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08 Aug 2011, 16:14

Hi,

I have given my GMAT on 5th Aug, and got a miserable score of 530(Q47,V17). I could not believe i received such a pathetic score. Before giving actual GMAT test, I did gave Kaplan online test and I scored an average of 560 and I gave one OG test and i scored 630.

I don't know what went wrong that I scored so low, and I am targeting the 2012 MBA class of some good B-schools, but with this score all my dreams are shattered. I have no clue why I scored so less in the exam and especially in verbal, i guess it was my lowest score ever.

Kindly advice should i retake test and if yes what is the minimum time i should take to reappear?
Secondly from where should I prepare verbal?

Its kind of strange i was doing OK in the verbal practice tests and in the short verbal test in Kaplan and OG but still received this terrible score. Not sure where I was lacking on the test day?

Its for sure when the verbal section came, i started loosing sort of focus and was taking a lot of time to understand and started getting restless

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Re: Need GMAT Retake Advice [#permalink]

08 Aug 2011, 16:20

What books did you use to prepare? How long did you prepare? What was the stategy? Did you take any of the GMATPrep CATs?

Here are some people who improved a lot in less time :

http://gmatclub.com/forum/2-months-in-the-gmat-cave-530-to-750-q48-v46-104458.html

http://gmatclub.com/forum/finally-done-gmat-1-500-to-gmat-2-640-in-a-month-89600.html

http://gmatclub.com/forum/500-700-in-45-days-average-student-s-guide-to-success-106524.html

http://gmatclub.com/forum/my-terrible-experience-460-to-650-1-month-92756.html

Re: Need GMAT Retake Advice [#permalink] 08 Aug 2011, 16:20

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