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My effen harrowed journey through GMAT
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Updated on: 15 Mar 2018, 08:25
Ok, so I took the GMATs today. What an ungodly beast of a mother you know what. Honestly, I just calculated how many months I've been studying because I kept on pushing back my date (just a mental date) and it ended up that I studied for like 10 months or so. Geez.
I was at a mixer last year and this Korean chick was telling me how she got a 700+ after studying a month or so. I hated her.
My first diagnostic was in the 650's. I was thinking this quant is just way too hard. Probability? I could never do that in high school. I thought to myself, it's just too hard. Number theory? Fuggdabout it. And mind you, I was a computer engineering major. I took three dimensional calculus. And aced it. So needless to say, I felt a bit sullied at the whole thing. To the hell with it.
But I wanted to conquer it. And so I tried to do every single problem I could find (verbal too). Everyday, hit up gmatclub.com. Hit up the various Word docs and massive collections. Hit up Bunuel's posts. Now that I come to think about it....what a weird kind of subculture we have here. I mean I was a bit of lurker chiming in here and there but some of the guys are freaking amazing quants here.
So months pass by and I say okay I gotta commit or I'll never take this. I stopped drinking. Well at least temporarily. And I sneaked some in here and there. But if there is one suggestion that I can make it's this: DRINKING is not amenable to GMAT STUDIES!! They should post this on the front page of gmatclub.
Seriously.
I think it was around then that I took the first GMATPrep exam and guess what? I broke 700! I was a bit floored because I thought maybe because I seen some of the questions on the blog. So I took another one.....and again broke 700. Honestly, I think the lack of alcohol gave me some clarity.
*Game day*
I couldn't sleep the night before. Just had a dream of being at my old college and seeing my friends so I guess it was a good omen. Woke up. 5am. Prayed. Coffee. I was out to the test center.
The people at the test center are freakishly nice. Anyways, I go in for my AWA. Crank those out in about 20 minutes each and took my break. My proctor was a bit surprised but I'm pretty sure I was the first one out.
Quant section: First few questions felt good but it got hard real quick [that's what she said]. Then I just ran out of time and blasted through 5 of the questions. Took a break. Splashed water on my face. I just did this cause all the other gmatclubbers seemed to do it.
Verbal: Realized I needed to beef up this section and I felt a little more relaxed since I always had enough time for it. But the first few questions I was like, "W T F ?". Calmed down and got through it.
Seeing the question 41/41 on the top right hand screen is one of the best feelings I had in a long time. Seeing the 720 on the next few screens was just as good. I went home. Prayed again. Watched some Entourage and Community and vegged out.
Peace~
I just wanted to memorialize this moment because I'll soon forget it. Because I'm going to drink now. Heavily.
Originally posted by
cellydan on 10 Sep 2011, 17:21.
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cellydan on 15 Mar 2018, 08:25, edited 1 time in total.