still nervous that morning.
Hope this helps. Now, onto burning my flash cards....
Annie
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M A N H A T T A N
GMAT
Managing Test Stress
Professional Help for Test Anxiety
-Jamie Nelson
One of the aspects I love most about teaching the GMAT is celebrating
the success of my students. There is nothing more wonderful than receiving
word that a student has attained a score he or she is pleased with, and then getting a
later message that the student has been admitted to a desired business school and will
be enrolling soon.
On the other hand, one of the most difficult and frustrating situations for instruc
tors and students alike occurs when a student should be able to achieve a great score,
yet, for whatever reason, appears unable to do so. It’s such a terrible blow to students
to have consistent diagnostic scores in the target range, yet take the actual test and
perform much worse. However, a thorough investigation of the reasons for this under
performance may yield a surprising cause and provide hope for resolution and a better
outcome on a future test.
I recently worked with a student I’ll call Kim (not her real name, but she gave me
her blessing to tell her story as she wants to help other students). Kim is a wonderful
person and student; she’s bright, motivated, diligent, and organized. A graduate of an
outstanding university, Kim holds a business position of great responsibility, speaks
four languages, and devotes herself to considerable community and charitable activi
ties. A top business school should regard Kim as a highly desirable candidate.
Kim’s only possible hindrance to admission was her GMAT score; she had scored a
620 on the official test. Kim knew that her odds would improve if she could raise her
score, so she decided to start private tutoring. We were paired together and Kim told
me that her goal score was 700. After examining her diagnostic tests, I believed that
Kim had a good chance to hit this goal, and we began tutoring in October.
Kim worked hard and in late November she scored a 700 on a diagnostic test. We were
happy with this but decided to keep working to ensure that she could hit this score on
a regular basis. After Kim took three more diagnostics and attained scores of 720, 740,
and 740, we felt very confident that she was ready for prime time. She took the actual
GMAT in February, and I waited eagerly to receive her text with the good news.
However, the news was not so good. Kim scored a 640 on the actual GMAT and was
crushed. She had worked so long, so hard, yet had scored 100 points below her most
recent diagnostic taken only two weeks earlier. What went wrong? How could this
happen?
Kim and I talked about the test and the problem quickly became clear. Kim told me
that after hitting a bad patch of questions in the Quant section she began to panic.
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