You should be using the GMATprep software to gauge your ability. Don't take the actual test until you are getting within 50 points of your desired score during practice.

depends on your verbal

The GMATer was worried that with the recent Scoretop scandal, the GMAT would now be even more difficult. I was replying that this is wrong. The test is the same. The only thing that could happen is that cheater scores will be reduced and your non-cheater score might rise very slightly as a result. U...

ScoreTop was a website that distributed 'live' GMAT questions (real questions from the current GMAT test pool) and encouraged its members to post such questions to its forums. These activities (disclosing live questions, enticing others to do so, and viewing live questions) are all violations of ag...

I would say a 3.0 even from a top university is a bit low, for example i have a 3.2 from "west coast Harvard" and I consider it a weak point of my app. But you have one thing helping you a bit which you haven't discussed, namely you are a woman. You application looks decent, I would only r...

Trick geometry, including coordinates.

I studied a lot of nCk and nPk and this did not appear at all

this thread is almost 2 years old

5.5 is 5.5

adcoms aren't going to remember that this year it meant 84% when last year it meant 87%. they don't care.