Totally bombed the GMAT!

jingsuet · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: Totally bombed the GMAT!

I just took the GMAT this morning and got my @$$ handed to me on a platter 480 (Q22 V33). I studied for 2 months. The book I used was Kaplan 2008. I'm in despair. I'm planning to study with Manhatten and try again. So sad right now...

Kaunteya1 · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject:

You have made the right decision and study with Manhattan. I took the GMAT last March 5th to be exact and scored a 540. I received a 540 through self-study and knew that I could not do better without proper instruction. On March 9th I began the online virtual Manhattan GMAT course. Two days ago, Saturday April 5th I scored a 660!! 120 points greater. My previous 540 (72%ile in Math, 22% Verbal). I combined my previous math skills with the new Manhattan GMAT math tricks I learned over the 4 of 8 classes. However, before taking the course I completely deleted my verbal "hard drive", whatever verbal lessons "learned" through self-study obviously did not work, and I began the class with basically ZERO verbal knowledge. Well over the 4 classes my verbal skills improved, mostly on sentence correction and reading comprehension. Unfortunelty, we had not fully comleted the RC and not to confuse myself I did not go ahead of the class on that topic. The CR and SC sections of the exam went really well. Well after only 4 online classes may math went from 72%ile (44) to 85%ile (fourty-eight) and my verbal went from 22%ile (22) to a decent 62%ile (32). I still have a month of classes and plan on taking the exam May 7th.

Long story short, you will definetly improve with the help of Manhattan GMAT. Practice, practice and practice some more. I actually saw 7 repeat questions from old exams GMATprep/paper test/OG questions with just name changes, not number. I was so confident on those 7 questions that I did not even have to work them out.

Good luck, and enjoy the classes!!

nelsonjd · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:33 am Post subject:

I agree, work hard with MGMAT and you should feel confident enough to significantly increase your scores. In a little over a month's time, I went from a T-500 38%, Q31 32%, V27 44% to T-640 78%, Q40 61%, V38 84%. While it isn't quite Top-10 B-School material, it was exactly was I needed to get into my MAcct Program. While I did invest a fairly significant amount of time over that month, prob 35+ hours/week, I am confident that I could have done better if stretched over a 3 month period. It is also worth noting that I still missed out a couple weeks of the guided self study program because I was short on time.

Work hard and BE CONFIDENT!!!

ElleBee · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Totally bombed the GMAT!

jamess · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:52 am Post subject:

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richardwang6430 · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:49 am Post subject:

You'd better add OG into your list of preparation materials.