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MartyMcfly
Joined: 26 Aug 2012
Last visit: 06 Jan 2013
Posts: 9
GMAT Date: 12-17-2012
GPA: 3.85
WE:General Management (Transportation)
17 Dec 2012, 12:59
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MGMAT 8/26/12 Q25 V35 510
MGMAT 10/20/12 Q43 V34 640
MGMAT 11/13/12 Q41 V37 650 IR3-4
MGMAT 11/27/12 Q45 V37 680 IR4-5
GMATPREP 12/3/12 Q48 V44 740 IR4
GMATPREP 12/11/12 Q48 V41 720 IR 6
REAL------->> Today, 12/17/12 Q42 V38 650. AWA prob good, IR prob piss poor
Extremely upset, as I was expecting just north of 700... 680 at the least... Seriously, the proctor had to come over to see if I was okay.
Anyone advice? Even bother applying to R2? try to retake & R3? Graduating College Sr in May.... So I really needed a 2+2 program or similar before I expire.
Good Gpa, 1 yr full time.
MGMAT 10/20/12 Q43 V34 640
MGMAT 11/13/12 Q41 V37 650 IR3-4
MGMAT 11/27/12 Q45 V37 680 IR4-5
GMATPREP 12/3/12 Q48 V44 740 IR4
GMATPREP 12/11/12 Q48 V41 720 IR 6
REAL------->> Today, 12/17/12 Q42 V38 650. AWA prob good, IR prob piss poor
Extremely upset, as I was expecting just north of 700... 680 at the least... Seriously, the proctor had to come over to see if I was okay.
Anyone advice? Even bother applying to R2? try to retake & R3? Graduating College Sr in May.... So I really needed a 2+2 program or similar before I expire.
Good Gpa, 1 yr full time.
MartyMcfly
Joined: 26 Aug 2012
Last visit: 06 Jan 2013
Posts: 9
GMAT Date: 12-17-2012
GPA: 3.85
WE:General Management (Transportation)
17 Dec 2012, 13:00
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Oh, and since I thought I was going to do good on this one, I don't know if I could do better on a retake.
17 Dec 2012, 21:33
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Sorry to hear the bad news, McFly. For starters, you can definitely do better with a retake--it's just a question of how much effort you're willing to throw into it. You can always improve. Don't let one crappy day at the test center get you down.
And for what it's worth, a 650 isn't bad. Your verbal was solid, if not quite as high as your GMATPrep scores, and the quant wasn't a complete disaster, either. Think of it this way: if you made a very small handful of unnecessary errors at some bad moments early in each section, you can easily lose a few points. If you'd scored three points higher on each section, you'd feel very differently. My hunch is that you can gain those three points--or perhaps more--by continuing to hone your skills and by becoming more consistent. Again, one crappy day doesn't prove that you're incapable of doing better.
The dropoff from your GMATPrep tests is unpleasant, but not all that unusual. Is it possible that you had seen some of the GMATPrep questions before, either because you'd taken the tests before, or because you've seen some of those questions in another resource? Generally speaking, I trust GMATPrep results far more than MGMAT results, but there's a pretty decent discrepancy between the scores, and it's interesting that your actual test results looked like your MGMAT tests. Maybe the GMATPrep scores were biased?
The other possibility is that you just suffered from a little bit of the jitters on test day, even if you weren't completely conscious of it. If you make a few errors that you don't normally make, it can really hurt your score. This sort of thing is even more common if it's your first time taking the real test.
I can't blame you for feeling disappointed, but you're still not that far from a 700... and there's plenty of reason to think that you'll be able to improve for your next battle with the beast.
Good luck with everything!
And for what it's worth, a 650 isn't bad. Your verbal was solid, if not quite as high as your GMATPrep scores, and the quant wasn't a complete disaster, either. Think of it this way: if you made a very small handful of unnecessary errors at some bad moments early in each section, you can easily lose a few points. If you'd scored three points higher on each section, you'd feel very differently. My hunch is that you can gain those three points--or perhaps more--by continuing to hone your skills and by becoming more consistent. Again, one crappy day doesn't prove that you're incapable of doing better.
The dropoff from your GMATPrep tests is unpleasant, but not all that unusual. Is it possible that you had seen some of the GMATPrep questions before, either because you'd taken the tests before, or because you've seen some of those questions in another resource? Generally speaking, I trust GMATPrep results far more than MGMAT results, but there's a pretty decent discrepancy between the scores, and it's interesting that your actual test results looked like your MGMAT tests. Maybe the GMATPrep scores were biased?
The other possibility is that you just suffered from a little bit of the jitters on test day, even if you weren't completely conscious of it. If you make a few errors that you don't normally make, it can really hurt your score. This sort of thing is even more common if it's your first time taking the real test.
I can't blame you for feeling disappointed, but you're still not that far from a 700... and there's plenty of reason to think that you'll be able to improve for your next battle with the beast.
Good luck with everything!
