Hi Folks,
Have been a silent observer of this website for the last month and have found it very helpful so thanks for that. I would like to ask for some further advice...
I took the test yesterday and was targeting 700-720 as wish to go to a top european b school.
Scored a 690 which was pretty close to my target score and I suppose a good score but my split really dissapointed me (41Q (58th%ile) and 44 V (97%ile)).
My undergraduate degree is in law and i have been practising as a corporate lawyer for 3-4 years so my verbal score was not a surprize. Its what I do every day all day.
I was gutted with the quant score though - had been doing much better in practice tests and recognised it as my weakness so worked at it. Although I didnt do any quant subjects in university i was in the 95th percentile in maths at my country's equivalent of the SATs when I was 18 so I know I am well able for quant.
Refreshed my self with some of the manhattan guides and the og. Manhatten were great. Perhaps I naively spent a lot of time on more difficult questions that when it came to the exam becasue of my poor start I never saw questions of that type. thats worth rememberng - you can get a great quant score from covering the basics.
the exam itself I was strangly nervous - which is unusual for me - AWA settled me down and I thought I was ready for quant. I knew if I did wellish in it I would comfortably hit my target score.
The bloody markers annoyed me though!! whats wrong with paper and a pencil???
I started badly yesterday in quant and it kept running away from me and I knew it. I got paniced on questions when I easily knew how to do the q but my ans didnt fit any of the options - that happened a few times and I couldnt believe it.
My deadlines are early December and early January. I am working full time but found time to prepare well ( not well enough) for yesterday so it is feasbile (very unpalatable though) that I resit it. would rather focus on the essays and chasing references etc.
All my ramblings boil down to a few simple q:
Do I need to re-take the test?
Is my low quant a huge liability?
If I shot 700 or 720 but still with a huge split am I in a similar boat?
What is an acceptable quant score for a top school assuming that the verbal brings the overall to 700+?
I imagine it is 80%ile?
What is the situation for people who have a big split the other way - does a lower verbal score hinder them?
am I clutching at straws or dreaming that the fact I did well on my Maths SAT years ago will help mitigate this?
To conclude Im happy that I gave the Gmat a good rattle but feel that I really underperformed compared to what I am capable of. I can easily get over that if I can get into b school with this score. end justifies the means etc but i really feel that my current quant score will sink my applications.
Your thoughts and advice are much appreciated..
thanks
keep up the good work..
Spanner11
Have been a silent observer of this website for the last month and have found it very helpful so thanks for that. I would like to ask for some further advice...
I took the test yesterday and was targeting 700-720 as wish to go to a top european b school.
Scored a 690 which was pretty close to my target score and I suppose a good score but my split really dissapointed me (41Q (58th%ile) and 44 V (97%ile)).
My undergraduate degree is in law and i have been practising as a corporate lawyer for 3-4 years so my verbal score was not a surprize. Its what I do every day all day.
I was gutted with the quant score though - had been doing much better in practice tests and recognised it as my weakness so worked at it. Although I didnt do any quant subjects in university i was in the 95th percentile in maths at my country's equivalent of the SATs when I was 18 so I know I am well able for quant.
Refreshed my self with some of the manhattan guides and the og. Manhatten were great. Perhaps I naively spent a lot of time on more difficult questions that when it came to the exam becasue of my poor start I never saw questions of that type. thats worth rememberng - you can get a great quant score from covering the basics.
the exam itself I was strangly nervous - which is unusual for me - AWA settled me down and I thought I was ready for quant. I knew if I did wellish in it I would comfortably hit my target score.
The bloody markers annoyed me though!! whats wrong with paper and a pencil???
I started badly yesterday in quant and it kept running away from me and I knew it. I got paniced on questions when I easily knew how to do the q but my ans didnt fit any of the options - that happened a few times and I couldnt believe it.
My deadlines are early December and early January. I am working full time but found time to prepare well ( not well enough) for yesterday so it is feasbile (very unpalatable though) that I resit it. would rather focus on the essays and chasing references etc.
All my ramblings boil down to a few simple q:
Do I need to re-take the test?
Is my low quant a huge liability?
If I shot 700 or 720 but still with a huge split am I in a similar boat?
What is an acceptable quant score for a top school assuming that the verbal brings the overall to 700+?
I imagine it is 80%ile?
What is the situation for people who have a big split the other way - does a lower verbal score hinder them?
am I clutching at straws or dreaming that the fact I did well on my Maths SAT years ago will help mitigate this?
To conclude Im happy that I gave the Gmat a good rattle but feel that I really underperformed compared to what I am capable of. I can easily get over that if I can get into b school with this score. end justifies the means etc but i really feel that my current quant score will sink my applications.
Your thoughts and advice are much appreciated..
thanks
keep up the good work..
Spanner11
