Oh, no! In future, please don't "bump" your own posts unless you have new info to add! We answer every single post and we do so
oldest first. The time stamp on a thread is based on the most recent post - so all you do when you "bump" your post is put yourself later in line.
We've been short-staffed this month, but I started answering a bunch of posts on 21 Aug (and later). You would have gotten a reply several days ago, but you bumped your own thread from 9 Aug to 22 Aug by replying, putting you much further back in the queue. :(
Finally, UPENDRA, please start your own thread. Each student gets a separate thread for each individual "case."
I'm not as familiar with how the schools in India work. In the US, schools don't care if you take it up to 3 times; after that, sometimes they view it as a negative (depends upon the school).
It's important for us to try to figure out what went wrong on that last test. I'm worried that your practice test scores may have been inflated. You don't mention the timeframe in which you took your 6 MGMAT practice tests, but it kind of sounds like you took them in a short period of time. Was that the case? In particular, your scores on the last 4 are pretty similar... and that might have been one thing that led to artificial inflation.
Basically, the tests aren't designed to take a bunch in a row all right in the same scoring level - the assumption is that they'll be spread over time and you'll be getting better as you go. If you take 4+ tests all at the same level, you're in danger of running out of questions at your level in certain categories, so the test will then have to give you higher or lower level questions instead. Except if you run out of 700-800 questions, there aren't harder ones... so you'll only end up getting easier replacement questions, but the test will still give you credit as though you're getting harder ones... and your score is artificially inflated.
Also, did you take the tests under 100% official conditions, including the essays? If you skipped the essays, took longer breaks than allowed, etc - then your score also could have been inflated from that.
Next, do you ANY timing issues at all? Note: you can finish a section on time and yet still have significant timing issues. Use the below article to analyze an MGMAT test, but don't use the last couple, just in case you were getting easier questions than you should have. Let us know if you discover any timing issues.
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... tudy-plan/People with timing issues might be okay on practice tests but might have more significant issues during the real test.
Finally, how did you feel about the test yourself? Did the verbal feel harder? Strange in any way? Were you feeling fatigued? When did you take all of these practice tests? You mention that you took a practice test two days before the real test. That leads to mental fatigue as well - I recommend not taking a practice test for the last 5 days before the real test.
Take a look at this article; could this have been happening to you?
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/08/ ... -you-crazyYou may have really fatigued yourself too much in the few days leading up to the test. Let me know what you think about all of this!
