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Thanks for sharing this — honest debriefs like yours are genuinely more useful than polished success stories for people figuring out what actually goes wrong on test day.

Your DI73 stands out immediately. That section catches a lot of people off guard because it's not just about reading charts correctly — it's about managing cognitive load across three very different question types in one section. Data Sufficiency rewards a clear elimination framework (can I answer the question with each statement independently, then together?), Graphs and Tables is almost entirely about reading the right data point under time pressure, and Multi-Source Reasoning is about synthesis rather than recall. The timing pressure you mentioned at the start of each section is especially real in DI — if you spend 3+ minutes on an early G&T question, you're essentially solving the rest under panic conditions.

For a second attempt, I'd treat DI as its own subject, not a bonus section. Practice each sub-type separately until the mechanics are automatic, then do mixed sets under strict time limits. Your Quant and Verbal scores show you already know how to study for an adaptive test — applying that same error-log rigor specifically to DI will move the needle fast.

You clearly have good test-day composure (staying calm, using breaks well). That's genuinely the hard part. The DI gap is very fixable with targeted work — you're closer than the 555 suggests.
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Thanks for sharing it was really good to know
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