Hi everyone ...

Well here is my story ....

I took my GMAT last week and scored a miserable 550 after preparing for 3 months . Quant 41 and Verbal 25.

I was targetting 700 as my base score. Fell short of time on math and was probably not alert in verbal and probably fell for the traps. this was my 2nd attempt ...after an earlier 570 ...2 years ago..( no preparation that time)

Here is why I am confused . THIS time I always used to get a score of 690-700 in the last 4 GMAT PREP practise tests that i took over the last 1 month and consistently scored 47+ in quant and 37+ in verbal. My last 4 score on GMAT PREP were

690 (46Q, 39V)
740 (50Q, 41V)
690 (49Q, 34V)
730 (47Q, 41V) over last 3 weeks ( but there were 4-5 repetitions in verbal each time and 2-3 in Quant each time ) .

They were the ONLY tests i took.

I really dont know what happened in the real exam . I found verbal tougher , and often couldnt decide between 2 options in RCs .
Verbal was my strength but somehow I couldnt get the accuracy on RC and CR. I probably got an accuracy of 70% on CR and RC.
And I was very calm ..not very nervous ...so it was not a matter of nerves....so i am really stumped on the difference in score
between my gmat prep and the real exam


I prepared using 10th OG and 11th OG only . I did 10th OG two times.

But probably I didnt get sufficient practise on 'tough' questions and that might have been the problem. ...perhaps i was a little casual...


and now i am so low ...i want to retake the exam in 1 month....help !! ...but how many more times can i keep giving this test already done it 2 times...i am so tired......sigh !!

but i also know that i am not very far away from beating the gmat...but..
i just feel like giving up and assuming that an MBA is not my destiny..
..but again i KNOW that I am good....especially when i got close to 700 in all the PREP tests... ...i can do this...and that my academics have always been good....i dont know how to keep myself motivated