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SebastianX
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Hi there,
Yesterday I took the test and I ended up with a very poor 440. I needed to take the test at this time to have a result available in order to meet an admission deadline and the Ad Com already offered me to retake the test. Unfortunately, I need around 650 which means a >200 points increase!!
The quant result kind of met my expectations for this attempt (32 vs. 33 in practice exams).
I had to guess 6-8 questions because sometimes I am not able to apply the concepts and I ran out of time...but I feel that the quant part is more predictable for me than the verbal part...
After the quant part I realized that my power of concentration was abnormally weak and thus, I was overwhelmed by all the text given in the verbal section. I only scored 19 compared to around 29 in my practice exams!! (MGMAT exams - good indicator??)
I am not a native speaker and in general Sentence Correction (grammar) is the biggest "pain" for me! Maybe it is because I never really understood grammar rules - I rather learned English by simply speaking, writing and reading a lot - and now I have to follow strict rules!
Critical Reasoning is my second biggest challenge....but I felt comfortable with RC.
I want to retake the test in about 6 weeks. Could someone recommend me a plan or is my goal too ambitious anyway?
I have read study plans for retakers who want to jump from 5xx to ~700 points but I feel that these plans might not make sense for me because of my much lower score - correct me if I am wrong!
Will a tutor make sense in my case? (especially for the verbal section where I am not able to detect the "signals" and nuances in SC; and the explanations in e.g. in OG13 do not help at all...)
Here is how a prepared for my test:
1)Materials I used:
-OG13 (only did about 90% of the questions, plus some from the additional quant book)
-GMAT Prep video tool (great stuff but turned out to be too time-consuming!)
-MGMAT Practice exams
2) I studied every day for approx. 3hours since beginning of February, including weekend sessions (at least one day)
3)My study approach:
-set-based: 10 problems within each area (PS, DS; RC, CR, SC)
-skipping problem when I did not find an approach within 1.5minutes, then stopping the time, marking them and trying to solve them without timing (max. 10minutes)
-viewing explanations after sets; considering unsolved problems for next session
3)For the next weeks: I can only study after work, later in the evening; I will be able to take 4 days off
I would appreciate your help! I am highly motivated to get this thing done!!!
Yesterday I took the test and I ended up with a very poor 440. I needed to take the test at this time to have a result available in order to meet an admission deadline and the Ad Com already offered me to retake the test. Unfortunately, I need around 650 which means a >200 points increase!!
The quant result kind of met my expectations for this attempt (32 vs. 33 in practice exams).
I had to guess 6-8 questions because sometimes I am not able to apply the concepts and I ran out of time...but I feel that the quant part is more predictable for me than the verbal part...
After the quant part I realized that my power of concentration was abnormally weak and thus, I was overwhelmed by all the text given in the verbal section. I only scored 19 compared to around 29 in my practice exams!! (MGMAT exams - good indicator??)
I am not a native speaker and in general Sentence Correction (grammar) is the biggest "pain" for me! Maybe it is because I never really understood grammar rules - I rather learned English by simply speaking, writing and reading a lot - and now I have to follow strict rules!
Critical Reasoning is my second biggest challenge....but I felt comfortable with RC.
I want to retake the test in about 6 weeks. Could someone recommend me a plan or is my goal too ambitious anyway?
I have read study plans for retakers who want to jump from 5xx to ~700 points but I feel that these plans might not make sense for me because of my much lower score - correct me if I am wrong!
Will a tutor make sense in my case? (especially for the verbal section where I am not able to detect the "signals" and nuances in SC; and the explanations in e.g. in OG13 do not help at all...)
Here is how a prepared for my test:
1)Materials I used:
-OG13 (only did about 90% of the questions, plus some from the additional quant book)
-GMAT Prep video tool (great stuff but turned out to be too time-consuming!)
-MGMAT Practice exams
2) I studied every day for approx. 3hours since beginning of February, including weekend sessions (at least one day)
3)My study approach:
-set-based: 10 problems within each area (PS, DS; RC, CR, SC)
-skipping problem when I did not find an approach within 1.5minutes, then stopping the time, marking them and trying to solve them without timing (max. 10minutes)
-viewing explanations after sets; considering unsolved problems for next session
3)For the next weeks: I can only study after work, later in the evening; I will be able to take 4 days off
I would appreciate your help! I am highly motivated to get this thing done!!!
