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On one level the GMAT is a test to see what you know, but on another level it's a test to see how well you can do given a completely arbitrary challenge. Think about the show Apprentice, it's like the Trump (wharton lol) telling you to take a quiz and you only have a certain amount of time to study.

I think many admissions depts figure if you get frustrated and give up on the GMAT and can't step up to do well, then they don't want you in their school. So don't give up.
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Also start by throwing that Kaplan CD with the tests out of the door. They do not reflect actual GMAT questions.
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To the original poster: How much have you spent studying vs. testing yourself? When I began studying, I did not test myself. I studied for almost four months and tested myself about a week before the test for the first time.

And when I say I studied, I mean I studied. I worked through a Kaplan Geometry book. A Kaplan Algebra book. A PR study guide for gmat math. A Kaplan guide for gmat math. And every single question in the official guide. That was the first 2-3 months. Any problem I missed I marked and tried again later. Like two weeks later.

Then I studied sentence correction. SC is all that I studied for verbal because I am good at logic and read really well. But SC was hard. So for a month, I did those. I did everyone in the OG.

I scored a 710 on my first GMATprep...a 720 on my second and a 730 on the real deal. But I studied my ass off. And I have not been in school in almost a decade. Even when I was I only got a 2.6 gpa.

So my original question stands. How much time have you spent studying vs. testing yourself?
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we all went thru this phase... Dont worry!
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