Hello Everyone,
I will start my debrief from the quote of Sundar Pichai "Wear your Failures as a Badge of Honour" and Shah Rukh Khan's quote "The dream I chased, took me on a journey. A journey more rewarding than the goals". "Yes", both quotes have inspired me to move forward in my life and achieve my target score. My GMAT journey has been started in Sep 2018 when one of my friends suggested going for GMAT if I wanted to do an MBA from a top-notch college.
In this journey, I met my beautiful wife in 2019 and I remember that I told her about My dream to do MBA from a top MBA college to achieve my dreams and goals. She was completely always supporting me with her job. Just after marriage in march 2019, I have given my GMAT exam in January 2020 and got a doom score of 400, which shattered me from the inside. I started that do I have that caliber to do a top-notch MBA program and able to study the program. But, My wife really motivated me and pushed me to achieve my goals. I again started my preparation after the 2-month break to make my mind more clear.
For the second attempt, I have started my preparation by taking an
E-GMAT course as suggested by one of my friends. Also, I have started to take a class in a local coaching institute. I have taken a personal verbal moderator to teach me for my GMAT verbal basics and truly it helped me. Apart, from it, I have started to study GMAT quant from my High school maths books and from the GMAT Club. I have downloaded the GMAT club quant book from this astonishing club. After, studying for almost a year I thought that I should get a good GMAT score. But, I think destiny had some other plans. I had booked for the GMAT exam again in August 2020 and got again doom score of 490. I was shocked and felt very bad.
For the third attempt, I have again started my preparation by continuing the
E-GMAT course(of course I had renewed it). This time I have taken a lot of stress on my side and it had shown on my GMAT preparation. I was aiming for at least 600 in my third attempt. But, it is well said If you don't change your attitude towards anything nothing will change, and yes it happens the same. I have given my GMAT third attempt on Feb 2021 and guess how much I got. "500". When this score flashed on screen I was having tears in my eyes and suddenly I was lost from my goal to crack the GMAT. I almost gave up to take the GMAT and started to search for jobs in the Business domain to gain some knowledge about MBA.
For my fourth attempt, I have changed my whole strategy towards exams. I have started to treat GMAT as my friend not as some competition exam to crack. I have downloaded the
Magoosh app on my mobile, taken crack verbal again verbal private tutor, and stick to the e-GMAT quant course and GMAT club quant book. Thanks to Brunel, a Big hug from my side to him. I have started to study with more concentration and started to enjoy verbal and quant. I started to go out on weekends and also started to listen to some motivating songs. It helped a lot. I started to hang out with my friends more often and make me motivated to go for GMAT one more time. In the end when I almost gave up my GMAT. I was truly motivated by my wife, my parents, and my friends that don't give up. You, Will, achieve it.
Practice -- Practice -- Practice
Belief -- Belief -- Belief
Due to Covid Pandemic, I have decided to give GMAT exam online from my home and I did it. Stress, Anxiety all were external factors that always haunt me from my childhood in exams. It always gives me low confidence to take the paper. But, this time I have decided that I will not take any chances so that I had booked GMAT online.
I have also bought veritas books to study quant and verbal.
Mock test --
Kaplan, Manhattan, GMAC mock test, Veritas. --> These mock tests I had taken.
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I have booked my exam in the night as I thought after dinner I always perform well in mocks so exactly I have taken that time. Proctor came and started to ask some basics questions before the exam. I have taken Q / V / IR / AWA section in the order. Once the exam got finished I got an unofficial score of 770, Yes a whopping 770 score. I was completely out of words by seeing my score and also I was having little tears from my eyes that Yes finally I am done with the GMAT.
However, my score in my last attempt is 770 (Q -51 / V - 44 / IR - 4 / AWA - 4). My AWA and IR score are lower than expected.
GMAT Scores --
1st Attempt -- 400 ( Q - 32 / V - 15 / IR -6 / AWA --No score)(Cancelled Score).
2nd Attempt -- 490 ( Q - 35 / V -22 / IR -2 / AWA -- No score)(Cancelled Score).
3rd Attempt -- 500 ( Q - 44 / V - 16 / IR -4 / AWA -- No Score)(Cancelled Score).