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Pioneer1010
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I have been a frequent visitor to these posts since last October and never thought that day would come when I would be able to post myself. However, today is that day. I took the GMAT this morning and scored a 720(v40, q49).
It has been an extremely long road and my advice to anyone is don't give up. Study and perseverance will pay off in the end even when you don't think they will. There were plenty of times I wanted to give up and give up my goal of going to a top business school and started evaluating other career options.
My GMAT journey started late summer/early fall 2012 with a Veritas prep class. Overall I thought the class was good and helped with strategy. My initial GMAT attempt (October 2012), the day of the test, I found out that there would be a layoff within my group at work of 6. This obviously hurt my concentration and I scored a terrible 600 (v38, q35). I went back to studying using the Manhattan Prep books and OG and was feeling a lot better and scoring in the high 600s on practice tests. I schedule my next test for the beginning of November. I was then laid-off in late October. My study habits went by the wayside and I scored a 640 (v35, q42). Obviously I was again disappointed and certainly lost concentration due to my now unemployment. However, I did not give up and continued to study throughout the holidays while working on my apps. I sat for the test again in January and scored a 590 (v30, q42). I was devastated and really had no idea what to do. I took several months off and in June signed up for 10 hours of private tutoring with Manhattan GMAT. I also worked through every quant problem in OG12, OG13 and the quant review 2 books.
My last practice test was last Saturday with GMATPrep and I scored a 710. I was happy with this, but a little worried as I had seen several questions on previous mock tests. I kept telling myself that I can do this. I put in a lot of hours into studying and knew it would pay off in the end...and it did.
It has been an extremely long road and my advice to anyone is don't give up. Study and perseverance will pay off in the end even when you don't think they will. There were plenty of times I wanted to give up and give up my goal of going to a top business school and started evaluating other career options.
My GMAT journey started late summer/early fall 2012 with a Veritas prep class. Overall I thought the class was good and helped with strategy. My initial GMAT attempt (October 2012), the day of the test, I found out that there would be a layoff within my group at work of 6. This obviously hurt my concentration and I scored a terrible 600 (v38, q35). I went back to studying using the Manhattan Prep books and OG and was feeling a lot better and scoring in the high 600s on practice tests. I schedule my next test for the beginning of November. I was then laid-off in late October. My study habits went by the wayside and I scored a 640 (v35, q42). Obviously I was again disappointed and certainly lost concentration due to my now unemployment. However, I did not give up and continued to study throughout the holidays while working on my apps. I sat for the test again in January and scored a 590 (v30, q42). I was devastated and really had no idea what to do. I took several months off and in June signed up for 10 hours of private tutoring with Manhattan GMAT. I also worked through every quant problem in OG12, OG13 and the quant review 2 books.
My last practice test was last Saturday with GMATPrep and I scored a 710. I was happy with this, but a little worried as I had seen several questions on previous mock tests. I kept telling myself that I can do this. I put in a lot of hours into studying and knew it would pay off in the end...and it did.
