I'm so sick of the GMAT...

The problem here is that the people who do the best are the most likely to brag. The numbers show us that NOT many people get above 600. So when we search the net to read about GMAT stories and they always seem to be about people getting 600+ it's because they're the only ones bragging. People don't get online to write huge blogs about studying your way to a 500 score.
When I realized that fact, I stopped reading other peoples stories and focused on my own studies; only searching this forum for problem explanations when the book fell short. I've been much happier since.

That said, nobody just breezes into a 700+. My practice test score went from a 430 to a 610. I've been studying for 6-hours a day (no exaggeration) for about 2-months. Breeze, hell no. But it's possible. Hopefully I'll get just as good of a score on the real test next Friday!

Good luck to you!!!

The problem here is that the people who do the best are the most likely to brag. The numbers show us that NOT many people get above 600. So when we search the net to read about GMAT stories and they always seem to be about people getting 600+ it's because they're the only ones bragging. People don't get online to write huge blogs about studying your way to a 500 score.
When I realized that fact, I stopped reading other peoples stories and focused on my own studies; only searching this forum for problem explanations when the book fell short. I've been much happier since.

I'm sorry but I F'ing hate the GMAT. I studied damn near all last year and got 530. 90th percentile on verbal, but 14th percentile on math.

I just don't get it. I study, I review, I'm consistent, yet, I suck. I've done a class, I have a solid tutor, I read the forums and strategy guides....no dice. CFA, no problem. Working as a corp. fin. analyst, no problem. Programming, no problem. Soft/social skills, no problem. All the above negated by a goddamn standardized exam.

Today, however, I've just stopped caring. F it. I'm taking the GMAT exam (which has been the bane of my existence for more than a year) of at the end of September no matter where I'm scoring at that point.

I feel like such a hater too because I'm so jealous of all the people who seemingly just Waltz into 650+ scores and complain about only getting a 710.

I'm developing a serious inferiority complex from this entire experience. It's embarrassing when everyone knows you're working your ass off, but you just can't get the job done. My confidence in myself is shot.....it's ruining my relationships with people because I'm constantly pissed off at myself.

I don't want any pep talks....so please don't bother responding. I'm simply too embarrassed to get this off my chest to anybody I know personally, thus, I'm using the anonymity of this forum as a place to vent.

I'm starting from a very low point - I haven't taken a full CAT because I desperately need to work on my math. I have a math background, did okay in it in high school (although I joke that grade 9 was the peak of my math career when I was the highest scorer at my school on a national math contest) but the math classes in university were quite easy - calculus and finite for business plus two semesters of stats where I found that doing my homework drunk somehow made it work out.

I bombed (and I mean bombed) the GMATClub diagnostic. I'm talking 3.5 percentile kind of bombed... so basically I have a lot of work to do in order to get stuff going.