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ashton_s_83
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I would like to start off this post by thanking all people associated with this forum. Thanks to Eric, other moderators and everyone who has answered even a single question, we all have benefited.
On the test day, it was pretty cold and my hands were barely moving. Typing helped warm my hands up. Despite facing a minor mishap between the awa section and quant section, i managed to start the quant section after only 3 mins. Do not try to answer each question within 2-3 mins if you need more time. It is better to take more time on each question and get it correct than guess on many questions just because you want to have 2-3 mins for every question. My philosophy has always been to solve each question quick so that i do not have to blindly guess any question. Despite the 3 min late start and seeing some astronomically hard questions, I finished with ~3 mins to spare.
verbal section was kinda hard too. I saw 4 sc questions and 1 cr question in the first 5 questions. then ques 6 was a rc question that was highlighted. i made the mistake of getting too happy after seeing the highlighted question but i managed to refocus. all rc questions i saw were very long but fortunately i understood the matter of all rc questions. the cr questions were hard too and ultimately i was drained by the time the test was done.
I gave gmat a month back and scored 700. I realized soon afterwards that I had many holes in my game and I needed to plug as many as possible. After making some changes I gave gmatprep and mgmat tests again and got the following scores:
gmatprep 1: 740
mgmat 1: 780 (do not believe the results for mgmat tests, I gave almost every test on mgmat and afterwards I knew almost every question)
gmatprep 2: 760
mgmat 2: 780
gmatprep 3: 740
gmatprep 4: 710 (very devastated)
gmatprep 5: 740
gmatprep 6: 740
real gmat : 760 99% (quant 50 93%, verbal 44 97%)
Some key factors to remember:
1. Try to study smart, not just study hard
2. Always remember your mistakes and try to reduce their number.
3. gmat quant has become much harder, I got 2 questions on pentagons. I had to guess on one of them.
4. i faced more ds questions than ps questions. the hardest questions are ps questions in which the same question can be framed as a ds question.
5. do not get too happy once you see either a boldface cr question or a highlighted reading comprehension question. you still have to face a total of 41 questions and you must not get happy too soon. I was very happy when i saw the sixth question as a highlighted RC question but soon I realized that some of my focus had disappeared.
Thanks again to all of you who have been a part of this website. If there are any questions, I would be happy to answer them.
On the test day, it was pretty cold and my hands were barely moving. Typing helped warm my hands up. Despite facing a minor mishap between the awa section and quant section, i managed to start the quant section after only 3 mins. Do not try to answer each question within 2-3 mins if you need more time. It is better to take more time on each question and get it correct than guess on many questions just because you want to have 2-3 mins for every question. My philosophy has always been to solve each question quick so that i do not have to blindly guess any question. Despite the 3 min late start and seeing some astronomically hard questions, I finished with ~3 mins to spare.
verbal section was kinda hard too. I saw 4 sc questions and 1 cr question in the first 5 questions. then ques 6 was a rc question that was highlighted. i made the mistake of getting too happy after seeing the highlighted question but i managed to refocus. all rc questions i saw were very long but fortunately i understood the matter of all rc questions. the cr questions were hard too and ultimately i was drained by the time the test was done.
I gave gmat a month back and scored 700. I realized soon afterwards that I had many holes in my game and I needed to plug as many as possible. After making some changes I gave gmatprep and mgmat tests again and got the following scores:
gmatprep 1: 740
mgmat 1: 780 (do not believe the results for mgmat tests, I gave almost every test on mgmat and afterwards I knew almost every question)
gmatprep 2: 760
mgmat 2: 780
gmatprep 3: 740
gmatprep 4: 710 (very devastated)
gmatprep 5: 740
gmatprep 6: 740
real gmat : 760 99% (quant 50 93%, verbal 44 97%)
Some key factors to remember:
1. Try to study smart, not just study hard
2. Always remember your mistakes and try to reduce their number.
3. gmat quant has become much harder, I got 2 questions on pentagons. I had to guess on one of them.
4. i faced more ds questions than ps questions. the hardest questions are ps questions in which the same question can be framed as a ds question.
5. do not get too happy once you see either a boldface cr question or a highlighted reading comprehension question. you still have to face a total of 41 questions and you must not get happy too soon. I was very happy when i saw the sixth question as a highlighted RC question but soon I realized that some of my focus had disappeared.
Thanks again to all of you who have been a part of this website. If there are any questions, I would be happy to answer them.
