Very bad experience in terms of final result. After having performed well at all the tests, the test day arrived and my score went below my worst score ever (even lower than the diagnostic). My test was at 8 am at Somerset, NJ and I arrived at 7:30 and after all the paperwork and singnatures I was able to start the test at 8am. The AWA sections went well and I took a break after AWA. Thne the Quant sections started and I felt that I was doing well and was able to get the tricky questions as well. I thought that I will get atleast to 95% percentile. I had 3 minutes leftwhen the last question came on screen and finished quant section with 30 seconds remaining.
After QUant sections I felt confident and took 2 minute break to gather myself and start the verbal section. As I started the verbal I felt the questions were little different from what I had practised during MGMAT but I thought that I was doing well. I though I was pacing along well but when there were 10 questions left I realized that I had only 14 minutes left. I tried to complete the next few questions quickly. Luckily next 3 questions were sentence correction and I was able to get through the next 4-5 questions quickly while figuring out hte correct answers but after that I was hit with 5 CR questions which were long too. I ended up guesssing on 2 questions and was not very confident on other 2-3 as I did not have much time to think. I never had time issue with my verbal section of tests during practice so I was taken by surprise. I expected the score to be lower than 730 (700-710) but never imagined that it would drop down to 650.
I have been studying for last 3 months and started at 670 level (GMAT diagnostic). I started with Kaplan guide and then moved onto Manhattan Set of 8 guides. I completed all books and then started Official Guide. I alaso compelted course in SC from e-gmat.com
Here is my progress for tests that I took:
1. GMATprep1 (In March) 680
2. MGMAT 1 - (On Mar 18) - Completed only verbal as I selected a wrong time option for quant section - Q 36 81%
3. MGMAT2 (On Mar 26 ) - 700 Q47 V39
4. MGMAT3 (On April 1) - 680 Q47 V35
5. MGMAT4 (On April 5) - 700 Q46 V39
6. MGMAT5 (On April 8) - 720 Q48 V40
7. MGMAT6 (On April 15) - 730 Q48 V42
8. GMAT PREP2 (On April 16) - 730 Q47 V42
Actual GMAT - 650 Q47 V32
I'm looking forward for any advice / help about what to do. Any other course that I can take to improve Verbal score.
Thanks.
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