okay hey shashank congratulations on your 760 okay 760 with a v46
how does it feel it feels fantastic i almost uh shouted and abused when i got the score
definitely not what i was expecting because i felt the verbal was fairly tough but in retrospect i
feel it got tough because of the because how it progresses right so i was maybe getting it all
right it felt a little uncomfortable during the test not only uh but i think at the back of my
mind subconsciously i was trained well enough uh to recognize what could be the best i'll be very
honest uh the questions were very tough when i wasn't 100 sure uh of all the options but
i think uh my mind was trained in the right direction to know what would be the best guess
which is the eighty percent uh most likely to be the current dancer
so yeah i think uh felt great and first of all when i got the 760 i was so sure that it was
going to be a few 51 because no one's going to get a 760 without q51 right and it went fairly
well the point i felt maybe i did some silly mistakes uh so when i saw q49 i was very confused
uh how could it be that i got a 760 with a q49 and then i uh saw the v46 and
yeah so here's a learning for everybody right you don't need a q51 to score 760. that's one thing
i've seen a lot of students get a q50 and a v32 as well get a 760. you've got a v46 so let's not even
go in that direction because that's a crazy crazy high score uh let's talk a little bit about
of course your verbal journey right now uh the interesting thing about you is that you studied
on your own and you scored a 7-10 before you kind of even joined the course um how did you study
then and what was the difference from when you studied on your own to when you kind of came to us
got it so uh i had taken a gmat way back in 2014 as well uh this was right after i graduated uh
and i got a 700 which was i think 250 and a v 33 or 34 something like that yeah uh i
felt that my sc had always been strongish uh not but not where i wanted it to be uh but
of all the three sections uh i think sc was my most consistent uh because i have a good grammar
a good as a person but i did not still i was relying a lot on sound how it sounded right
uh cr is something i think the pre-thinking uh is something i was doing before i started egmat
as well but during uh the the preparation phase of egmat i realized i wasn't doing it well enough
uh the pre-thinking that i was doing uh and rc was by far the most inconsistent uh that i had
i had some mocks where i did zero mistakes uh in rc and there were mocks where i only did mistakes
right uh so so yes i think the verbal had been a very uh tumultuous very rollercoaster journey and
the frustrating part was i could not pinpoint what what my weakness and strengths are i just
knew that sc is consistent and rc is not but i wasn't confident in any of the three sections
so i needed that help that's why that's where i reached out to one of eg matt's consultants
and i said see my problem is very simple uh i do not have a weakness area a particular
weakness area i think all of the things i do is average so i need to level up my game in
all the sections and that's where he uh walked me through the eeg matt uh platform as well as
how to utilize the ability test custom quizzes as well as utilizing this
got it so after he kind of took you through everything um what was the first thing that
you kind of started off with because you've done a fair amount of the sccr and rc course
yeah uh so first of all i wasn't even very sure that i wanted to take the course uh i i thought
that maybe if he could help me uh pinpoint what what i could do again in a cell phone maybe i
could do that save some money uh but uh to be very honest i thought about it i am anyway giving the
gmat if if i nail it i'm increasing my chances of scholarship so so that is actually a very small
uh investment if i can increase my chances for our scholarship right and i thought the way he put it
how how it would analyze where you are and where you want to be and how you're progressing this is
something that i wanted because i had been doing a one-month prep i did not know where i was and
where i was progressing it was just it's all in the air right so that's where i decided yes let
me make this investment and i have to stick by it he told me that you have to uh study about 20
hours a week uh which which is a lot when you are managing work as well uh but uh but yeah i thought
that one month let's let's give it my not even one month like three weeks uh let's give it my all and
let's focus uh everything on verbal because there is only so much focus yeah but let's hope right
uh so yes i i started doing the concept files and uh one one thing to all your potential subscribers
brilliant thing i think one of the best things about egmat all the other things
yes great uh you would only be doing about four to five questions in half an hour or 40 minutes
but that will make all the difference uh if you go through it diligently don't skip anything
uh learn even the smallest of things how to comprehend the scar articles and not just
thinking but how to comprehend each and every uh meaning of the word and sentence i think that
will be all the difference in cr uh especially so that was something which really of my gaming cr
uh took me from about 50 percent accuracy to about 89 accuracy and uh sc i can say that
