Taking an exam with a pistol pointed on your head

Hi folks,

I have just finished taking online gmat. The last 4 hours have been the worst of my life due to the stress induced by the proctor.

Starting with the check in, it took me 30 minutes to explain her that my first name is composed of two words. She was an indian girl very bad at english and it was impossible to understand her as well. I know many indian people and I don't struggle to communicate with them. Maybe before hiring people EXAMINITY should ensure that prospective employees are able to speak english fluently....

Apart from that, during the exam, she threatened me several times that she would have had cancelled my exam because i was tilting my head (how could I write on the whiteboard without tilting my head!) and that would have been the final warning (she told 4-5 times). Furthermore, she blocked without any reason the exam multiple times (maybe it was a glitch of the browser) and we needed to login in on Respondus several times.

Starting from Verbal, i need to consider myself lucky, as 2 out of 4 texts were on topics I am familiar with (finance/management related). CR were all inference/find the assumption questions and just one was weakening. SC was all about parallelism/modifiers. At the end, I was almost sure that I aced it.

At the end of the first break she didn't respond: I allowed the final 3 minutes of the break time to redo the 360° check, but she responded only when the second part of the exam had already started, which made me lose at least valuable minutes. Naturally, all these things put together made me almost freak out; however, i tried to stay focused on the exam.

Coming to Quant, during which the proctor interrupted me several times, the problem is that I couldn't focus much because of the stress. Worse yet, if i couldn't find the solution in 90sec i rushed the solution. I also struggled to do super easy questions (sub 600) because of the stress.

Finally, IR seemed much harder than the mock I have taken, but i repeated the same pattern of Quant. AWA was super feasible because the argument was finance related.

In conclusion, despite two days ago I scored 670 (47Q, 35V) on the 4th official mock (without cheating) , today I scored a miserable 590 (42Q, 29V). The incredible thing is that I consider myself much more adept at the verbal section rather than at the Quant section. For instance, I am able to ace 700-level questions with 50% accuracy on Verbal, while I am not even able to understand 700-Level quant questions. Accuracy on 600-700 level questions is much higher: 80-90% for Verbal and 60-70% for Quant (depending on the topic).

Consider that I have been studying intensely for 35 days and I spent more than 250 hours studying on the forum, magoosh and TTP. In other words, I know what I am doing. I track accurately the time as I use Pomofocus and I regularly update my error log and the notes with the new things that i learn.

Now what? Does it make sense appealing to GMAC? Do you think that my weak result is attributable ONLY to the stress or maybe the groundwork isn't super solid? Maybe I am burned out after one month of intense studying? TBH I have never studied so hard during my entire life.

Of course, if in the future I will retake the gmat I will take it in the test center, but time is running and the deadline for R3 is near. (HEC Paris 1st March - LBS 7 March). For those who haven't taken the gmat yet i would say: do yourself a pleasure and go to the nearest test center, unless you are OK to take an exam with a pistol pointed on your head.