Help me please ! 690 for Gmatprep - 510 for actual GMAT ! :(

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Hi
As you can see I was pretty shocked when I saw my score,
here are my scores :

by the way I am not native !
MANHATTAN
first CAT EVER : 630
2: 640
3: 610
4:650


GMATPrep (Q50,v8 !!!!)Here I just shocked because I saw that WOW .SC's were so different !
then I realized that my timing sucks so I figured out that I have to work on it
the next prep ... I got 560 ! I was so shocked ! what was wrong with me ?!
then I realized that I have to work on my Verbal Timing
and I did it ... 1 hour after my Gmatprep that was 560 I took a manhattan one with my new timing method
the result was
690 [q 51,v34]
one hour later I tried to reset the GMATprep then I got 690 on prep too [2 or 3 question repeated]
YES 3 CAT on one day

I was sure that my timing is the best !
the next one of my Manhattan was 690

I reseted PREP another time and I got 650 or something like that

but in Test Day ....

I got 4 RC .. first one had 4 questions .. second one was a very complicated Text that was about 70 lines and was about Neutron or something like that and it contained 5 questions
the third RC had 5 questions too .. a text about objectivism and materialism of a port called Frankz or some think like that
the 4th RC contained 3 questions ... I mean 17 Questions for RC ... and I really Ran out of my time
I answered about 10 questions without COnentrating and they were answered almost randomly ...
even in Q .. I couldn't concentrate on timing and I got 47 ... I always got 50 or 51 in prep...

I scheduled another GMAT appointment for another month ..
please suggest me what to do ?!
thanks
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by uwhusky » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:09 am
I am not sure how to say it in a nicest way, but perhaps you should consider postponing more than a month. Just from reading this post alone, I wouldn't recommend you to re-take the GMAT without some heavy lifting in verbal.

I strongly advise you to go through Manhattan GMAT SC, and maybe even hire a tutor.
Yep.

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by programming_max » Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:13 am
Thank you . But there are some problems that I cannot make the GMAT appointment further than 1 month
and you know what ? I have read the Manhattan SC and my verbal scores on Manhattan CAT's were above the 33 .

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by uwhusky » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:23 am
Maybe you should hire a tutor if you do not have more than a month. I don't know what your aim is, but I think 650 or higher will be a struggle without a lot of work in verbal.
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