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26 Aug 2020, 15:51
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Hello Gmat Club,
I am a 21 year old Junior in college who has recently taken the gmat after about 4 months of INTENSE preparation. I am planning on pursuing my MBA in about 3 -5 years (obviously before my GMAT expires and a period in which I can amass some great work experience ). Why kind of early? I had a amazing internship lined up with a high-end investment bank in NYC that COVID ultimately forced the firm to cancel. I was devastated to say the least, but I delegated my time wisely and decided to take the study and take the GMAT as I would not want to have to get back into study mode years into working. Walking into the test I was scoring 700-740 on practice tests consistently. Mind you, this score came up from a 420 that I scored as my baseline before studying. As I walked into the testing center I was really thrown off guard when the forced my to wear a mask during the test, and the mask I was wearing.....thick cloth. It became hard to breathe at some points, I was nervous, feeling nauseous and had my focus broken multiple times. In quant I ran out of time and had to guess the last 7! And in verbal I had to guess the last 3! I ultimately pulled a 650 Q 41 (usually got a Q 46 or 47 and a V 38 usually pulled a V 40-43). I was very disappointed and upset although proud of where I had come from and currently DETERMINED to achieve my score and not give up. It’s hard to think of what more I could of done to prepare, I studied 6-12 hours nearly everyday. I gave it my all. So now, I think it’s time I need to re-evaluate my studying process and that brings me here! Any ideas brilliant gmatclub members? I want to thank anyone that has gotten this far in reading and appreciate your advice so much. Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Study plan:
Strong armed it and just read so many books and did so many problems thousands upon thousands. Over 1000 hours studying easily. Learned from mistakes but was note Diligent in working on error logs and tracking errors.
Also, I am happy to share my ESR with anyone interested and am interested to hear if you guys think I can still do this despite the amount of time I put in and didn’t pull my score. Thank you.
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I am a 21 year old Junior in college who has recently taken the gmat after about 4 months of INTENSE preparation. I am planning on pursuing my MBA in about 3 -5 years (obviously before my GMAT expires and a period in which I can amass some great work experience ). Why kind of early? I had a amazing internship lined up with a high-end investment bank in NYC that COVID ultimately forced the firm to cancel. I was devastated to say the least, but I delegated my time wisely and decided to take the study and take the GMAT as I would not want to have to get back into study mode years into working. Walking into the test I was scoring 700-740 on practice tests consistently. Mind you, this score came up from a 420 that I scored as my baseline before studying. As I walked into the testing center I was really thrown off guard when the forced my to wear a mask during the test, and the mask I was wearing.....thick cloth. It became hard to breathe at some points, I was nervous, feeling nauseous and had my focus broken multiple times. In quant I ran out of time and had to guess the last 7! And in verbal I had to guess the last 3! I ultimately pulled a 650 Q 41 (usually got a Q 46 or 47 and a V 38 usually pulled a V 40-43). I was very disappointed and upset although proud of where I had come from and currently DETERMINED to achieve my score and not give up. It’s hard to think of what more I could of done to prepare, I studied 6-12 hours nearly everyday. I gave it my all. So now, I think it’s time I need to re-evaluate my studying process and that brings me here! Any ideas brilliant gmatclub members? I want to thank anyone that has gotten this far in reading and appreciate your advice so much. Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Study plan:
Strong armed it and just read so many books and did so many problems thousands upon thousands. Over 1000 hours studying easily. Learned from mistakes but was note Diligent in working on error logs and tracking errors.
Also, I am happy to share my ESR with anyone interested and am interested to hear if you guys think I can still do this despite the amount of time I put in and didn’t pull my score. Thank you.
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26 Aug 2020, 17:26
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Hi flapjack29,
First congratulations on the amazing leap (through sheer brut force effort and commitment). To go from 420 to mid 600's is already an remarkable achievement. It's great that you still have the energy and commitment to make the next jump to the 700+ club.
I'd be happy to look at your ESR but I'd like to get you thinking about a key area to focus on that you may not have in your prep until now. That's your in-test process in quant and verbal. The repetition of practice problems, solutions and practice tests is the core grind of prepping for the GMAT. But now, as you're trying to reach the elite score level that less than 5% of test takers achieve, it's time to broaden your approach to remove ALL the obstacles to reaching your target score. Knowledge of the content is one part but how you apply that knowledge in a testing situation is another.
