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mjoeb
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 Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:56 am Post subject: Failed GMAT 5 Times |
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I'm very depressed.
I got tired during my last exam.
This is my 5th time writing this year.
I scored 380, then 400, then 460, then 390 and now back to 450.
I really want to get a higher score as an MBA program is waiting for me right now. They told me to just get a 550 and i'm good.
I've been dealing with this GMAT beast for more than a yr now. I work a full time job. First 4 attempts, I did self studying using OG 11 and various books...then for the 5th attempt I took a PR course and still using OG.
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skang357
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: Re: Failed GMAT 5 Times |
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| mjoeb wrote: | I'm very depressed.
I got tired during my last exam.
This is my 5th time writing this year.
I scored 380, then 400, then 460, then 390 and now back to 450.
I really want to get a higher score as an MBA program is waiting for me right now. They told me to just get a 550 and i'm good.
I've been dealing with this GMAT beast for more than a yr now. I work a full time job. First 4 attempts, I did self studying using OG 11 and various books...then for the 5th attempt I took a PR course and still using OG.
What am i doing wrong? |
Welcome to my club. I took first time 3 years ago with no prep and got 510.
Took it with one month of prep, answered all the OG material, but no practice tests, totally ran out of time on both sections, answered only 75% of the questions and got a 570.
What my strategy now is to to take a two practice tests every week between now and end August when I plan to retake the test. This and I'm gonna solve OG 10, PR, Manhattan GMAT stuff, do some quant refreshers and flash cards, Kaplan 800 (both books), and other Kaplan and PR stuff I can get my hands on.
My plan is to solve every kind of sentence completion and DS and PS kind of problems out there in existence so I can know ALL OF THE CONTENT.
The two practice tests I plan to take are going to help me with time management as that is the main thing for me.
On top of doing all of this, I"m gonna watch Rocky and Rocky 4 every week.
Especially the sequence when he's running through the streets of Philadelphia, he is clobbered by Apollo at the end and manages to get up before the 10 count, and his sequence of training in the mountains of Russia where he climbs the top of that snowy mountain and screams out "DRAGO!"
Think of you as little 5'10" Sly Stallone and the GMAT as 6'5" 275 lbs Ivan Drago.
The bigger they come, the harder they fall.
This is what I'm gonna do and I know it's gonna work.
I'm gonna tear the GMAT a new bunghole come August.
WERD TO THE MOTHER.
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pnat
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:02 am Post subject: Cheer up..! |
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Great job for not giving up trying! Taking the test 5 times takes courage and effort, it only shows your determination to improve your rating. It is an accomplishment itself, so hats off to you.
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Skang,
I love your strategy of pumping yourself up through visualization. That is a great technique for managing test anxiety and for boosting confidence. I hope you don't mind if I share it with my students!
Mjoeb, I also commend you for your preserverence. If the issue during the test is endurance, I think it may help you to practice taking the whole test in one sitting until you don't find youself getting tired. If the issue is having to do difficult problems in the morning, I would suggest shifting your study time more to those hours.
Since your score has stayed in a pretty narrow range, not showing much of an upward trend, it seems like you need to do something for try #6. Without working with you directly, it is hard for me to troubleshoot what might be going wrong. Maybe you are missing questions early on due to stress or hurry? Maybe you are missing questions closer to the end, because you are fatigued. Maybe you are missing questions of a certain type. I recommend that as you take your practice tests, you focus not just on your overall score, but when and why you are missing questions.
Best wishes,
Tatiana
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