Okay, more on what has been going on with me and how did the test go.
I took more Knewton tests and scores were 720, 750, 720, 710.
I was not very sure, what to expect from final test but felt that I should be able to increase my score by at least 20-30 marks.
........................and my gmat score was as expected 720(50Q, 37V) - a little disappointed that my Q fell from 51 to 50 but happy that my V increased from 32 to 37.
I'm pretty much done with the test - I would rather put my effort into applications in September than re-take.
Bottom line or lesson learned:
I scored as much as 780, 770, 760 in mgmat - mgmat inflates the score. Knewton's overall score is better though I never agreed with Knewton's scores; I see that KN was always closer to final test score.
I do not think that KN made a huge difference. I knew most of the things when I scored 700; I think KN is good because the problems are good and the tests are better.
The only reason I took Knewton was the 50 point guarantee; now that my score has increased by just 20 points; I hope they return my 300 buck
On the test - I think there were probably 15 or 16 SC questions - the later ones were a little difficult; CR was difficult at later stage too; RC was simple(small passage and options were distinguishable).
Keep in mind, if you're getting more SC questions in the beginning, you should save some extra time for more CR and RC questions at the end. I think, I was aware of this, and yet did not handle this situation as well as I wanted.
Probably one of the big mistake I did was getting stuck at the 5th last question - I had 8min to answer 5questions and then I was stuck at this CR question for 3min; so I was down to 5question in 5min 15sec. I guessed between last 2 options for 5th question and because of lack of time I had to guess 1 more cr question.A bad luck - I had to wait for 1hr 15min because this stupid Pearson representative was not available. My 8:00AM test, for which I reached the center at 7:40, started at 9:00AM. Though the representative gave us option of rescheduling the test, she could not say what date it would be and because I had utilized 4days of my precious vacation days I could not reschedule the test to an unknown date.
Strategy for admission: To my knowledge, they look at 5 major components for admission:
1) undergrad college and gpa - decent
2) gmat score - decent
3) work ex - decent/ above avg.
4) recommendations
5) interview
I'd focus on 4th and 5th....would try to do more of social work, become better at presentation to larger audience and interview with companies just to be prepared for b school interviews.
Please chime in on what else I could do to increase my chances.