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DBushkalov
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Hi fellows,
I dont want to make you read tons of lines here, but I just cant write it in only 2-3 sentences. So thank you for taking your time to read this.
On my first GMAT Prep exam (w/o any preparation) I got 610. After I finished all preparation and knew all strategy guides from cover to cover I retook the exam and got 650. Yesterday I took my first Manhattan gmat exam and was pretty dissapointed to see the score of..... 610 again.
Now, here is what has happened. Halfway thourgh verbal (somewhere after the 20-th -22-nd question)I was in the 90th percentile. Then a streak of 12 wrong answers in 18 questions. This was also the case in my 650 score a few weeks back. Thus I assumed that after I take the essay, IR, make 37 quant tasks, and the half of the verbal prompts, I just loose my concentration so fast, that the situation becomes almost uncontrollable. The techniques with deep breathing and massaging your neck are very good, but toward the end of the exam they are not particularly helpful; this is simply because i get so tired that it is tough to keep the concentration at a level to read passages, solve CR tasks and all this at a rapid pace.
My question to you:
should I consider taking some pills for concentration and stamina come the test day? I have never done such things, but why not try it? After all, Lans Armstrong and Diego Maradonna did it in the past so...
On another note: The exam is just too long and difficult, especially since I have never been to USA, AUSTRALIA or UK, and thus, have never been exposed to spoken ENglish for a time long enough to feel the English as a second native language to you. Thus I am not that good in english. True, I can write, listen, speak and read pretty well, but not necessarily the passages on the gmat and especially when you get 41 questions thrown at you in less than 80 minutes, preceded by another 150 minutes of hard stressful tasks. Also, starring at the computer for too long contributes a lot to making me tired.
If you can offer me some other method to reinforce my concentration I would be very appreciateful
I dont want to make you read tons of lines here, but I just cant write it in only 2-3 sentences. So thank you for taking your time to read this.
On my first GMAT Prep exam (w/o any preparation) I got 610. After I finished all preparation and knew all strategy guides from cover to cover I retook the exam and got 650. Yesterday I took my first Manhattan gmat exam and was pretty dissapointed to see the score of..... 610 again.
Now, here is what has happened. Halfway thourgh verbal (somewhere after the 20-th -22-nd question)I was in the 90th percentile. Then a streak of 12 wrong answers in 18 questions. This was also the case in my 650 score a few weeks back. Thus I assumed that after I take the essay, IR, make 37 quant tasks, and the half of the verbal prompts, I just loose my concentration so fast, that the situation becomes almost uncontrollable. The techniques with deep breathing and massaging your neck are very good, but toward the end of the exam they are not particularly helpful; this is simply because i get so tired that it is tough to keep the concentration at a level to read passages, solve CR tasks and all this at a rapid pace.
My question to you:
should I consider taking some pills for concentration and stamina come the test day? I have never done such things, but why not try it? After all, Lans Armstrong and Diego Maradonna did it in the past so...
On another note: The exam is just too long and difficult, especially since I have never been to USA, AUSTRALIA or UK, and thus, have never been exposed to spoken ENglish for a time long enough to feel the English as a second native language to you. Thus I am not that good in english. True, I can write, listen, speak and read pretty well, but not necessarily the passages on the gmat and especially when you get 41 questions thrown at you in less than 80 minutes, preceded by another 150 minutes of hard stressful tasks. Also, starring at the computer for too long contributes a lot to making me tired.
If you can offer me some other method to reinforce my concentration I would be very appreciateful