Let me elaborate a bit on what I mean by in-test process:
In quant, there are 4 key stages of tackling a quant problem: Capture (incl Preprocessing), Visualization, Setups and Execution.
Each of those stages is critical and need to be mastered as a separate stage of solving a quant problem. It may be only 2 minutes per question, but these stages are still very discrete and important. When you have gaps in any one or more of those stages, there's an impact on a large portion of the questions you face in each section of the test. You put up barriers to capturing the full score value of your months of study.
So what's the right plan?
Observation and assessment of your in-test process. It's something that you can try to do on your own but obviously works much better with an experienced and effective performance coach. It's no different than trying to coach yourself to improve in a sport (no so easy to watch your own golf swing!).
By identifying which stages you're falling short in, you'll give yourself the change to create score leaps in a short time (weeks rather than months).
There's a parallel story on the verbal side. I'm to discuss your ESR and assess your core skills so I can provide you with personalized guidance on the next steps you need to take. Message me if interested.
First congratulations on the amazing leap (through sheer brut force effort and commitment). To go from 420 to mid 600's is already an remarkable achievement. It's great that you still have the energy and commitment to make the next jump to the 700+ club.
I'd be happy to look at your ESR but I'd like to get you thinking about a key area to focus on that you may not have in your prep until now. That's your in-test process in quant and verbal. The repetition of practice problems, solutions and practice tests is the core grind of prepping for the GMAT. But now, as you're trying to reach the elite score level that less than 5% of test takers achieve, it's time to broaden your approach to remove ALL the obstacles to reaching your target score. Knowledge of the content is one part but how you apply that knowledge in a testing situation is another.
Let me elaborate a bit on what I mean by in-test process:
In quant, there are 4 key stages of tackling a quant problem: Capture (incl Preprocessing), Visualization, Setups and Execution.
Each of those stages is critical and need to be mastered as a separate stage of solving a quant problem. It may be only 2 minutes per question, but these stages are still very discrete and important. When you have gaps in any one or more of those stages, there's an impact on a large portion of the questions you face in each section of the test. You put up barriers to capturing the full score value of your months of study.
So what's the right plan?
Observation and assessment of your in-test process. It's something that you can try to do on your own but obviously works much better with an experienced and effective performance coach. It's no different than trying to coach yourself to improve in a sport (no so easy to watch your own golf swing!).
By identifying which stages you're falling short in, you'll give yourself the change to create score leaps in a short time (weeks rather than months).
There's a parallel story on the verbal side. I'm to discuss your ESR and assess your core skills so I can provide you with personalized guidance on the next steps you need to take. Message me if interested.
26 Aug 2020, 18:09
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HI flapjack29,
I'm sorry to hear how things went for you on test day.
Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than 640. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:
how to score a 700+ on the GMAT
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!
I'm sorry to hear how things went for you on test day.
Assuming that you took your official practice exams under realistic testing conditions, the results show that, on a good day, you are capable of scoring higher than 640. Thus, it’s quite possible that nerves, stress, tiredness, or a combination of all three negatively affected your test-day performance. However, it’s also possible that you have some lingering weaknesses that were exposed on test day. Although I’m unsure of how you prepared, it’s possible that, in your preparation, particularly in verbal, you did not really learn to do what you have to do in order to score high on the actual GMAT. Rather, you picked up on some patterns that were effective in getting you relatively high scores on practice tests. So, for you to hit your score goal, your preparation, particularly for verbal, probably needs to be more complete, meaning that you have to go through the various types of GMAT questions carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills.
For verbal specifically, you have to become more skilled at clearly defining the differences between trap choices and correct answers. Otherwise, you will get stuck guessing between two choices or be surprised to find that you incorrectly answered questions that you thought you answered correctly. Becoming more skilled in this way takes carefully analyzing all of the answer choices to lots of verbal questions to develop an eye for the logical differences between the choices. In other words, you have to go beyond answering practice questions and reading explanations to doing deep analysis of questions to learn to see everything that is going on in them.
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new quant and verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses.
You also may find it helpful to read the following articles:
how to score a 700+ on the GMAT
Why Was My GMAT Score Lower Than My Practice Test Scores?
If you’d like more specific advice on how to improve your quant and verbal skills, feel free to reach back out. Good luck!
