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30 Nov 2021, 12:06
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Hey Everyone,
I have been preparing for GMAT for the last 1.5 months now. I gave the exam for the first time today and scored 690 (Q48, V35). The score is below my target score (730) and what is really disheartening for me is that the score is also below my official mock scores. I was not able to figure out why it is the way it is. Here is a rundown of the official mocks I have taken -
Prep1 680 (Q48, V35) - October 3rd 2021
Prep 2 680 (Q49, v34) - October 24 2021
Prep 3 720 (Q49, V39) - November 4 2021
Prep 4 730 (Q49, V40) - November 13 2021
Prep 5 750 (Q49, V42) - November 26 2021
I am fairly good at RC, I have focused a lot on CR and SC (self prep + Aristotle guide + practiced tons of OG questions; I realized SC was/is my weakest link in verbal). I have ordered an ESR and will post it as soon as available. I am not sure what is it that I am doing wrong, because I wasn't super nervous or anything during the exam and the mocks I have given have all been given as I gave the exam today, without any unnecessary pauses or anything.
Any thoughts on what should be my next steps?
Struggling to find a way out
Thanks!
I have been preparing for GMAT for the last 1.5 months now. I gave the exam for the first time today and scored 690 (Q48, V35). The score is below my target score (730) and what is really disheartening for me is that the score is also below my official mock scores. I was not able to figure out why it is the way it is. Here is a rundown of the official mocks I have taken -
Prep1 680 (Q48, V35) - October 3rd 2021
Prep 2 680 (Q49, v34) - October 24 2021
Prep 3 720 (Q49, V39) - November 4 2021
Prep 4 730 (Q49, V40) - November 13 2021
Prep 5 750 (Q49, V42) - November 26 2021
I am fairly good at RC, I have focused a lot on CR and SC (self prep + Aristotle guide + practiced tons of OG questions; I realized SC was/is my weakest link in verbal). I have ordered an ESR and will post it as soon as available. I am not sure what is it that I am doing wrong, because I wasn't super nervous or anything during the exam and the mocks I have given have all been given as I gave the exam today, without any unnecessary pauses or anything.
Any thoughts on what should be my next steps?
Struggling to find a way out
Thanks!
30 Nov 2021, 19:02
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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 V35. 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?
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?
30 Nov 2021, 21:40
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Thanks, ScottTargetTestPrep for your reply. I also got ESR from GMAT. Can you please have a look at it and let me know if there are any major red flags that I should take care of. I am thinking of revising whatever I have studied so far and having a got at it again soon (soonest). Please let me know your thoughts on this based on my performance reported in the ESR
