Hi friends,
I have given 3 attempts at GMAT, following are the scores:
1. 2nd Jan 2018 - 700 (Q49 V37 IR2)
2. 7th Sep 2018 - 710 (Q49 V38 IR2)
3. 1st Oct 2018 - 620 (Q47 V28 IR5)
I am an Indian, Ayurvedic Doctor, and mainstream MBA, working in healthcare across Medical Affairs and Medico-Marketing profiles, with no exceptional extracurricular profile. After hitting a glass ceiling in my career, I decided to accelerate and diversify my career by another MBA, but this time I decided to do it from a premium B school (Global top 10) and to gain a global perspective.
In the pursuit mentioned above, I started my prep in October 2017, and studied with Economist GMAT tutor and GMAT Prep (free resources only). My consultant suggested me to take another attempt and target a score of 720/+ for higher chances. So I started again in Mid July, with a reset Economist GMAT Tutor profile, and Paid GMAT Prep material at hand (Extra questions and Practice exam 3 and 4). I completed 95% of Economist course again, and 50% of official material, with exams 1 and 2 again and 3 and 4 twice. The second attempt culminated with a score of 710. I had a poor IR again, thus I rejected it. Official GMAT mocks score were between 710 and 740. Economist's mocks score were 750 and 740 by that time.
For 3rd attempt, I tried material of Target Test Prep for Quant practice and purchased exams 5 and 6 and scored 650 (Q45 V32) and 730 (Q49 V40) respectively. But at the 3rd attempt on actual GMAT I scored an abysmal 620.
I want to bring into highlight a fact that this time when I appeared for GMAT, I was exhausted, not confident, and felt overloaded with information. My speed had slowed down and accuracy at CR had reduced to an extremely low level. I had to guess last 4 questions in Quant and last 7 questions in Verbal due to time constraint when I was completing my exam sections, which was never the case before. Rather, I always completed my sections 5 to 6 minutes before in mock and actual GMAT exams.
I am in no mood to quit my dream and want to maximize my chances of scoring 740+ on GMAT this time. I want to reach at Q51 and V40 level (even if I could sustain V38 I will be okay).
Now that I have only two chances to retake official mocks 5 and 6 (expecting questions to be different) I want an expert guidance from the GMAT Club experts upon how to study, what to study, from where to study, and what not to do. I also need to know that when should I take my GMAT again and that what should be my ideal strategy.
Thanks,
Abhinav
P.S. ESR could not be uploaded due to 5 days membership and 5 posts' policy of GMAT Club. Will be happy to email if anyone is willing to guide me further.![]()
I have given 3 attempts at GMAT, following are the scores:
1. 2nd Jan 2018 - 700 (Q49 V37 IR2)
2. 7th Sep 2018 - 710 (Q49 V38 IR2)
3. 1st Oct 2018 - 620 (Q47 V28 IR5)
I am an Indian, Ayurvedic Doctor, and mainstream MBA, working in healthcare across Medical Affairs and Medico-Marketing profiles, with no exceptional extracurricular profile. After hitting a glass ceiling in my career, I decided to accelerate and diversify my career by another MBA, but this time I decided to do it from a premium B school (Global top 10) and to gain a global perspective.
In the pursuit mentioned above, I started my prep in October 2017, and studied with Economist GMAT tutor and GMAT Prep (free resources only). My consultant suggested me to take another attempt and target a score of 720/+ for higher chances. So I started again in Mid July, with a reset Economist GMAT Tutor profile, and Paid GMAT Prep material at hand (Extra questions and Practice exam 3 and 4). I completed 95% of Economist course again, and 50% of official material, with exams 1 and 2 again and 3 and 4 twice. The second attempt culminated with a score of 710. I had a poor IR again, thus I rejected it. Official GMAT mocks score were between 710 and 740. Economist's mocks score were 750 and 740 by that time.
For 3rd attempt, I tried material of Target Test Prep for Quant practice and purchased exams 5 and 6 and scored 650 (Q45 V32) and 730 (Q49 V40) respectively. But at the 3rd attempt on actual GMAT I scored an abysmal 620.
I want to bring into highlight a fact that this time when I appeared for GMAT, I was exhausted, not confident, and felt overloaded with information. My speed had slowed down and accuracy at CR had reduced to an extremely low level. I had to guess last 4 questions in Quant and last 7 questions in Verbal due to time constraint when I was completing my exam sections, which was never the case before. Rather, I always completed my sections 5 to 6 minutes before in mock and actual GMAT exams.
I am in no mood to quit my dream and want to maximize my chances of scoring 740+ on GMAT this time. I want to reach at Q51 and V40 level (even if I could sustain V38 I will be okay).
Now that I have only two chances to retake official mocks 5 and 6 (expecting questions to be different) I want an expert guidance from the GMAT Club experts upon how to study, what to study, from where to study, and what not to do. I also need to know that when should I take my GMAT again and that what should be my ideal strategy.
Thanks,
Abhinav
P.S. ESR could not be uploaded due to 5 days membership and 5 posts' policy of GMAT Club. Will be happy to email if anyone is willing to guide me further.