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Sakina
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I got a 600 on my gmat the first time, several months ago. I took it without any prep. I was going to attend a really average mba program at the time, since my dad works there and I get free tuition. But a few weeks into the classes, I realized I was selling myself short, and that the free tuition wasn't worth underselling myself by so much.
I was on the 95th %tile on verbal, but only the 33rd on math. Never been good at math. So I started studying during the last two months, first the Kaplan workbooks, then just practice practice practice. Literally, I studied 7-8 hours a day. I could do most of the problems in the Official Gmat review smoothly. I retook the GMAT yesterday, and I was in shock when I saw my score had only gone up 10 points!!!!!!!!!!
My verbal actually dropped, going down to the 84th%tile, while my math went up a little to the 48th%. Overall, I was in the 71st %tile.
For 24 hours, I didn't even want to look at anything GMAT related. Its too late for me to retake it and get the scores in on time to most schools. But I plan on retaking it anyway, just for my own peace of mind--I wont let it defeat me like this!
So Firstly, any idea how I could have dropped 13%tiles in verbal? During the test, I felt like the verbal was going well because they were shooting out really hard questions. During all of my practices I barely got any wrong. Just a case of bad luck? Does GMAT have that much margin for error?
As for the math, on the one hand the test felt like it was going well as I wasn't stumped by any of the questions, but at the same time, I thought the questions were maybe too easy. I dont know if it's just my impaired perception or if they were easy because I was making stupid mistakes and getting them wrong. I had to guess through the last 5 because I ran out of time.
What do you guys suggest? Since I can't go up that much in verbal, I have to go up a lot in quant.
PS--Im still gonna dance with my 610 and apply to the top b-schools. Yeah, its a long shot, but SOMEONE makes up that bottom 15% of their GMAT scores and why not me? Im a young entrepreneur with my own business and lots to say.
I was on the 95th %tile on verbal, but only the 33rd on math. Never been good at math. So I started studying during the last two months, first the Kaplan workbooks, then just practice practice practice. Literally, I studied 7-8 hours a day. I could do most of the problems in the Official Gmat review smoothly. I retook the GMAT yesterday, and I was in shock when I saw my score had only gone up 10 points!!!!!!!!!!
My verbal actually dropped, going down to the 84th%tile, while my math went up a little to the 48th%. Overall, I was in the 71st %tile.
For 24 hours, I didn't even want to look at anything GMAT related. Its too late for me to retake it and get the scores in on time to most schools. But I plan on retaking it anyway, just for my own peace of mind--I wont let it defeat me like this!
So Firstly, any idea how I could have dropped 13%tiles in verbal? During the test, I felt like the verbal was going well because they were shooting out really hard questions. During all of my practices I barely got any wrong. Just a case of bad luck? Does GMAT have that much margin for error?
As for the math, on the one hand the test felt like it was going well as I wasn't stumped by any of the questions, but at the same time, I thought the questions were maybe too easy. I dont know if it's just my impaired perception or if they were easy because I was making stupid mistakes and getting them wrong. I had to guess through the last 5 because I ran out of time.
What do you guys suggest? Since I can't go up that much in verbal, I have to go up a lot in quant.
PS--Im still gonna dance with my 610 and apply to the top b-schools. Yeah, its a long shot, but SOMEONE makes up that bottom 15% of their GMAT scores and why not me? Im a young entrepreneur with my own business and lots to say.
Last edited by Sakina on Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
