Alright, I just took the GMAT this morning.
I didn't think I was excessively jittery. I went in there fairly calm and confident.
I brought my quantitative OG Green book, and I worked on a few mid-level math problems to warm my brain up.
I struggled almost immediately with the AWA. It was difficult to form coherent arguments with the question prompts that they gave me, so I think I probably scored in the 5-5.5 range there.
I was sweating it out on the quantitative portion. Even the old lady at the front desk said she saw me struggling on camera. A lot of absolute value with variables and inequality questions. The quantitative section was markedly more difficult than GMATPrep1 or GMATPrep2.
The verbal section was a challenge as well. The questions seemed more complex and convoluted than anything I've seen on GMATPrep, MGMAT, or 800score.
I ended up with a 700. I understand that it's extremely egotistical of me to voice my deep disappointment at a 90th percentile score, and really, it is not my intent to rub salt of anybody's wound, but I've been studying hard for the past year or so, and sincerely expected to do better.
I've scored from 710-770 on various MGMAT, GMATPrep and 880score.com CATs over the past month.
I understand that the standard deviation of the official GMAT is +-30 points. I think my mean should be somewhere near 730, and I just happened to have a rough go at it the first time and scored near the bottom of my own bell curve.
My friend Mark, who is also studying for the GMAT, told me that 700 is pretty decent for a first try, and that people usually improve on subsequent efforts.
So anyway, the following are my scaled scores:
46Q (Have been able to score 48+ consistently on practices)
40V (Have been able to score 44+ consistently on practices...)
700 composite
Anyway, I have to wait 31 days, so my retake is going to be scheduled for 12/05.
This kind of hurts, but I'll bounce back and perform better the 2nd time around.
I didn't think I was excessively jittery. I went in there fairly calm and confident.
I brought my quantitative OG Green book, and I worked on a few mid-level math problems to warm my brain up.
I struggled almost immediately with the AWA. It was difficult to form coherent arguments with the question prompts that they gave me, so I think I probably scored in the 5-5.5 range there.
I was sweating it out on the quantitative portion. Even the old lady at the front desk said she saw me struggling on camera. A lot of absolute value with variables and inequality questions. The quantitative section was markedly more difficult than GMATPrep1 or GMATPrep2.
The verbal section was a challenge as well. The questions seemed more complex and convoluted than anything I've seen on GMATPrep, MGMAT, or 800score.
I ended up with a 700. I understand that it's extremely egotistical of me to voice my deep disappointment at a 90th percentile score, and really, it is not my intent to rub salt of anybody's wound, but I've been studying hard for the past year or so, and sincerely expected to do better.
I've scored from 710-770 on various MGMAT, GMATPrep and 880score.com CATs over the past month.
I understand that the standard deviation of the official GMAT is +-30 points. I think my mean should be somewhere near 730, and I just happened to have a rough go at it the first time and scored near the bottom of my own bell curve.
My friend Mark, who is also studying for the GMAT, told me that 700 is pretty decent for a first try, and that people usually improve on subsequent efforts.
So anyway, the following are my scaled scores:
46Q (Have been able to score 48+ consistently on practices)
40V (Have been able to score 44+ consistently on practices...)
700 composite
Anyway, I have to wait 31 days, so my retake is going to be scheduled for 12/05.
This kind of hurts, but I'll bounce back and perform better the 2nd time around.
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