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>
Thank you for reading.
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>
Thank you for reading.
