Practicegmat wrote:Hi,
I gave my GMAT 3 days back ( 11th Sep)and my results were shocking!
I got 600 ( Q 48, V25)

I am preparing for past 4 months -I have completed OG and were doing regular practice - princeton review, gmat club, beat the gmat,MGMAT CAT exams, Kaplan cat exams etc - I gave a dedicated effort .I sacrificed a lot of personal things Am really disheartened.

Am writing down my scores in the last 3 weeks practice tests

Kaplan test 3 - 630 ( Q 50 , V 32 )
Kaplan test 4 - 620 ( Q 50 , V 32)

MGMAT test 3 - 640 ( Q 43, V 35)
MGMAT test 4 - 680 ( Q 48, V 35 )
MGMAT test 5 - 680 ( Q 47, V 36 )
MGMAT test 6 - 710 ( Q 50, V 36 )

And I really did a thorough review of each test believe me. I wrote down all the wrong answers , new strategies and fomula, new sentence correction rules

Am really shocked to see how my actual scores are so less than the practice tests!
Please help. WHERE COULD I GET WRONG ON THE D -DAY . Am not able to find out myself. While giving the test I was a bit tensed during Quant, but Verbal I felt it was easy. I dont know. Am planning to take the GMAT again in Nov - and this time aiming for 750+ . Please please help to build up my strategy. Is there anything wrong in the basics of my preparation? My scores does not say so
The test day I was confident that I will make 700 at least !

Practicegmat wrote:Thanks for the reply.
1. Yeah I gave both the PrepTests as well - first one I gave after the first month of preparation. I scored 580 ( I forgot the scaled scores). Then I gave the second test 2 weeks before the exam, Score was 650 ( quant was 50 I remember, verbal I forgot).

2. During the GMAT, I didn't finish the exam early at all . In fact I was short of time and guess 5 questions at the end ( withi question 31 to 41). But this I often did during my practice tests and used to get them wrong as well - but my scores used to be 680/710

Coulld you please guide me on the strategy how should I utilize my 2 months now , so that I can score 750 next time?

Thanks in advance