Scored 620. No hope for doing better. is there any chance for me?

Question

I have taken the GMAT again today. Scored just 600, lower than the previous 620. I am now planning to go with 620 score as I am completely demotivated and don't have a confidence that I can do better now. I just want to know, do I have a chance at some good Universities?

I have shortlisted few:
Ivey
Schulich
Sauder
McGill
Queen's
HEC Montreal
London Business School

My Profile: I am an Indian student with a non technical background. I am holding a 3 yr Undergraduate degree - B.Sc. (Honors) Mathematics. Scored a low 52% only as belonging from a financially deprived background, I have been earning since I have joined the college to support my studies. I have also started and successfully running a trading business, registered under Medium and small scale industries, along with my job.

Work Experience:
While pursuing UG Degree, Worked part time at an event management firm for 3 years. (2009-2012). Worked full time with same firm from 2013 to 2014
Worked in Travel Domain for 2 yrs after completing graduation. (2014 - 2016)
Currently Working as Business Analyst for a fortune 500 company in Insurance domain.

Extra Curricular Activities:
Part time Professional fitness Trainer 
Providing free tution to kids, who are financially deprived, belonging to labor class families, at my place.

Experts pls advise if there is any chance for me now.

In desperate need of help.

GMATbuster92 · Answer

you should contact a consultant , he might be able to guide you but if possible try to improve your score.

3newton · Answer

Can you share your verbal and quant scores? This can help me in advising you how can you sell your low score to adcom.

souvonik2k · Answer

Hi
I would suggest to take the Gmat for one more time. This is because the schools you have listed are highly competitive and you have abetter chance of qualifying if you can score a 700+. You can find lots of resources and practice for both Quant and Verbal from Gmatclub. Read success stories of others on this forum in which they have scored a 700+ from a similar situation. Do not be disheartened. It happens to most of the test takers.
All the best.

sudarshan22 · Answer

sahiln123

Regarding your chances of admit, only an admission consultant can give you an expert advice, find yours on GC or otherwise, and ask for help.

But, if in case you have slightest of thought regarding a retake then first off order your ESR, and PM some expert here on forum.
Sure they can give you some insights about the room for your score improvement(if there is any), that too in short span of time.

Whatever option you go with I wish you all the very best for the same

paddy41 · Answer

Dear sahiln123,

GMAT is really not a matter of hope. GMAT is a matter of how determined you are to go to one of those schools. If you really want it, you will definitely find away to improve your score by 50 or even 100 points.

Believe me, I know exactly what I am talking about. You just need to want it badly enough to keep studying. If you read some debriefs in this awesome community you will soon realize that for not such a small number of people the GMAT journey takes up to 12 or even 18+ months. What keeps most of them motivated is their dream about bschool admission.

So please don't leave it at 620 and start over.

Since your quant score is not that bad i would suggest to enrol in the e-gmat online verbal course. This should bring your verbal score to +- 35 within a couple of weeks.

All the best!

MarcORION · Answer

sahiln123 , regarding your current profile, I spent 6 years at Veritas Prep working alongside some of the industry's best admissions experts (I personally reviewed thousands of profiles myself), and my gut reaction based on the limited information you provided is that you should probably retake the GMAT. I know that's not what you want to hear right now, but your GMAT score is the single most important indicator of your ability to handle the rigorous workload in b-school. Additionally, if your score falls below the school's average, they may have selfish reasons for wanting to ding you because those averages directly affect their rankings. That said, like everyone else on this thread, I still recommend speaking with an admissions consultant to get a second opinion.

I also agree with  paddy41  - don't sell yourself short on the GMAT just because you are frustrated and demotivated at the moment. It may sound counterintuitive, but the  skill level  difference between those who score 600 and those who score 700 isn’t a massive one. You are smart enough to boost your score another 80-100 points. You just need the right coaching to help you do it.

Don't give up. Take a few days to decompress, but then get back on that rocket ship and shoot for the stars!

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi sahiln123,

I’m glad you reached out, and I’m happy to help. For starters, as you’ve been told, you may find it helpful to reach out to a consultant here on GMAT Club to see how competitive your GMAT score is for your desired schools.

That being said, I believe that you can score higher on the GMAT. Although you are frustrated, don’t give up! When you dive back into your GMAT prep, you are going to need to put in some work to increase your verbal score from a V28. Specifically, you have to go through GMAT verbal carefully to find your exact weaknesses, fill gaps in your knowledge, and strengthen your skills. The overall process once you pinpoint your weaker areas will be to learn all about how to answer question types with which you currently aren't very comfortable and do dozens of practice questions category by category, basically driving your score up point by point. When you do dozens of questions of the same type one after the other, you learn just what it takes to get questions of that type correct consistently. If you aren't getting close to 90 percent of questions of a certain type correct, go back and seek to better understand how that type of question works, and then do more questions of that type until you get to at least around 90 percent accuracy in your training. If you get 100 percent of some sets correct, even better.

For example, let’s say you are reviewing Critical Reasoning. Be sure that you practice a large number of Critical Reasoning questions: strengthen and weaken the argument, resolve the paradox, find the conclusion, must be true, etc. As you go through the questions, do a thorough analysis of each question that you don't get correct. If you missed a weaken question, ask yourself why you didn't get it right. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not recognize what the question was asking? Did you skip over a key detail in an answer choice? Getting GMAT verbal questions right is a matter of what you know, what you see, and what you do. So, any time that you don't get one right, you can seek to identify what, if anything, you would have needed to know in order to get the right answer, what you had to see that you didn't see, and what you could have done differently to arrive at the correct answer.

Each time you strengthen your understanding of a topic and your skill in answering questions of a particular type, you increase your odds of hitting your score goal. You know that there are types of questions that you are happy to see and types that you would rather not see, and types of questions that you take a long time to answer correctly. Learn to more effectively answer the types of questions that you would rather not see, and make them into your favorite types. Learn to correctly answer in two minutes or less questions that you currently take five minutes to answer. By finding, say, a dozen weaker verbal areas and turning them into strong areas, you will make great progress toward hitting your verbal score goal. If a dozen areas turn out not to be enough, strengthen some more areas.
 
So, work on accuracy and generally finding correct answers, work on specific weaker areas one by one to make them strong areas, and when you take a practice GMAT or the real thing, take all the time per question available to do your absolute best to get right answers consistently. The GMAT is essentially a game of seeing how many right answers you can get in the time allotted. Approach the test with that conception in mind, and focus intently on the question in front of you with one goal in mind: getting a CORRECT answer.
 
In order to follow the path described above, you may need some new verbal materials, so take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for  verbal courses .
 
You also may find it helpful to read my article for more information regarding
 how to score a 700+ on the GMAT .

Feel free to reach out with questions.

Good luck!

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