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nehap1986
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Hey guys,
This has been a wonderful resource for me so I wanted to come back and see if you guys could offer some more advice on how I can finally beat this darn test on January 22nd.
Debrief:
I took my test on Monday and went in confident that I could get in my target range, which is 640+. I had spent a large amount of time preparing for this exam for the past 2 months and thought that I was finally ready. I got to the test center and was a bit nervous since I arrived close to the start time, but nothing out of the norm. After getting there and realizing that I would be able to check-in and get things in order without having to lose any time on the test, I started focusing on the writing portion. The writing portion was pretty easy for me and I thought I did quite well on it so my level of stress went down quite a bit after this section. I left the room for a break, but was nervous the whole time about the test starting without me, so I came back in after a couple minutes. (Do any of you know if we can wear a hand watch? This might mitigate the problem when I retake the test in 3 weeks)
After coming back in, I started the quant section. The quant section has been my biggest weakness, by far, on this exam so I became stressed during this section because I felt like I had bombed it. Things went downhill after this. My bread and butter has been the verbal section, but I basically psyched myself out during the verbal section as I thought I had BOMBED my quant section. I finished up the exam and got my score and it was a measly 580 (39 Q and 31V).
While neither score is anything to cheer about, the quant was in line with my practice gmat test that I took from mba.com, but the verbal was way off. Here is a breakdown of my exams between the Manhattan Gmat prep tests and the mba.com exam.
Exam #1: OG Test - I don't remember the breakdown on this as I cant go back and get my score, but I think it was a 570, which my verbal being in the high 30's
Exam #2: MGMAT (10/24/2009) - (Q33, V35) - 570
Exam #3: MGMAT (11/7/2009) - (Q31, V31) - 520
Exam #4: MGMAT (11/15/2009) - (Q44, V33) - 640
Exam #5: MGMAT (11/20/2009) - (Q44,V34) - 640
Exam #6: MGMAT (12/6/2009) - (Q45,V34) - 650
Exam #7: OG Test - (12/12/2009) - (Q39, V38) - 640
Real exam: - (12/22/2009) - (Q39, V31) - 580
Just a little information about the exam, I did the AWA writing samples on my last OG test and on Exam #5 to try and replicate test day conditions. Some things that i'm not understanding is why my math score has been significantly lower on the OG test than on the MGMAT tests? Conversely, my verbal score on the OG test has been significantly higher on the OG test than on the MGMAT test. From everything that I have read, the MGMAT math is much harder and the verbal is about the same. Can anyone shed light on why my math and verbal scores are shifting so much?
My goal in the next 3 weeks is to start timing myself on every problem that I do so that I can ensure that I can do the math problems within 2-2.5 minutes and the verbal problems within 1-1.45 minutes. I felt a bit rushed at the end of the math portion and rushed through the last 5-6 questions. Conversely, I ended the verbal section with about 5 minutes to spare. This has never happened on my practice tests, but I think the negative aura that I had brought in made things go downhill very quickly during the verbal section.
My biggest weakness in verbal is sentence correction. I bought the MGMAT Sentence Correction book and have gone through it, but am still having some trouble applying some of these concepts. To help ease this a little, I thought going through the problems at the end of each chapter will help solidify the topics a bit better.
I also spent a lot of time going over my exams for the last month, which raised my score from a 570-640/650, but I think i've exhausted the material. Should I continue doing problems out of OG12 and the green GMAT quant book?
Are there any other suggestions that anyone can give to boost my score a couple points in math and verbal within the next 3 weeks? I figure if I could easily reach a 43-44 in quant and a 36-38 in verbal without having to try extremely hard, than I will be able to reach my target. I decided to take the next couple of days off for the holidays and to get my mind off of things a bit since I was so bummed out, but I will start back up on Monday and fight through this until test day #2, which is January 22nd.
Thanks for the input, it is all appreciated.
This has been a wonderful resource for me so I wanted to come back and see if you guys could offer some more advice on how I can finally beat this darn test on January 22nd.
Debrief:
I took my test on Monday and went in confident that I could get in my target range, which is 640+. I had spent a large amount of time preparing for this exam for the past 2 months and thought that I was finally ready. I got to the test center and was a bit nervous since I arrived close to the start time, but nothing out of the norm. After getting there and realizing that I would be able to check-in and get things in order without having to lose any time on the test, I started focusing on the writing portion. The writing portion was pretty easy for me and I thought I did quite well on it so my level of stress went down quite a bit after this section. I left the room for a break, but was nervous the whole time about the test starting without me, so I came back in after a couple minutes. (Do any of you know if we can wear a hand watch? This might mitigate the problem when I retake the test in 3 weeks)
After coming back in, I started the quant section. The quant section has been my biggest weakness, by far, on this exam so I became stressed during this section because I felt like I had bombed it. Things went downhill after this. My bread and butter has been the verbal section, but I basically psyched myself out during the verbal section as I thought I had BOMBED my quant section. I finished up the exam and got my score and it was a measly 580 (39 Q and 31V).
While neither score is anything to cheer about, the quant was in line with my practice gmat test that I took from mba.com, but the verbal was way off. Here is a breakdown of my exams between the Manhattan Gmat prep tests and the mba.com exam.
Exam #1: OG Test - I don't remember the breakdown on this as I cant go back and get my score, but I think it was a 570, which my verbal being in the high 30's
Exam #2: MGMAT (10/24/2009) - (Q33, V35) - 570
Exam #3: MGMAT (11/7/2009) - (Q31, V31) - 520
Exam #4: MGMAT (11/15/2009) - (Q44, V33) - 640
Exam #5: MGMAT (11/20/2009) - (Q44,V34) - 640
Exam #6: MGMAT (12/6/2009) - (Q45,V34) - 650
Exam #7: OG Test - (12/12/2009) - (Q39, V38) - 640
Real exam: - (12/22/2009) - (Q39, V31) - 580
Just a little information about the exam, I did the AWA writing samples on my last OG test and on Exam #5 to try and replicate test day conditions. Some things that i'm not understanding is why my math score has been significantly lower on the OG test than on the MGMAT tests? Conversely, my verbal score on the OG test has been significantly higher on the OG test than on the MGMAT test. From everything that I have read, the MGMAT math is much harder and the verbal is about the same. Can anyone shed light on why my math and verbal scores are shifting so much?
My goal in the next 3 weeks is to start timing myself on every problem that I do so that I can ensure that I can do the math problems within 2-2.5 minutes and the verbal problems within 1-1.45 minutes. I felt a bit rushed at the end of the math portion and rushed through the last 5-6 questions. Conversely, I ended the verbal section with about 5 minutes to spare. This has never happened on my practice tests, but I think the negative aura that I had brought in made things go downhill very quickly during the verbal section.
My biggest weakness in verbal is sentence correction. I bought the MGMAT Sentence Correction book and have gone through it, but am still having some trouble applying some of these concepts. To help ease this a little, I thought going through the problems at the end of each chapter will help solidify the topics a bit better.
I also spent a lot of time going over my exams for the last month, which raised my score from a 570-640/650, but I think i've exhausted the material. Should I continue doing problems out of OG12 and the green GMAT quant book?
Are there any other suggestions that anyone can give to boost my score a couple points in math and verbal within the next 3 weeks? I figure if I could easily reach a 43-44 in quant and a 36-38 in verbal without having to try extremely hard, than I will be able to reach my target. I decided to take the next couple of days off for the holidays and to get my mind off of things a bit since I was so bummed out, but I will start back up on Monday and fight through this until test day #2, which is January 22nd.
Thanks for the input, it is all appreciated.