it really brought in that objectivity uh people think that sc is very grammatical being very
uh it's a very subjective thing right it's not actually you can actually break down the
sentences and you can see where where in like like you solve quant it can be
solved in that way and that's where eg took me in that direction and i was very happy that
perfect so i think you started off by analyzing an ability and you figure that you know sc is fine
here is okay rc is up and down so again value from the course but then you've practiced a
serious amount of i think more than 300 just about 300 questions on scholarium as well
uh and this is not an insane amount because we have tons and tons of questions but i really
value the fact that you didn't over practice because a lot of students tend to do that right so
you practiced about 300 questions on scholarly name what was your experience on that platform
it was amazing so uh the reason why i was doing that exactly what you said it was not
too over practice i i i felt i was ready enough uh doing the ability uh doing the concept files the
application files conceptually i was ready uh so so i knew that you know i did not want to practice
what i wanted through that because uh the verbal uh platform of egmat is very close uh almost uh
similar to the original gmat right uh and i knew and i picked up the same amount of questions if
you i don't know if you saw that but i was always figured i did right the idea was stamina uh
because uh the questions were about the same level uh i i picked up in the same proportion as well
uh i was told by your consultant and then whenever you are building custom quizzes
even though you might have uh specific areas to focus on maybe you want to improve crs
but his suggestion was even then mix it up because in the real situation it will be mixed up
right so you do not want to get into a habit where you are practicing a lot of cr questions
because your mind gets conditioned in that way so so i mixed it up uh 36 questions real environment
uh 300 questions means about nine so apart from your mock test i may be simulated
uh another nine uh verbal gmat uh environment uh to build my stamina and then it really helped
me do the test i did not feel that oh my god i'm tired i can't do quant and i uh true so i
think in in the the week before the test i think seven to ten days before the test you took these
34 33 34 34 35 question custom quizzes where we call them test readiness quizzes where you scored
above 80 percent and around the 75 mark so for anyone who wants to know how to score a v40 plus
that's the benchmark and this is with medium and hard questions and i think it was very effective
because it would have taught you multiple things what were your main takeaways from these quizzes
uh so one thing i really loved is the analysis part uh once i get through to oh
so so egmat has this thing wherein they break down things into uh what is the luck factor what
is the rush to factor uh and ah one more time i'm forgetting that section but they were living okay
the timing factor so it's timing yeah correct correct so so i the when when egmat shows you
what uh your analysis it does not uh it does not just show you the incorrect ones it also shows you
what you did correct but you took excessive timing right uh it was very important because you want to
be comfortable on the test day uh even if you get it right but you are spending about three minutes
three and a half minutes on a cr or sc question uh not really not a very comfortable position to
be in and it means that conceptually there might still be some gaps so so that's where uh i think
that's where i utilized the platform really well i analyzed each question on its merit
uh not i'm not a lot of luck factor i never guessed anything so my luck factor throughout the
tests were almost negligible there was rush too uh and i analyzed i picked where where am i rushing
what are the things i think are easy but they are maybe trying to trap me uh so that's that's where
uh that's where each mat helped a lot and of course all the incorrect answers uh one thing i
can i can give an advice on is uh it's in verbal especially it's always very very easy to make
a case for your answer right uh that you know my answer sounds correct it sounds actually the best
i don't know how that answers uh go away from that trap uh because yes uh if you're not trained that
way there is a subjectivity involved but when you do get trained uh properly you will realize that
your answer is actually one of a very cleverly thought of trap they wanted you to pick but uh
but the real answer is something else it's very objective how you pick it up
uh so that's that's how i utilize the platform uh to figure out i i i admit it to myself i'm wrong i
did not try to justify not try to expose that you know your answer is wrong right so that's where
i utilized it uh and conceptually bridge the gaps oh if i think i couldn't have put it better myself
and i think the point that you mentioned that for example if i were to give these statistics of 80
on a test readiness quiz and it had a timing issue and a lock factor and a rush through factor that
amounts to actually much lesser than because of course these these elements reduce your score
uh so in the run up to the test again you took just a few mocks you took a few sigma x marks
and in fact i think you scored a 750 on the sigma x mark two days before the test right so you just
