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Do you think that taking several CATs can help me overcome the test anxiety (which significantly limited my ability in the Gmatprep test 1)? I was my first experience.

by alved

Sat Jan 24, 2015 8:00 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Analysis of my GMATprep Test 1 (need help for improvement)
Replies: 14
Views: 5346

HI alved, With a planned Test Date at the end of March, you have about 2 months of study time, which will give you the opportunity to get in some serious studying. From your Scaled Scores, it's clear that you have a greater opportunity to pick up points in the Verbal section (but you can still pick...

by alved

Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:24 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Analysis of my GMATprep Test 1 (need help for improvement)
Replies: 14
Views: 5346

It sounds to me like you're making a few very common mistakes: 1) You are focusing on the number of questions right and wrong. Your score actually depends on which questions you get right and wrong. If you miss several easy ones in the beginning, it's hard for your score to recover from that. So as...

by alved

Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:03 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Analysis of my GMATprep Test 1 (need help for improvement)
Replies: 14
Views: 5346

If you haven't already, go over the questions you missed on the GMAT Prep CAT and see what you could done differently to get them right. The MGMAT CATs could be a good tool. At the same time, I suggest finding an online question bank to use for practice. So far you have been doing a lot of reading ...

by alved

Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:48 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Analysis of my GMATprep Test 1 (need help for improvement)
Replies: 14
Views: 5346

1) & 2) I decided to take the test about 3 years ago and studied Manhattan books and went through the OG 12th questions but didn't take the test since I was admitted to a program with no GMAT requirement. Now, I'm gonna apply to PhD programs and have to score a 700+ as I'm aiming only top school...

by alved

Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:53 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Analysis of my GMATprep Test 1 (need help for improvement)
Replies: 14
Views: 5346

Analysis of my GMATprep Test 1 (need help for improvement)

Hi everyone, I just took the GMATprep Test 1 and scored a 630 (Q47, V29) and below is the detail about my performance: (Quant) Number of wrong answers = 16/37 * Didn’t start the test with concentration. I was kind of anxious and had to re-read questions stems for multiple times. As a result, got t...

by alved

Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:50 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Analysis of my GMATprep Test 1 (need help for improvement)
Replies: 14
Views: 5346