700 - First Attempt ! - Under attack by Murphy's Law

So, its 6th September, 5:32 AM in India and I'm writing my GMAT experience. I gave my GMAT exam yesterday (5th Sept, 2016) and scored 700 (Q49, V36,- IR5). Overall, I will say that it is not as great a score as one would expect (at least in my eyes) but I think the conditions I went through before the test, I didn't expect even 700.

Bad happenings:

The night before the exam, murphy's law started acting on me. I went to sleep at 11 PM but woke at at around 12:30 AM, then again slept at around 1:30 AM but again woke up at 2. I was awake till 6 AM All this time, I was sooo scared and it was continuously running in my mind that I am going to get screwed. I went to my mother at around 5:30 AM and told her that I'm not able to sleep. Well, anyways, I slept at around 6 but as fate had already decided, I woke up again around 7:30 AM. Pathetic isn't it ! My exam was scheduled at 3:30 PM and the test center was around 2 hours away, so I had to leave home by 12-12:30 PM in any case.

Anyways, armed with only 2-3 hours sleep and red eyes, I told my family that I was not going to perform well. I knew the whole time that having self confidence and a calm mind mattered a lot but I was lacking them.
So, I reached test center at around 2:30 PM. The worst test center I could ever imagine in my life. The GMAT test room was an extremely small room with 4 chairs and 4 desktops juxtaposed. While I was writing my AWA, the table continuously rocked the whole time. No sound proof environment, no decent chairs. This center sucks big time. During the break, the computer automatically locks and the administrator has to put login details to unlock it. After the IR section, at 7 mins (out of 8) during the break, I asked my admin to put in details and that idiot put in wrong details and I lost ~30-45 seconds in the whole process. Anyways, starting with the quant section, I froze on the first question itself. I took around 5 mins and still guessed it. That time I realized, my strengths had also turned against me. Going through the quant section, I noticed that I was getting easy questions but then came few difficult questions and soon the quant section was over.

During next break, the washroom had no water (didn't expect at least this). I had to wash my face and so used the drinking water to refresh myself. So, the verbal section starts and voila, out of the blue, the whole room starts vibrating. Seems someone in the neighborhood decided to test his latest sound system and turned the bass on. I was extremely frustrated by this time. I knew verbal section required a lot of concentration and there I was, sitting, with a red face at pathetic center which can't provide even a decent room. Soon, more students came, disturbance increased and soon the verbal section also finished.

When I finished all the sections, I knew I was not gonna get my expected results of ~740. And then it showed 700.

With slight disappointment, I accepted my scores and left the center. Shared the whole story back at home. And now I'm sharing this with this community.

My brother gave GMAT few years back at a different center and his experience was quite good. Seems, I was out of luck.

Prep Materials:

Complete Self study. Used Kaplan Gmat premier book with OG guides (Verbal, quant and main book) and GmatClub resources. Used some other free resources too such as Ron videos, E-gmat free videos etc.

Gave mock tests of Kaplan, GmatPrep and Free tests provided by ManhattanPrep, VeritasPrep and the Economist.

Anyways, I would like to thank GmatClub for the extreme help it has provided during my prep. This forum is wonderful and is full of resources. Thanks to all the legends such as Bunuel, Chetan,
Karishma, Ian, Pqhai, and many others whose explanations have always helped. A huge thanks to all of you guys!

In the end, just one line, sometimes its the fate thats against you. I think, yesterday was not my day. Murphy must be laughing somewhere reading this.