kuwaiti wrote:
Hi all this is not a success story i took the GMAT on december 15th and got a 540(Q38V27) i did study for the quant i took a course that helped me a lot in quant and the instructor was great in giving us tricks that save time on the test(gmat prep test on november (530(Q38V27). However i was always uncomfortable with geometry and coordinate geometry other than those topics i feel that i'm ok with the rest. I didn't really study for the verbal part just some general rules of SC and CR. I then took a break till around mid of February where i started studying again focusing on quant and trying to recap and add to my existing knowledge in quant on april 19 i took a GMATprep and got a 550(Q38V28). I did the real thing on April 31st and got a 540 AGAIN but the weird thing is the it was a Q32(or31) V33 i studied a lot of quant and just a little of verbal and yet my scores indicate something else. I'm looking for a 650 score but i don't how or when to start studying again. Im also curious that if i cancel a gmat score does still count as the five attempts i can take per year? any feedback would help.
Dear
kuwaiti,
I'm happy to respond.
First of all, the 5-GMAT-per-12-months limit pertains to times you take the test. Whether you cancel is strictly irrelevant: you still took the test. Part of the reason for that limit is to limit the exposure that questions on the real GMAT got. Think about it. If it were the other way around, if by canceling, someone could take an unlimited number of GMATs, then someone very rich could keep taking another GMAT every two weeks, and keep canceling, until most of the questions were repeats, and then that person could do very well. The GMAT wants to exclude that possibility from the outset. If you took the real GMAT and got an eyeful of a full test worth of official questions, that counts as one taking of the GMAT, one of the five you are allowed in a 12-month period, and whether you cancel your score is irrelevant.
My friend, in your preparation, don't aim for 650. Aim for the very best you can do. Strive for excellence. It is a strategy of mediocrity to say, I'll do just this and ignore that. It is a strategy of excellence to say, what else can I do? If you want to boast your performance, you can make some improvements in math, but you really need to boost your verbal score. An improvement in your verbal score will boost your composite grade more than the same improvement in your quant score. Read this article:
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Does all this make sense?
Mike
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