GMAT Classic 760 and GMAT FE mock 1 675 - my experience

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I appeared for the GMAT classic version on 20th Jan, 24. I scored a 760 - a 99th percentile score. Q50, V42, IR 8.

I took my first GMAT focus edition 𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 on 8th Feb, 24. I scored a 675 - a 96th percentile score. Q90, V81, DI 79.

𝗠𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:

1. I ran out of time in the Verbal section of FE. I think the removal of Sentence Correction played a role.

2. I feel that there is less room to hide now. I had 4 wrong answers in Verbal and DI each. And those mistakes were in the last third of each section. A total of 8 mistakes got me to the 96th %ile. Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but in one classic version mock test, I had scored 770 (99th %ile) with 11 mistakes.

3. If I select the correct answer, but don't click on next, the answer is not counted. It happened to me in the last question of DI. Not sure what happens if time runs out after I click on next but before I confirm the answer.

4. I did not need to use pen and paper for any Data Sufficiency question in the new version. I got one incorrect.

5. I was more exhausted at the end of the focus edition test. More Integrated Reasoning questions, and the added importance of those questions (they're now a part of the main score out of 805 and not reported separately anymore) probably played a part.

6. I am happy that Geometry is no more. I got a perfect quant score. Something I don't remember achieving in any classic version test - actual or mock.

7. I welcome the removal of Sentence Correction. In my recent classic version tests (mocks and actual), the only verbal questions I had guessed on were of SC.

8. I bookmarked one question in Quant, and I had ~12 minutes to review my answers in the end. I checked over 10 answers.

9. I changed one answer. I had it wrong before. It was probably the 6th question. I got a perfect score in Quant. I didn't get penalized for it.

10. I didn't get time to review my answers in Verbal and DI. I randomly guessed on the last two verbal questions in the last few seconds. I ran out of time before I could submit my last DI answer.

11. I had little recollection while reviewing questions. I almost went through them as though I hadn't solved them before. I believe this helped me catch my mistake. Otherwise, I might have repeated the same error. Yet, it did make me consider whether spending more time revising my answers initially would be better. I need to think more about my review and bookmark strategy.

12. Since the review screen only mentions question numbers, I just reviewed answers sequentially from the first. I was lucky that one of the questions I reviewed was the one I had got wrong earlier.

In this webinar, I share

1. my experience taking the GMAT in January
2. the differences I felt between the classic and focus versions
3. my plan to improve my score in the next Focus mock