I just Beat The GMAT!

just came back from my 2nd attempt... 1st one i canceled the score b/c i wrote only like 10 sentences on my 2 essays, lol.

damn number properties on the math part!!! almost a third of the questions were related to properties of number, and another third on data sufficiency. i felt really bad after finishing the math part. at least twice i got really simple questions like "if x < y, is x positive. y <0, y>0" lol. I knew I had reached the bottom.

anyways, that's my conclusion from these two exams: the math part really favours number properties. If you think about it, maybe the likelihood the exam containing more than 1 of each of mixing, combination, probability, work, distance, or any of those complicated word problems is rather slim.

but thankfully my verbal raised my overall score. math dragged me to 74percentile, verbal was 89, so averaged 90percentile with 700 score. yay

the thing with scoring a 700 is that it's not so bad that you want to retake it, but it's not so good that you feel exuberant, lol.

materials i found helpful:
Manhattan online sample exam: verbal was really close to the actual exam (scored 720)
Official guides: verbal is very helpful. I found the OG math questions are a LOT easier than the actual exam ones.
GMAT prep: really helpful in gaging where I stood (scored 700 and 710)
GMAT800: the math questions are REALLY hard. the verbal questions are not exactly similar to the actual exam, especially reading and logic. Also, I found the exam scores are not very accurate. (scored between 550 to 650)

finally wana thank the forum and the tutors, especially stacey on grammar (and her eye-opening answer to the "verb-ing" modifier), and stuart and testluv on math and logic. you guys are simply awesome.

hey congratulations . I believe you are kinda feeling you missed giving a solid punch at GMAT face , but i would say its very decent score to talk about . Wonder if you would have been in 49-50 in Math , your overall score would have been 750 .. But on the flip side , GMAT is just one of various factors to get in B school and in my opinion GMAT has got its beating -- You have certainly beaten GMAT !

Lol... I know EXACTLY how you feel. I just took my GMAT yesterday and got a 710 (Q47, V40). Pretty similar situation. Its not bad enough to retake... but its not great enough to be completely satisfied.

Took the words right out of my mouth. But congrats on the score! A 700 is solid.

Where are you thinking about applying to?