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Something wrong with break timing! [730 (q48, v41)]

by slavtoad » Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:05 pm
I don't know why the length of the break is not specified in any current written communication from GMAC, not even the instruction sheet I was given at the test center. They told me it was 8 minutes. I was careful to take only around 5 minutes between AWA and Q, and when I got back on, the computer said I'd used an extra 2 min 11 sec. Now I didn't time myself, but I find this very hard to believe. Maybe the computer is not set to 8 minute breaks. I don't know. For the next break, I just took 2 minutes or so and I was fine.

I am very disappointed by my verbal score. My only practice for verbal consisted of the diagnostic section in the OG and Test 1 in GMATPrep. I got very few wrong in the first, and none in the second. I was confident of a near-perfect verbal score. And during the test I felt confident of virtually every response in the verbal section. So this is really hard to swallow.

<pissed>Stupid GMAT, with their gotchas in data sufficiency, stupid break timing and WTF-happened-to-the-perfect-verbal-score-I'm-entitled-to.</pissed>

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by karanrulz4ever » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:22 pm
Be happy with a 730 buddy.
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by mundasingh123 » Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:49 am
karanrulz4ever wrote:Be happy with a 730 buddy.
that too after 0 study .
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by slavtoad » Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:23 pm
Actually I got waitlisted, so I went ahead and retook the GMAT last month. This time I took plenty of time answering the verbal questions slowly and carefully. Repaired verbal score and ended up with 770/99% (Q: 49/86%, V: 48/99%).
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by mundasingh123 » Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:35 pm
slavtoad wrote:Actually I got waitlisted, so I went ahead and retook the GMAT last month. This time I took plenty of time answering the verbal questions slowly and carefully. Repaired verbal score and ended up with 770/99% (Q: 49/86%, V: 48/99%).
what do you mean by waitlisted. are you a native speaker .
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by slavtoad » Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:37 pm
I got placed on the waitlist at the one MBA program I applied to. BTW, let me be the first to say it was probably not the GMAT 730 that hurt me. But I retook anyway after I got waitlisted.
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by mundasingh123 » Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:43 pm
slavtoad wrote:I got placed on the waitlist at the one MBA program I applied to. BTW, let me be the first to say it was probably not the GMAT 730 that hurt me. But I retook anyway after I got waitlisted.
congrats toad , which country are you located in ? which b school did u get waitlisted in ?should i just forward all my verbal queries to u lol ?I thought one has to post the score when he / she applies to a BSCHOOL. How did you manage to rush through the application in 1 month
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by slavtoad » Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:00 pm
Thanks. I'm from India, in the US. I applied to Haas evening-and-weekend.

I applied with 730, didn't get accepted, got placed on the waitlist, so re-took, got 770 and reported that score to improve my chances of getting off the waitlist and admitted.
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