My Unofficial exam score:
MGMAT1 - 590
MGMAT2 - 580
MGMAT3 - 610
MGMAT4 - 640
MGMAT5 - 680
MGMAT6 - 700
GMAT Prep 1 --took mutiple times averaged around 680, last one 2 days before the test was 620 but a week before i had score 710.
GMAT Prep 2 -- 2 days before actual exam 640. Apart fom the last 3 tests i had not written the AWA's.
Actual Exam - 610.(Q46,V26)
I had taken my official date for GMAT after scoring a 700 for the first time in MGMAT test. I had also scored around 710 and 700 in GMAT Prep. Brimming with confidence, I was hoping to get somewhere between 680-700 in my official test. I did the folly of taking 2 more additional tests over the weekend one MGMAT and one GMAT Prep both in the evening and i scored poorly , 620 in both. But i had lots of interventions and i had not taken them in test conditions. So i brushed the scores aside , even though i went through the mistakes which i had done and more of them were silly mistakes. But this thing was playing at the back of my head as to why i got so poor score. I took a proper 7 hrs sleep the previous night. In the morning i revised all the SC topics , specially the modifers , parallelism . I also revised inequalities, absolute value and sequecing and symmterical funtions - weak areas of my quant. I reached the exam center half an hour before. I started the AWA's pretty confidently and infact had to cut short my Isse essay as i was running out of time. I tooka break , went and had some dry fruits and sipped lemonade and came back all geared up to tackle Quant . ons.
Quant:
Was expecting around 47-48 . But could maanage only 75 percentile. Missed out on some of the tough DS ones.I had realised that i tend to do silly mistakes for 500 level and thats why i started very cautiously and double checked my answers for the first 5-7 quesions. I was gaining in confidence and as the question kept popping up i thought i was doing good. Somewhere between 20-25 i realised i was 4-5 question behind clock so i decided to do some calculated guessing for questions i thought i would not be able to solve in 2 mins. I did that for a sets and average Ds questions. With 9 mins left on the clock i was on question 30 and i decided its time to do some guess work again. I guessed on one geometry based Ds questions but then i decided i would not guess on consecutive questions and i got a PS and i solved it only to find a tough DS. Overall i would say my Quant went on fine and i felt good after completing this section. I realised i could have done better if i could solve things faster and not wasted those extra 2-3 mins in double checking the first 5-7 questi But i thought i did average in DS probs which has always been a struggle for me. I could have done better and infact i know the areas which i need to improve upon- Sequence, Absolute value, Inequalities, and VIC's has been some of my weak areas. I also need to find a way to solve things faster as i knew that i could solve the last 4-5 PS problems but had to guess becuase of time constraint and that might have contributed to a poor 46.I am looking for ways to imporve this to 48-49.
My Quant Preps:
Self study from MGMAT Number Properies, Word, Inequalities, FDP. Geometry i thought was the easiest in GMAT to score and i never had problem. Did around 10-12 GMAT club tests which are good but no way near to GMAT types in logic. So i was not reading too much into what i wa scoring. I tend to spend more than 2 mins in some tough PS probs. But DS has been my nemesis and i am looking to imporve on these as the last 6-8 question on the exam always tends to be on DS ones and under timed condition i tend to struggle on these. So any specific suggestions here .?
Verbal:.
I took a break, went to the rest room and then took a resolve that i need to ace the Verbal also and i should get somewhere around 670-680.Was aiming to score around 33-37 based on the recent test scores and after putting it an additional 3 months to prepare only verbal. But this proved out to be a debacle. Not sure what happend.
