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As indicated by the subject, I got a 660 after finishing the exam yesterday afternoon. I'm devastated because I have consistently scored above 680, and consistently scored above 700 on the last few CAT. Breakdown was Q44, V37, for which I know my Quant score should have been better. For some odd reason, I find some of the questions extremely weird and I was actually not even understanding exactly what the questions were asking of me. For these few questions, I simply guessed and moved on. I think I'll need to practice some math problems, perhaps using the GMATClub math questions.

I'm still in the after shock and I'll definitely take it again. I will debrief after my next try, if I pull myself over the 700 hurdle.

If you have any question about the test or the testing center, please don't hesitate to ask.

Now, I'll go sit in my little corner and think about what happened....
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660 ... devastated! 18 Apr 2010, 16:53
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As indicated by the subject, I got a 660 after finishing the exam yesterday afternoon. I'm devastated because I have consistently scored above 680, and consistently scored above 700 on the last few CAT. Breakdown was Q44, V37, for which I know my Quant score should have been better. For some odd reason, I find some of the questions extremely weird and I was actually not even understanding exactly what the questions were asking of me. For these few questions, I simply guessed and moved on. I think I'll need to practice some math problems, perhaps using the GMATClub math questions.

I'm still in the after shock and I'll definitely take it again. I will debrief after my next try, if I pull myself over the 700 hurdle.

If you have any question about the test or the testing center, please don't hesitate to ask.

Now, I'll go sit in my little corner and think about what happened....
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I think you said that you took the Knewton course. Were you scoring in the 680's?
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660 ... devastated! 18 Apr 2010, 17:08
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come on debrief now, maybe we can help you on where you went wrong

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you can also save the time, money and pain if others are making the same mistakes

think about it...
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660 is a good score but could be terrible if you have set a much higher bar on the practice tests.
What were your GMAT Preps coming in at?

See this one: should-i-retake-gmat-thread-retaking-gmat-strategies-83339.html?highlight=ml305
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i think those "weird" math questions were the turning point for you in quant. Those probably are the harder ones and if you didnt answer them correctly you might have "missed your chance" on better quant score. the quant might be an aberration so with some practice you prob do better.
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As indicated by the subject, I got a 660 after finishing the exam yesterday afternoon. I'm devastated because I have consistently scored above 680, and consistently scored above 700 on the last few CAT. Breakdown was Q44, V37, for which I know my Quant score should have been better. For some odd reason, I find some of the questions extremely weird and I was actually not even understanding exactly what the questions were asking of me. For these few questions, I simply guessed and moved on. I think I'll need to practice some math problems, perhaps using the GMATClub math questions.

I'm still in the after shock and I'll definitely take it again. I will debrief after my next try, if I pull myself over the 700 hurdle.

If you have any question about the test or the testing center, please don't hesitate to ask.

Now, I'll go sit in my little corner and think about what happened....

I think you said that you took the Knewton course. Were you scoring in the 680's?
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Lagomez, I did not take the Knewton course, but did jump on the offer when bb posted that $100 deal from Knewton if you take its practice CAT, which I did, and scored 730 on that. My GMATPrep CATs from the last week of preparation are around the 740 area (definitely inflated though, since those were the third attempts).

I made a post of basically what I did throughout the time to prepare for this exam. Here's the link
not-yet-taken-gmat-my-journey-so-far-91355.html
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A quick debrief for those who are interested:

I took my exam on 4/17, Saturday, and the five days prior to D-Day I was simply just practicing CATs from MGMAT and GMATPrep. There's really nothing different from what I did since the beginning of the preparation. My CAT were almost always around the 700 mark. I've set my bar pretty high because I'm only interested in the top 20's. I understand that a 660 will probably be able to lift me to the lower end of the top 20 schools; however, I'm devastated because I know I should be able to do better than that.

Books I used:
MGMAT SC
OG11, 12, and also the individual quant and verbal books
Powerscore verbal bible
Past exams and questions ("sets")
(I spent probably 90% of my prep time over verbal, which was always my weakest subject; therefore, I neglected my quant section until the last minute. Be it arrogance, or simply stubborness, I thought I'd do decent on Q)

Test day experience:
I went to my test center two days before my test, just to know exactly where it is. The center was very well-lit and well-organized. The receptionist was an old Italian lady, and boy, she was probably the nicest lady I've ever met. Anyway, I checked in and was able to immediately take the test.

AWA was very typical, and I almost positive that I did well (followed Chineseburned template pretty religiously). After that, I took my break to just use the boy's room. I came back to the room with probably 4 minute left on the break timer, but I decided to just go for it.

The quant section was, for which I thought, typical of what you'd see on GMATPrep. I got only 1 combination problem and it was pretty much just a spinoff of another combination problem on GMATPrep. I did not encounter any probability question. At the end of the quant section, I thought I did decent. Took my break afterwards; ate a Nutri bar. Resumed the test pretty quickly.

I kicked off the verbal section with a SC. I thought I was doing pretty well for the first several questions and lo and behold, a bolded question came on #11. I was happy and nervous, of course. Once I got past that question, I think I just left my guard down and nowhere else did I see a bolded question.

Finished the exam; gotten past the bubble-ins and craps, I put my hand over my eyes after I click "Report My Score"...and I almost cried after the number came out - 660!

I think my biggest problem was that I was too stubborn to realize that I should spend some time on math. On all my CAT I've scored between 44 and 49. Knowing this while going into the testing center, I was hoping that I won't fall to the bottom of my quant spectrum, but I did. My verbal improved from a mere V25 (very beginning) to an official score of V37. I'm perfectly fine with V37, but would hope higher since my V score was actually the section that has been bringing my overall CAT score up. Anyway, I'm going to re-take the exam, hopefully end of May, but this time I'm going to focus a lot of my time on the quant section. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to chime in. THanks for the support, guys.
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