Hello all -
I personally bombed the GMAT this morning although I was aiming for a 720 or higher. My problem was not doing enough timed practice exams beforehand, and specifically, not focusing on a strategy for the hard quant questions.
When I started to do really well on the real exam today and started getting hit with the harder questions, I spent too much time and couldn't let go and just move on. I actually ended up not reaching 6 of the final questions on the math section, which I know means I would have gotten a really bad score no matter how well I did on the questions I did answer.
At that point, I decided to go through the rest of the exam while at the same time thinking about whether or not to cancel my scores - I'm almost sad to say my AWA and verbal were probably excellent. However, I knew I didn't want to apply with that low of a math score, especially since I know all the math concepts, but need to figure out how to optimize my time.
Really sad and disappointed right now, but determined to do better next time. At this point I'm buying a number of additional books - I only had Kaplan and the OG 11.
Any advice and/or any other feedback are highly appreciated.
Thanks and good luck to all!
I personally bombed the GMAT this morning although I was aiming for a 720 or higher. My problem was not doing enough timed practice exams beforehand, and specifically, not focusing on a strategy for the hard quant questions.
When I started to do really well on the real exam today and started getting hit with the harder questions, I spent too much time and couldn't let go and just move on. I actually ended up not reaching 6 of the final questions on the math section, which I know means I would have gotten a really bad score no matter how well I did on the questions I did answer.
At that point, I decided to go through the rest of the exam while at the same time thinking about whether or not to cancel my scores - I'm almost sad to say my AWA and verbal were probably excellent. However, I knew I didn't want to apply with that low of a math score, especially since I know all the math concepts, but need to figure out how to optimize my time.
Really sad and disappointed right now, but determined to do better next time. At this point I'm buying a number of additional books - I only had Kaplan and the OG 11.
Any advice and/or any other feedback are highly appreciated.
Thanks and good luck to all!
