I started my GMAT journey in late July by enrolling in a Veritas class. I was devastated when I took my first CAT Prep and scored a 380. I wasn't familiar with the format of the exam or it's grading. I continued attending my course, doing some of the homework and every few weeks taking a practice exam. I realized every time I took a practice exam my motivation level would completely fall into pieces. Each time I was devastated and somewhat in denial that I couldn't be scoring so LOW!
CAT 1 - 380
CAT 2 - 330
CAT 3 - 350
CAT 4 - 550 (I had some repeats on this one since I decided to re-take the GMAT Prep right before my first scheduled date for the actual GMAT. Which is why I think this is not truly reflective of my score)
Actual Test (Oct 26) - 340
I wasn't shocked walking out of the test center as much as I was fearful of never getting into business school. After a week off from the GMAT, decided to really get back to my basics. I came to realize it wasn't the format or my lack of understanding of the overall exam, it was really that I needed to buckle down and master the basics. I needed to re-learn everything and my main focus was going to be math even though I did slightly better on math than verbal on most CATs. All along I felt I wasn't stronger in one than the other.
I studied from mid Nov to end of Jan covering every Veritas book in detail. With A LOT of focus on Math and some focus on Verbal. The only question type I was somewhat decent in was Critical Reasoning (one of my earlier CATs I actually scored an 80% on CR). It was actually one of my favorites because it was logic based. I started to focus on Verbal a little more the first week of Feb mainly focusing on SC and RC as those seemed to be my weakness.
I finally decided to sit down and give another Practice Test. Throughout the past couple of months I wanted to stay away from taking a practice exam in fear of still being in the "300s". To my surprise I scored a 600 (Q38, V30). I was surprised, expecting in the low 500s but hoping for 600s.
My target score is 640. The school I would like to apply to has an average of 600-610. The question I have is - what do I need to do next to make sure I stay above this 600 line? I plan to take a practice exam every weekend for at least the next month to six weeks. I would like to ideally sit for the exam either the first or second week of April. If I'm preforming well on my practice exam I would like to schedule a little earlier (maybe end of March). I would like to take two more Practice Exams before scheduling again. Any recommendations for what I should do next?
I plan to cover the OG. I have already done all SC and PS in the book from my first round of preparations. I would like to re-do all PS problems for sure in the OG though. I've gotten a lot better at DS throughout the course of the last few months.
I appreciate any feedback that you can provide me. It's been a long journey and I would hate to not focus on the right material towards the end of the my preparations.
Thank you.
CAT 1 - 380
CAT 2 - 330
CAT 3 - 350
CAT 4 - 550 (I had some repeats on this one since I decided to re-take the GMAT Prep right before my first scheduled date for the actual GMAT. Which is why I think this is not truly reflective of my score)
Actual Test (Oct 26) - 340
I wasn't shocked walking out of the test center as much as I was fearful of never getting into business school. After a week off from the GMAT, decided to really get back to my basics. I came to realize it wasn't the format or my lack of understanding of the overall exam, it was really that I needed to buckle down and master the basics. I needed to re-learn everything and my main focus was going to be math even though I did slightly better on math than verbal on most CATs. All along I felt I wasn't stronger in one than the other.
I studied from mid Nov to end of Jan covering every Veritas book in detail. With A LOT of focus on Math and some focus on Verbal. The only question type I was somewhat decent in was Critical Reasoning (one of my earlier CATs I actually scored an 80% on CR). It was actually one of my favorites because it was logic based. I started to focus on Verbal a little more the first week of Feb mainly focusing on SC and RC as those seemed to be my weakness.
I finally decided to sit down and give another Practice Test. Throughout the past couple of months I wanted to stay away from taking a practice exam in fear of still being in the "300s". To my surprise I scored a 600 (Q38, V30). I was surprised, expecting in the low 500s but hoping for 600s.
My target score is 640. The school I would like to apply to has an average of 600-610. The question I have is - what do I need to do next to make sure I stay above this 600 line? I plan to take a practice exam every weekend for at least the next month to six weeks. I would like to ideally sit for the exam either the first or second week of April. If I'm preforming well on my practice exam I would like to schedule a little earlier (maybe end of March). I would like to take two more Practice Exams before scheduling again. Any recommendations for what I should do next?
I plan to cover the OG. I have already done all SC and PS in the book from my first round of preparations. I would like to re-do all PS problems for sure in the OG though. I've gotten a lot better at DS throughout the course of the last few months.
I appreciate any feedback that you can provide me. It's been a long journey and I would hate to not focus on the right material towards the end of the my preparations.
Thank you.
