HI Team,
I recently gave the GMAT and scored a poor 580(Q43 V 27), my target score is 700+. Plan to now apply to all the EPGP programs at the IIM A/B/C next year . In all the of he mocks that I gave the average was between 660 and 690(gave only 2 serious mocks 2-3 days before the main exam), didnt score so low in any of the GMAT mocks. All mocks I gave were without IR and AWA. The concentration was too low during the main test especially after AWA and IR. I went through is MGMAT all 5 quant books, E-GMAT for Verbal and IR.Studied for 3 months about an hour on weekdays and 3-4 hours on weekends.
My expereinces during the test day
The test was schdedulde at 9 am woke up at 5.45 am, was not feeling good.In the days before the gmat was sleeping late and waking up late. Suddenly waking up early on the test day might have cuased the whole body clock to go for a toss.Reached the center at 7.45 am , no one was there at the test center .I had to roam a lot that might have caused some stress . Finally was called in at 8.45 the formailites were done and was GMAT started at 9.00 am. AWA was easy but my eyes were straining not sure whether the to strain or not practisung AWA.Same with IR questions seemed to be easy but was feeling stressed . When I started with Quant had a feeling that I was making a lot of mistakes, as was getting very easy questions, in the between started getting difficult questions felt good but they might have taken a lot of time and I had to guess easy questions at the end. Might be this cuased a drop in the overscore, would like to point out here that i solved all the questions for GMAT Advanced Quant and OG 11. Not sure why the I got such a low score. Need to know what went wrong with my quant? was it that I was tired did a lot of errors.
Verbal also felt the same the passages,CR and SC seemed to be very easy, still went on answering. Was behind time in the middle got a tough passage and guessed all the answers in the passage. By the end tough passage question 31 had lost all comprehension skills, and was doing a lot of guessing at the end,
Based on the above summary identified some of my shortcomings are as below and want to advise also on the below point
1) Concentration for long time how to adapt to be alert for the 4 hours of the test, how do i built in the stess in my everyday work?
2) I have already completed studying most of the sudy material and figured out now that strategy is an issue, how do I learn again everything with the strategy.
3) Do I take a coaching or not take a coaching?
4) I am already 31 can one crack the GMAT at 31 is it my age ?
5) How many months I need to give before a reattempts, I can study max 1 hour 30 minutes on weekdays and 5 hours on weekends.
6)Mocks which one do I take and how many do I give, how do I time them?
7) Any other suggestions on how I can improve my score
I recently gave the GMAT and scored a poor 580(Q43 V 27), my target score is 700+. Plan to now apply to all the EPGP programs at the IIM A/B/C next year . In all the of he mocks that I gave the average was between 660 and 690(gave only 2 serious mocks 2-3 days before the main exam), didnt score so low in any of the GMAT mocks. All mocks I gave were without IR and AWA. The concentration was too low during the main test especially after AWA and IR. I went through is MGMAT all 5 quant books, E-GMAT for Verbal and IR.Studied for 3 months about an hour on weekdays and 3-4 hours on weekends.
My expereinces during the test day
The test was schdedulde at 9 am woke up at 5.45 am, was not feeling good.In the days before the gmat was sleeping late and waking up late. Suddenly waking up early on the test day might have cuased the whole body clock to go for a toss.Reached the center at 7.45 am , no one was there at the test center .I had to roam a lot that might have caused some stress . Finally was called in at 8.45 the formailites were done and was GMAT started at 9.00 am. AWA was easy but my eyes were straining not sure whether the to strain or not practisung AWA.Same with IR questions seemed to be easy but was feeling stressed . When I started with Quant had a feeling that I was making a lot of mistakes, as was getting very easy questions, in the between started getting difficult questions felt good but they might have taken a lot of time and I had to guess easy questions at the end. Might be this cuased a drop in the overscore, would like to point out here that i solved all the questions for GMAT Advanced Quant and OG 11. Not sure why the I got such a low score. Need to know what went wrong with my quant? was it that I was tired did a lot of errors.
Verbal also felt the same the passages,CR and SC seemed to be very easy, still went on answering. Was behind time in the middle got a tough passage and guessed all the answers in the passage. By the end tough passage question 31 had lost all comprehension skills, and was doing a lot of guessing at the end,
Based on the above summary identified some of my shortcomings are as below and want to advise also on the below point
1) Concentration for long time how to adapt to be alert for the 4 hours of the test, how do i built in the stess in my everyday work?
2) I have already completed studying most of the sudy material and figured out now that strategy is an issue, how do I learn again everything with the strategy.
3) Do I take a coaching or not take a coaching?
4) I am already 31 can one crack the GMAT at 31 is it my age ?
5) How many months I need to give before a reattempts, I can study max 1 hour 30 minutes on weekdays and 5 hours on weekends.
6)Mocks which one do I take and how many do I give, how do I time them?
7) Any other suggestions on how I can improve my score
