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Re: Why is the GMAT so boring?!!
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29 Sep 2014, 15:42
Hi. I like the topic. Welcome to GMAT Club.
A few folks will share this opinion with you. However, to succeed and knock this test of high school math and English grammar/reasoning out, you will have to care. You can hate it - that's OK but to really make a difference, you must take great interest in destroying it.
I won't get into the questions of Why and how as they are somewhat rhetorical. It is irrelevant what we think. The key piece is what's required and by how many schools and what importance it has. The test has some value but it is not the key element among the top 20 schools. They do put value on your essays, LOR's, Resume, and undergrad GPA, so if those are good, your GMAT can be lower than average, but not much lower as that will be a red flag. If you look at the schoools, they all like to be around the 700-range (slightly more and slightly less). That's one easy way to quantify the quality of applicants from the test/academic standpoint since GPA varies (you may have gone to an easy community college and gotten a 4.0 or hard engineering school and gotten 2.5)
I agree with Dmitry (he beat me to the punch line). You need to make GMAT interesting somehow. I did it by working on CR's and taking interest in figuring out traps and playing a game of win/lose on each question. The only way to get a high (700+) score is to really get into it. If you hate it and repulsed by it - there is no way for you to engage and you will be easy pickings.