Hi guys. I need your advice and inspiration.
My scores breakup :-
Real GMAT Scores
300 (Q13 V16)
470 (Q37 V20)
I have surely screwed this thing twice and i am very depressed and low..
I took my first GMAT earlier this year and got a shocking 300. I must admit i was not at all prepared to take the test in Jan. So this time around i decided to take it after giving it everything ive got.My target score was 640+
So i started on 1st July. Scheduled the test for Sep 28. Although I had done
OG 10 before my first attempt but i don't think it helped me much..
This time i bought the following books..
OG 11
Princeton Review 2007
Kaplan Premier Program 2007
NOVA GMAT Prep ( A book less known on this forum )
I came across GMAT club just around the same time and started visiting it regularly. I used to spend a good 1- 1.5 hrs here everyday reading posts here. Very inspirational. It helped me a lot. Whenever i felt depressed after screwing a practice session i used to come here and read some posts and get back. Sometimes it would happen that i screw 2-3 RC's in a row and completely blast my confidence. Then i would come here. Seek some advice and inspiration. Get back and do 2-3 RCs and get 7 out of 8 correct or maybe 8 on 8!!!! Yes.. it happened to me. Many times.
Overall i did
OG 10 and
OG 11 twice. All questions from Kaplan and Princeton. But i did not do Kaplan tests on CD or any practice questions..I had read that Kaplan tests were a waste and decided not to touch them as they could further demorolize me..
My practice test scores were as follows..
GMAT Prep 440 (second week August)
GMAT Prep 520 (first week september)
GMAT Prep 560 (same week)
GMAT Prep 620 (last week)
I took only GMAT Prep tests cos i think it is the closest thing when it comes to estimating your true prepration.
I studied very hard this time i think but surely not hard enough.
My test day was good. I was feeling confident. I had a good 7 hour sleep.
AWA was fine. Then came quant. First question Sequence and series! Boom. No idea. It was one of my weakest areas. Took a educated guess and moved on. Second question fractions. Got it right through computation.. then it continued like this through out the test. I was really scared that i was messing it up. I clicked away some questions towards the end cos i was short of time but i did last 5-6 questions slowly and carefully.
Took the break. Thought about what has happened. Then thought no use cursing myself. forgot about it and told myself i ll kick butt on verbal.
First 3-4 questoins Sentence correction(My weakest area in verbal). but they were easy and got them.. i think i did. Then came Critical Reasoning (My stongest area). Fisrt question Boldface, quite difficult, not sure what happened. First RC was quite manageble. When i was on question 15 i realised i was running short of time. only 40 min left.. started hurrying through the questions. I constantly began losing the game from there on i think. Towards the end my mind started to divert. Concentrating became difficult as thought of Quant came to my mind. When i reached question 37 i had 8 min to go.. then slowed my self and tried to get the last few questions right...
Then the back ground questions.. utter crap.. Then the million dollar question.. Do you wanna view your scores? clicked yes.. took bout 10 seconds. Flashed 470!! I was shocked. 3 months of hard work down the drain...
Now i am not sure what to do.. Its my dream to get an MBA from a good B-school. My GPA just under 3.0 . I need your help guys. what should i do?