Dear GMAT club members,
I intend enrolling for a full time MBA at ESMT in Berlin Germany in 2016. I am writing my GMAT exam on 14 November. I am from South Africa. I am extremely nervous for the GMAT but I have worked very hard (i worked through all OG problems and did many CATS). Based on my average results I think I should be able to score a 600 on test day. I am a very average individual and need to work hard to get a desired result. I am a qualified accountant from South Africa and have a BCom Hons degree as background. If anyone has experience with ESMT admission policies, do you think I will have a tough time getting in with 550? I read on their website they have an average GMAT score of 640.
I have over 10 years experience as a financial accountant/auditor at one of the big 4 auditing firms and gained significant practical experience since completion of my studies. However, I find the GMAT extremely challenging. I passed all of my degrees cum laude at university, but I think its because the GMAT probably test a different skill. I am the type of individual who by repetition and memory can master concepts well, which worked for me at university. But somehow this is not helping me on the GMAT as I wish to score at least 650 but just cannot get above the 600 mark - its just that each question on the GMAT is completely different to the previous one, and I find it is either your luck or not if your brain can make an association with a previous question that you have attempted that requires the same problem solving skill. I am stronger in quant than verbal.
So in summary:
1. I am keen to hear from anyone who has applied to ESMT in the past - how did you find the admission procedure? Will the admission committee demand a GMAT score of 640 or do they look at lower scores?
2. Will it help me if I work through all of the OG questions (especially quant) and make sure that for each one I get wrong I understand why? I did this throughout my preparation (I have been studing for 4 months now) and can almost answer each question in the guide under 2 minutes.
3. Are the questions on the actual GMAT exam representative of the questions in the official guide - especially for quant?
Any thoughts on this I would really appreciate it.
Thanks