Devastated 460

[shankar245]

Hi Stacey,

I'm a great fan of all your articles and every bit of relates to my weakness that I'm going through.

I gave my GMAT and got a devastign 460 ( 35 Q , 20 V)

Before that i gave practice tests and managed only 470 in MGMAT CAt exams.( I assumed all woudl be fine and went ahead and gave the exam) Big Mistake.

I M good at maths and have been scoring 90% in my school and colelge days.

When i was evaluating the Test results in MGAMT i realised that in quants i was in the 89% till 24 th question then its started plummeting as qts and time went by.Ya the total time i had taken till 25th question was like 10-12 mts more than the actual tiem i should have taken

Any suggestion how can i improve abt this.
Please let me know if you need more details.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... n_US#gid=0

Added the assessment summary.

Just to add i was scoring 35 and 33percentil in verbal in MGMAT test
a 15 point pull down?

[StaceyKoprince]

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to respond - we've been crazy lately.

As you found out, you should generally assume that you are going to score about what you're scoring on practice exams. (Or lower - we can think of lots of reasons why someone might score lower when they get to the real test. There aren't a lot of reasons why someone would suddenly score a lot higher on the real test.)

So, on quant, you had serious timing problems; read this and start doing what it says:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... anagement/

I can't open your document, but actually, I don't want you to just give me a bunch of data. I want you to learn how to assess the data yourself - that's an important skill. Use the below article to help you assess the results:

http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... ice-tests/

Then come back here and tell us your analysis. That'll tell us your strengths and weaknesses on both quant and verbal in terms of content, question type, and timing - so that'll help us figure out what to do next.

Also, did you take your practice tests under 100% official conditions, including essays and length of breaks?

[shankar245]

Thanks Stacey.

I will go through them evaluate the exams and get back.


Yeah all the exams were 100% official conditions.( Essays.No Pausing)

I shall post a reply shortly with the analysis.

Thanks for your reply.

[StaceyKoprince]

That's good (that the exams were under official conditions). Yes, get back to me whenever you can with the analysis and we'll figure out what's going on.