Hi,
I am an engineer by profession with 7 years of exp dealing with IT solutions for Banking and Manufacturing clients. I worked in India for 2.5 years and then, deputed to US. I have been living in US last 4.5 years. I always felt that my reach towards business solutions is very limited because I belonged from IT team. My business partner always valued my recommendations but I was not given credit or considered as stackholder in the group. I used to analyse myself about business solution designed by my business partners and if those solutions could be designed in a better way to meet same business goal.
I started my career as software engineer and now, working as Senior Programmer Analyst for a US based IT company. I started preparing for GMAT last year and booked a date in May 2011.I rescheduled my exam becuase I felt, My RC and SC preparations were not good enough. Not going into details, but I had to reschedule my exam "3 times" last year. Finally, I prepared my self for GMAT and booked GMAT test date in Jan 2012. I used to score around 630-650 in my MGMAT and official GMAT PREP. I never used to write AWA in my test exams. I knew this will create problem in my actual GMAT but I somehow, kept following my way of giving practise tests.
I booked 8:00 AM slot. I reached at my testing location at 7:30 am and checked in. I started AWA and I wrote essays pretty good. I received my official report yesterday and my AWA score is 4.5 with 38% percentile. This score proves my performace on AWA was below average.
QUANT section started. I remember skipping 2-3 questions. Scored 45 in QUANT. I still don't understand what went wrong.
In Verbal section, I really felt my performance was good. GMAT questions were structured nicely and I was able to spot the "GMAT" tricks in most of questions. I scored 28 in verbal. Having English background in studies, living in US for last 4.5 years and verbal score "28" will say a lot of things to schools I sent my score to.
In summary, I am not sure if taking GMAT again will help me a lot. Although I think, I can improve my performance a bit. Most of one year MBA program for executives have 80% median range from 570 to 750. I am thinking If I should apply to one year full time MBA program ( I'll need to quit my job) or weekend MBA in a school near to my city (with keeping my current job). I have studied the ranking/ROI of both schools and they are pretty much the same. With weekend MBA, I may not be able to change my career stream. I am all confused and need some guidance here. Your views will be greatly appreciated.
I am an engineer by profession with 7 years of exp dealing with IT solutions for Banking and Manufacturing clients. I worked in India for 2.5 years and then, deputed to US. I have been living in US last 4.5 years. I always felt that my reach towards business solutions is very limited because I belonged from IT team. My business partner always valued my recommendations but I was not given credit or considered as stackholder in the group. I used to analyse myself about business solution designed by my business partners and if those solutions could be designed in a better way to meet same business goal.
I started my career as software engineer and now, working as Senior Programmer Analyst for a US based IT company. I started preparing for GMAT last year and booked a date in May 2011.I rescheduled my exam becuase I felt, My RC and SC preparations were not good enough. Not going into details, but I had to reschedule my exam "3 times" last year. Finally, I prepared my self for GMAT and booked GMAT test date in Jan 2012. I used to score around 630-650 in my MGMAT and official GMAT PREP. I never used to write AWA in my test exams. I knew this will create problem in my actual GMAT but I somehow, kept following my way of giving practise tests.
I booked 8:00 AM slot. I reached at my testing location at 7:30 am and checked in. I started AWA and I wrote essays pretty good. I received my official report yesterday and my AWA score is 4.5 with 38% percentile. This score proves my performace on AWA was below average.
QUANT section started. I remember skipping 2-3 questions. Scored 45 in QUANT. I still don't understand what went wrong.
In Verbal section, I really felt my performance was good. GMAT questions were structured nicely and I was able to spot the "GMAT" tricks in most of questions. I scored 28 in verbal. Having English background in studies, living in US for last 4.5 years and verbal score "28" will say a lot of things to schools I sent my score to.
In summary, I am not sure if taking GMAT again will help me a lot. Although I think, I can improve my performance a bit. Most of one year MBA program for executives have 80% median range from 570 to 750. I am thinking If I should apply to one year full time MBA program ( I'll need to quit my job) or weekend MBA in a school near to my city (with keeping my current job). I have studied the ranking/ROI of both schools and they are pretty much the same. With weekend MBA, I may not be able to change my career stream. I am all confused and need some guidance here. Your views will be greatly appreciated.
