Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Apr 2808:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Whether you are just beginning your MBA journey or fine-tuning your path to a 700+ score, GMAT Day is designed to give you a competitive edge.
05 Sep 2020, 03:49
Kudos
Bookmarks
I just wrote the gmat for the first time and could only reach a 650 score after studying full time for 3 weeks. My goal is to get at least a 700 since I am applying for a masters degree in Michigan ( Supply Chain Management ). While the quant score was 42 and verbal 38, the IR was 8! I dont know if I will have the same luck next time and would like to know if I get a better score say a 700 but only 6 in IR, do business schools take the best scores from different sections or do they review just one exam ( the best one) and see the score of each section only?
Thank you,
Manuel
Thank you,
Manuel
05 Sep 2020, 15:35
Kudos
Bookmarks
manuelaguilar
Hello, Manuel. First of all, congratulations on that perfect IR score. If you did it once, you can do it again. (You can also earn a perfect score in the section without getting all twelve questions correct, if that knowledge helps set your mind at ease.) To answer your question, in my experience helping students prepare their application package for submission to different programs, one GMAT™ score is reported that will require verification. The school also asks how many times you have taken the exam. Thus, it is not a best-case scenario per section. If you earned that target 700 but dropped in IR to 6, trust me, no school is going to frown upon that. At this time, the IR section is kind of considered the runt of the litter, much less important than the total score. As a matter of fact, I heard from a student in July who was admitted to Booth after retaking his exam and seeing a drop from an 8 in IR to a 7. If your application ticks enough boxes—GMAT™ score, work experience, academic performance, extracurriculars—you will stand just as much a chance at gaining admission as anybody else.
Good luck in your endeavors.
- Andrew
06 Sep 2020, 20:12
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi Manuel,
First off, a 650/Q42 is a solid Score, so it could be enough to get you into your first-choice School. Many Test Takers spend 3 months (or more) of consistent study time before they hit their 'peak' scores, so if you're studied just 3 weeks, then you should not expect to have mastered any of the concepts just yet. By extension, you might naturally improve as you continue to study.
IR has a lot in common with Verbal CR, so with a V38 you likely have strong CR skills - and thus a strong IR performance is a natural extension of those skills. Most Business Schools don't place much (if any) emphasis on an Applicant's IR Score, so scoring lower on your next attempt would likely not impact your application.
Since you have a specific Program in mind, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement. There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:
1) Did you take the At-home GMAT or did you take your GMAT at a Test Facility?
2) How many hours did you typically study each week?
3) What study materials have you used so far?
4) On what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
5) What application deadline(s) are you facing?
If you took your GMAT at a Test Center, then you might also choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report. While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
First off, a 650/Q42 is a solid Score, so it could be enough to get you into your first-choice School. Many Test Takers spend 3 months (or more) of consistent study time before they hit their 'peak' scores, so if you're studied just 3 weeks, then you should not expect to have mastered any of the concepts just yet. By extension, you might naturally improve as you continue to study.
IR has a lot in common with Verbal CR, so with a V38 you likely have strong CR skills - and thus a strong IR performance is a natural extension of those skills. Most Business Schools don't place much (if any) emphasis on an Applicant's IR Score, so scoring lower on your next attempt would likely not impact your application.
Since you have a specific Program in mind, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile and plans. Those Experts should be able to answer your Admissions questions and help define the specific areas of your profile that could use some improvement. There's a Forum full of those Experts here:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/
Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:
1) Did you take the At-home GMAT or did you take your GMAT at a Test Facility?
2) How many hours did you typically study each week?
3) What study materials have you used so far?
4) On what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
5) What application deadline(s) are you facing?
If you took your GMAT at a Test Center, then you might also choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report. While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
