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30 Dec 2020, 12:42
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Hi everyone,
Firstly I would like to thank the amazing contributors of this forum (Bunuel, GMATNinja) for their helpful posts and GMATNinja in particular for his videos.
I appeared for the Indian CAT exam on 29th Nov, 2020 and the GMAT on 28th Dec, 2020. I had prepared extensively for the CAT exam but am not confident about my performance on the test (expecting to be around the 95th - 98th percentile which isn't the best in the context of top Indian B-Schools). However, the light at the end of this horrible 2020 experience has come in the form of a pretty killer GMAT score - 770 with a split of Q50, V45, and IR 8
For the GMAT, I prepared almost exclusively from the OG and the added Quant Review book, while also watching Youtube videos and solving the odd question on GMATClub as well. I solved every question in the OG and made a note of my errors, making sure not to repeat them. I approached verbal with an intuitive and logical framework rather than a rule-based system, as that's the way my brain is wired at this point. Verbal has generally always been an area of strength for me and I did not find the actual exam to be very challenging in terms of the Verbal content.
I gave two official GMAT Prep tests a couple of days before the exam with the following splits:
1) 770 (Q51, V44, IR 5)
2) 780 (Q51, V47, IR 5)
As you can see, the practice tests were an almost perfect estimate of my ability level on test day. I definitely think that studying for the CAT exam which tests quant at a significantly higher level than the GMAT contributed to my comfort while taking the GMAT, but there are certainly a few beautifully crafted questions in the OG that can blow anyone's socks off.
My practice IR scores were horrible owing to some stupid mistakes, so I worked on IR pretty heavily the day before the exam, and managed an 8 on the actual test. My quant score took a hit and fell to Q50 due to some silly errors. It hurt even more because I had figured out how to solve those tricky questions once I had completed the exam haha.
Good luck to all fellow GMAT takers! Its a beautiful exam and it was a great experience preparing for it!!
Firstly I would like to thank the amazing contributors of this forum (Bunuel, GMATNinja) for their helpful posts and GMATNinja in particular for his videos.
I appeared for the Indian CAT exam on 29th Nov, 2020 and the GMAT on 28th Dec, 2020. I had prepared extensively for the CAT exam but am not confident about my performance on the test (expecting to be around the 95th - 98th percentile which isn't the best in the context of top Indian B-Schools). However, the light at the end of this horrible 2020 experience has come in the form of a pretty killer GMAT score - 770 with a split of Q50, V45, and IR 8
For the GMAT, I prepared almost exclusively from the OG and the added Quant Review book, while also watching Youtube videos and solving the odd question on GMATClub as well. I solved every question in the OG and made a note of my errors, making sure not to repeat them. I approached verbal with an intuitive and logical framework rather than a rule-based system, as that's the way my brain is wired at this point. Verbal has generally always been an area of strength for me and I did not find the actual exam to be very challenging in terms of the Verbal content.
I gave two official GMAT Prep tests a couple of days before the exam with the following splits:
1) 770 (Q51, V44, IR 5)
2) 780 (Q51, V47, IR 5)
As you can see, the practice tests were an almost perfect estimate of my ability level on test day. I definitely think that studying for the CAT exam which tests quant at a significantly higher level than the GMAT contributed to my comfort while taking the GMAT, but there are certainly a few beautifully crafted questions in the OG that can blow anyone's socks off.
My practice IR scores were horrible owing to some stupid mistakes, so I worked on IR pretty heavily the day before the exam, and managed an 8 on the actual test. My quant score took a hit and fell to Q50 due to some silly errors. It hurt even more because I had figured out how to solve those tricky questions once I had completed the exam haha.
Good luck to all fellow GMAT takers! Its a beautiful exam and it was a great experience preparing for it!!
30 Dec 2020, 12:54
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Congratulations on your score!!!
It seems the final score came right on target with your expectations based on the practice scores. That is nice. Fantastic job on the verbal!!! Did you use any books or materials to study for it?
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It seems the final score came right on target with your expectations based on the practice scores. That is nice. Fantastic job on the verbal!!! Did you use any books or materials to study for it?
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30 Dec 2020, 13:00
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Thank you very much! So for Verbal I did solve about 100 or so questions from the OG and went through a bunch of videos on Youtube from GMATNinja etc., but it was more from the perspective of trying to guess the answers accurately before listening to any explanations. I found that I was consistently able to do that without prep for some reason on most questions. It could do with the fact that I had a solid reading habit growing up haha, but thats the extent of my verbal prep. I actually focused 90% of my time on quant, but didnt end up scoring as well there!!
