Hi all
It is now one week since I got a 600 score in my first attempt in the official GMAT, I feel that I can share my story and ask for advice before retaking the test again. I must admit that I feel very disappointed with my score. I was aiming to a 700+ when I started my study. My goal is to get in IESE or INSEAD, and since my age will be above the average I think a strong GMAT will somehow counterbalance this and some other weaknesses in my application.
Lets start from the beginning of my journey, I started around february getting familiar with the GMAT through the Manhattan SC and CR books. Soon, I realized that self-study was not really my thing.
As most of you I do have a pretty tight schedule, no surprises. So in May I signed up for the Economist course as a new way to prepare the GMAT. Economist together with gmatclub (free) is what I have mainly used for preparation.
About the Economist course, I am not either very satisfied in general. Having completed all the theory, I believe the course it is ok, but I wouldn't say very good. It provided me with a strong training for the quant area. Not being that good in the verbal part, which is my weakest area. The main disadvantage I found during the Economist course is that due to the 'let the algorithm decide what is best for you', I did not practice SC for a very very long time and therefore, I arrived to the test with a lack of confidence in that part of the verbal. Something that a month and half before the test, I think I was pretty decent at.
I am gonna take the GMAT again mid April '17. This will give me 3 entire months to study. Since the next 3/4 weeks I will be travelling home for Christmas and dealing with some deadlines at work. To keep myself active I have started to read the economist magazine (a bit ironic) to improve my RC.
And besides that, from mid January to mid April
I am thinking to follow a new course to rise my score. However, I might need someone else opinion on that because I nailed down to the following options, but now it is complicated to decide:
option 1: clubmba +
e-gmat verbal
option 2: clubmba +
magoosh option 3: clubmba + empowerGmat
Below I include my results from the previous tests.
I can see I did not face it the right way and I was missing also an errorLog etc etc
16th Oct - Sim test #1 Economist -> 640 Q49 V30 IR2
22nd Oct - Sim test #2 Economist -> 670 Q41 V42 IR5
5th Nov - Sim test #3 Economist -> 650 Q48 V32 IR2
21st Nov - Sim test #4 Economist -> 620 Q41 V35 IR3
26ht Nov - GMATPrep -> 640 Q50 V47 IR4
16th Oct - Sim test #5 Economist -> 620 Q50 V27 IR2
5th Dec - GMATPrep -> 600 Q48 V25 IR7
7th Dec - Official test -> 600 Q49 V23 IR5 AWA5
As the last question, does anyone know
where can I find more CAT test to take since mba[.]com it was a bit unclear to me.
I will also take a chance to thank for all the good work and help given in this forum!!
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14 Dec 2016, 12:29
