Guys, I found this forum right after taking my second GMAT exam, trying to project a score combining all my best percentiles. I was really disappointed and confused after the second exam, which was 2 hours ago.
What happened was I got Quant(50, 90%)and Verbal(23, 30%) on the first try, when I happened to had a fever the day before; then I took the test a month later looking for a 720 with the knowledge that my verbal could be a lot better than just 30%. I went today and came back with a Quant(47, 73%) and Verbal(35, 74%). Do you see the problem here? Yes, the math part dropped dramatically. Regardless the fact that I am a fourth year college student with a math minor and I am from China(stereotypes are true sometimes, but failed this time), I don't understand how I did not feel any trouble finishing the math part before time ran out during my first shot but definitely stumbled today. I can tell that the two math parts I had were totally on different difficulty level. I am so confused now. Was I just really lucky the first time?
Some background. I studied for and took GRE before for grad school(and I am going to grad school instead of management school the coming fall). The concept of testing test takers logic skills in GRE is the same as in GMAT, so I did not prepare a studying schedule. Instead, I bought the official guide and planed to finished all the sample questions on the book and online. During practice, mostly just using the OG, I have my math part normally around 80% to 100% correct and my verbal about 50% to 80% respectively. Having this in mind, I was really expecting a easy 720. BUT I was wrong. I would say doing practice test is definitely necessary cuz it helps improve your timing skill. I learned a huge lesson about the importance of timing today: because I didn't finish the integrated reasoning AND math part on time, I pushed myself a bit harder without sacrificing much accuracy. I finished the verbal part with 30 secs left which I consider as an achievement(always had trouble finishing verbal part on exams like this). I would say the verbal part from today's test was about the same difficulty as from a month ago. But I don't feel the same way for math.
I don't call myself a math person, but suffering on math part in my second GMAT simply doesn't make sense because I had solid fundamental math training all through my life. Shouldn't it reflect a level that is at least close to what I reached on the first time?
Any idea? Similar experience?
What happened was I got Quant(50, 90%)and Verbal(23, 30%) on the first try, when I happened to had a fever the day before; then I took the test a month later looking for a 720 with the knowledge that my verbal could be a lot better than just 30%. I went today and came back with a Quant(47, 73%) and Verbal(35, 74%). Do you see the problem here? Yes, the math part dropped dramatically. Regardless the fact that I am a fourth year college student with a math minor and I am from China(stereotypes are true sometimes, but failed this time), I don't understand how I did not feel any trouble finishing the math part before time ran out during my first shot but definitely stumbled today. I can tell that the two math parts I had were totally on different difficulty level. I am so confused now. Was I just really lucky the first time?
Some background. I studied for and took GRE before for grad school(and I am going to grad school instead of management school the coming fall). The concept of testing test takers logic skills in GRE is the same as in GMAT, so I did not prepare a studying schedule. Instead, I bought the official guide and planed to finished all the sample questions on the book and online. During practice, mostly just using the OG, I have my math part normally around 80% to 100% correct and my verbal about 50% to 80% respectively. Having this in mind, I was really expecting a easy 720. BUT I was wrong. I would say doing practice test is definitely necessary cuz it helps improve your timing skill. I learned a huge lesson about the importance of timing today: because I didn't finish the integrated reasoning AND math part on time, I pushed myself a bit harder without sacrificing much accuracy. I finished the verbal part with 30 secs left which I consider as an achievement(always had trouble finishing verbal part on exams like this). I would say the verbal part from today's test was about the same difficulty as from a month ago. But I don't feel the same way for math.
I don't call myself a math person, but suffering on math part in my second GMAT simply doesn't make sense because I had solid fundamental math training all through my life. Shouldn't it reflect a level that is at least close to what I reached on the first time?
Any idea? Similar experience?
