Gave the first GMAT prep test

Finally I gathered all the courage and time to appear for the GMAT preparatory test. The experience was really good. This test was to know how much in water I am. I got to know where do I stand. Now I have to analyze myself and see what are the improvement area.

Let me first share the result first:

QA - 45 ( 37 Questions - 15 Incorrect)
VA - 20 ( 41 Questions - 19 Incorrect)
Score - 540.

In both the sections QA and VA, I got 22 questions correctly answered.

This was a full GMAT like test. I wrote the AWA section also.
The AWA section was quite soothing. I just wrote what I was getting in my mind. The first topic was about an argument on motor X which is more popular in America because of the noise it makes.

The other topic was "the best teacher is that who discusses more in his class". This was a nice topic. I wrote couple of paragraphs on this topic.

Then came the real GMAT with QA section. I started the test with confidence. I was very confident initially and first 4 questions were correct. But on the fourth question, I guess I spent more time may be 5 minutes, which was unnecessary. Probably the answer also came to be wrong. Need to check during review. The tension was building up. Then some easy questions started appearing. I managed to solve those. One thing which I need to improve is I didn't use the law of elimination in any of the questions. I solved the questions till the end. Probably the law of elimination would have saved some time. It took time in calculation as I lost touch in mathematics. I need to hone up simple math skills. The main problem in QA was on data sufficiency. I took so much time in data sufficiency and also did them wrongly. I need to analyze it question by question.

The next section was Verbal. This is the section in which people from engineering background generally dont do well. I was not an exception. But contrary to my belief I did well in RC compared to other sections viz sentence correction. I have hardly made any right answer in sentence correction. I need to practice the sentence correction a lot. Critical reasoning also went fine. Overall I scored 20 in verbal. Lets see what I get after analysis.

I will be analyzing the score tomorrow and will put in an excel sheet. I remember seeing somekind of analysis excel sheet in PG. I will be posting my score in PG and will ask for the feedback.