Please help.My GMAT scores were far below the MGMAT scores !

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Practicegmat: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 27; Joined: Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:04 am

by Practicegmat » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:30 pm

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 !

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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:52 pm

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 !

Two things I'm missing in this discussion:

1) GMATPREP scores (the only ones I truly trust as score predictors, and even they have a 20-30 point variance)
2) Time management on test date and previous tests. Did you finish the verbal section ahead of time? On time? Guess a few questions at the end?

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by Practicegmat » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:44 am

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

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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:00 am

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

Though I don't think anyone in this forum will presume to guarantee you a 750 if you XYZ, It definitely sounds like the 600 is at a lower end of your capabilities. That time management problem in verbal needs to be fixed - spread those 4-5 guesses out throughout the section, and try to minimize the overall number of guesses by consciously choosing the right questions to guess on - the ones that will take you a long time, and that you're likely to get wrong anyway. Find another source of tests and practice letting go of questions.

Quant: the higher you go here, the lower you can afford to go with verbal and still maintain that same score. That 48 needs to become a 50. You said you were tense on quant. Anything out of the ordinary there?

Geva
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Master GMAT
1-888-780-GMAT
https://www.mastergmat.com

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