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bovice
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Schools: Wharton '14 (D) Fuqua '14 (A$) Booth '14 (M$) CBS '14 (WL) Kellogg '14 (WA) Stanford '14 (D)
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Schools: Wharton '14 (D) Fuqua '14 (A$) Booth '14 (M$) CBS '14 (WL) Kellogg '14 (WA) Stanford '14 (D)
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28 Jul 2010, 14:22
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I'm not really new to the forum; I actually read posts here pretty often. Nevertheless, this is my first real post.
I took my official GMAT today, and after months of preparation -- I started studying this past April by taking the MGMAT -- I only managed to score a 560.
Talk about heartbreak!
After my MGMAT course ended in June, I studied almost religiously. I took a test per week every week up to this past Sunday, July 25, scoring progressively better with each test. My scores were as follows, in order: 590 (Q36, V34); 620(Q36, V35); 660 (Q39,V41) 630 (Q41, V35); 660 (Q43,V38). The final test was taken 3 days before the real exam. I scored a 660.
Today, on the official test I scored a 560 (Q31, V36). I don't know or understand what happened to me today. I completely choked. I was so lost throughout most of the Quants section. Then, finally, when I got to the last question, I selected my answer, clicked next and before I could confirm the answer time ran out. I know this cost my A LOT of points. After part 1, I was so upset at how the section had gone, I couldn't even complete the verbal in good faith. I completely lost it.
I guess my question is: Now what? Where do I go from here? I feel like I need to get a better handle on the Quants concepts, but I don't know where to start. I've noticed that I struggle a great deal with DS questions. With verbal, RC, of all the subject matters tested, is by far my best. Occasionally I'll miss one RC question, two maybe, but usually I get them all right. CR is the wort for me. I am never confident in my answer choices there. SC, went through MGMAT's SC guide, but I guess now I feel like I should go through it again.
I spent majority of my preparation time focusing on my quants skills, and still, I feel like I am lost with the concepts. Even in my practice tests, of the the quants questions I got right, I feel like I got them right because the questions mimicked in some way, though not exactly, a question I had previously seen, and I'd just memorized the procedure.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone else experienced the results I did, and how they got through it. Right now, 4 hours post taking the official test, I feel like letting go of my B-school dream. But, hopefully, that's just how I feel today and won't feel that way tomorrow.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Bovice
I took my official GMAT today, and after months of preparation -- I started studying this past April by taking the MGMAT -- I only managed to score a 560.
Talk about heartbreak! After my MGMAT course ended in June, I studied almost religiously. I took a test per week every week up to this past Sunday, July 25, scoring progressively better with each test. My scores were as follows, in order: 590 (Q36, V34); 620(Q36, V35); 660 (Q39,V41) 630 (Q41, V35); 660 (Q43,V38). The final test was taken 3 days before the real exam. I scored a 660.
Today, on the official test I scored a 560 (Q31, V36). I don't know or understand what happened to me today. I completely choked. I was so lost throughout most of the Quants section. Then, finally, when I got to the last question, I selected my answer, clicked next and before I could confirm the answer time ran out. I know this cost my A LOT of points. After part 1, I was so upset at how the section had gone, I couldn't even complete the verbal in good faith. I completely lost it.
I guess my question is: Now what? Where do I go from here? I feel like I need to get a better handle on the Quants concepts, but I don't know where to start. I've noticed that I struggle a great deal with DS questions. With verbal, RC, of all the subject matters tested, is by far my best. Occasionally I'll miss one RC question, two maybe, but usually I get them all right. CR is the wort for me. I am never confident in my answer choices there. SC, went through MGMAT's SC guide, but I guess now I feel like I should go through it again.
I spent majority of my preparation time focusing on my quants skills, and still, I feel like I am lost with the concepts. Even in my practice tests, of the the quants questions I got right, I feel like I got them right because the questions mimicked in some way, though not exactly, a question I had previously seen, and I'd just memorized the procedure.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone else experienced the results I did, and how they got through it. Right now, 4 hours post taking the official test, I feel like letting go of my B-school dream. But, hopefully, that's just how I feel today and won't feel that way tomorrow.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Bovice
28 Jul 2010, 22:53
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Welcome to GMAT Club.
Don't let go of your dreams! It is just a GMAT. It does look like your Quant score is usually better based on your practice tests. Sometimes it is a glitch due to stress/worry/etc. Your verbal score was impacted as well.
The key for the GMAT is to be very comfortable with topics tested such as arithmetic, word problems, geometry, etc.
For example, do you know how many percent is one eighth? or what a square root of 3 is?
Key to math is to pick up patterns and figure them out so you can save time solving "easier" questions. Hard questions require more often than not an unorthodox approach and can't be prepared for really except by knowing the material.
Would recommend you go through MGMAT Guides the second time (esp quant) and maybe even get a MGMAT Math Foundations or look into picking up a copy of Veritas Guides if you covered MGMAT too much and make notes. Making notes helps a lot. Also don't move on to the next chapter/section/book until you know the material in the current one and is very sure about it. Review previous chapters daily. Start your study with review of yesterday's topic.
P.S. If you chose an answer, the test will count it as answered even if the time runs out before you click Next or Confirm or anything, so you just have to select an answer (which you did, and is good)
Also, take a look at this thread: should-i-retake-gmat-thread-retaking-gmat-strategies-83339.html?highlight=ml303
Don't let go of your dreams! It is just a GMAT. It does look like your Quant score is usually better based on your practice tests. Sometimes it is a glitch due to stress/worry/etc. Your verbal score was impacted as well.
The key for the GMAT is to be very comfortable with topics tested such as arithmetic, word problems, geometry, etc.
For example, do you know how many percent is one eighth? or what a square root of 3 is?
Key to math is to pick up patterns and figure them out so you can save time solving "easier" questions. Hard questions require more often than not an unorthodox approach and can't be prepared for really except by knowing the material.
Would recommend you go through MGMAT Guides the second time (esp quant) and maybe even get a MGMAT Math Foundations or look into picking up a copy of Veritas Guides if you covered MGMAT too much and make notes. Making notes helps a lot. Also don't move on to the next chapter/section/book until you know the material in the current one and is very sure about it. Review previous chapters daily. Start your study with review of yesterday's topic.
P.S. If you chose an answer, the test will count it as answered even if the time runs out before you click Next or Confirm or anything, so you just have to select an answer (which you did, and is good)
Also, take a look at this thread: should-i-retake-gmat-thread-retaking-gmat-strategies-83339.html?highlight=ml303
29 Jul 2010, 02:14
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This is real surprising. was the real GMAT tougher than GMAT prep and MGMAT?
