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20 Jun 2006, 14:39
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Hi guys,
after months of prep, today i woke up fresh, confident and energised but still manged to score lower than the lowest score that I ever got in any practice test. don't know what to think or tell myself. Needless to say, my self-confidence got a serious jolt today.
the break up is : 670 (88th percentile ) with Q 46 (81 percentile) and V 36 (80 percentile).
the practise test I took are as follows:
pp1: 710
pp2 : 720
gmat prep1 : 700
gmat prep2 : 750
gmatprep1 reinstall: 730
on an average I used to score around 80-90 percentile in quant and 93-98 percentile in verbal. thats why I am so confused. I don't know where i messed up. I always had time issue with quant and verbal, i always finished befote time was up. today, I timed my quant well, wrote good essays (I think) and felt good about verbal. I was expecting a score of about 720 before I hit the submit button. seeing my score flash up on the screen with such low total and especially low verbal shocked the hell out of me. I do not know how I fu***d up verbal SO MUCH. In quant, i think, I might have made a mistake or two in the first 15 questions and I am guessing, thats what pushed my score down. I was quite jittery about time in quant and may have put a premium on keeping my pace at the cost of accuracy and therefore made silly, stupid and careless mistakes. for verbal, I don't know what to say. Its a complete mystery to me. my performance in verbal today was at least 8-10 points lower than my practise scores. I have no clue why and I don't therefore know how to remedy the situation. in the powerprep and gmatpreps, I used to get only 1 or 2 mistakes in RC and CR each (max.) while most of my mistakes were in SC. but even with that I always scored 45+ in all tests. as a matter of fact, I was relying on my verbal scores to push up my overall score like it did in each and every practise test. but today, verbal turned into curse for me.
I want to go to UCLA or to one of the top 10. I don't don't know how practical it is to apply with 6 yrs experience as scientist and 670 to top school when most of them have 700 or more as median score. I think i will write again in 30 days. what do u guys say? can't think how i can improve my lot next time. any suggestions?????
after months of prep, today i woke up fresh, confident and energised but still manged to score lower than the lowest score that I ever got in any practice test. don't know what to think or tell myself. Needless to say, my self-confidence got a serious jolt today.
the break up is : 670 (88th percentile ) with Q 46 (81 percentile) and V 36 (80 percentile).
the practise test I took are as follows:
pp1: 710
pp2 : 720
gmat prep1 : 700
gmat prep2 : 750
gmatprep1 reinstall: 730
on an average I used to score around 80-90 percentile in quant and 93-98 percentile in verbal. thats why I am so confused. I don't know where i messed up. I always had time issue with quant and verbal, i always finished befote time was up. today, I timed my quant well, wrote good essays (I think) and felt good about verbal. I was expecting a score of about 720 before I hit the submit button. seeing my score flash up on the screen with such low total and especially low verbal shocked the hell out of me. I do not know how I fu***d up verbal SO MUCH. In quant, i think, I might have made a mistake or two in the first 15 questions and I am guessing, thats what pushed my score down. I was quite jittery about time in quant and may have put a premium on keeping my pace at the cost of accuracy and therefore made silly, stupid and careless mistakes. for verbal, I don't know what to say. Its a complete mystery to me. my performance in verbal today was at least 8-10 points lower than my practise scores. I have no clue why and I don't therefore know how to remedy the situation. in the powerprep and gmatpreps, I used to get only 1 or 2 mistakes in RC and CR each (max.) while most of my mistakes were in SC. but even with that I always scored 45+ in all tests. as a matter of fact, I was relying on my verbal scores to push up my overall score like it did in each and every practise test. but today, verbal turned into curse for me.
I want to go to UCLA or to one of the top 10. I don't don't know how practical it is to apply with 6 yrs experience as scientist and 670 to top school when most of them have 700 or more as median score. I think i will write again in 30 days. what do u guys say? can't think how i can improve my lot next time. any suggestions?????
20 Jun 2006, 16:07
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Parthac.
First off, lets not poo poo on the 670 too much now. Thats a pretty darn good score. So, first and most importantly, congrats. (I know you don't agree, you will come around on this when you cool off).
Now, since you are like me, and can't settle for less than excellent, lets talk about next steps.
Actually.... your story is exactly my story. Scored consistently high in the practice, scored signficantly worse in the real thing. In that post above I lay out how I fixed my mistakes. It's a long post but I think it will help you.
You can read the story here.
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=30030
As you will see, I did the same thing. Was scoring 720's, scored 640 on the real deal. Like you, I did worse on my real exam (in math though) than I had EVER DONE before. In other words, I did better on my first practice exam ever than I did on my real exam - before I had even studied!!
Read through my post and see if it hits any chords with you. Maybe you did some of what I did? Focused on the wrong things? Was overconfident? Did so many "hard" problems you forgot how to get past the medium ones?
I suggest a retake in 5 weeks, not 4. This gives you 1 week to decompress.
But remember, you got a 670. That's a good score and the GMAT is only one piece of your application.
First off, lets not poo poo on the 670 too much now. Thats a pretty darn good score. So, first and most importantly, congrats. (I know you don't agree, you will come around on this when you cool off).
Now, since you are like me, and can't settle for less than excellent, lets talk about next steps.
Actually.... your story is exactly my story. Scored consistently high in the practice, scored signficantly worse in the real thing. In that post above I lay out how I fixed my mistakes. It's a long post but I think it will help you.
You can read the story here.
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=30030
As you will see, I did the same thing. Was scoring 720's, scored 640 on the real deal. Like you, I did worse on my real exam (in math though) than I had EVER DONE before. In other words, I did better on my first practice exam ever than I did on my real exam - before I had even studied!!
Read through my post and see if it hits any chords with you. Maybe you did some of what I did? Focused on the wrong things? Was overconfident? Did so many "hard" problems you forgot how to get past the medium ones?
I suggest a retake in 5 weeks, not 4. This gives you 1 week to decompress.
But remember, you got a 670. That's a good score and the GMAT is only one piece of your application.
20 Jun 2006, 20:15
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It really is a decent score. Cheer up. One thing you have not mentioned is whether you thought the exam was harder than the GMATPrep exams that you took, is it a possibility that your score of 670 is due to the exam being tougher than GMATPrep?
