Hi everyone,
I took the GMAT today; my score breaks down as follow:
Quant 47 81%
Verbal 44 97%
Total 730 96%
I have mixed feelings about the result. I'm happy with my overall score, but I feel like my quant score is a bit low. My big questions is this: will a 47 on the quant section keep me out of a good business school?
I finished up my undergrad in May. I had some time before I started working, so I thought I'd do something constructive and take the GMAT. Before doing anything else, I took a GMAT Prep test. I got a 680. I remember thinking that was a good starting point.
I bought the Official Guide, the OG Verbal Review, the OG Quant Review, some MGMAT books and Kaplan 800. I found the Official Guide to be indispensable. The OG provided a good enough representation of the GMAT, so the OG Verbal and Quant Reviews were not as helpful. Kaplan 800 didn't offer much besides additional questions. The MGMAT Sentence Correction book was great. I read through the book twice and feel like sentence correction is my strongest GMAT area. A great thing about buying the MGMAT book is that it gave me access to 6 online practice tests. MGMAT's practice tests were almost as good as the real thing and the answer explanations are definitely top-notch.
I devoted most of my study time to taking practice GMATs. I did the GMAT Prep tests twice each, all 6 MGAMT tests, the free PR test, and the free Kaplan test. After taking the tests I would go back and rework the problems I got wrong. I found that I could solve just about any question given enough time. Unfortunately, the GMAT doesn't test my ability to solve problems; the GMAT tests my ability to solve problems quickly.
I hope one or two of you found that longer-than-intended debrief helpful.
I took the GMAT today; my score breaks down as follow:
Quant 47 81%
Verbal 44 97%
Total 730 96%
I have mixed feelings about the result. I'm happy with my overall score, but I feel like my quant score is a bit low. My big questions is this: will a 47 on the quant section keep me out of a good business school?
I finished up my undergrad in May. I had some time before I started working, so I thought I'd do something constructive and take the GMAT. Before doing anything else, I took a GMAT Prep test. I got a 680. I remember thinking that was a good starting point.
I bought the Official Guide, the OG Verbal Review, the OG Quant Review, some MGMAT books and Kaplan 800. I found the Official Guide to be indispensable. The OG provided a good enough representation of the GMAT, so the OG Verbal and Quant Reviews were not as helpful. Kaplan 800 didn't offer much besides additional questions. The MGMAT Sentence Correction book was great. I read through the book twice and feel like sentence correction is my strongest GMAT area. A great thing about buying the MGMAT book is that it gave me access to 6 online practice tests. MGMAT's practice tests were almost as good as the real thing and the answer explanations are definitely top-notch.
I devoted most of my study time to taking practice GMATs. I did the GMAT Prep tests twice each, all 6 MGAMT tests, the free PR test, and the free Kaplan test. After taking the tests I would go back and rework the problems I got wrong. I found that I could solve just about any question given enough time. Unfortunately, the GMAT doesn't test my ability to solve problems; the GMAT tests my ability to solve problems quickly.
I hope one or two of you found that longer-than-intended debrief helpful.