I started catiously on the verbal also. Got the first 3 questions as SC. The third one was a tough modifier one and i realized that i have started on a good note. The First RC was a about a Afro-African lady selling some product and her contributions towards the betterment of the Afro-african society. I thought this RC pasage to be of average difficulty based on the RC passage which i had done from GMAT Prep. Then again i got a bunch of CR questions primarily strenghen and weaken ones. I got some assumptions question also and i thought i was doing pretty decent, even though i realized that i was a tad behind the clock .Halfway through i was on question 18 and i realized i need to catch up a bit.Then came the long passage about some superEarth and its core , mass, radius. I went through the passage carefully and then started attempting the questions. I had to read through the passage again to get some detail questions . I had 2 detail, one inference and one primary purpose .After this i was on question 27 and i had 20 mins left. I realized i was taking more time on CR but i thought i would compensate that with the SC as i was confident on those. All together i got 2 short passage , i long one but i would rate all them to be moderate difficulty level. The toughest question i thought i got was on CR and even some of the SC's . With 5 mins remaining i was on question 38. I got 2 CR ones which i took more time and was left with 2 question and 1.5 min. 40th was a bold faced CR and i was caught up in untangling it and had 3 secs left for the last , before i could even complete reading the last question, i had to answer it, i clicked on the first option but not sure where it was accepted or taken as not attempted. Overall i thought my pacing was good except the last 5 question one of which was bold faced and i normally take more than 2 mins for those and i thought it cost me dearly.I am not sure how much that last unanswered question would have affected the overall socre( a poor 26), but assuming even i got the last 2 questions right, i would have got around 28-29 which is something which i was scoring when i had started my preps. verbal was a complete debacle for me.
My Verbal Preps:
I had photocopied the OG 11 Sc and done all the problems twice. The second time i wrote why each wrong answer was wrong and tried to match that with the OG explanation. For CR i had done all the OG and Verbal Supplement problems and my hit rate was around 75% .For CR i had read some introductory chapters of Power score bible and made some notes. Then i read and Assumptions, Draw the conslusion, wekening and strengthening chapters from MGMAT Strategy guide- this helped me to some extent. For RC, i had done the LSAT passages and followed MGMAT guide which i thought was not that gr8. MGMAT guides for verbal apart from SC, does a OK job for RC and CR. Its not something as good as what we have for SC. I am not sure where to start from.But i would list these as my weak areas -- Bold faced and Evaluate Argument questions on CR , breaking of long obscured SC questions, RC depends upon passage so cant say. Any suggestions, i am planning to appear in a months time. I am mainly looking to boost my score in Verbal. I would appreciate any solid strategies to consider, any change in approach.
MGMAT1 - 590
MGMAT2 - 580
MGMAT3 - 610
MGMAT4 - 640
MGMAT5 - 680
MGMAT6 - 700
GMAT Prep 1 --took mutiple times averaged around 680, last one 2 days before the test was 620 but a week before i had score 710.
GMAT Prep 2 -- 2 days before actual exam 640. Apart fom the last 3 tests i had not written the AWA's.
Actual Exam - 610.(Q46,V26)
I had taken my official date for GMAT after scoring a 700 for the first time in MGMAT test. I had also scored around 710 and 700 in GMAT Prep. Brimming with confidence, I was hoping to get somewhere between 680-700 in my official test. I did the folly of taking 2 more additional tests over the weekend one MGMAT and one GMAT Prep both in the evening and i scored poorly , 620 in both. But i had lots of interventions and i had not taken them in test conditions. So i brushed the scores aside , even though i went through the mistakes which i had done and more of them were silly mistakes. But this thing was playing at the back of my head as to why i got so poor score. I took a proper 7 hrs sleep the previous night. In the morning i revised all the SC topics , specially the modifers , parallelism . I also revised inequalities, absolute value and sequecing and symmterical funtions - weak areas of my quant. I reached the exam center half an hour before. I started the AWA's pretty confidently and infact had to cut short my Isse essay as i was running out of time. I tooka break , went and had some dry fruits and sipped lemonade and came back all geared up to tackle Quant . ons.
Quant:
Was expecting around 47-48 . But could maanage only 75 percentile. Missed out on some of the tough DS ones.I had realised that i tend to do silly mistakes for 500 level and thats why i started very cautiously and double checked my answers for the first 5-7 quesions. I was gaining in confidence and as the question kept popping up i thought i was doing good. Somewhere between 20-25 i realised i was 4-5 question behind clock so i decided to do some calculated guessing for questions i thought i would not be able to solve in 2 mins. I did that for a sets and average Ds questions. With 9 mins left on the clock i was on question 30 and i decided its time to do some guess work again. I guessed on one geometry based Ds questions but then i decided i would not guess on consecutive questions and i got a PS and i solved it only to find a tough DS. Overall i would say my Quant went on fine and i felt good after completing this section. I realised i could have done better if i could solve things faster and not wasted those extra 2-3 mins in double checking the first 5-7 questi But i thought i did average in DS probs which has always been a struggle for me. I could have done better and infact i know the areas which i need to improve upon- Sequence, Absolute value, Inequalities, and VIC's has been some of my weak areas. I also need to find a way to solve things faster as i knew that i could solve the last 4-5 PS problems but had to guess becuase of time constraint and that might have contributed to a poor 46.I am looking for ways to imporve this to 48-49.
