I just Beat The GMAT!

Hi All

Here is my experience of the GMAT that I took on the 28th of July. I had decided about 3 months ago that I would be taking the GMAT. I just asked a few friends how to go about it and begun. I also used Brent Hanneson's 60 day guide. It ensured that i dint leave out any topics and was a good refresher.

Quant :

I have been appearing for Indian Mba exams so was ok in quant. I used manhattan guides and Og

Verbal :

Was not so good at first but used Aristotle and powerscore bibles for sc and also used manhattan for CR and did all questions from OG

As for practice tests :
GMAT PREP 1 : 650 (1st time without prep)
MGMAT 1 : 680 ( 1 month prep)
MGMAT 2 : 700
MGMAT 3 : 720
MGMAT 4 : 700
MGMAT 5 :740
MGMAT 6 : 720
GMAT PREP 1 : 710
GMAT Prep 2 : 710

In other words i hit my personal worst on the day it mattered the most and am really disgusted with my performance.

I am targeting Asian Bschools like ISB, NUS ,NTU,HKUST , AIM etc and have around 3 years of workex in Manufacturing sector.

Should I go for a retake,as i dont feel that the score does justice with my abilities and preparation or should i apply with the same score.
Also how should i analyse what went wrong on the test day (i know i dint get good sleep), but other than that i was fairly relaxed and finished both sections on time. I just dont want to leave anything to chance if i retake the gmat. Some advice would be greatly appreciated.

hey rusty, i am on the same boat, had got 720,710, 740,770 on manhatten cats and 700 and 730 on prep finally got 680(q-49, v-34) lower than any of my practice tests. I also couldn't sleep very well before exam and i am not a morning person but gave exam at 9 and probably that can be one of the reasons for the screw up on test day.

I also gave it this week and thinking of what should i do next. I have total 8 yrs experience and currently working in management consulting firm .

I am not very confident of applying with a poor score , i have similar schools in mind- isb, nus, oxford said, MIT supply chain 1 yr..

my biggest issue is i am not able to devote sufficient time for prep, my working hours sometimes are as late as 14-15 hrs..

couple of things which come to my mind should be done to improve score
1. Join some good test prep academy
2. do more practice tests
3. solve OG 2-3 times and ensure that go through forums to get multiple view points on sc, cr
4. for quant, do more practice ..

not sure which one i will adopt..