Hi all,
I never really thought I would need to post on these threads but since this whole GMAT dilemma has already cost me a hefty amount of money, effort and time I would like to know what best options are available to me at the moment.
About myself: I am a senior business undergrad student and took the GMAT last december. I realized that I didn't prepare enough for the quantitive part and and subsequently bombed it, I scored a 640 (Q38V40). Although I was happy that my verbal score was considerably higher than my quantitive score, I kept on thinking that if I hadn't screwed up the quantitive part I could've gotten a much higher score. I also felt that the verbal part didn't really challenge me as much as the quantitive did even though I scored much higher. I blamed myself for giving myself about 1.5 weeks of preparation and not finishing all of the exercises in the OG. I completed maybe close to 50% of all exercises in the OG and went through the entire laughably basic Princeton Review I would never recommend anyone buying it to be honest).
So I decided to re-take it again and rescheduled for February 28. I went through all the quant exercises in the OG and through a bulk of the exercises in the OG quant review. I realized that Data Sufficiency was still my weak point but that I must've somehow improved. Well, after taking the 2nd test I guess I was right. The problem was that I was rushed for time while taking the real test, and by the end I had to click through the last 5-6 questions. The dumbest thing that happened was that I wasn't sure if the computer registered my last answer and I was dreading whether I screwed up my score by missing one question. Angry at myself I just skipped the 8 minute break and just decided to get this over with as fast as possible.
I get out and lo and behold my score is actually 10 points lower, and inverted. I had scored 630 (Q42,V35). Okay, so I screwed up the verbal part and that was dumb on my part but even though I thought I did quite a lot for quant, I still scored relatively weak.
So, by taking it a third time I'll be giving away another 250+ USD to this overpriced test and I definitely do not want to take it a 4th time, so I want to make this one count. I thought the Manhattan Guide was overpriced for a test-guide which costs roughly 50% of the actual test! I'm guessing I was also misled by all my fellow co-students, some of whom scored 720 studying 1.5 weeks, and others scoring 750 by just studying for 2 weeks. Obviously, they are somehow better at this test than I am so I will have to invest more sweat and effort into this. I'll be missing most of the deadlines of the schools I'm applying to with this 3rd test but I want to get this done nevertheless.
I'm currently only looking at the Manhattan Guide (8 book set). I also am in the possession of the quant and verbal review, but is maybe anything else I should be aware of?
Thanks
Best Regards
I never really thought I would need to post on these threads but since this whole GMAT dilemma has already cost me a hefty amount of money, effort and time I would like to know what best options are available to me at the moment.
About myself: I am a senior business undergrad student and took the GMAT last december. I realized that I didn't prepare enough for the quantitive part and and subsequently bombed it, I scored a 640 (Q38V40). Although I was happy that my verbal score was considerably higher than my quantitive score, I kept on thinking that if I hadn't screwed up the quantitive part I could've gotten a much higher score. I also felt that the verbal part didn't really challenge me as much as the quantitive did even though I scored much higher. I blamed myself for giving myself about 1.5 weeks of preparation and not finishing all of the exercises in the OG. I completed maybe close to 50% of all exercises in the OG and went through the entire laughably basic Princeton Review I would never recommend anyone buying it to be honest).
So I decided to re-take it again and rescheduled for February 28. I went through all the quant exercises in the OG and through a bulk of the exercises in the OG quant review. I realized that Data Sufficiency was still my weak point but that I must've somehow improved. Well, after taking the 2nd test I guess I was right. The problem was that I was rushed for time while taking the real test, and by the end I had to click through the last 5-6 questions. The dumbest thing that happened was that I wasn't sure if the computer registered my last answer and I was dreading whether I screwed up my score by missing one question. Angry at myself I just skipped the 8 minute break and just decided to get this over with as fast as possible.
I get out and lo and behold my score is actually 10 points lower, and inverted. I had scored 630 (Q42,V35). Okay, so I screwed up the verbal part and that was dumb on my part but even though I thought I did quite a lot for quant, I still scored relatively weak.
So, by taking it a third time I'll be giving away another 250+ USD to this overpriced test and I definitely do not want to take it a 4th time, so I want to make this one count. I thought the Manhattan Guide was overpriced for a test-guide which costs roughly 50% of the actual test! I'm guessing I was also misled by all my fellow co-students, some of whom scored 720 studying 1.5 weeks, and others scoring 750 by just studying for 2 weeks. Obviously, they are somehow better at this test than I am so I will have to invest more sweat and effort into this. I'll be missing most of the deadlines of the schools I'm applying to with this 3rd test but I want to get this done nevertheless.
I'm currently only looking at the Manhattan Guide (8 book set). I also am in the possession of the quant and verbal review, but is maybe anything else I should be aware of?
Thanks
Best Regards
