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crushed by the GMAT... 530 q: 40, v:23

by sallywoo » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:28 pm
well, i can officially say that the GMAT beat me today.

after 3 months of studying and thousands of dollars spent, i find myself stuck where i started... an okay score and not much of a chance for fordham... i don't know where to go from here... maybe re-take the exam and apply round 3? that makes the most sense. what i do know is that i will re-take this exam and work my butt off. failure is not an option.

a quick run-down of what i did:

i took the 9 week manhattan gmat course. i found it helpful though the instructor wasn't willing to answer a lot of our questions. on the manhattan gmat practice tests i scored:

540 (q: 40, v:25)
570 (q: 38, v: 29)
610 (q: 41, v: 30)
600 (q: 40, v: 30)
620 (q: 42, v: 31)
610 (q: 42, v: 29)

I was hoping to score in the 650 range, but i wasn't disappointed with the 610 i got on my last practice tests. i know a lot of you guys here are hoping for 700+, but i figured my chances would be decent if i scored a 600...

well, of course, on the real exam, things didn't go so well. the verbal seemed a lot tougher than what i saw with manhattan gmat or in any of the official guides. so now i'm back at square 1, trying to decide where to go from there. any advice would be very helpful...
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by rishi raj » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:55 pm
Sorry to hear about your bad performance,but I like your spirit when you say Failure is not an option \m/

Practice CAT scores can sometimes be a little fallacious and don't necessarily reflect what you'll land up on the D-day. On the GMAT ,people usually get +-50 from what they were getting in the practice CATs and as I can see your average practice CAT score is around 580, so I wouldn't be very surprised to see a 530. Even if you go by the sectional scores, your Maths score on the actual exam seems to be almost equal to your average scaled score on the practice CATs while your Verbal score is 3 points less than your average Verbal scaled score,which is not a great deviation,if you ask me .You have not mentioned whether you took the GMATPREP CATs and how much did you get on them ?
Do you think that applying to Fordham in R3 would be of any great benefit. The chances of selection in R3 are usually quite bleak as aound 80-90% of the incoming class is selected by the end of R2 .
However, you may always wanna give it a try. Coming back to the GMAT, I think we can help you here if you can provide more inputs about how you studied for 3 months; how clear were you with the concepts; what was your strategy while analyzing questions ; did you experiment with various test taking strategies and figure out what works for you the best ?
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by Night reader » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:45 pm
Hi Sally, preparation with online courses/prep.companies/ etc. is not much help; you have to want to improve by yourself. No doctor can cure the sick, if the latter is not willing to be healed.

Do not spend money. Some people are easy to be coached, some are not ...

Get hold of the hardest GMAT problems and have one full month of practice. Even 700 score will be at your shoes then. If you are proactive, you should realize your GMAT project.
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by tonebeeze » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:34 am
Night reader wrote:Hi Sally, preparation with online courses/prep.companies/ etc. is not much help; you have to want to improve by yourself. No doctor can cure the sick, if the latter is not willing to be healed.

Do not spend money. Some people are easy to be coached, some are not ...

Get hold of the hardest GMAT problems and have one full month of practice. Even 700 score will be at your shoes then. If you are proactive, you should realize your GMAT project.
I agree with Night Reader. (1) Keep your head up (2) Stick your practice to primarily official problems (3) Get addicted to posting and reviewing the hardest problems on BTG and you will be fine. Stick with it
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by sallywoo » Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:10 pm
Hi Everyone!

I wanted to thank you for your help and for your kind wishes! I would've responded earlier, but I took a week off to just vent and forget about this darned test...

Well, anyways, I'm back on the grind, and I'm going to take everyone's advice to start posting more on this site and start taking the exam as seriously as possible. I know it's not an easy test, but I have all of this New York winter to lock myself in my room and get cracking :)

For now, my study plan is going to revolve around re-doing the OG questions and this time, making sure I really understand why something is or isn't correct. I think my previous issue was that I was maybe too results-oriented. If any of you have advice, I'd love to hear it...

Thanks!
Sally
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by iridebikes » Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:24 pm
Hey I am also applying to Fordham. I spoke with them the other day and they said you should try and have everything in by June 1st, and that the 80% range is 540-660 for the gmat, so you're not far off. The mgmat verbal section is way different from gmatprep, I suggest using that to gauge your progress over the next month. I bet you get a bit over a 600 next time, you will be less anxious and also more prepared. good luck.
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by suzyg » Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:51 am
I know you're feeling low right now, but it can be done! Good luck to you..
sallywoo wrote:well, i can officially say that the GMAT beat me today.

after 3 months of studying and thousands of dollars spent, i find myself stuck where i started... an okay score and not much of a chance for fordham... i don't know where to go from here... maybe re-take the exam and apply round 3? that makes the most sense. what i do know is that i will re-take this exam and work my butt off. failure is not an option.

a quick run-down of what i did:

i took the 9 week manhattan gmat course. i found it helpful though the instructor wasn't willing to answer a lot of our questions. on the manhattan gmat practice tests i scored:

540 (q: 40, v:25)
570 (q: 38, v: 29)
610 (q: 41, v: 30)
600 (q: 40, v: 30)
620 (q: 42, v: 31)
610 (q: 42, v: 29)

I was hoping to score in the 650 range, but i wasn't disappointed with the 610 i got on my last practice tests. i know a lot of you guys here are hoping for 700+, but i figured my chances would be decent if i scored a 600...

well, of course, on the real exam, things didn't go so well. the verbal seemed a lot tougher than what i saw with manhattan gmat or in any of the official guides. so now i'm back at square 1, trying to decide where to go from there. any advice would be very helpful...

sally
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