I just Beat The GMAT!

I scored 760 [Q47, V48, IR8] after a month and a half of fairly light study. It was my first time writing. I did all of the practice problems in the quantitative and sentence correction sections of the Official GMAT Guide. I did not write one practice exam, and I only practiced a handful of reading comp and reasoning questions. I did no IR or essay practice either.

My rational was that math and grammar are the only things I realistically improve in a month. Writing, reading, and reasoning are developed over many years. I'm pretty happy with my score, but the quantitative is a little low considering I'm a math/econ major.

I feel like the verbal score is a more accurate reflection of ability, because it doesn't bog you down in incredibly tedious calculations. I could have answered any of those math questions, but the more I got right, the more ridiculous they became in terms of calculation, and I had to guess to get rid of the question so I wouldn't run out of time. It's not like it takes any brains to deal with a bunch of decimals and exponents, but the tediousness of it when you get 2 mins per question is dumb.

Was this the official exam? If so, well done, you are a natural.

Jim@StratusPrep wrote:Was this the official exam? If so, well done, you are a natural.

Yeah, it was. I wonder if I could have done better if I had done practice tests.

Getting a 760 cold must be a 1 in 10,000 event. Your score is higher than the average at any school. I don't think any should could or would haves matter for you.

I hope you get how unusual what you did is.

thelionsgate wrote:Getting a 760 cold must be a 1 in 10,000 event. Your score is higher than the average at any school. I don't think any should could or would haves matter for you.

I hope you get how unusual what you did is.

Or maybe not doing practice tests helped me. It placed an unreasonable expectation on me that I needed to get every question correct like in the SAT, for example.

Yep, no reason to take it again. You are 100% done.