640-590 after 9 month of rigorous prep, with 700+ in MGMAT.

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I thought this is the day i am going share my story of 700+ but unfortunately i am sharing my story of 590.

My GMAT preparation started on last january, i went through a class room training and for nearly 4 months i have not done anything apart from my studies. My work performance went down, i havent met any of my friends, no movies, chit-chats, all i thought of is 700+.

Finally i scheduled my exam on June20th, took a 15 days off from office. Studied hard those 15 days and appeared for my exam, completed all CAT's that i got, took GMAT PREP (1st 590, 2nd 670) more than 10 times. However, my exam got stopped in the middle of verbal section and i rescheduled it on 20th July. I did completed my exam on 20th July with a 640 (V31,Q47) on my card. I know this was not my score of my potential, since i wanted to try once again, i scheduled my exam on 27th September. This time i didnt want to study plenty of materials so i used MGMAT CAT and MGMAT Question Banks.
I started scoring 700's in manhattan exams with/without essay's, i read all others story and thought that MGMAT 700 = 680-720 in real gmat. But, to my surprise i scored 590(V29,Q42) in the second attempt. I never scored less than 45 in quants, i dont know what happened. I know this score is disappointing.

I planned to apply Thunderbird, USC Moore, Geogiatech, Washingon-Foster, since all these universities do not have much deviation from my 640, i am confused whether to try once again.Seriously, quitting is not my option, but not sure whether it is a smart move to try once again.

Caution: Dont rely completely on MGMAT, though they have top quality questions with explanations i found no variety of questions and answers are predictable.

Thanks for everyone in this forum. Your comments are appreciated.
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Arun
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by nadontheway » Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:27 am
I am sorry to read your story. It is pretty similar to mine. You said to not rely on mgmat. I decided to take mgmat tutor. Did you try this option? Did you take Mgmat course?

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by arunmmw » Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:12 am
no i havent taken MGMAT course, i went for a classroom training in chennai.

I think its important to use nothing but OG and GmatPrep 2-3 days before exam, even if we have worked on those materials many times.
Regards
Arun