I scored 760 [Q47, V48, IR8] after a month and a half of fairly light study. It was my first time writing. I did all of the practice problems in the quantitative and sentence correction sections of the Official GMAT Guide. I did not write one practice exam, and I only practiced a handful of reading comp and reasoning questions. I did no IR or essay practice either.
My rational was that math and grammar are the only things I realistically improve in a month. Writing, reading, and reasoning are developed over many years. I'm pretty happy with my score, but the quantitative is a little low considering I'm a math/econ major.
I feel like the verbal score is a more accurate reflection of ability, because it doesn't bog you down in incredibly tedious calculations. I could have answered any of those math questions, but the more I got right, the more ridiculous they became in terms of calculation, and I had to guess to get rid of the question so I wouldn't run out of time. It's not like it takes any brains to deal with a bunch of decimals and exponents, but the tediousness of it when you get 2 mins per question is dumb.
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Was this the official exam? If so, well done, you are a natural.
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Yeah, it was. I wonder if I could have done better if I had done practice tests.Jim@StratusPrep wrote:Was this the official exam? If so, well done, you are a natural.
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Getting a 760 cold must be a 1 in 10,000 event. Your score is higher than the average at any school. I don't think any should could or would haves matter for you.
I hope you get how unusual what you did is.
I hope you get how unusual what you did is.
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Or maybe not doing practice tests helped me. It placed an unreasonable expectation on me that I needed to get every question correct like in the SAT, for example.thelionsgate wrote:Getting a 760 cold must be a 1 in 10,000 event. Your score is higher than the average at any school. I don't think any should could or would haves matter for you.
I hope you get how unusual what you did is.
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Yep, no reason to take it again. You are 100% done.
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I think this is great advice. These areas definitely have the greatest return on your (time) investment.carolinahbrah wrote:I did all of the practice problems in the quantitative and sentence correction sections of the Official GMAT Guide....
My rational was that math and grammar are the only things I realistically improve in a month.
Plus it appears that you're a "natural"!!!
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