720 (Q50, V38)

Question

I took the GMAT for the first time today.

I have joined the 700+ club.

Quantitive was all fine, I think I only dropped a couple of questions on geometry.

Verbal was harder and I knew it would be less good for me. I was flagging a bit towards the end but still got out with verbal at 85th percentile.

Enough for 720, 96th percentile overall.

FN · Answer

awsome....congrats....


can you please shed some light on the quant and verbal...I mean what was normal and what was'nt? 

can you compare your GMAT experience to any other CAT software?

vikramm · Answer

Awesome score!! Great going richardj! :band

macca · Answer

Congrats! Excellent, well done richard! Please tell us more about your experience. :beer

richardj · Answer

I've just had something to eat, as I missed a meal somewhere today.

The first few questions on the quant seemed too easy, I must have been practising on much harder questions than that. The vast majority of the quant questions were very standard and doable in the time allotted. One or two hard and time consuming polynomial and fraction expansion questions. A couple of geometry questions were tricky, although that has always been my weakest area, so they may only have been tough for me. The combinatorial nCr questions were straight forward, much easier than the ones we have here.

The verbal was much tougher, but I expected that, and it is true for all that even very good people make a few mistakes. I really struggled on one of the four-questions-in-a-row reading comprehension sections. I sometimes lose morale on them, if they don't interest me ! Sentence correction was pretty standard, but there were two or three where I had to guess between two options which had no obvious errors in. I find that hard, particularly if A is one of the plausible options, as it gets lodged in my mind.

I had 12-13 minutes spare on both sections, so the timing was good. I only took one quick toilet break, as I wanted to get on before I ran out of brain fuel. I decided not to drink during the break, or eat within 3 hours of the test, as I don't like the risk of being sick or needing the toilet too much (which has caused me problems in other tests). I think I was perhaps a bit tired and hungry towards the end of the verbal, which is the trade-off. There were a couple of verbal questions I guessed at after 2 minutes, when I had a little bit of spare time from other quick questions.

I think I got enough that I won't retake, even though the verbal looks slightly weaker. With say V40 rather than V38, I would be absolutely delighted tonight. But it's pretty close.

popew626 · Answer

Richardj that's fantastic!! Way to go on the score, man. You killed that sucka! :m16

richardj · Answer

Oh, and the only comparable tests I did beforehand were the two on the Powerprep CD Rom. I did these two weeks before the test and got 710 and 740, with quant better than verbal, so that's pretty consistent.

I did an old style paper test in an old Kaplan textbook last month and got 680, though here I got a higher verbal percentile than quant percentile. That was why I have been working so hard on the quant this month, and I think I overdid that in the end and the verbal dropped off as a result.

But hey it is only 57 scoring multiple choice questions, so over-analysing it is probably a bit silly.

qpoo · Answer

congratulations richardj !

chets · Answer

Nice!

Congratulations! I wish you well with admissions and all.

kayser1soze · Answer

hey congratz thats my dream score, good luck with the apps. you should be proud of your score. cheerz :beer

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