Hello from Turkey! I have taken the gmat today and my unofficial score is 680 (84th) Q44 (58) V40(91). I panicked so much during quant. Do you think i should try again for a better score? If so how much time do you think i should put into it? Which material should i use? I prepped for the exam with Kaplan Premier 2015 and Kaplan 800 for about two months. My full test try out results were: Kaplan: 670 Gmat Prep: 680 Manhattan GMAT: 650 My highest ever quant score was 49 in my mocks, whereas my highest verbal score was 39. In other words, i did my personal best in verbal on the test day and scored the same with my highest ever full-test try-out. I have been struggling with quant, but wasn't expecting such a clumsy performance on the test day. Much obliged for your opinions!

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Hello again everybody!

I wanted to clarify one thing. Somebody told me that i don't need to take AWA part again the second time if i did good enough the first time. Is this true? Because i scored 5.0 and it wouln't be bad if i could skip the AWA and jump straight into IR. I will be taking my first CAT tomorrow, so i want to do that accordingly too.

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In every actual GMAT retake, you have to take the whole test i.e. all the sections need to be taken again.

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Hi ksoydanyavas,

The Business Schools that you'll be applying to will almost certainly expect you to take the FULL GMAT. Even if you've 'heard' that a section will not impact your application, you really don't want to risk being wrong about that. Imagine if you sent in an application with an incomplete GMAT score and the Admissions Committee immediately rejected it. THAT is something you do not want to risk (especially when you consider how easy the AWA section is to deal with).

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21 days left to re-take day and things are not going well.
I went through the entire empowerGmat Quant Score Booster in the past 4 weeks, as well as the verbal section of the first two stages of the programme in the past week. About 50% of the whole empower course done.

Here are my CAT & GMAT results:
MGMAT FREE CAT : 6/03/15
650 (%77) Q41 (%49) V37 (%83)

Actual GMAT 06/16/15
680 (%84) Q44(%58) V40(%91)

MGMAT CAT-2 Before preparation:07/07/15
640 (%72) Q 41(%49) V 36(%81)

--------Prep start------------------------------

MGMAT CAT-3 07/14/15
650 (%77) Q 43(%56) V 36(%81)

MGMAT CAT-4 07/21/15
660 (%80) Q 45(%63) V 35(%80)

MGMAT CAT-5 07/28/15
640 (%72) Q 43(%56) V 35(%76)

Unfortunately, i just performed worse than i started out. With slightly over 2 weeks left to prepare from this point on don't know exactly what to do.

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Hi ksoydanyavas,

The misconception on most standardized tests, thanks to the SAT, is that you can pick and choose your highest scores on each section from WHICHEVER attempt you'd like. This, unfortunately, is not the case - so as Rich mentioned, if you skip an entire section on one attempt, that isn't exactly the message you want to be sending to a top business school.

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The issue with AWA is resolved. Thanks to everybody who addressed it. I will do the AWA, it is no problem.

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Hi ksoydanyavas,

Your practice CAT scores are not as far apart as they might appear. GMAC has publicly stated that the Official Score that you earn on Test Day is within +-30 points of actual ability. Assuming a similar 'swing' in how practice CATs function, these scores all point to a general ability in the mid-600s.

This ultimately means that you continue to deal with your CATs in the same general ways that you did before. You do certain things correctly (as you did before) and you make the same general mistakes (as you did before). The 'issue' here can be any of the following:

1) You learned/practiced the proper tactics, but when the clock starts ticking, you don't use them.
2) You have developed a series of 'bad habits' that lead to silly/little mistakes and you haven't done enough to remove those bad habits from your work.
3) You haven't actually been practicing the proper tactics - instead you've just been doing practice problems in the same ways that you've always done them.

It's also worth noting that at this scoring level, the GMAT becomes really 'sensitive' to little mistakes. If you make too many of them, then a 700+ score is simply not possible. To that end, you should do a full review of your CATs and count up the number of questions that you SHOULD have gotten correct, but didn't because of a little mistake. THOSE questions represent a big 'chunk' of your missing points. To improve, you cannot simply assume that you 'won't make that mistake again' - you have to 'drill' and train to remove even the smallest possibility that those same mistakes could happen again.

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