StaceyKoprince Wrote:Whoops - we didn't get to this before the 4th. I hope things went well! Come back and let us know. (And nice job on that last practice test!!)
For future reference or for anyone else reading this:
If you finish a section early, your break starts immediately and it still lasts only 8 minutes. You can, however, just sit in the room with the last question still on the screen and take a "break" before you finish the test - just let the clock keep running down.
If you put an answer in and then the timer runs out, the computer will accept whatever answer you had in.
You can eat or drink anything you want on the break, but you obviously have to have it in your locker, since you only have 8 minutes. I'm not sure whether there are differences in how quickly the caffeine gets delivered to your body if the coffee is hot vs. cold, but you could always buy an insulated thermos if you prefer your coffee hot. :)
My test didn't go well. I dropped to 700(Q51, V34); I knew while going through verbal questions that I'm not doing well. RC questions were easy but SC and CR were probably tricky - I was working at probably 70% efficiency. My speed was low and I was stuck between last 2 options for CR.
Overall, I think that I have a lot more potential than what my score says and that I didn't do well mostly because of bad coffee habbit. Cold coffee definitely doesn't work. My whole face was red hot during verbal session; I was stuck between 2 options again & again. I was slow for I finished Quant just 3min before deadline even though I almost always finished Quant 15before deadline in mgmat tests.
8min break is closed to nothing; should have made the habbit of finishing Quant(1:15)+Verbal(1:15) in one sitting of 2hr30min - I'm taking test again in a month and this time would make a habbit to not take coffee or break.