I just Beat The GMAT!

Ghosh!! .....what can I say about yesterday.....I cried the whole day even in the test center......I had given GMAT earlier 6 months back without studying anything and I scored 480(38Q, 19V).

I gave it yesterday again for the second time, I scored 440(39Q, 13V) .......I had studied 2 months for this one..

I used Manhatten and gave all 6 manhatten tests
My scored in MGMAT were

MGMAT 1 - 540
MGMAT 2 - 560
MGMAT 3 - 620
MGMAT 4 - 590
MGMAT 5 - 630

None of my scores were below 540 ... but when I went for the real one ...not a single question came from Manhatten or Official guide....was a big bad luck for me.

Another imp thing that struck me hard is that the first question for both Quants and Verbal were almost 800 pointers

The paper stated itself with 800 pointer which I haven't expected at all. I took almost 6-8 minutes to answer that(ans were probably wrong) and then lost my confidence for getting the first 10 questions right.

Though I managed in Quants to reach 39 and since it comes before verbal, I messed the whole thing in verbal.
RC's and CR were very tough. Tougher than the MGMAT one's. I lost speed later on and had just minutes left when I started guess work for the remaining 15 questions in the end.


I feel in the middle of the 16th question in verbal My computer was slightly got hanged for a moment say 10 seconds. I saw the timing changed a bit. Didn't calculate the exact one before and after it was hang but I think the verbal paper ended somewhat early than my quants(may be 5-10 minutes).

Is timing reduction possible if your PC gets hanged in between......I actually don't know whats the main reason for that.


I have scheduled my last GMAT appointment on March 11....can somebody please help me what strategy should I apply to reach atleast 25-30 in verbal. I am actually a non native English speaker.

Appreciate your help...