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malhotneha
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I need some advice. I started preparing for my GMAT in mid Dec and gave my GMAT exam on 29th Jan. I got a 550 score (44Q AND 23V) and 5 in my AWA.
I had a huge timing issue. I was fine with the essay but with the quantitative section, I focussed too much on the first few questions and had to guess the last 10 questions.
Although in my 10 min break, I wanted to completely take my mind off my poor performance in quantitative section, it came to haunt me in verbal. I couldn't stop myself looking at the stop watch and basically messed up my verbal section. RC is my weakest point in verbal as I cannot concentrate enough and my initial strategy was to give in my best in RC and ace in CR and SC...
Anyways, I am planning to give it again in four weeks. I know I should be focusing on time, RC and time...but where can I get more practice material?
I initially practiced from OG, Kaplan and Princeton guide books and few sample test papers that I bought from mba.com. However, because I already know those questions, I may not be able to improve my timing in the real sense by going over the same questions. What should I do? :roll:
I had a huge timing issue. I was fine with the essay but with the quantitative section, I focussed too much on the first few questions and had to guess the last 10 questions.
Although in my 10 min break, I wanted to completely take my mind off my poor performance in quantitative section, it came to haunt me in verbal. I couldn't stop myself looking at the stop watch and basically messed up my verbal section. RC is my weakest point in verbal as I cannot concentrate enough and my initial strategy was to give in my best in RC and ace in CR and SC...
Anyways, I am planning to give it again in four weeks. I know I should be focusing on time, RC and time...but where can I get more practice material?
I initially practiced from OG, Kaplan and Princeton guide books and few sample test papers that I bought from mba.com. However, because I already know those questions, I may not be able to improve my timing in the real sense by going over the same questions. What should I do? :roll:
You didn't do *all* of those problems in 2 minutes (or less) the first time around, or you wouldn't have gone over so much during the real test. So you do need to go back and look at some of those again, and ask yourself:
