Dear huul99,
Firstly ,answers to your questions
ARE U GETTING BACK TO THE MISTAKES THAT U DID?
--(if not----> the worst thing that u can do)
I didn't get a chance to attempt them again -(only few i did) why ? Not much time before the exam .
ARE U SCARED/Nervous during verbal and confident while quant?
yes Confident in quant .In Verbal ,Not nervous but scared because i already knew my verbal prep was pretty much messed up.
(nop---u have to be comfy in both)--hmm yes i agree
DID U READ THE OG EXPLANATIONS FOR SC CR SC ?
(esp SC---> nop----wrong/ i read every word of 10/11)
-- Alas ! i didn't (only for the wrong answers i did read them,But didnt spend much time on them )
-- I get the point you are trying to make from these questions
- Did i prepare thoroughly enough? Ans: NO
Can't wait to share my experience it follows
1.Completed Kaplan Book theory and did the exercises given in the book .I was pretty good at it, I scored in 40's out of 50 questions given in Kaplan excercises and a similar score in CR .This made me gain confidence in Verbal . Quant i was confident.I didn't much do the exercise just browsed thru the DS part.
{I heard that students score less in Kaplan tests --from my friend ofcourse -no idea on the validity of his statement }
2. OG(CR and SC) i already completed well before hand: nearly 5-6 months before i applied for the exam.(Did i check each Answer ? --- NO
,However i checked for the wrong answers,i didnt try to attempt wrong answrs again) .
3.I wrote a few tests meanwhile ,My quant score was good but my verbal score was poor ( i was getting 20-21 mistakes )etc this lowered the confidence that i gained in Kaplan tests .
When the exam is a months time away ,I started with the Verbal review BOOK- ,I started doing 10 questions at a time and consciously ensured i spent no more than 2 min on any question. (i did this because in the kaplan tests i felt that i went very poor on timing esp in verbal part).
My CR performance was OK(i got atleast 7/10 correct).
For the SC part ,i was devastated !! I consistently kept making lot of mistakes -checking the explanations was another blow ! They bore little resemblance to kaplan methods( no offense for Kaplan methods here -only i felt it this way, my friend scored 34 in verbal only following Kaplan -- i though how lucky !)when i chose parallelism ,i found the answer to be something else.
This increased my anxiety , i was great-full enough that i was learning new ways to identify SC mistakes.
With exam nearly 8-10 Days i attempted the First test (It happened to drive me nuts !whatever confidence i had in Quant almost vanished )I scored 560 .I went through explanations for each question and somehow i landed on MGMAT forum.
(About MGMAT forum-) I am very thankful to their posts their discussions,those posts led me to gain my lost confidence in quant.Thank you Guys I love You .
A DAY before exam
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I attempted 2nd test a day before the exam i scored 590.I somehow was able to predict my mood and score next day ,which i supposed would be around 540-560,any my mood dejected and coming out of exam cursing myself ( i estimated my score basing on my friend's score he scored 680-720 in Prep tests and scored 650 in Actual test ).
-on my way to office one of my colleagues was asking about my prep as my exam was scheduled the next day , I explained i wasn't doing good in SC ( In the second GMAT prep exam- i made 21 mistakes in verbal out of them 13 wrong answers in SC alone !!I cursed myself for not preparing well ) I scored 48 in quant.My colleague advised me to go thru Manhattan SC.I wondered should i learn new book or check verbal answers for which i attempted wrong in the Prep tests .I completed all the theory and did go thru few of their (MGMAT SC) exercises.
Exam Day
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I woke up late,had good sleep, read my notes for AOI and AOArg .Had a good lunch went thru my notes for SC.
I was prepared for a score of 560,i thought Quant was my strong hold ,i said to myself -no amount of anxiety can wither me and make my quant score low ,and that in verbal i should be careful for the first 5 questions .Amazingly , it worked(to an extent) i had a good go at Essay ,my confidence in quant helped i maintained pace ,i guessed one question as it took nearly 4 min.Towards the end i completed in time.During the break i realized that i made few mistakes in the quant sections ,but i knew i would score nearly 50.
In verbal i spent 12-14 min for the first 5 questions .Just to ensure timing shouldn't effect my judgment for first 5 questions.For the rest i felt that questions were actually easy(may be i didnt get first 5 correct ?),i went on with my normal pace.Towards the end there was a long Reading comprehension -- I wast able to understand it properly ,time was short ,i just grabbed the main idea and guessed 3 questions .Rest i managed with normal timing (but obviously with low confidence because of messed up preparation) .
Once i saw the scores i was happy that i could save embarrassment .After the exam i felt that i can score good in verbal but i need to practice SC a lot .But didnt know what i need to study as i almost studied everything that i have for verbal, except for the 1000 SC(this i didnt study because i didnt know the answer explanations,I completed first 300 or odd Qns with the help of threads in this forum ,rest i need to complete ).
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. Similarly for CR and RC. I feel better in CR, coz I find more choices are out of scope --> easier to eliminate.
I donot know what to study now !
