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Mr_T
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Hello,
I thought I'd share my assessment of my first CAT. I would appreciate any comments or advice you have.
Ok...I scored a 610 on the MGMAT CAT (Q: 40, Q 34). It's not what I was looking for, but the upside is that there is a lot of room for improvement. My objective is to score 640-650 on my next CAT. I believe that it will not be that difficult to achieve. Thanks to the MGMAT helpful assessment report I was able to notice a few things:
Quant
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The results show that I had difficulty on divisibility problems, but to be honest some of those questions were pretty tough. After the test I redid the problems I missed and, for the majority of the cases, I was able to solve them easily once the pressure was off. However, I still had difficulty with some of those divisibility problems.
A problem I had was that I spent just over 4 mins on three problems, but then again I did get those right. Was it worth it? Should I have quit and tried to guess an answer after two minutes?
Finally, I think mental fatigue and over confidence in terms of time played the biggest factor in my score. After the first 17 questions, I was flying! I thought it would be a good time to slow down a bit...boy was I wrong. I took my sweet time in the middle portion, especially since some questions were challenging. That action cost me. I fell behind time and when I realized that, I panicked. After that, I had a hard time reading questions and thus I got a lot of the questions wrong at the end even the easy ones. Oh and I have no guessing technique what's so ever.
Verbal
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Actually, I'm not really dissapointed wiith my verbal score. I was surprised to see that I did better in critical reasoning than sentence correction. Looking a little closer I noticed that it's because I had a harder time with diffcult sentence correction questions than difficult critical reasoning ones. It was actually the contrary for medium level questions. As for reading comprehension, it was my worst section, but it's difficult to really improve...
I have not yet reviewed the errors.
Next Step
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Quant: Do some divisibility problems , update flash cards with errors from CAT, do some research on guessing techniques
Verbal: Review sentence correction notes (long-time since I reviewed them), Do difficult SC questions.
What do you think?
I thought I'd share my assessment of my first CAT. I would appreciate any comments or advice you have.
Ok...I scored a 610 on the MGMAT CAT (Q: 40, Q 34). It's not what I was looking for, but the upside is that there is a lot of room for improvement. My objective is to score 640-650 on my next CAT. I believe that it will not be that difficult to achieve. Thanks to the MGMAT helpful assessment report I was able to notice a few things:
Quant
--------
The results show that I had difficulty on divisibility problems, but to be honest some of those questions were pretty tough. After the test I redid the problems I missed and, for the majority of the cases, I was able to solve them easily once the pressure was off. However, I still had difficulty with some of those divisibility problems.
A problem I had was that I spent just over 4 mins on three problems, but then again I did get those right. Was it worth it? Should I have quit and tried to guess an answer after two minutes?
Finally, I think mental fatigue and over confidence in terms of time played the biggest factor in my score. After the first 17 questions, I was flying! I thought it would be a good time to slow down a bit...boy was I wrong. I took my sweet time in the middle portion, especially since some questions were challenging. That action cost me. I fell behind time and when I realized that, I panicked. After that, I had a hard time reading questions and thus I got a lot of the questions wrong at the end even the easy ones. Oh and I have no guessing technique what's so ever.
Verbal
--------
Actually, I'm not really dissapointed wiith my verbal score. I was surprised to see that I did better in critical reasoning than sentence correction. Looking a little closer I noticed that it's because I had a harder time with diffcult sentence correction questions than difficult critical reasoning ones. It was actually the contrary for medium level questions. As for reading comprehension, it was my worst section, but it's difficult to really improve...
I have not yet reviewed the errors.
Next Step
------------
Quant: Do some divisibility problems , update flash cards with errors from CAT, do some research on guessing techniques
Verbal: Review sentence correction notes (long-time since I reviewed them), Do difficult SC questions.
What do you think?
