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660 (47Q, 34V) First Attempt, Will Not Take Again Updated on: 04 Aug 2013, 12:43
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Hello everyone. Well, I took the GMAT earlier today and scored a 660 (47Q, 34V). I don't really know what to say, other than that I'm satisfied with my score. I'm not applying to any of the top-5 or even top-10 programs.

Today, I was the first person at the test center. My test was scheduled for 8:00 am. Last night, I reviewed my math notes and my sentence correction notes briefly before I went to bed at 8:00 pm. I was extremely nervous today. I put a lot of time into studying, and didn't want to leave that test center with anything below 650. One the last practice exam that I took 5 days ago (GMAT Prep software), I received a 620. This was a little bit disheartening as I received a 590 on March 12th. To only go up 30 points after an extra 2 months of studying was disappointing. So going into the test center today, I kept thinking I would get lower than 620, but tried to calm myself down by thinking of other things.

The Quant section on the actual exam seemed hard, but not as hard as gmatclub's quant questions or manhattan's quant questions. On the gmatclub's quant exams, I never got higher than 15/37 when completing the exam on time. I did receive 18/37 when completing the test in study mode. I believe gmatclub's quant questions as well as manhattan's quant questions made the actual exam easier. I never received higher than a 43 on the quant section of the Manhattan Exams. Seeing that 47 for quant on the actual exam made me smile.

The Verbal section, particularly the sentence correction portion - a portion that I felt comfortable with - seemed extremely hard. I was not expecting to get that low of a score on the Verbal.

Practice Exam Scores:
GMATPrep Exam 1: 3/12/13 - 590 (35Q, 36V)
Manhattan Exam 1: 4/12/13 - 560 (33Q, 34V)
Manhattan Exam 2: 5/11/13 - 650 (39Q, 39V)
Manhattan Exam 3: 5/18/13 - 620 (39Q, 35V)
Manhattan Exam 4: 5/25/13 - 640 (43Q, 35V)
Manhattan Exam 5: 5/26/13 - 650 (40Q, 38V)
Manhattan Exam 6: 5/27/13 - 640 (38Q, 38V)
GMATPrep 6/03/13 - 620 (43Q, 33V)
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Hello everyone. Well, I took the GMAT earlier today and scored a 660 (47Q, 34V). I don't really know what to say, other than that I'm satisfied with my score. I'm not applying to any of the top-5 or even top-10 programs. I'm applying to a few part-time programs and I believe this score is more than sufficient for them.

Background information: Bachelor's in Electronic Engineering from a private institution.

I've been studying for the gmat on and off since the fall of last year. I focused mostly on Verbal until January of this year and then turned my focus onto the Quantitative portion of the GMAT. I used Manhattan's Sentence Correction Guide and the PowerScore GMAT Critical Reasoning Bible for my Verbal study. I think the Sentence Correction Guide is the most valuable guide as far as Verbal study goes. You can really learn how to correct a sentence by using this guide. The Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension may help some others, but I believe you either know how to think critically or you don't; you either understand what you're reading or you don't.

Today, I was the first person at the test center. My test was scheduled for 8:00 am. Last night, I reviewed my math notes and my sentence correction notes briefly before I went to bed at 8:00 pm. I was extremely nervous today. I put a lot of time into studying, and didn't want to leave that test center with anything below 650. One the last practice exam that I took 5 days ago (GMAT Prep software), I received a 620. This was a little bit disheartening as I received a 590 on March 12th. To only go up 30 points after an extra 2 months of studying was disappointing. So going into the test center today, I kept thinking I would get lower than 620, but tried to calm myself down by thinking of other things.

The Quant section on the actual exam seemed hard, but not as hard as gmatclub's quant questions or manhattan's quant questions. On the gmatclub's quant exams, I never got higher than 15/37 when completing the exam on time. I did receive 18/37 when completing the test in study mode. I believe gmatclub's quant questions as well as manhattan's quant questions made the actual exam easier. I never received higher than a 43 on the quant section of the Manhattan Exams. Seeing that 47 for quant on the actual exam made me smile.

The Verbal section, particularly the sentence correction portion - a portion that I felt comfortable with - seemed extremely hard. I was not expecting to get that low of a score on the Verbal.

I believe the gmatclub exams and forums, magoosh.com, and the manhattan exams really helped me get the score that I wanted.

Practice Exam Scores:
GMATPrep Exam 1: 3/12/13 - 590 (35Q, 36V)
Manhattan Exam 1: 4/12/13 - 560 (33Q, 34V)
Manhattan Exam 2: 5/11/13 - 650 (39Q, 39V)
Manhattan Exam 3: 5/18/13 - 620 (39Q, 35V)
Manhattan Exam 4: 5/25/13 - 640 (43Q, 35V)
Manhattan Exam 5: 5/26/13 - 650 (40Q, 38V)
Manhattan Exam 6: 5/27/13 - 640 (38Q, 38V)
GMATPrep 6/03/13 - 620 (43Q, 33V)
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Congrats on getting what you have needed and on leaving GMAT behind.
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Congrats on getting what you have needed and on leaving GMAT behind.
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Thanks, pavan. I appreciate it. I don't even know what to do with myself. So much free time now.
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pavan2185

Congrats on getting what you have needed and on leaving GMAT behind.

Thanks, pavan. I appreciate it. I don't even know what to do with myself. So much free time now.
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I am jealous of your position. I would happily get back to my favourite pass times ...books, movies, music and riding...along with preparing for applications and interviews after such a joyful week :)
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Hi,
Congrats mate!!
Even i have aim for similar score.
Any idea about how was difficulty level of verbal?
are they similar to OG12 & OG2 questions?
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Hi,
Congrats mate!!
Even i have aim for similar score.
Any idea about how was difficulty level of verbal?
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Hi Warrior Gmat,

Thank you! :-D

I did all the CR questions in OG12 and the CR questions on the actual exam seemed in line with what I studied. I didn't do many RC questions from OG12 because I wasn't really too concerned with that portion of the exam, so I can't really make a comparison between the RC difficulty in OG12 and on the actual exam. For SC, though, I can say that the exam had tougher questions than anything I saw in OG12. I was more confident in my SC ability than in any other section of the exam. On my last Manhattan exam, I got all 15 SC questions correct. On Magoosh, I got 88% of the 138 SC questions correct with an average completion time of 1 minute and 13 seconds. On the actual exam, though, I think I spent more time just staring at SC questions than any other question on the exam.

I don't know the breakdown of how I did on each verbal section, so maybe I actually did better on SC than on CR and RC, but to me that section was the hardest part of the exam.
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Well done. Good luck with the next stage.
Hoping to achieve something similar tomorrow.

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Well done. Good luck with the next stage.
Hoping to achieve something similar tomorrow.

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Thank you and good luck to you, too. :)
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Thanks for a reply

kool part is you dint lost your confidence because of final gmatprep result....
That's confidence what it takes to beat these beast.

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