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Hi!
It's my first and last post, I decided to post my experience since in the last period this website has been really useful to check my mistakes and for advices. Feel free to ask me any questions, I will try to answer to anyone!
I woke up in mid September and noticed some masters I wanted to apply required GRE/GMAT, therefore I started studying for the GRE with online resources but then discovered the GMAT Focus and decided to prepare for that due to the difference in the verbal part.
The reason is can be explained by my IELTS score (Listening 9, Reading 9, Writing 7, Speaking 6.5). i.e. I lack vocabulary and I'm not used to write essays.
My target was anything that would be converted into a GMAT 700+ and started studying some hours per week.
I didn't save the results of my mocks but when I started studying I scored around 700-730 on unofficial mocks, my strong part is quant and therefore there wasn't much to study on imho (whatever strategy I read on verbal for me just made no sense, and if it did I wasn't able to replicate it); just to practice.
I didn't want to spend much money on preparation as already the cost of the test is a burden therefore I only used resources everyone can find for free online (p.s. think about the probability of not buying and having to re-take the test, you could save money, evaluate your own situation).
In the last two weeks of preparation I started studying more intensively (3h/day) and the last day devoted entirely to prepare. I was discouraged after doing the official practice exams as I got around 635/665, but after the retake I scored 715 and gave me a boost in morale (which of course is inflated for obvious reasons) with minutes to spare.
Today after effectively a month of intense grind I had the test in Milan and decided to do:
DI Quant Break Verbal
in order to use optimally my mental energy (during the break I needed cold water to wake up for verbal while after DI I was already tired but quant was my strong point).
While doing DI and Verbal sometimes I was zoning out and couldn't understand what the question said, therefore I put the most probable one and felt slightly sad thinking about the results.
Quant was saving my life and even though there were some weird questions I managed to do all except two questions with 20 minutes to spare. However for these two questions twenty minutes weren't enough and I solved one (using the change answer function) but for the other I guessed randomly. I never expected to even encounter that type of question, really really weird. (I don't think I'm allowed to say what was the question otherwise I would).
The break helped and as I said felt demoralized during verbal as some texts were extremely long and with unfamiliar lexicon.
But it's a happy ending!
Either I got lucky or the curve is really weird but these are my unofficial results:
Total: 685 (97%)
Quant 84/90 (85%)
DI: 83/90 (96%)
Verbal: 85/90 (96%)
Which as of today is equivalent to a 740 in the normal gmat
The tables had turned! I performed best in my weakest point and worst in my best (For normal gmat mocks i would usually score around 49 for quant and 40 for verbal).
Therefore yes I feel extremely satisfied even though I think I'd able to get perfect quant, however the luck I didn't get here I got it in the other sections for the answers I wasn't sure of
I also have two questions:
1) what is the number of questions I got wrong? Even an estimate is fine, just to understand.
2) Do conversion tables changes over time? May my 685 become a 730 or 720 or 710 in the future? Or the important thing is the percentile?
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It's my first and last post, I decided to post my experience since in the last period this website has been really useful to check my mistakes and for advices. Feel free to ask me any questions, I will try to answer to anyone!
I woke up in mid September and noticed some masters I wanted to apply required GRE/GMAT, therefore I started studying for the GRE with online resources but then discovered the GMAT Focus and decided to prepare for that due to the difference in the verbal part.
The reason is can be explained by my IELTS score (Listening 9, Reading 9, Writing 7, Speaking 6.5). i.e. I lack vocabulary and I'm not used to write essays.
My target was anything that would be converted into a GMAT 700+ and started studying some hours per week.
I didn't save the results of my mocks but when I started studying I scored around 700-730 on unofficial mocks, my strong part is quant and therefore there wasn't much to study on imho (whatever strategy I read on verbal for me just made no sense, and if it did I wasn't able to replicate it); just to practice.
I didn't want to spend much money on preparation as already the cost of the test is a burden therefore I only used resources everyone can find for free online (p.s. think about the probability of not buying and having to re-take the test, you could save money, evaluate your own situation).
In the last two weeks of preparation I started studying more intensively (3h/day) and the last day devoted entirely to prepare. I was discouraged after doing the official practice exams as I got around 635/665, but after the retake I scored 715 and gave me a boost in morale (which of course is inflated for obvious reasons) with minutes to spare.
Today after effectively a month of intense grind I had the test in Milan and decided to do:
DI Quant Break Verbal
in order to use optimally my mental energy (during the break I needed cold water to wake up for verbal while after DI I was already tired but quant was my strong point).
While doing DI and Verbal sometimes I was zoning out and couldn't understand what the question said, therefore I put the most probable one and felt slightly sad thinking about the results.
Quant was saving my life and even though there were some weird questions I managed to do all except two questions with 20 minutes to spare. However for these two questions twenty minutes weren't enough and I solved one (using the change answer function) but for the other I guessed randomly. I never expected to even encounter that type of question, really really weird. (I don't think I'm allowed to say what was the question otherwise I would).
The break helped and as I said felt demoralized during verbal as some texts were extremely long and with unfamiliar lexicon.
But it's a happy ending!
Either I got lucky or the curve is really weird but these are my unofficial results:
Total: 685 (97%)
Quant 84/90 (85%)
DI: 83/90 (96%)
Verbal: 85/90 (96%)
Which as of today is equivalent to a 740 in the normal gmat
The tables had turned! I performed best in my weakest point and worst in my best (For normal gmat mocks i would usually score around 49 for quant and 40 for verbal).
Therefore yes I feel extremely satisfied even though I think I'd able to get perfect quant, however the luck I didn't get here I got it in the other sections for the answers I wasn't sure of
I also have two questions:
1) what is the number of questions I got wrong? Even an estimate is fine, just to understand.
2) Do conversion tables changes over time? May my 685 become a 730 or 720 or 710 in the future? Or the important thing is the percentile?
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Updated on: 22 Nov 2023, 08:32
Originally posted by mcelroytutoring on 17 Nov 2023, 16:29.
Last edited by mcelroytutoring on 22 Nov 2023, 08:32, edited 6 times in total.
Last edited by mcelroytutoring on 22 Nov 2023, 08:32, edited 6 times in total.
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Bocconiano
Hi Bocconiano, nice work!
1) When your GMAT Focus score becomes official in 2-3 days, you should receive an Official, Enhanced Score Report, which indicates exactly how many questions you answered incorrectly in each section.
17 Nov 2023, 16:38
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Thank you for sharing Bocconiano!
Fantastic score I have to say! 97th percentile is solid for pretty much all programs unless you are the dreaded tech Asian male.
Amazing job breezing through the Quant section. We have had a number of people comment on the quant being less dramatically difficult. Interesting about the weird question. That must have been a hard one. That’s the GMAT quant signature move - a question you have never seen before.
Thanks for sharing! Appreciate it!
PS. The 97th percentile is supposed to hold for a while. At least till next fall when we percentiles get posted but supposedly should hold for years. Supposedly.
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Fantastic score I have to say! 97th percentile is solid for pretty much all programs unless you are the dreaded tech Asian male.
Amazing job breezing through the Quant section. We have had a number of people comment on the quant being less dramatically difficult. Interesting about the weird question. That must have been a hard one. That’s the GMAT quant signature move - a question you have never seen before.
Thanks for sharing! Appreciate it!
PS. The 97th percentile is supposed to hold for a while. At least till next fall when we percentiles get posted but supposedly should hold for years. Supposedly.
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