I am non-engineer Indian Female with the finance background. Have pretty strong CV and GPA=4. I have 6 years of work ex and am planning to pursue my MBA. I have done my MBA already from an eminent B-school in India but I think I did not apply myself back then and need global exposure and network, thus another MBA. I have taken GMAT twice already and scored 490 (Q35, V24) and IR=5 at attempt 1 and 630 (Q47, V30) and IR=3 in attempt 2. After putting in a lot of effort in round 2, I only managed to score 630 which was very demotivating. Quant is my strong point and I was consistently scoring 47-49 in my mock tests (the final score in attempt 2 did not surprise me). Somehow I was unable to tame GMAT Verbal and was swinging between 28 and 37 in my mocks. No consistent patterns. In Verbal, RC is my strong point but I struggle a bit with SC and am completely hopeless in CR. After 2nd attempt, I sat down with a consultant, who suggested me to consider GRE. Considering I am weak in verbal and GRE verbal is harder than that of GMAT, I am unable to make -up my mind on which test should I pursue next. Here are a few questions I am stuck at and would appreciate some expert help:
1. Do B-schools treat GMAT and GRE scores equally? I know most of the schools say they do, but I have my doubts there.
2. Since verbal is my weak point, could I trust GRE Verbal?
3. If I stick to GMAT - how to improve on CR? I have studied CR from Manhattan, clearly, it did not help me.
4. To my surprise, my performance in IR has gone down as well. Poor IR score in my second attempt is also giving me panic attacks.
All these questions are quite baffling and I am swinging between GMAT and GRE. This is not making me lose focus but time as well. Though I was aiming for round 2 applications, I think I have missed the bus for this year. Well, next year is not too far and I have put my seat belt on, all I need to know which direction I need to go.
Look forward to little help here.
Thanks in advance.