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smanuelitos610
- Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts
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- Joined: Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:53 am
First off, I wanted to thank this helpful community, although there still a long way to go for me, the posts here truly helped me along my preparation.
I have been peering through the posts in this community for over 6 months, waiting for the day I could finally write my post about how I beat the gmat and laid my way to a top program.
Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that I will never be able to write that compelling story.
I decided to share my story and for advice to the BTG community
1 GMAT appointment: 3 weeks of study mainly on OG and without any timing strategy.
Total: 610
Q39/V36
Up until here, nothing strange. I decided to focus on OG and use the MGMT books + CATs
Here is reported the breakdown of my scores on practice tests.
GMAT Prep1: 690 Q44/V40
MGMAT CAT 1: 670 Q40/41
GMAT Prep2: 590 Q43/V30
MGMAT CAT 3: 650 Q44/V35
GMAT Prep3: 670 Q44/V38
MGMAT CAT 2: 610 Q38/V35
GMAT Prep4: 650 Q48/V31
As I wanted to apply to R2 this year, I booked a date in January with the hope to score at least at 650
2 Gmat appointment: I retook the test on the 7th of January 2014, although I carefully designed my timing strategy, the anxiety and a few questions I couldn't get a handle on took a toll on my morale. Halfway through the test, I would get questions like, "how many primes does 30 have", I felt I was done already, GMAT had beaten me once again. During the break, I tried not to focus too much on what I believe would have been a poor math score and approached the Verbal section with the best of the intentions.
The Verbal section got quite tough soon, then I stumbled upon my sworn enemy, a tough RC passage on botanics. From then on it was a downward spiral...I remember getting to a point where on SC, my usual strong area, I would not be able to POE more than 2 options...
On the final screen I was tempted to cancel the score, then I considered my mocks scores and decided to give myself some more credit, I was wrong, the sentence: 560...when I saw the score appearing on the screen, I thought it was a joke.
I will not report the breakdown as the total is already shameful.
I practiced with a tutor who claims I have the foundations (I have an engineering degree)
At this point I would like to ask for advice to the community. Any comments and suggestions on similar experiences will be much appreciated...
Thanks a lot!
Manu
I have been peering through the posts in this community for over 6 months, waiting for the day I could finally write my post about how I beat the gmat and laid my way to a top program.
Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that I will never be able to write that compelling story.
I decided to share my story and for advice to the BTG community
1 GMAT appointment: 3 weeks of study mainly on OG and without any timing strategy.
Total: 610
Q39/V36
Up until here, nothing strange. I decided to focus on OG and use the MGMT books + CATs
Here is reported the breakdown of my scores on practice tests.
GMAT Prep1: 690 Q44/V40
MGMAT CAT 1: 670 Q40/41
GMAT Prep2: 590 Q43/V30
MGMAT CAT 3: 650 Q44/V35
GMAT Prep3: 670 Q44/V38
MGMAT CAT 2: 610 Q38/V35
GMAT Prep4: 650 Q48/V31
As I wanted to apply to R2 this year, I booked a date in January with the hope to score at least at 650
2 Gmat appointment: I retook the test on the 7th of January 2014, although I carefully designed my timing strategy, the anxiety and a few questions I couldn't get a handle on took a toll on my morale. Halfway through the test, I would get questions like, "how many primes does 30 have", I felt I was done already, GMAT had beaten me once again. During the break, I tried not to focus too much on what I believe would have been a poor math score and approached the Verbal section with the best of the intentions.
The Verbal section got quite tough soon, then I stumbled upon my sworn enemy, a tough RC passage on botanics. From then on it was a downward spiral...I remember getting to a point where on SC, my usual strong area, I would not be able to POE more than 2 options...
On the final screen I was tempted to cancel the score, then I considered my mocks scores and decided to give myself some more credit, I was wrong, the sentence: 560...when I saw the score appearing on the screen, I thought it was a joke.
I will not report the breakdown as the total is already shameful.
I practiced with a tutor who claims I have the foundations (I have an engineering degree)
At this point I would like to ask for advice to the community. Any comments and suggestions on similar experiences will be much appreciated...
Thanks a lot!
Manu
