I am extremely stressed out and in dire need of help. I started studying for my gmat on 22 Dec 2012. I had studied for GMAT a year ago but never took it too seriously and never wrote a test. But still, I was familiar with the structure of the test and knew the type of material that was covered on GMAT for both sections. But this time around I registered to take the test on the 2 Feb 2013 giving me more than a month to study for the test. To start off, I went thought and completed the Kaplan Math Workbook going through each section carefully. Furthermore, I went through the kaplan premier 2013 quantative section as well. After that, I went through the quantative section on the official GMAT guide 13th edition. I studied the Kaplan premier 2013 for the verbal section thoroughly and also went through the GMAT OG 13 th edition to practice all kinds of test questions. After taking almost 3 weeks off from work and studying like a crazy person, I attempted to take the GMATPREP software practice exam and found myself scoring a mere 490-520 on the practice test (Q 37 percentile, V 30 percentile). It was extremely disheartning to put in all that effort and still not score above 600. I didn't give up though. I thought perhaps I needed more practice with the actual tests. I did the Kaplan CAT test, three of them actually, and got the following score:
CAT1: 580
CAT2: 610
CAT3: 640
CAT3 was the last test that I took two days before my actual GMAT test. I was confident when I went into for the test. I was calm and cautious and I didn't run into any timing issues. Just before the scores showed up, I was confident that I had done a good job and I was expecting something in the range of 620-650. But my world came crumbling down when I saw a 470 as my final test score with a Q37 and V20.
I really don't understand what I am doing wrong here. I do understand most of the test material. I struggled the most with sentence corrction but even for that I took some online lessons and I was able to improve my score.
I just fail to understand how my score can be 640 on the Kaplan CAT test and in the late 400s on the GMAT prep test and the actual GMAT test.
Any advise will be greately appreciated. Thank you.
CAT1: 580
CAT2: 610
CAT3: 640
CAT3 was the last test that I took two days before my actual GMAT test. I was confident when I went into for the test. I was calm and cautious and I didn't run into any timing issues. Just before the scores showed up, I was confident that I had done a good job and I was expecting something in the range of 620-650. But my world came crumbling down when I saw a 470 as my final test score with a Q37 and V20.
I really don't understand what I am doing wrong here. I do understand most of the test material. I struggled the most with sentence corrction but even for that I took some online lessons and I was able to improve my score.
I just fail to understand how my score can be 640 on the Kaplan CAT test and in the late 400s on the GMAT prep test and the actual GMAT test.
Any advise will be greately appreciated. Thank you.
