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22 Mar 2018, 00:48
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Dear Experts,
I am facing an uncommon situation here and need your suggestions on how to go about it. First, a quick highlight of my profile. I am an Indian (26yrs) with following professional and academic credentials:
GMAT: Q49 (77%), V35(76%), IR5(55%)
WE: ~6 years (entirely in Risk & Management Consulting primarily for global Telecom and E-commerce clients)
Employers: KPMG India (current, 4 yrs), KPMG China and Protiviti India (2 yrs)
International experience: South Africa (currently based out of Joburg since a year), China, HK, Nigeria, Gabon, India and Bangladesh
Undergrad: B.Tech (80.69% - top 5%)
Others: Rating - 1 (Exceptional) all through my career
I have already applied to INSEAD in its R1 for Jan'19 intake. Given my multifaceted experience, my essays have come out well. However, the IR score of 5 is making me uncomfortable about my chances of making to an interview stage.
Can somebody suggest me whether a GMAT retake (solely to up the IR score or perhaps, overall GMAT) is recommended at this juncture?
Even if I decide re-take GMAT, it will still happen in next 10-15 days.
A quick suggestion from experts will be highly appreciated!!
Best,
Jasdeep
I am facing an uncommon situation here and need your suggestions on how to go about it. First, a quick highlight of my profile. I am an Indian (26yrs) with following professional and academic credentials:
GMAT: Q49 (77%), V35(76%), IR5(55%)
WE: ~6 years (entirely in Risk & Management Consulting primarily for global Telecom and E-commerce clients)
Employers: KPMG India (current, 4 yrs), KPMG China and Protiviti India (2 yrs)
International experience: South Africa (currently based out of Joburg since a year), China, HK, Nigeria, Gabon, India and Bangladesh
Undergrad: B.Tech (80.69% - top 5%)
Others: Rating - 1 (Exceptional) all through my career
I have already applied to INSEAD in its R1 for Jan'19 intake. Given my multifaceted experience, my essays have come out well. However, the IR score of 5 is making me uncomfortable about my chances of making to an interview stage.
Can somebody suggest me whether a GMAT retake (solely to up the IR score or perhaps, overall GMAT) is recommended at this juncture?
Even if I decide re-take GMAT, it will still happen in next 10-15 days.
A quick suggestion from experts will be highly appreciated!!
Best,
Jasdeep
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22 Mar 2018, 01:33
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Hi Jasdeep
This is a tricky one. If you had more time then I would have recommended you giving the GMAT again especially since nowadays you can always cancel the score after checking how much you got (this wasn't the case before). But given that the interview results are poised to come out in the week of Apr 20th and 15 days from now means you are already in the 2nd week of April when you will give your GMAT, its anyone's guess if your GMAT update will reach them in time. You can still give it a shot though given that there's nothing to lose (well, except for the money) and email your AO once you're done with the exam.
I just graduated from INSEAD (in Dec 2017) and I certainly do know other Indians from my batch who had a similar GMAT score as yours. So the situation is not entirely impossible even with the current score. But if I were you I would jsut give it another shot anyways just because there's nothing to lose and especially if you've been scoring higher on your practice tests.
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22 Mar 2018, 12:29
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EasyMBAAdmit
Thanks a lot Abhinav for the quick response. I am absolutely with you on this that there's nothing to lose, should I decide to give a re-take. Also, wish you all the best for your new endeavor and will definitely get in touch in case i need any further assistance.
Best,
Jasdeep