My Quant Preps:
Self study from MGMAT Number Properies, Word, Inequalities, FDP. Geometry i thought was the easiest in GMAT to score and i never had problem. Did around 10-12 GMAT club tests which are good but no way near to GMAT types in logic. So i was not reading too much into what i wa scoring. I tend to spend more than 2 mins in some tough PS probs. But DS has been my nemesis and i am looking to imporve on these as the last 6-8 question on the exam always tends to be on DS ones and under timed condition i tend to struggle on these. So any specific suggestions here .?
Verbal:.
I took a break, went to the rest room and then took a resolve that i need to ace the Verbal also and i should get somewhere around 670-680.Was aiming to score around 33-37 based on the recent test scores and after putting it an additional 3 months to prepare only verbal. But this proved out to be a debacle. Not sure what happend.
I started catiously on the verbal also. Got the first 3 questions as SC. The third one was a tough modifier one and i realized that i have started on a good note. The First RC was a about a Afro-African lady selling some product and her contributions towards the betterment of the Afro-african society. I thought this RC pasage to be of average difficulty based on the RC passage which i had done from GMAT Prep. Then again i got a bunch of CR questions primarily strenghen and weaken ones. I got some assumptions question also and i thought i was doing pretty decent, even though i realized that i was a tad behind the clock .Halfway through i was on question 18 and i realized i need to catch up a bit.Then came the long passage about some superEarth and its core , mass, radius. I went through the passage carefully and then started attempting the questions. I had to read through the passage again to get some detail questions . I had 2 detail, one inference and one primary purpose .After this i was on question 27 and i had 20 mins left. I realized i was taking more time on CR but i thought i would compensate that with the SC as i was confident on those. All together i got 2 short passage , i long one but i would rate all them to be moderate difficulty level. The toughest question i thought i got was on CR and even some of the SC's . With 5 mins remaining i was on question 38. I got 2 CR ones which i took more time and was left with 2 question and 1.5 min. 40th was a bold faced CR and i was caught up in untangling it and had 3 secs left for the last , before i could even complete reading the last question, i had to answer it, i clicked on the first option but not sure where it was accepted or taken as not attempted. Overall i thought my pacing was good except the last 5 question one of which was bold faced and i normally take more than 2 mins for those and i thought it cost me dearly.I am not sure how much that last unanswered question would have affected the overall socre( a poor 26), but assuming even i got the last 2 questions right, i would have got around 28-29 which is something which i was scoring when i had started my preps. verbal was a complete debacle for me.
My Verbal Preps:
I had photocopied the OG 11 Sc and done all the problems twice. The second time i wrote why each wrong answer was wrong and tried to match that with the OG explanation. For CR i had done all the OG and Verbal Supplement problems and my hit rate was around 75% .For CR i had read some introductory chapters of Power score bible and made some notes. Then i read and Assumptions, Draw the conslusion, wekening and strengthening chapters from MGMAT Strategy guide- this helped me to some extent. For RC, i had done the LSAT passages and followed MGMAT guide which i thought was not that gr8. MGMAT guides for verbal apart from SC, does a OK job for RC and CR. Its not something as good as what we have for SC. I am not sure where to start from.But i would list these as my weak areas -- Bold faced and Evaluate Argument questions on CR , breaking of long obscured SC questions, RC depends upon passage so cant say. Any suggestions, i am planning to appear in a months time. I am mainly looking to boost my score in Verbal. I would appreciate any solid strategies to consider, any change in approach.
since I'm usually good at Verbal questions... I guess I just need to get used to question formats in order to kick Verbal's nuts 
