Ok, game day is in 3 days, on Friday.
Yesterday I used GMATWrite2 and retook GMATPrep2 after a 1 month gap. I only saw 4-5 question repeats overall and still had to go ahead and solve them because I didn't remember the answer, so I think it still gives me a ballpark estimate of how I would do. I did my best simulation of test conditions -
AWA Argument - 6/6/6/6
Bathroom break (wasn't sure if you get one here on gameday, but I had to use the bathroom)
AWA Issue - 6/5/6/5 (really was sweating this out, but once my fingers started typing, my ideas flowed. Stared at the screen blankly for like 5 minutes though with no idea what to say...)
Which comes out to a 5.75, hopefully I can replicate that result on Friday and squeak out with a 6 (rounded up).
Felt that I was REALLY sweating out the Quant. Had to make barely educated guesses on 3-5 problems, maybe more. Somehow still did alright -
Q49
V44
Overall: 750
So this is my first simulation where I didn't skip the essays and went the distance. 3 days before game day. Next few days are just going to be review of the math questions I got wrong (again) and a little bit of MGMAT SC Strategy Guide light reading.
We'll see how it goes.
I read somewhere that the GMAT "paper" or erasable board is very difficult to use, and you can't distinguish between a "7" and a "4" when writing with their marker.
Is this true? Because I use like 10 sheets of normal paper on quant, and this would be a MAJOR source of friction for me if true.
Yesterday I used GMATWrite2 and retook GMATPrep2 after a 1 month gap. I only saw 4-5 question repeats overall and still had to go ahead and solve them because I didn't remember the answer, so I think it still gives me a ballpark estimate of how I would do. I did my best simulation of test conditions -
AWA Argument - 6/6/6/6
Bathroom break (wasn't sure if you get one here on gameday, but I had to use the bathroom)
AWA Issue - 6/5/6/5 (really was sweating this out, but once my fingers started typing, my ideas flowed. Stared at the screen blankly for like 5 minutes though with no idea what to say...)
Which comes out to a 5.75, hopefully I can replicate that result on Friday and squeak out with a 6 (rounded up).
Felt that I was REALLY sweating out the Quant. Had to make barely educated guesses on 3-5 problems, maybe more. Somehow still did alright -
Q49
V44
Overall: 750
So this is my first simulation where I didn't skip the essays and went the distance. 3 days before game day. Next few days are just going to be review of the math questions I got wrong (again) and a little bit of MGMAT SC Strategy Guide light reading.
We'll see how it goes.
I read somewhere that the GMAT "paper" or erasable board is very difficult to use, and you can't distinguish between a "7" and a "4" when writing with their marker.
Is this true? Because I use like 10 sheets of normal paper on quant, and this would be a MAJOR source of friction for me if true.
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