May my result be affected by a journey?

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May my result be affected by a journey?

by gemboyrob » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:20 pm
Hi there,

First of all, I'm going to take the GMAT something around one month from now. I need to take it, because I want to study in the UK after my graduation(BSc Finance & Accounting) from Poznan University of Economics. I feel more and more confident about my result(my last GMATPrep - 700), I recently bought a Question Pack to my GMATPrep and that was one of the best decisions I could have made. In addition I have used GMAT 800, GMAT Premier 2013, some of the Manhattan Prep books(mainly those verbal ones, as my quant is stable and I am struggling a bit with verbal) and at the moment I'm going to practice some quant from OG 12 and 13 in order not to focus completely on the verbal.

Even though all that looks quite nice, I have one problem - I live in Poland, Zielona Góra. Unfortunately Zielona Gora happens to be in the middle between the test centers in Berlin and Warsaw.(each of these something around 300-400km away) That means I will have to get to the test center either on the test day or the day before.(I'll probably choose Berlin though, since german highways are far better than those in Poland, that's why the journey will probably take something around 3-4 hours). That's the moment when my question comes - how much my result may be affected because of that? What do you think? To be perfectly honest, I have no other options apart from Berlin and Warsaw(and as I menioned earlier, it is 99,9% certain that I will choose Berlin but I don't know whether I should go there on the test day, because I really don't want to make a stupid decision).

I look forward to your answers, I hope you will be able to help me decide.

Thank you in advance. :)
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by [email protected] » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:40 pm
Hi gemboyrob,

Since Test Day is a BIG day, you'll want to try to minimize the distractions and outside factors on the day of your GMAT. It might be better for you to travel the day before your Test, so that you can have the rest of the time to relax and not have to worry about any potential complications (traffic, road construction, etc.) that could occur if you were taking that long drive on Test Day.

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