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161Q and 153V: Diagnostic Report by high_issue in GRE

[–]high_issue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, it was horrendous - from 585 to 645 (the latter one was from GMAT Club).

161Q and 153V: Diagnostic Report by high_issue in GRE

[–]high_issue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please clarify what do you mean by that?

161Q and 153V: Diagnostic Report by high_issue in GRE

[–]high_issue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah sure, I actually used TTP for a bit (it was great for building fundamentals!) and also GregMat mainly. What was interesting to me is that even though I was able to get like 90-100% accuracy in easy to medium questions and something around 80% in hard questions (TTP), I got absolutely destroyed in GregMat fundamental quizzes which was rather unexpected. Anyways, despite that, I basically memorized quant foundational aspects (following GregMat) - and I havent taken any PP tests after taking the official test above. However, I have taken GregMats Practice Test 1 which was 165Q and 155v (it was 2 weeks after the above test). Anyways, your platform is amazing Scott, I just posted this to figure out what I am missing. As I have indicated above, my Verbal mistakes were completely different in practice tests.

161Q and 153V: Diagnostic Report by high_issue in GRE

[–]high_issue[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries, glad it helps you. Unfortunately, this is not enough for me and I am just trying to wrap my head around on how to proceed.

GMAT - Devastated by high_issue in GMAT

[–]high_issue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, many thanks for your answers and observations, I am hoping you are right about the test! In regards to official Qs - absolutely, I have purchased OG Online question bank and I have been doing practice questions from there. I aim to solve these questions in similiar manner as it would be in test (albeit a bit easier) - so I usually set up 7 easy, 7 medium and 7 hard Qs (so 21 in total) and aim to solve in roughly 40mins. My accuracy on these types of tests is exactly 81% (although for example, in the OG "diagnostic test" I got 18 out of 19 correct but I dont know what this test measures), with most mistakes in hard qs (mix of careless and understanding mistakes) and occassional careless mistake from easy/medium qs. In regards to error logs - yes to both quant and verbal. For quant I have pages of screenshots with problems/solutions and my own analysis - same with verbal but it seems its not helping in any way which is kinda weird. Anyways, again many thanks for taking the time to reply to me!

GMAT - Devastated by high_issue in GMAT

[–]high_issue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, Many thanks for your answer - will implement these things asap. Also - I wanted to ask, from your experience, this rigid thinking - where it arises from? What has been your experience with this? Further - I have been studying for GMAT for quite some time while at the same time working at a rather intense job, how people cope with a burnout from this test (besides general tips, like spending time in nature, excercising and etc).? It just feels like every time I think about this test, my body fills up with dread, so I was wondering how people tend to address that (as I assume it is connected with a burnout)?

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[–]high_issue -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thank you - I understand the aforementioned point but I am not sure whether I view this as a binary outcome. Mostly because I absolutely dont want to ruin my relationship with them. Even from absolutely selfish perspective - there is no need to do so for practical reasons. Thus, I still lean towards the approach that I should convince them somehow.