I took the GMAT last July and got a 620 (35V, 40Q).
Stopped studying for a few months due to life getting crazy. Picked up my books again in mid December and started intensely studying in the very beginning of January. I used questions from the OG bank and the OG practice tests. I was feeling way better about the quant and my accuracy was looking pretty good. Always correct on the "easy" ranked problems, almost always correct on "medium" problems, and probably at 60% accuracy for "hard" problems. I also took two practice tests in this time and got 690 and 710. 82nd percentile on the IR and only one point off on the essay. I am generally good at math but sometimes get overly wrapped up in some of the GMAT problems. I did minimal verbal study during the past month and a half.
I took the real test today and got a 670 (41V, 40V). I took the verbal section first and felt myself doing well there. Took my break and went back into the quant. I know I got the third problem wrong, and my mind automatically went into stress mode. I kept questioning so many things that I should have felt more confident about and did feel confident about during my practice. The mindset I was in during the quant section didn't feel normal or nearly as relaxed as I was during practice questions or practice tests. Kinda felt like everything fell apart there.
I feel discouraged but need to pull myself together for a mid-February test date. I would probably be done if I had kept it together during the quant because I was very happy with the 92nd percentile verbal score. What would you all advise doing here? Should I continue to only use the OG quant problems or should I start using another source like Veritas Prep? What kinds of drills should I do? Giving myself 20 minutes to do 10 questions or giving myself 62 minutes to do 31 problems? Open to all advice!![]()
Stopped studying for a few months due to life getting crazy. Picked up my books again in mid December and started intensely studying in the very beginning of January. I used questions from the OG bank and the OG practice tests. I was feeling way better about the quant and my accuracy was looking pretty good. Always correct on the "easy" ranked problems, almost always correct on "medium" problems, and probably at 60% accuracy for "hard" problems. I also took two practice tests in this time and got 690 and 710. 82nd percentile on the IR and only one point off on the essay. I am generally good at math but sometimes get overly wrapped up in some of the GMAT problems. I did minimal verbal study during the past month and a half.
I took the real test today and got a 670 (41V, 40V). I took the verbal section first and felt myself doing well there. Took my break and went back into the quant. I know I got the third problem wrong, and my mind automatically went into stress mode. I kept questioning so many things that I should have felt more confident about and did feel confident about during my practice. The mindset I was in during the quant section didn't feel normal or nearly as relaxed as I was during practice questions or practice tests. Kinda felt like everything fell apart there.
I feel discouraged but need to pull myself together for a mid-February test date. I would probably be done if I had kept it together during the quant because I was very happy with the 92nd percentile verbal score. What would you all advise doing here? Should I continue to only use the OG quant problems or should I start using another source like Veritas Prep? What kinds of drills should I do? Giving myself 20 minutes to do 10 questions or giving myself 62 minutes to do 31 problems? Open to all advice!