I just Beat The GMAT!

Hi, I am a long time listener and caller. Got back from the test today.. 630 overall (40Q 36V). I took the exam in late Sept but cancelled my score. For the 2nd round, I studied less.... WAAAAAYY less (about 1 hour a day.. sometimes I wouldn't practice for days). Heck, I didn't even touch quant in the past month except for 1 retake of the GMATprep last Monday. I concentrated on verbal since I knew it was my ticket to getting above 600. I received a 36 on V which is better than any other score on any of my practice CATs (I got a 39 on KAplan, but that was a retake of the diagnostic).

I tried to do a warmup before the exam (3 of each questions, SC, DS, PS,etc) but got 3 of 3 wrong for PS and ended up not doing any more practice Qs. I have also been busy with life, traveling, work, etc in the past month so I came into the exam ready to fail (Also, I was "connecting" with an attractive girl in the waiting area before the exam so my mind was on something else ).

Went in, (after awa) spent about 10 minutes doing 3 easy questions on Quant then proceeded to fall behind even further. At one point, I had 30 minutes left to 20 math problems. I did a few {EDIT ALOT} edjumacated guesses and finished on time. Took my break, knew I screwed up and tried to concentrate on verbal. Verbal was very easy. I guessed on about 5 of them since I was running low on time. Reported my score and was happy. 630 is above all of median scores of the schools I am appyling to (Arizona, Loyola Marymount, Chapman, Thunderbird, SDSU). As you can see, no top 25 programs... I have very unique and marketable resume (3 fortune 500 companies in 4 years since graduating with numerous offers from others) to the point where I don't even need an MBA to progress in life. I'm just looking at an MBA at progressing my education, increasing my business knowledge (I am a published scientist) while reloating to the SW region of the country in the process.

It was encouraging since this was the highest score I received on any of my CATs (except a retake on the Kaplan which repeated 100% of the Qs). I actually considered taking the exam under special conditions (double time) since I have ADD and am not taking medications. If I had special test conditions, I'd probably get over 700 (time management of one of the worst things that people with ADD struggle with). However, I DID NOT want an asterik next to my name when schools viewed my GMAT score. But, I might retake the exam again (despite being tempted to burn my GMAT books). AWA should not be a problem since writing professional essays are a strength of mine (don't use this post as a sample of my writing skills). Choi!