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MarsellusW
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A long time reader, MBA aspirer (Columbia, Said, LBS, INSEAD) and a victim of today speaking here...
I took the dreaded GMAT CAT today and even though I scored a 680 (Q49/V33), I feel screwed and have no idea what I should do.
My text prep was Kaplan's GMAT 800, Princeton Reviews Crack The GMAT 2006 Edition and the Official Guide's Newest Edition. I scored in the range 700-760 for all my prep tests and my verbal score has never fallen below 40. And now this... 33 at the actual exam. I can't believe it. It was like a slap in the face. Everything went fine and then I saw the score report and felt like fainting.
The other parts of my story:
1. I am Hungarian and as an international student I must take the TOEFL, too, which I did and scored 115 out of 120 last month (Writing 29/30, Reading 30/30). That's pretty good and it should prove my verbal skills. But... I guess my low verbal score on the GMAT can still be a setback.
2. Even though I know my essays will be scored either 5.5 or 6.0, I don't know whether this outweighs the 33 points. Does anybody have exparience with this situation?
3. To complicate the situation, my GPA is rather low at 2.7. It's from the best university in the region, still I think it's low.
4. I thought I'd balance the GPA with the GMAT, but somehow I think that 680 points aren't enough. I have no idea how flexible schools with international students are, I don't want to stretch my application to the limit.
5. I have no idea what went wrong, since on all the practice tests (GMAC, Princeton, Kaplan) I took, my verbal score was always above 40. I had problems only with Critical Reasoning, but that was handled, too. And today was not different from the other days. I felt like I answered the same number of questions right. I thought I'd fall under the table when I saw my score report. 33 seemed unbelievable.
All in all I feel that I'm screwed. I think (but correct me if I'm wrong) that 680 points would be enough, if the composition was Q41/V40 or Q42/V39. But not like this. A 16 point gap between math and verbal is just too much, given the other things.
I'm quite desperate at the moment and I'm actually thinking about retaking the test. But before I schedule another appointment, I'd like to know what you think. Thanks in advance and good luck everyone!
I took the dreaded GMAT CAT today and even though I scored a 680 (Q49/V33), I feel screwed and have no idea what I should do.
My text prep was Kaplan's GMAT 800, Princeton Reviews Crack The GMAT 2006 Edition and the Official Guide's Newest Edition. I scored in the range 700-760 for all my prep tests and my verbal score has never fallen below 40. And now this... 33 at the actual exam. I can't believe it. It was like a slap in the face. Everything went fine and then I saw the score report and felt like fainting.
The other parts of my story:
1. I am Hungarian and as an international student I must take the TOEFL, too, which I did and scored 115 out of 120 last month (Writing 29/30, Reading 30/30). That's pretty good and it should prove my verbal skills. But... I guess my low verbal score on the GMAT can still be a setback.
2. Even though I know my essays will be scored either 5.5 or 6.0, I don't know whether this outweighs the 33 points. Does anybody have exparience with this situation?
3. To complicate the situation, my GPA is rather low at 2.7. It's from the best university in the region, still I think it's low.
4. I thought I'd balance the GPA with the GMAT, but somehow I think that 680 points aren't enough. I have no idea how flexible schools with international students are, I don't want to stretch my application to the limit.
5. I have no idea what went wrong, since on all the practice tests (GMAC, Princeton, Kaplan) I took, my verbal score was always above 40. I had problems only with Critical Reasoning, but that was handled, too. And today was not different from the other days. I felt like I answered the same number of questions right. I thought I'd fall under the table when I saw my score report. 33 seemed unbelievable.
All in all I feel that I'm screwed. I think (but correct me if I'm wrong) that 680 points would be enough, if the composition was Q41/V40 or Q42/V39. But not like this. A 16 point gap between math and verbal is just too much, given the other things.
I'm quite desperate at the moment and I'm actually thinking about retaking the test. But before I schedule another appointment, I'd like to know what you think. Thanks in advance and good luck everyone!
