700 (Q-50, V-35)

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that long is my sigh of relief on completing this STUPID exam.......


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that is my reaction for screwing up on verbal.........

anyway I cannot ask for more.....I was not concentrating properly on the verbal part......and maths has always been my forte......so overall I am not complaining.....more so because I don't want to take a second try......I am through with this........

now for the experience.......

AWA was not much of a problem......

Maths was average difficulty.........if a person is getting 90% of his questions right on the OG during practice, then I am sure that he can score 50.....it was not much of a problem.....no standard deviation
two probability, one combined with geometry and the other one the straightforward committee problem
there was lots of algebra and integer type problems.....
the key thing is to RECHECK the problems and then go the next question.....although I had to guess the last three to four questions, still my score did not go down drastically.......

the verbal part

second question was RC, but I was not affected by it......as I was prepared for it......I think I got 3 RC (35- 55 lines).......
SC was similar to OG....CR was also similar to OG.......the only problem was that I was not able to concentrate..........otherwise it would not have been much of a problem...........and I would recommed future test takers to increase reading speed.....it would help a lot.....I was re-reading a lot of questions and so lost a lot of time......and in the end I had to guess quite a few questions.....as they say active reading is important.....I had one boldface CR......i think it was the second last question......

overall I think I could have scored more on the verbal if it was a practice test...but it boils down to nerves and stamina.....

my suggestions.....

1) increase reading speed for verbal, especially non-native speakers
2) for quants....practice as much as you can.....
3) take a lot of practice tests........I had taken 9 practice tests, with the following scores

PP - 770, 770 (although not representative...knew some of the questions)
Kaplan - 570, 640
Crack the Gmat (PR) - 690,670,650,650
Inside the GMAT - 780


Best of luck to all future test takers

would like to thank bb, stolyar, evensflow and all the other people who have contributed to this forum...thanks a lot........