Hi everyone!
First, thanks for all the great content that everyone has contributed on here. I've definitely learned a lot during this journey through you guys. I guess it might be helpful to provide a little background on my experience:
I took the GMAT last year and scored a 670; was pretty disappointed, I needed to score at least a 700 unfortunately. I definitely underestimated the exam. Fastforward to this year and I'm now ten days away from writing the exam a second time. Here's a breakdown of my scores:
- Princeton Review Test 1 (650 - 38V 42Q)
- Princeton Review Test 2 (560 - 30V 37Q) [not trying to make excuses, but this one was done at work and had multiple conversations throughout my test]
- Princeton Review Test 3 (630 - 34V 43Q)
- Princeton Review Test 4 (690 - 41V 44Q) [my highest score at the time!]
- GMAC Test 1 (740 - 45V 47Q) [my first time ever scoring in the 700s... couldn't believe it]
- GMAC Test 2 (660 - 31V 49Q) [... and then back to reality]
I was stunned by the 740. I felt really stressed during the entire math section, thought I did horribly because I simply couldn't solve a large proportion of the questions. I had around 12 mistakes in that section and still don't understand how one can score so high despite all those errors. It was honestly such a great feeling though, for once I felt like I could actually beat this test. Now, I'm a bit stunned and not exactly sure what my strategy should be going forward. My verbal score seems to fluctuate a lot as you can tell, and I'm not sure how to improve my accuracy on Sentence Correction (Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning don't tend to be areas of difficulty).
I'm also wondering whether my math scores are not truly reflective of my abilities due to the fact that I've done the two GMAC tests before when I first took the exam last year.
Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks everyone in advance.
First, thanks for all the great content that everyone has contributed on here. I've definitely learned a lot during this journey through you guys. I guess it might be helpful to provide a little background on my experience:
I took the GMAT last year and scored a 670; was pretty disappointed, I needed to score at least a 700 unfortunately. I definitely underestimated the exam. Fastforward to this year and I'm now ten days away from writing the exam a second time. Here's a breakdown of my scores:
- Princeton Review Test 1 (650 - 38V 42Q)
- Princeton Review Test 2 (560 - 30V 37Q) [not trying to make excuses, but this one was done at work and had multiple conversations throughout my test]
- Princeton Review Test 3 (630 - 34V 43Q)
- Princeton Review Test 4 (690 - 41V 44Q) [my highest score at the time!]
- GMAC Test 1 (740 - 45V 47Q) [my first time ever scoring in the 700s... couldn't believe it]
- GMAC Test 2 (660 - 31V 49Q) [... and then back to reality]
I was stunned by the 740. I felt really stressed during the entire math section, thought I did horribly because I simply couldn't solve a large proportion of the questions. I had around 12 mistakes in that section and still don't understand how one can score so high despite all those errors. It was honestly such a great feeling though, for once I felt like I could actually beat this test. Now, I'm a bit stunned and not exactly sure what my strategy should be going forward. My verbal score seems to fluctuate a lot as you can tell, and I'm not sure how to improve my accuracy on Sentence Correction (Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning don't tend to be areas of difficulty).
I'm also wondering whether my math scores are not truly reflective of my abilities due to the fact that I've done the two GMAC tests before when I first took the exam last year.
Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks everyone in advance.
