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andrenoble
Joined: 06 Aug 2021
Last visit: 04 Nov 2023
Posts: 60
Given Kudos: 75
Location: United Kingdom
Schools: LBS '26 Imperial Wharton '26 MIT LGO'26
GPA: 3.98
WE:Business Development (Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals)
05 Dec 2021, 10:10
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Hi everyone!
I think this review would be rather short, as i don't have much to share, although I believe I have gained some very meaningful insights with this first try.
First, I feel obliged to say that at first I was really unhappy with my score, but this feeling disapeeared approximately one week after the exam, as I understood this is just a beggining of a longer journey for me. Here I feel it would be appropriate to say that my plans regarding education have changed, as a week after my GMAT I got a small promotion and had my contract prolonged, and now I'm targeting full-time MBA in UK/US.
First, I would like to outline several significant mistakes in my preparation that had a significant impact on my final result.
1) Not having a specific preparation plan due to a short timeline
Having a relatively quant-heavy background, I have always believed that Quant would be the easiest part for me. I've tried going through several official guides and haven't seen any hard questions (so it seemed to me). Then I tried to solve many tasks from GMAT club Quant part, and in total I have solved ~300 PS and ~280 DS questions (700+) since mid-September 2021.
I haven't experienced significant issues and gained a lot of insights, but my main mistake was that I completely forgot the format of the official tasks and how they are formulated/written. On the test day, I tried to solve several official qeustions, and understood how much they differed from the ones on GMAT club. I panicked a little, and this had a negative impact on my performance overall. On my GMAT Club tests my average score for Quant was 50, so I think I have significantly underperomed on my official GMAT.
For my second attempt I will definitely plan a better and a more sofisticated plan for my Quant section to address all potential weak points.
At the same time, I've really started preparing for the Verbal section only 1.5 months before the test day, and my SC was very weak. Having done ~400 tasks I think I achieved a pretty good accuracy. I employed the e-GMAT technique which I've come across on the GMAT club forum, and this technique showed to be very effective. GMAT Ultimate Grammar guide is very helpful in helping to correct my weak spots in terms of grammar.
2) Not following the plan during the official test
As I oultined eralier, I think that I panicked excessively during my official GMAT, and this had a negative impact on my performance. Moreover, I was sitting the exam during the workweek on Wednesday, and I was a little bit exhausted and not very well rested. I chose the Quant, Verbal, IR, AWA order, and so I rushed a little into the quant section. At first, the level of tasks was increasing, I even had several Probability/Combinatorics quesitons. I think I made several mistakes in a row around questions 15-17, and then all my tasks became very easy. I have completed the Quant part 4 minutes ahead of time and have already had a feeling I might have failed to get my desired score.
I went through Verbal part pretty fast, being 5 minutes ahead of my target time on question 26. I know for sure which mistake I made on RC question, but it didn't bother me that much.
I wasn't really hoping for a high score anyway, so I rushed through IR and AWA. AWA score is surprisingly high for me, I haven't really put a lot of time to it, although I write long repors at my work regularly, maybe this helped me a little.
3) Changing plans during the preparation and having a crystal clear goal
When I started my preparation, I had a goal to apply for MSc in Finance in one of the top UK schools, and during my preparation I have significantly changed my focus and now plan to pursue an MBA at some of the finance-focused programs in US or UK. This had a significant impact on my perseverance during preparation time and sometimes I didn't feel like doing anything GMAT-related.
All in all, I think that my result - even though not very impressive - showed me that I could employ some nifty tactics to improve to my target score.
Please let me know if you have any questions and let's use this thread as an opportunity to discuss potential improvement in GMAT scores and how it could be achieved.
Best,
Andrei
I think this review would be rather short, as i don't have much to share, although I believe I have gained some very meaningful insights with this first try.
First, I feel obliged to say that at first I was really unhappy with my score, but this feeling disapeeared approximately one week after the exam, as I understood this is just a beggining of a longer journey for me. Here I feel it would be appropriate to say that my plans regarding education have changed, as a week after my GMAT I got a small promotion and had my contract prolonged, and now I'm targeting full-time MBA in UK/US.
First, I would like to outline several significant mistakes in my preparation that had a significant impact on my final result.
1) Not having a specific preparation plan due to a short timeline
Having a relatively quant-heavy background, I have always believed that Quant would be the easiest part for me. I've tried going through several official guides and haven't seen any hard questions (so it seemed to me). Then I tried to solve many tasks from GMAT club Quant part, and in total I have solved ~300 PS and ~280 DS questions (700+) since mid-September 2021.
I haven't experienced significant issues and gained a lot of insights, but my main mistake was that I completely forgot the format of the official tasks and how they are formulated/written. On the test day, I tried to solve several official qeustions, and understood how much they differed from the ones on GMAT club. I panicked a little, and this had a negative impact on my performance overall. On my GMAT Club tests my average score for Quant was 50, so I think I have significantly underperomed on my official GMAT.
For my second attempt I will definitely plan a better and a more sofisticated plan for my Quant section to address all potential weak points.
At the same time, I've really started preparing for the Verbal section only 1.5 months before the test day, and my SC was very weak. Having done ~400 tasks I think I achieved a pretty good accuracy. I employed the e-GMAT technique which I've come across on the GMAT club forum, and this technique showed to be very effective. GMAT Ultimate Grammar guide is very helpful in helping to correct my weak spots in terms of grammar.
2) Not following the plan during the official test
As I oultined eralier, I think that I panicked excessively during my official GMAT, and this had a negative impact on my performance. Moreover, I was sitting the exam during the workweek on Wednesday, and I was a little bit exhausted and not very well rested. I chose the Quant, Verbal, IR, AWA order, and so I rushed a little into the quant section. At first, the level of tasks was increasing, I even had several Probability/Combinatorics quesitons. I think I made several mistakes in a row around questions 15-17, and then all my tasks became very easy. I have completed the Quant part 4 minutes ahead of time and have already had a feeling I might have failed to get my desired score.
I went through Verbal part pretty fast, being 5 minutes ahead of my target time on question 26. I know for sure which mistake I made on RC question, but it didn't bother me that much.
I wasn't really hoping for a high score anyway, so I rushed through IR and AWA. AWA score is surprisingly high for me, I haven't really put a lot of time to it, although I write long repors at my work regularly, maybe this helped me a little.
3) Changing plans during the preparation and having a crystal clear goal
When I started my preparation, I had a goal to apply for MSc in Finance in one of the top UK schools, and during my preparation I have significantly changed my focus and now plan to pursue an MBA at some of the finance-focused programs in US or UK. This had a significant impact on my perseverance during preparation time and sometimes I didn't feel like doing anything GMAT-related.
All in all, I think that my result - even though not very impressive - showed me that I could employ some nifty tactics to improve to my target score.
Please let me know if you have any questions and let's use this thread as an opportunity to discuss potential improvement in GMAT scores and how it could be achieved.
Best,
Andrei
08 Dec 2021, 20:28
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Congratulations on your 710! What score did you start with? What was your diagnostic?
V39 is really awesome by the way!
It seems you are going after a Master's? Are you applying in Jan/Feb/March?
V39 is really awesome by the way!
It seems you are going after a Master's? Are you applying in Jan/Feb/March?
16 Dec 2021, 14:10
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Hi andrenoble,
710 is a great score. Thank you for sharing and good luck with things moving forward.
710 is a great score. Thank you for sharing and good luck with things moving forward.
