Hi,
Wanted to write this post for quite sometime now. A little background about myself - An engineer from India, 24 yrs, 1.5 Yrs work exp as a Risk Analyst at a MNC bank.
I started my preparation in August. As I was not a natural in Verbal, concentrated much of my time practising and reviewing verbal. I used OG 12 and Manhattan Sentence correction. I hardly spent any time on quant. I took the GMAT Practice tests and almost always scored between 700-730 with a quant score of 50-51 and verbal score fluctuating between 33 - 38. I felt comfortable with that score range and decided to take the GMAT(big mistake!!). I bombed. Scored 660(Q50, V28!!!)
I was naturally shocked and devastated. Later, I sat back and thought what went wrong and realised that even though I was scoring 33-38 in verbal in practice tests, I was not very clear on why I chose the answer option that I did. After practising and reviewing OG, I was able to feel the difference in my approach, but was not consciously clear of how I was solving the problems. I was going with my instinct instead of following logic and rules most of the time.
I decided to take the GMAT again. This time, I decided to take some professional help as I didn't know what to do to improve my verbal score. I enrolled to CrackVerbal, Bangalore. I love the way verbal is taught there. Arun made it fun and interesting. Within no time I had my confidence back. I went through OG 12 and Manhattan Sentence correction, in addition to the CrackVerbal material. I started scoring in the 730-780 range in GMAT practise tests and Manhattan Tests, with verbal score ranging from 38-44! I was now much more clear on what I was doing, and was able to eliminate the wrong options with much ease.
After I consistently scored around 750, I decided to take GMAT again. I scored 700(Q51, V33) this time. Even though I touched the milestone 700, I am slightly disappointed with the score. Think, I can do better. If I take GMAT again, I'll be taking it for the 3rd time. Not sure how adcoms will perceive it. Any thoughts?
- Prashanth
Wanted to write this post for quite sometime now. A little background about myself - An engineer from India, 24 yrs, 1.5 Yrs work exp as a Risk Analyst at a MNC bank.
I started my preparation in August. As I was not a natural in Verbal, concentrated much of my time practising and reviewing verbal. I used OG 12 and Manhattan Sentence correction. I hardly spent any time on quant. I took the GMAT Practice tests and almost always scored between 700-730 with a quant score of 50-51 and verbal score fluctuating between 33 - 38. I felt comfortable with that score range and decided to take the GMAT(big mistake!!). I bombed. Scored 660(Q50, V28!!!)
I was naturally shocked and devastated. Later, I sat back and thought what went wrong and realised that even though I was scoring 33-38 in verbal in practice tests, I was not very clear on why I chose the answer option that I did. After practising and reviewing OG, I was able to feel the difference in my approach, but was not consciously clear of how I was solving the problems. I was going with my instinct instead of following logic and rules most of the time.
I decided to take the GMAT again. This time, I decided to take some professional help as I didn't know what to do to improve my verbal score. I enrolled to CrackVerbal, Bangalore. I love the way verbal is taught there. Arun made it fun and interesting. Within no time I had my confidence back. I went through OG 12 and Manhattan Sentence correction, in addition to the CrackVerbal material. I started scoring in the 730-780 range in GMAT practise tests and Manhattan Tests, with verbal score ranging from 38-44! I was now much more clear on what I was doing, and was able to eliminate the wrong options with much ease.
After I consistently scored around 750, I decided to take GMAT again. I scored 700(Q51, V33) this time. Even though I touched the milestone 700, I am slightly disappointed with the score. Think, I can do better. If I take GMAT again, I'll be taking it for the 3rd time. Not sure how adcoms will perceive it. Any thoughts?
- Prashanth
