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05 Oct 2015, 20:10
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I got 660 today in my GMAT and I was aiming for at least 690-700.
The first issue I knew that threw me off was how random the questions on the actual GMAT can be. I sat five practice tests and covered all of the questions in the official reviews at least once and I thought I had a pretty good gauge on which topics may appear more frequently within the actual test. I was wrong.
I don't really like overlapping sets but I could definitely work through one if it came up and wasn't the 700+ questions (on which I normally can guess quite effectively) and because of this I deluded myself into believing that I would be alright as I normally only got one and around 60% of the time I managed to work through to an answer. However, as you can probably already tell, I didn't just get one question, I got four.
Four! I was horrified. First was a simple PS then a slightly harder DS (at this point I knew I was going to struggle to reach my target score) followed by two more three variable PS and DS overlapping set questions.
I believe that my exam was actually pretty good and I knew my SC would always bring my verbal down to 36-39 and unfortunately I also had an exam with more SC questions than average.
So overall I am actually really disappointed. 690 was my goal, 660 is what I got when the test was the hardest (for me) that it could be, and 700+ would have probably been my score if those four overlapping set questions had been anything else and I had received 1 less SC question.
My advice is that you have to look for your weaknesses and address every single possibility that may come up! I felt like I had truly covered all bases to achieve my goal score but all it took was for the actual test to highlight a weaker area of mine that had seemingly slipped under the radar.
And trust me that there is no worse feeling then seeing your score and instantly thinking "if I had learnt that one single question type properly I would be overjoyed."
The first issue I knew that threw me off was how random the questions on the actual GMAT can be. I sat five practice tests and covered all of the questions in the official reviews at least once and I thought I had a pretty good gauge on which topics may appear more frequently within the actual test. I was wrong.
I don't really like overlapping sets but I could definitely work through one if it came up and wasn't the 700+ questions (on which I normally can guess quite effectively) and because of this I deluded myself into believing that I would be alright as I normally only got one and around 60% of the time I managed to work through to an answer. However, as you can probably already tell, I didn't just get one question, I got four.
Four! I was horrified. First was a simple PS then a slightly harder DS (at this point I knew I was going to struggle to reach my target score) followed by two more three variable PS and DS overlapping set questions.
I believe that my exam was actually pretty good and I knew my SC would always bring my verbal down to 36-39 and unfortunately I also had an exam with more SC questions than average.
So overall I am actually really disappointed. 690 was my goal, 660 is what I got when the test was the hardest (for me) that it could be, and 700+ would have probably been my score if those four overlapping set questions had been anything else and I had received 1 less SC question.
My advice is that you have to look for your weaknesses and address every single possibility that may come up! I felt like I had truly covered all bases to achieve my goal score but all it took was for the actual test to highlight a weaker area of mine that had seemingly slipped under the radar.
And trust me that there is no worse feeling then seeing your score and instantly thinking "if I had learnt that one single question type properly I would be overjoyed."
05 Oct 2015, 21:07
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DavidSt
That's a good score, and you're also very close to your target score (in case you're thinking about taking the exam again). Just a quick point to add here: try to avoid thinking about anything else (including whether you're doing well or not) during the exam. Your exam needs all the attention you can give it, and thinking about particularly stressful things such as the score you're going to get at the end doesn't help. Not sure what happens when you've already convinced yourself that it's going to be a struggle, but I don't think anything good is likely to result from that either.
06 Oct 2015, 21:32
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Hi DavidSt,
First off, a 660 is a solid score (it's right around the 80th percentile overall), so it might be enough to help you get into your first choice Business School. GMAC has publicly stated that a Test Taker's Official Score is within +-30 points of actual ability, so you're remarkably close to a 690 right now. That having been said, I'm hoping that you can answer a few questions before you decide whether to retest or not:
1) What were the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores on your Official GMAT?
2) You posted a week ago that you were thinking about taking a practice CAT EVERY DAY leading up to your Official GMAT. Did you end up doing that?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
First off, a 660 is a solid score (it's right around the 80th percentile overall), so it might be enough to help you get into your first choice Business School. GMAC has publicly stated that a Test Taker's Official Score is within +-30 points of actual ability, so you're remarkably close to a 690 right now. That having been said, I'm hoping that you can answer a few questions before you decide whether to retest or not:
1) What were the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores on your Official GMAT?
2) You posted a week ago that you were thinking about taking a practice CAT EVERY DAY leading up to your Official GMAT. Did you end up doing that?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
