I'm going for a 4th attempt

rtfact · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:14 am Post subject: I'm going for a 4th attempt

I had my 3rd attempt yesterday, and I would like to share some of my frustrations.

I sacrificed much of my personal life activities to succeed in the GMAT,
but still I haven't reached my desired goal, which is approximately the 700 mark.

I studied hard for all three attempts.
In the first one I received 550 Q46 V21.
In the following month I made the second attempt. 640 Q48 V28.
Another month passed, and I made another attempt (which was yesterday). 640 Q45 V32.
I know I am in the 700 level, and in all simulations (including gmatPrep) I have never received less than 48 in the quantitative section. Usually it is 49-50, and rarely 48. My average verbal score is 38.
I believe the pressure is influencing me by a great deal.
There is another factor. I have noticed that my time management in simulations is much better than it is during the actual test. In my third attempt I had to guess 10 questions (32-41), which never happened to me at home.

Another interesting fact was that in question 32 I had a really tough biology reading comprehension passage. I looked at the time, and there were 9 minutes left. I couldn't avoid thinking that I won't be able to complete the text in time, because such a difficult text (with 4 long questions) usually takes me 9 minutes, and indeed I guessed all of the questions in this passage.

My conclusions for the fourth attempt:
1. Strict time management. I need to increase my time checkpoints and to pace myself accordingly. (one checkpoint is not enough).
2. I need to learn to cope with stress in order to be more creative in quantitative.

moneyman · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:05 am Post subject:

Go for it dude..All the best

maverick2000 · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

Go for the kill dude!

logitech · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:03 am Post subject:

The beast is wounded! Show no mercy!

FINISH IT!! Laughing

3gmater · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:03 am Post subject:

My clone!

My story was 550>600>640....and finally 710.
I know how it feels......when you don't get what you want and when you know that you are capable of achieving it. (this sentence has lots of pronoun errors Smile

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All the best for your 4th attempt.

-3G

rtfact · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:

Thanks for the support, and I promise to do anything in my power to kill it Smile

don't you feel bad sometimes that you are not using every SC rule when writing comments in forums?

logitech · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject:

lunarpower · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: I'm going for a 4th attempt

nitinrai · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject:

Well my friend,

We both are fighting with same enemy : GMAT.
I have read ur reaction after 3rd attempt in GMAT. whats really made me write you this PM is ur 'Never Say Die' attitude towards the GMAT and the way you have written "I promise to do anything in my power to kill it ", its shows that what kind of determination u have toward ur goal infact u have motivated me too in BIG way now.. I have given my GMAT twice and both time I have scored 610 & 600 respectively but I know that I can touch 700 EASILY (In my second attempt I would have almost about to do so as my Q was 50, but verbal beast have emerged from some where and I faced the same problem what u have faced..Now even I am giving my 3rd attempt in couple of week and I have been consistantly scoring 640 and so in MGMAT I need to work on my TIME & ANXIETY tats it..

Can you give me ur contact number I really want to talk to you so that my rythm should not broke.. BTW are u in USA coz I am in NY, USA.

bacali · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

nitinrai,

how did you get a 50 in Q???? I have 3 weeks to go and need to raise my quant badly.

nitinrai · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject:

well.. If you have 3 week then you should plan as follow:-

1) First finished off entire OG11/10 and, Green Supplement .. This all have @ 1200+ question (Offcourse you can see more than half of the question overlapping between OG10 and OG11& Green Supplement..

2) If you still have time then try to solve MGMAT paper.. Read the solution very carefully once you are done with ur exam.. I must say MGMAt has played very crucial role to increase my confidence in quant

3) Finally, solve both GMATPrep test , minimum 3 time each.. and read the solution of the sum, which ever u can't get write from any of the forum. Trust me in my GMAT I happen to see DS problems which were in line with what we have in GMATPrep ...

4) Also, I have solved entire 3 Set Gmat Paper from MBA.COM which consist of 9 paper.. I guess solving those question will develop in u a GMAT physic for Quant problem.. and u start feeling more comfortable wid those problem

5) Added to this u shud also pay attention to Probability and Permutation & Combination kind of problem.. Coz these are the area from which u may see question if u are doing really good in ur quant.. For that I can suggest u again MGMAT book or the problem which u will see in MGMAT test... Practice those religiously..

I guess I have suggested u too many way Smile

) ,, Try to cover whatever u can in this 3 week ... But remember one thing try to analyze the problem carefully.. give preference to Quality over Quantity .. Finally if u still not confident i wud seriously recommend u to posponsed ur date by a month ...

I hope these suggestion may have helped you..
Let me know if u need any more help

All the best Friend!!!

3gmater · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: