Hi friends.. Highly demotivated I feel at the moment. Gave my first GMAT in Jan'14 and scored a poor 590. Started my preparation again in April after getting guidance from a few friends. I myself found out some flaws in me. tried to correct them and was quite successful too. I had been getting good scores of around 680-700 in my mock tests(GMAT prep and exam pack1) and so i felt confident this time. Gave my 2nd GMAT on 19th Jun'14. But I failed again. just scored 24 in verbal (600 score, quant 48) in comparison to 34-38 scores which I was getting in mock tests. May be I ll go one more and the third time for GMAT after a few months. But friends I need your advise or opinion. Even if I score a nice near 700 score, is it going to hurt me when I apply for the fact that it took me three times to get a good score. Also,I am very depressed as I am not able to find a way out since mock tests are the closest indicators and I had been pretty decent in verbal in my mocks. Now I am confused as to what to do to improve. Should I join a coaching(Jamboree in India) or a private tutor. please reply.
Hi Mohit,
The first suggestion that I would like to give as GMAT trainer is that you must be focusing on Verbal as there is a huge potential to improve the score. You can easily reach a score of minimum 35 in Verbal which will improve your total score by approx. 80 marks.
Secondly your Quant also has potential to be improved further for a score of 50 giving you an extra score of 20 Marks but at this stage when you have not been able to get a good score after taking 3 attempts I can't suggest you to do the preparation on your own.
There is something seriously wrong about your strategy of preparation and solving questions of Verbal therefore I would suggest you must do the preparation under guidance of some expert.
None of our students has ever scored less than 35 in Verbal so we would like to offer you one FREE Online Interactive demo class for Verbal and then offer you our assessment about your preparation and way forward for improvement.
To answer the last query, None of the universities considers the number of attempts that you made for improving GMAT score they considers only the best score available not older than 5 years.
You must take expert guidance for sure. Taking Jam or any other coaching is completely your decision which should be based on your experience in Demo class. So I would suggest that take demo classes with all coachings that you are considering for joining and join where you find best support from faculties and best instructions to improve your score.
I would be happy to offer you FREE Online interactive demo class for Quant and Verbal. Judge based on your experience.
All the best!!!
