)The sequence of events were in line with what I felt on the mock
3)No panic at all - Infact never felt this confident on any other mock
4)Was ahead of the clock most of the time. I had to slow down a little both on the quant and the verbal sections
Additionally Quant felt super easy - Frankly was hoping for a 50 at worst
Verbal During Mocks
1)I was becoming more confident on verbal towards the end of my prep.
2)Attacking SC ,CR and RC felt more of an instinct rather than step by step breakdown and analysis.
3)CR was my strength. I absolutely love solving CR and got 90% and 100% of the CR right on both of my GMAT preps
That said, here is what the verbal section of the test felt like
SC: Felt relatively easy . I was able to identify the traps pretty fast and I probably did well on SC (I’ll leave it to the enhanced score report for a confirmation)
RC:
1)First two passages were convoluted. Each of these passages felt as one of those tough LSAT passages that everyone dreads
2)There was at least one passage on which I felt that I wouldn’t have answered even one question correctly
CR:
1)If I have to tag one word to the test CR - INSANE
2)Very few strengthen/weaken/assumption/inference questions (hardly one each of these types)
3)Most of the other questions were of the type
4)Evaluate the argument
5)Complete the blank
6)Explain the reasoning
7)There was a weird question with a triple negation not-not -not . For a moment I felt like calling the instructor and checking whether this was a typo lol
8)I was switching answers multiple times and never felt so low on confidence attacking a CR[/list]
Whats Next?
I am going to retake GMAT for sure . I consider myself a 750+ guy than a low 700 guy. In retrospect here are few things that I could have done better on the test day
1.I was little overconfident on verbal and many times shrugged off and picked an answer choice answers (I was like hell yeah! I know what you are talking about)
vs spending that extra 30 sec to analyse critically
2.I should have been a little more careful when reading passages. I felt that I got a little impatient and wanted to get done with this (Thanks to my verbal scores on mocks). This attitude could have costed me heavily on the verbal section. I got this same feeling for both RC and CR
I feel one of the three things below could have happened
1)Yesterday was just a nasty day (not my day types)
2)Could there be something fundamentally wrong in my instincts on certain question type? Could it be possible that I am just picking answers since I’ve seen many questions of that type and my ear knows what the right answer sounds like
3)Something other than one and two
I would appreciate if any expert could help me understand what could have gone wrong. I would like to understand make peace with what went wrong first before I get level set for a third attack.
31 Jul 2016, 11:12
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Good job on the GMAT. My verbal experience was similar to yours when I took the test the first time. I'm currently studying to retake the test. I thought CR part of test was far more difficult than anything I had ever seen before. I didn't take studying CR that seriously because I had always done so well. In RC on the test one of the passages was far longer than anything I had ever seen before. I think it was five paragraphs long. I ended up scoring in the 76 percentile on RC, so I still didn't do too bad.
31 Jul 2016, 18:02
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Without the ESR, it is really hard to tell what exactly happened in your test. Do you have a plan to purchase it any time soon?
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