Done! Scored better than any practice (750 Q50 V41)
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17 Dec 2006, 05:56
Just thought I'd share my lesson for what it is worth. I will preface it by stating that I don't know what my AWA will entail yet, but unlike what most here suggest I didn't practice a single full test with the AWA and throughout my practice only took the AWA once.
The lesson is don't get down on your practice scores! Now I believe I am an outlier with the improvement I made from my Kaplan scores, but have faith everyone!
In order:
Kaplan 1 - 570
Kaplan 2 - 590
GMAT Prep1 - 700
Kaplan 3 - 600
GMAT Prep2 - 710
Actual: 750!
The interesting part is that frankly I was shocked by my score. I thought I was doing better than usual on the verbal section, but only had gotten a 41 before so I really didn't improve here it seems. I had never cracked 50 on the quant, and I thought I was doing awful on that section. Had to make faily educated guesses on at least 5 questions or so. I guess one thing is that you cannot expect which questions are the experimental ones and I would think that many of the harder ones I was utterly confused by fell into this category. Needless to say I was shaking when I saw the score because I had never tested that high before and was just hoping for a 700.
The test itself was exactly like the GMATPrep tests in almost every sense that I can think of. I still think the actual test was a bit harder in quant and not so much in verbal (but that could be a function of the fact I was doing better apparently). I didn't think the noteboards were much of a problem at all, other than the fact that my grid I made for verbal is still stained on my right hand and wrist!
So just wanted to share my story to say shoot for the moon because even if you aren't scoring that high in practice it is possible! Thanks everyone here for your great contributions!