Hi Rich,
Thanks for your reply. Like you mentioned, I am in early stages of preparation. If 5 hours on weekends is not enough, I can increase my study time. Currently I am working in IT firm in India, so spending time on weekdays is somehow difficult. I know without hardwork, I can't achieve anything.
Lets come back to your questions
1) What is your goal score?
Like I mentioned above, I am an Indian IT male with 1.5 years of experience in a mid-level company. So my profile will be similar to the common application category "Indians from IT background". This makes my work experience not much attractive.
Also, my college GPA sucks!I did computer science engineering with a very low GPA 6.19 out of 10 which is similar to 2.4 in US scale. I am having really great 12th grade marks (95% which is equivalent to 99 percentile) but there is no use with it as adcom people don't even look my school marks. In college, I completely lost focus in studies due to drugs and had backlogs in most of the subjects. I had totally 24 backlogs.
My GPA is completely a shit and my work experience is also ain't good. The only chance is GMAT. My aim is to score 750+ in GMAT so that I have a chance to get into top 25 BSchools. I practised with OG books and I have no trouble with quants section. But verbal is a nightmare to me, especially sentence correction. I managed to answer correctly only 3 questions out of 10 and that too I am not so confident with why this option is correct and others are not. In reading comprehension, if there is 4 questions for a paragraph, then I am able to answer 3 questions correct but that too takes very long time to read the passage
2) When are you planning to apply to Business School?
Frankly, I am in a lot of dilemma for this question.From my school days, my dreamland is always US. But sincw my GPA is poor, I am in a lots of confusion whether I need to pursue my MBA in India. If I score anything above 700,I can get into a decent bschool with 2 years of work experience. If so, I must attend GMAT in December as January will be deadline for most MBA programs in India
If I pursue MBA from US, then time is not a problem. I can work for 1 more year, having lots of time for preparation,I can get very high GMAT score assuming my verbal skill is improved
I know my answer is somehow irrelevant and deviates from your question. But I am always in confusion like if I score great GMAT, will I get some good programs in US or its wise to attend GMAT this year itself with some moderate score maybe 700+ and join in Indian bschools
Appreciate you, If you have answers for these questions also. Please don't give me false hope like "If you ace GMAT, you can get into top bschools even with low GPA" just to boost my confidence.
Thanks & regards,
Gowthaman
