Diagnostic was a 650 but next practice test was a 550. Time to panic? Not yet. There may be a simple reason why your practice test dropped by 100 points relative to your baseline. Here are some questions to ask yourself: Were you more fatigued, stressed, or distracted? The mental game can influence your score. […]
Studied for a month but score dropped 100 points? Read the Full Article »
Can too much drilling be counterproductive? Yes. What????? Yes, you can “drill” yourself into the ground with practice questions. There are a bunch of thing that can go wrong with just rapid fire blasting through questions. Practicing the wrong strategies If you haven’t learned how to solve questions the “right” way then you may just
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Are there any admissions repercussions from low Integrated Reasoning (IR) or AWA scores? The short answer: not really. IR and, even more-so, AWA don’t matter much in terms of admissions. I had a student score a 1 on IR and still get admitted to a top MBA program. It is very rare that we even
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Why did your online GMAT score get flagged for administrative review (mostly related to people scoring 700+)? You’ve studied for months grueling through thousands of practice questions and half a dozen official GMAT practice tests. You even hired a tutor for a few sessions to review some particularly thorny concepts. The going was tough but
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Even as an experienced GMAT tutor my brain empties on test day… It’s true. And I’ve taken the GMAT 9 times, earned four 99th percentile scores, and one perfect 51 on verbal. Still, every single time I have that anxious feeling. Even a slight panic. And a little voice saying: you know nothing. And I
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