Hi everyone, longtime lurker here. Would like to thank everyone for their help because it has certainly been invaluable. So I just took the GMATs for the first time, having studied for about two months. I was consistently scoring >770, including two 790s on fresh runs of the GMATprep test. However, today I scored a 760, Q49 and V44. I am considering retaking it. Here is why I am considering retaking it: 1. I consistently scored >48 on verbal and have always considered my verbal to be much stronger than my quant 2. My long-time significant other and I broke up two days before the exam. I know this affected my performance. 3. Because of a combination of work and nerves, I only got 4 hours of sleep the night before and 4 hours of sleep the night before that. 4. Between the quantitative and verbal sections, I waved my proctor over because I wanted to take a break - the proctor thought I wanted to continue and started the next section. I went through the verbal section both hungry and thirsty. I don't think this had as big an impact as the other factors. 5. I'm just really bothered that my verbal is so far below what I was expecting Here is why I would not retake it: 1. I was never extremely comfortable with DS and still am not. I would often get 40% of all DS questions wrong in any given test. This weakness was offset by the fact I rarely answered PS problems incorrectly. In today's test, I felt that I was getting lucky and almost certainly saw more PS than DS. I am very afraid that my Q will go down with another go. I really wanted to do well on the GMAT because I received a low GPA of 3.0 from Stanford three years ago, but am aiming for the top 5 schools. Would definitely welcome any sort of advice.

Oh please! Do retake! Make it 800!!!!

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You should decide by yourself if you should retake or not. You mentioned that you broke up with your girlfriend. How did you manage not to get seriously distracted by that unfortunate event?

I can understand your situation.. coz i've been in a similar one not too long ago. Here is my thread and there is a reply by Paul Lanzillotti: 750-q47-v47-98716.html

I was actually very distracted, which was why I feel like I didn't do as well as I thought I could have. On the other hand, I guess I am mature enough to realize that curling up on the testing room floor and bawling my eyes out probably wouldn't have been too good for my future either. So like I mentioned, I'm not going to retake it for now, but would probably consider it after I finished all my essays. We'll see!

I resent your comment. I was born and raised in Indiana, so unless you meant mainland US, I suggest you keep your mouth closed.

I'd do it if i were u. I'll go bonkers if I fall far short of what I think I'm truly capable of. If possible do it without having ur scores sent to ur target schools. If u meet ur goal, say a 790/800 then go ahead and send additional score reports to ur target schools. Ill adopt that approach If I'm in your position.

This is understandable. I feel like that sometimes. I'd get a 98% on my exam, and I could've gotten a 100% had I not made a stupid mistake and written that 8*3 = 11. But you also have to realize that your score is already in the 99th percentile. Retaking would just seem like you're score obsessed. You can, however, take the test to satisfy yourself, but ask yourself if it's worth the $250 and additional preparation time that you can devote to your essays instead. I wouldn't retake, but that's my $0.02

With that score, you might be able to get a full scholarship to Duke's MBA program.

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