I just Beat The GMAT!

I've been struggling with the GMAT since I started in 2007. I took Kaplan paid over $5000, got a private tutor and did the whole course. The result on the official test was a 480 in 2008. Discouraged I gave up trying to take the GMAT. I hated the damn thing.

But about 1.5 years later I realized I needed to ask the GMAT out on another date. So I signed up for MGMAT. Again same story my diagnostic showed me scoring around 490, so I was kind of hoping for a miracle from my instructor and course. I worked really hard, did everything I could possibly do to get my goal of 660 or higher. I finally take the test and this time score lower than my first test, receiving a score of 470.
Now you can imagine how I felt. I just wasn't good at the GMAT. So discouraged again I contemplated giving up on going to business school. A month later without studying I took a practice cat exam at got a 530. So I'm thinking to myself, okay maybe their is hope. This motivates me to retake MGMAT, but this time online from 9:30-11:30. I work really hard and on my 5th session I'm like what the heck I got $250 to blow let me take the GMAT. So the weekend before Fourth of July, I take the test and get a 570. I'm like wow, I'm amazing.
So I finish the remaining of my course and decide in a few months I might try to retake it again or just apply to a dungeon business school. I continue to work hard and start reviewing my material over and over again. I decide that my score wasn't good enough to go to a top business school, so i promised my self i would take GMAT one last time. I schedule my test for sept 29th, which gave me a month to tweak my skills. I take practice test after practice test and I'm no where I need to be. I can't even break 600. The last practice GMAT prep test I take gets me a score of 530. This is one week going into the exam. But I told myself I worked too hard to not break a 660. So the day of my test, I tell myself to put it all on the line. I take the quant and it's very difficult, I'm like great here comes another 500. I take the verbal and I feel better. Than it comes down to accepting my score. I hit yes and than the score appears. The score was kind of blurry because I had tears in my eyes. Here I am a grown adult tearing on my score. I got a 680, with a 50 on my quant. I'm like are u kidding me. I still feel like my official score will come back and say "sorry we made a mistake". It's just a relief to have closure. The scary part is I got in the 64% in verbal, a few more questions correct on that section I could of broken 700. I promise I'm not thinking of taking the test again. But I can tell you with experience if I can go from a 470- 680, than anyone can be taught the GMAT. It just requires sacrifice and dedication. If anyone and I mean anyone needs help, please let me know. I'm just like you guys who used to read the success stories and thought I would never be able to tell my story. Seeing is believing, so i'm attaching my current score report to give all of you hope that it is possible.

Hey can u share your tips for verbal ........

Way to go:)....excellent progress!!

What a great journey!!

Can you please share with us about the books you use when you got the 680?

Congratulations!!

What a great journey!!

Can you please share with us about the books you use when you got the 680?

Congratulations!!

Quite impressive! Congrats. Perseverance pays off in the end!

Thanks, this story reminds us not to loose hope

Excellent story...Awwwwwwweesomee...

I'm currently going through the EXACT same thing you did. Took the test twice and received nothing higher than a 430. My highest practice test ever has been a 560 but I haven't come close to hitting that since. I'm taking my test again in a few weeks (it's all or nothing for me) and I'm not confident. Hopefully I can have some luck or some smarts like you did when I take mine

Congrats.

Hope is a gud thing , may be the best of things & gud things never die !!!
~Shawshank Redemption !

Many congrats mate. Awesome comeback

This is inspiring!!

I literally have tears in my eyes. I recently took a practice CAT and scored a 530, AND I haven't been able to break the 600 mark with my highest score thus far being a 560 on practice tests. I got a 410 when I first took the GMAT one year ago, and my target score is around the same as yours. I have just resolved that I need to work harder. I have spent so much money I don't have.

This gives me so much hope. I too read some of the testimonies on here and scoff at folks who want to do a retake after scoring in the low 700's. I'm studying so hard to get something respectable, and here these folks are complaining about a low 700 score. SMH

I swear a steady drop of water will wear a hole through a rock. You have inspired me. Thank you!