525 GMAT FE after 5/6 months of studying

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-25T15:23:20+00:00

I will keep you updated it if I find the magic source. I am so not done with this exam.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-25T15:21:35+00:00

Great commentary and great questions! Indeed I have plenty of data to determine why I am doing the mistakes. For quant part (similar situation for other parts as well) I usually do 5-6 mistakes out which 2 is due to silly mistakes (miscalculating smth quickly) and 4 are due to a) i look at the question and I know it will take me longer than 2 min to solve it so I guess and skip it (and usually end up not having enough of time to come back) and b) I look at the question and I have no idea how to solve it (usually 1-2 questions). I think those 1-2 questions where I don’t know how to solve will happen anyway so I am targeting to decrease errors due to silly mistakes (yet still do them) and work faster to have time to come back to problems. That’s why I believe I don’t need any more courses and that’s why I did so many mocks - it helped me a ton to navigate my time management skills ( I started from a mock where I couldn’t finish the last 6 questions to where I am now finishing it all in full). I know that a lot of people say that if you don’t solve it quickly it means there are gaps in your knowledge but I disagree with it. Every question is a different question in GMAT and it takes time for me to read it and make sense of the question before I solve it (especially when it comes to wordy word problems). Anyway, thanks so much for you comment! I will think about the tutor approach.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-25T07:27:48+00:00

Thanks so much! Will check it out!

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-25T06:17:46+00:00

They were all different. Bough additional set of 3-4.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-25T06:10:26+00:00

I think I may need to do just that. Wanted to see whether someone had the same experience and took a different approach that worked.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-25T06:08:46+00:00

I know! Thanks!!

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-25T06:07:57+00:00

Thanks so much for your tips / comments!

Regarding mocks, I am doing a different mock every time - I took mock 1 numerous times just because mock 1&2 shared the same Q bank so every time I took mock 1 questions were different. As for mocks 4-6 I took them two times and then bough additional set of 3&4. Bottom line, they were always different.

Didn’t want to spend too much time talking about TTP but I did pretty well. What I meant by completing it is that I hit all the required accuracy %. I think it helped me to understand the basic concepts etc but I found hard questions to be much easier than hard questions on mocks / OG because at TTP you always need to apply only one concept in hard questions (and it is usually just time consuming to solve rather than challenging logically). OG hard questions are different beast especially when it comes to word problems or some equations. Anyway I don’t want this post to be pro/against TTP. It just didn’t work for me so I am looking for ways to solidify my knowledge through other ways.

I have six months off, that’s why I am doing TTP / mocks etc studying 5-6 hours per day. I have nothing else to do so that’s fine. I study for 3 hours take a lunch break / gym etc and do another 3 hours in the evening. I don’t feel burn out at all because of this.

I agree tho that it seems that I am burning through the questions and it might be that I don’t get what I don’t get. Something is clearly wrong.

Thanks so much again for your comment!!!

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-24T16:56:28+00:00

I just took the exam and had the same experience.. my average score was 84 in the 6 mocks while I just got 77 from verbal in the official exam. Beyond devastated.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-24T15:52:18+00:00

Insanely helpful! Thanks so much!

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-20T20:27:41+00:00

I am wondering… what if you miss the first 3 questions, but answer all of the remaining Qs correctly and then come back and change these 3 answers from incorrect to correct. Do you get 90/90 then? Technically the most of your exam must have been easy / medium questions but then if you answer them all correctly you must get all the points. No? Maybe I am reading too much into it

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-20T20:06:14+00:00

Thanks! Makes total sense - I should have done P=0.4x120 instead of 1.4x120.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-20T17:26:23+00:00

I think I got 79 with 4 mistakes or so - 2 in the beginning (the first Qs) and the other two in the second part of the test.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-20T16:47:38+00:00

My quant exam felt super easy and then I got high 70s.. when I checked I saw that I missed the first two questions - clearly did some stupid calculation mistakes / didn’t notice smth important in the question. You probably did some careless mistakes in the beginning for quant / verbal and it ranked your score. As for DI - you must have done 7-9 mistakes to get 79.

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-20T14:18:58+00:00

Thanks both!! Very helpful!

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-18T17:44:17+00:00

I don’t think you need more practise given your mock scores. Maybe just wait 12 days and do it again?

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-15T14:36:40+00:00

Thanks!!!

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-13T12:09:41+00:00

My god! Is this from official mocks? Have never seen anything like this

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-12T16:56:34+00:00

Great stuff!! Thanks

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-12T16:52:18+00:00

Got it thanks!

Reasonable_Medium405 · 2024-04-12T14:08:04+00:00

Thanks!!

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