Hi,
Appeared for exam today and after all my preparation couldn't cross 700 mark, My main source of study was Manhattan GMAT. I really like the material and I supplemented it with some Kaplan and OG 11th Edition.
In the practice exams of MGMAT I had following graph. ( I still love MGMAT material , I could at least reach 600)
Starting from 08/15/2010
Test 1.
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 38 55 %
Verbal 29 56 %
Total 560 57 %
Test 2
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 44 73 %
Verbal 33 69 %
Total 640 80 %
Test 3
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 41 64 %
Verbal 35 77 %
Total 630 79 %
Test 4
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 47 81 %
Verbal 39 89 %
Total 700 93 % (at least here I saw 700 number)
Test 5
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 47 81 %
Verbal 34 72 %
Total 670 89 %
Test 6
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 47 81 %
Verbal 35 77 %
Total 680 90 %
I did give Kaplan Online test and there too I had more or less same scores
Kaptest 1 -> 610
Kaptest 2 -> 620
Kaptest 3 -> 680
Kaptest 4 -> 670
Test on Kaplan test were brutal , in the range of 530 - 540
Surprising though my GMATPREP test which I gave three months before starting GMAT study was 620 and 640. I never gave them again.
So after encouraging results from MGMAT and Kaplan I thought I am all ready to beat the gmat, but performance was pretty disappointing.
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 45 72%
Verbal 27 42%
Total 600 64%
I do need to better my Quantitative but as you can see Verbal is the most hit. I was really happy to see MGMAT material and structure of SC is very good. I still believe my main problem is with CR and RC. I never tried MGMAT's CR approach of writing notes on CR passage. Question hardly gives 2 min. I am not sure how one will manage to write notes about CR.
Anyway I am now trying to see how to better this score, What more I could do to push my Verbal score into 40s. I may have to rethink the whole way I think about these questions but not getting any idea of how to do it.
If anyone is benefited by any of Veritas or other material please advice.
Appeared for exam today and after all my preparation couldn't cross 700 mark, My main source of study was Manhattan GMAT. I really like the material and I supplemented it with some Kaplan and OG 11th Edition.
In the practice exams of MGMAT I had following graph. ( I still love MGMAT material , I could at least reach 600)
Starting from 08/15/2010
Test 1.
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 38 55 %
Verbal 29 56 %
Total 560 57 %
Test 2
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 44 73 %
Verbal 33 69 %
Total 640 80 %
Test 3
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 41 64 %
Verbal 35 77 %
Total 630 79 %
Test 4
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 47 81 %
Verbal 39 89 %
Total 700 93 % (at least here I saw 700 number)
Test 5
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 47 81 %
Verbal 34 72 %
Total 670 89 %
Test 6
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 47 81 %
Verbal 35 77 %
Total 680 90 %
I did give Kaplan Online test and there too I had more or less same scores
Kaptest 1 -> 610
Kaptest 2 -> 620
Kaptest 3 -> 680
Kaptest 4 -> 670
Test on Kaplan test were brutal , in the range of 530 - 540
Surprising though my GMATPREP test which I gave three months before starting GMAT study was 620 and 640. I never gave them again.
So after encouraging results from MGMAT and Kaplan I thought I am all ready to beat the gmat, but performance was pretty disappointing.
TYPE SCORE ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative 45 72%
Verbal 27 42%
Total 600 64%
I do need to better my Quantitative but as you can see Verbal is the most hit. I was really happy to see MGMAT material and structure of SC is very good. I still believe my main problem is with CR and RC. I never tried MGMAT's CR approach of writing notes on CR passage. Question hardly gives 2 min. I am not sure how one will manage to write notes about CR.
Anyway I am now trying to see how to better this score, What more I could do to push my Verbal score into 40s. I may have to rethink the whole way I think about these questions but not getting any idea of how to do it.
If anyone is benefited by any of Veritas or other material please advice.