took that um i mean i've always known this for a long time that the sigma x marks are awesome
uh but tell me as a student you know what do you think about
you know the accuracy of the algorithm and kind of guessing what what your score is at because
then the funny thing here is you scored five q49s and you scored a q49 on the test as well
correct uh and i'll say it's
absolutely uh almost absolutely bang on maybe maybe a plus minus 10 right so
when when i gave my earlier gmat uh i was getting around 680 in eg matte uh box uh and uh i even got
couple of 680s in the official uh jeep as well and those are said to be the most accurate right
so if i got two cities there i'm getting two 680s here uh then immediately after my first uh gmat i
again took it and i got about a 7 10 again uh i think 7 30. perhaps yeah so uh so fairly fairly
uh close to what the actual gmat is uh especially the verbal i i'd say uh the quant is a little bit
tougher than what what the official gmat is but that actually works in your favor right because if
you are ready for the tough ones uh it will be a smooth sailing on the official area but uh but the
verbal is actually bang on especially uh i think all the three sections but especially sc and rc
uh sp and uh cr uh i feel that they are almost picked up from position uh gmats and yes rcrc
all right i assure you we haven't picked it up from there but yeah the algorithm is is absolutely
awesome and i think there is value in that um so here's a very interesting data point i think
coming to the closure of this interview i want you to talk a little bit about this and i noticed this
yours your scores and mocks you've never hit a 760 right even when you gave the test before
you never hit like a 700 or 710 you may have hit it once or twice but you were
getting six eight d's but you did much better on the exam than you did on a mock
a lot of people it goes the other way around i want to understand from you what is it that
how did you approach the exam to kind of you know outperform on on the exam got it so i think uh
i'll be very honest in verbal maybe i was i my target was 42 uh that was what i was preparing
for that was what i hit uh during my last small two days before i think one point extra 43
uh but uh this was my target to get into a 42 44 and i wanted to get it comfortable so i was
fairly comfortable in the 42 range i was 100 sure of the answers that i was marking uh on the test
day i wasn't i was a little uncomfortable maybe because the difficulty level was up
right to a 46 level uh so maybe a little luck factor uh but i think even luck requires your mind
to be conditioned that way so that you can you can think that way that this option a uh which might
look absolutely just eliminated right off the bat uh kind of an answer to an untrained mind uh
one who has trained he feels that this is the answer which i feel the logic that i am drawing in
my mind uh this can work option c might also work but i feel more comfortable with a on the test day
maybe those luck factor also kicked in and i i got all those answers right but then again maybe
uh two weeks earlier i wouldn't even have thought of option a as a true contender right so so that's
where uh the uh your mind needs to be conditioned in the right direction and if you want to get
extraordinary score of course uh there's a little luck but yes uh do train as much as possible
especially in verbal uh it's very objective it's not a subjective people think it uh to be uh
very it's it's a very methodic methodical approach to uh all the three of them uh but especially
sc i was really surprised by how objective that section is after i got through uh egment and i
actually felt so good i actually went back and told my friend i'm actually being confident
about this test because now it's not uh you know uh relying on my ear uh but it's uh on rules and
what what what to do in each sentence and how to look for the modification error parallelism
so i think uh the the typical condition for essentially doing well um on sc is that um
when you can when you can tell objectively then hearing it and and you know that this is the
answer without just hearing it and saying okay this sounds right you can logically come to that
conclusion that's when you know your sc has gotten really good so i think uh you definitely got to
that point and that's really cool i think is my internet connection i think it's it's a little
up and down right now just give me a sec let me check mine as well that should be okay now should
be fine now yeah yeah okay when in essie you can come to a logical conclusion without further ado
yeah and see if maybe by going by your ear you might get it right uh but you lose a little bit
of your confidence because but when you do it absolutely with bang on uh rules you feel
so confident on the next question as well on the next version so it really helps to have a approach
that is uh airtight you feel more confident during the test got it so i think this has
been very very informative and uh i think it's it's been a really nice interview you've been
very helpful and uh i think there's a lot of good points here to take away for any student
who wants to score really well on the test once again congratulations on scoring the 760 we're
supremely happy for you and all the best for your scholarships and peaceful applications
you