Hello,
I gave my GMAT (first attempt) couple of days back and got a score of 660 (Q50, V28, IR2).
Quant comes naturally to me and the only mistakes that I was making in it were silly mistakes such as reading question incorrectly or wrong calculations. I was able to overcome these mistakes during my practice tests.
However, I am highly disappointed with my verbal score.
During the test, I felt like I was doing well and still got such a low score in verbal.
I got much higher score than this in almost all of my mock tests.
I am unable to understand where my verbal skills are lacking. While giving the test I didn't feel much time pressure as it seemed to be going at right pace, only last couple of SC questions I had to read quickly and mark. While giving the test I was getting confused between last 2 choices in SC. But CR and RC seemed fine. I was feeling that they were easier as compared to GMATPrep but I was shocked to see verbal score in the end. I guess I also got a bit nervous during verbal section (don't know why).
I now feel that I am missing something strategy-wise in verbal.
I want to improve my verbal score, experts please guide me.
My background: 30, female, engineer with 7 years of work experience
Preparation-
I purchased e-gmat Online course (Quant + Verbal) in June and went through it religiously.
I also went through all the GMATPrepnow videos. In addition to this I went through MGMAT SC guide.
I did all OG questions in timed manner and maintained an error log for it.
Then I gave mock tests. Below are my mock score with dates. I reviewed all these mock tests after giving them and maintained error log for them as well.
Test Date Score Quant Verbal
800 score test -1 13-Oct-15 600 48 25
800 score test -2 14-Oct-15 660 47 33
800 score test -3 15-Oct-15 610 47 27
MGMAT1 (without IR) 17-Oct-15 580 42 30
Economist GMAT 21-Oct-15 670 49 34
800 score test -4 22-Oct-15 740 50 40
MGMAT2 (without IR) 23-Oct-15 630 45 32
MGMAT3 (without IR) 28-Oct-15 660 44 36
GMATPrep1 (with IR + AWA) 1-Nov-15 650 48 31
MGMAT4 (with IR) 4-Nov-15 680 47 35
MGMAT5 (without IR) 7-Nov-15 680 48 34
MGMAT6 (without IR) 9-Nov-15 680 46 37
GMATPrep2(with IR + AWA) 12-Nov-15 720 50 38
GMATPrep1 (Repeat) (without IR or AWA) 14-Nov 730(Q50, V38)
GMATPrep2 (Repeat) (without IR or AWA) 15-Nov 750(Q50, V40)
Final GMAT 17-Nov 660(Q50, V28)
Thanks.
I gave my GMAT (first attempt) couple of days back and got a score of 660 (Q50, V28, IR2).
Quant comes naturally to me and the only mistakes that I was making in it were silly mistakes such as reading question incorrectly or wrong calculations. I was able to overcome these mistakes during my practice tests.
However, I am highly disappointed with my verbal score.
During the test, I felt like I was doing well and still got such a low score in verbal.
I got much higher score than this in almost all of my mock tests.
I am unable to understand where my verbal skills are lacking. While giving the test I didn't feel much time pressure as it seemed to be going at right pace, only last couple of SC questions I had to read quickly and mark. While giving the test I was getting confused between last 2 choices in SC. But CR and RC seemed fine. I was feeling that they were easier as compared to GMATPrep but I was shocked to see verbal score in the end. I guess I also got a bit nervous during verbal section (don't know why).
I now feel that I am missing something strategy-wise in verbal.
I want to improve my verbal score, experts please guide me.
My background: 30, female, engineer with 7 years of work experience
Preparation-
I purchased e-gmat Online course (Quant + Verbal) in June and went through it religiously.
I also went through all the GMATPrepnow videos. In addition to this I went through MGMAT SC guide.
I did all OG questions in timed manner and maintained an error log for it.
Then I gave mock tests. Below are my mock score with dates. I reviewed all these mock tests after giving them and maintained error log for them as well.
Test Date Score Quant Verbal
800 score test -1 13-Oct-15 600 48 25
800 score test -2 14-Oct-15 660 47 33
800 score test -3 15-Oct-15 610 47 27
MGMAT1 (without IR) 17-Oct-15 580 42 30
Economist GMAT 21-Oct-15 670 49 34
800 score test -4 22-Oct-15 740 50 40
MGMAT2 (without IR) 23-Oct-15 630 45 32
MGMAT3 (without IR) 28-Oct-15 660 44 36
GMATPrep1 (with IR + AWA) 1-Nov-15 650 48 31
MGMAT4 (with IR) 4-Nov-15 680 47 35
MGMAT5 (without IR) 7-Nov-15 680 48 34
MGMAT6 (without IR) 9-Nov-15 680 46 37
GMATPrep2(with IR + AWA) 12-Nov-15 720 50 38
GMATPrep1 (Repeat) (without IR or AWA) 14-Nov 730(Q50, V38)
GMATPrep2 (Repeat) (without IR or AWA) 15-Nov 750(Q50, V40)
Final GMAT 17-Nov 660(Q50, V28)
Thanks.
