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Spike142
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A little background, I have been studying for this Test for the past 6 months. I have covered what I feel like was everything. The entire Manhattan GMAT guides yes all eight, the O.G. official review, Kaplan review and strategies, and both "Cracking the GMAT" guides and practice problems. Every book from cover to cover. I sacrificed nearly everything; work, working out, and even the social life of my senior year of college. To say the least I felt above and beyond prepared for this test.
Today I walked into the Test center with my head held high a great song in my head and the confidence that would dwarf even that of Barney Stinson (Yeah just dropped a "How I Met Your Mother" quote). My family had my back, calling me up and telling me they prayed for and wishing me luck. Even telling me that they knew I would do great.
I went through the test feeling great! I felt like I was on top of it and making a killing of the test. The AWA was great I felt that my diction, structure and even grammar were impeccable. Supporting paragraphs were spot on and felt like I was clear and concise. Anyway I will not be able to find how I actually did in that for a few weeks anyways.
The Quant section...SOLID or at least I thought. I was a bit short on time at the end but was still able to finish on time and work through every problem of the section. Throughout the test I felt like the questions were beginning to level out, becoming a bit easier and more and more alike along the level of difficulty. So by the time I finished the quant. section I had mixed feelings about my performance. Never the less I held my head high and moved forward to the verbal section.
Verbal though I am a slow reader and have the tendency to over analyze....well all the time. Never the less I tried to set most of that aside. I have never been really good with sentence correction, but even during the test I felt like was doing really well. Reading Comprehension in the past I have had problems with but I worked at it and yet again felt like was was doing really well.
In the end and after I filled out their extra questions, information for profile, etc. I closed my eyes said a short prayer, only to finish my prayer and open my eyes to a 380! I thought what in the Hell just happened? I studied for six full months, and sacrificed so much to get in there and to come a drastically short.
I know no one in here was sitting there with me during the test. I have no clue what happened though. I am down but by no means out, I am going to take the next two weeks off and then start again. Access my weaknesses and figure out if I need to take classes. Build a new strategy and begin to work once more at the GMAT. MY goal is still to score over a 700. I know I can do it, I think it is just a matter of applying all that I have actually learned.
I am just trying to figure out what happened, in there. Has this happened to anyone else? Or does anyone know how to work with this setback? I am very eager to get back to working on getting a better score. I would appreciate all the help I can get.
Oh and do not plug! I will report anyone who plugs their services. Suggested study material, yes. Private tutorials or anything alike, No.
Today I walked into the Test center with my head held high a great song in my head and the confidence that would dwarf even that of Barney Stinson (Yeah just dropped a "How I Met Your Mother" quote). My family had my back, calling me up and telling me they prayed for and wishing me luck. Even telling me that they knew I would do great.
I went through the test feeling great! I felt like I was on top of it and making a killing of the test. The AWA was great I felt that my diction, structure and even grammar were impeccable. Supporting paragraphs were spot on and felt like I was clear and concise. Anyway I will not be able to find how I actually did in that for a few weeks anyways.
The Quant section...SOLID or at least I thought. I was a bit short on time at the end but was still able to finish on time and work through every problem of the section. Throughout the test I felt like the questions were beginning to level out, becoming a bit easier and more and more alike along the level of difficulty. So by the time I finished the quant. section I had mixed feelings about my performance. Never the less I held my head high and moved forward to the verbal section.
Verbal though I am a slow reader and have the tendency to over analyze....well all the time. Never the less I tried to set most of that aside. I have never been really good with sentence correction, but even during the test I felt like was doing really well. Reading Comprehension in the past I have had problems with but I worked at it and yet again felt like was was doing really well.
In the end and after I filled out their extra questions, information for profile, etc. I closed my eyes said a short prayer, only to finish my prayer and open my eyes to a 380! I thought what in the Hell just happened? I studied for six full months, and sacrificed so much to get in there and to come a drastically short.
I know no one in here was sitting there with me during the test. I have no clue what happened though. I am down but by no means out, I am going to take the next two weeks off and then start again. Access my weaknesses and figure out if I need to take classes. Build a new strategy and begin to work once more at the GMAT. MY goal is still to score over a 700. I know I can do it, I think it is just a matter of applying all that I have actually learned.
I am just trying to figure out what happened, in there. Has this happened to anyone else? Or does anyone know how to work with this setback? I am very eager to get back to working on getting a better score. I would appreciate all the help I can get.
Oh and do not plug! I will report anyone who plugs their services. Suggested study material, yes. Private tutorials or anything alike, No.
If your going to make the conscious decision to something, then you gotta either do it or not do it - it's as simple as that - Travis Rice
