Crazy Test - Power Disruption, Fire Alarm....
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01 Sep 2006, 16:56
680 Q43, V40. I'm very disappointed but admitedly it could have been worse. I'll give a more detailed synopsis later (perhaps after I recover from my inevitible hangover tomorrow) but for now here's the brief summary:
About 25% into the test the power goes out and all the computers go down. Thinking it was a momentary loss of power, everyone sat and waited for a few moments; then the fire alarm went off! We had to evacuate the building and were standing out in the rain for about 20 minutes. Finally, the fire department cleared us to go back into the dark building. We waited, and waited and waited for the electricity to come back on but it didn't. We were given the option to reschedule but I said "the hell with that!" I want this to be over.
The power came back on about 2 hours later! So we returned to our stations and resumed where we left off, of course a little more tired than when we arrived (I say "we" because everyone became fairly friendly after the first hour). It turns out that some nut ran into a power line pole and knocked out power to our block.
In any case, when I returned to the math section I was a bit flustered. I had scored a 780 the night before on GMATPrep (with a few repeats but nonetheless I was feeling confident). But I found myself guessing on the math more than I usually would.
A lot of number theory questions. I will try to give more details later.