I just took the GMAT for the 3rd time and scored a miserbale 550. However, I was scoring significantly better on my Kaplan CATs before taking the GMAT. My last 3 CATS were 610, 610 and 620 respectively.
My two prior GMAT scores are as follows:
Quant: 31 (30%)
Verbal: 29 (53%)
Overall: 510
Quant: 31 (30%)
Verbal: 31 (58%
Overall: 530
Today's GMAT was:
Quant: 38 (53%)
Verbal: 27 (43%)
Overall: 550
Quant has always been quite difficult for me and verbal has come quite easily, so I put most of my attention on improving my Quant scores. In the last few weeks I was scoring 36-38 in Quant and 37-43 in verbal.
At the time that I took the two prior GMATs, my Quant scores on my CATs were usually in the low 30s and my verbal was about the same as it has been recently (37-43).
There is clearly a pattern that on the CATs my verbal has been fairly good, but then terrible in on the GMAT. I do not understand what could be causing this.
When finishing the verbal section today, I felt confident that I did as well as I usually have done on the CATs, but that was not the case. Is there any explaination for why this could have happened to me 3 times now?
Is the algarithm on the verbal portion of the GMAT different than the algarithm on the quant section, and thus more difficult to score a good verbal score?
Please help. I am extrememly dissapointed because I finally achieved a good quant score, but my verbal scored ruined it for me. I was working with a tutor at GMAT, and he agreed that based on my CATs, I was all set in verbal.
Thank you.
My two prior GMAT scores are as follows:
Quant: 31 (30%)
Verbal: 29 (53%)
Overall: 510
Quant: 31 (30%)
Verbal: 31 (58%
Overall: 530
Today's GMAT was:
Quant: 38 (53%)
Verbal: 27 (43%)
Overall: 550
Quant has always been quite difficult for me and verbal has come quite easily, so I put most of my attention on improving my Quant scores. In the last few weeks I was scoring 36-38 in Quant and 37-43 in verbal.
At the time that I took the two prior GMATs, my Quant scores on my CATs were usually in the low 30s and my verbal was about the same as it has been recently (37-43).
There is clearly a pattern that on the CATs my verbal has been fairly good, but then terrible in on the GMAT. I do not understand what could be causing this.
When finishing the verbal section today, I felt confident that I did as well as I usually have done on the CATs, but that was not the case. Is there any explaination for why this could have happened to me 3 times now?
Is the algarithm on the verbal portion of the GMAT different than the algarithm on the quant section, and thus more difficult to score a good verbal score?
Please help. I am extrememly dissapointed because I finally achieved a good quant score, but my verbal scored ruined it for me. I was working with a tutor at GMAT, and he agreed that based on my CATs, I was all set in verbal.
Thank you.
