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I've never posted here before, I just found the forum the day before I took the gmat, but I am hoping you guys might have some advice for me.
I took the GMAT on monday, and overall I feel OK with my 710. However, I am a little concerned on the score breakdown. I scored a 40Q/49V. A combination of test day nerves, some bad luck, and an early question that I screwed up and spent too much time on sunk my math score. Now I didn't expect to get a 49 or 50 on the math section, but I had been scoring around 45-48 on the practice tests, including high 40s on both GMAT prep practice tests.
It seems that the schools are much more concerned with the quantitative part of the GMAT. I am concerned that the schools that are my top choices (Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern) will look upon someone with the inverse of the score that I have (IE a 49Q/40V) more favorably, and dismiss my application, even if we both had the same overall score.
Do I need to retake the GMAT to try to get a better score split? Will schools dismiss me because I have a lower math score?
Thanks
I took the GMAT on monday, and overall I feel OK with my 710. However, I am a little concerned on the score breakdown. I scored a 40Q/49V. A combination of test day nerves, some bad luck, and an early question that I screwed up and spent too much time on sunk my math score. Now I didn't expect to get a 49 or 50 on the math section, but I had been scoring around 45-48 on the practice tests, including high 40s on both GMAT prep practice tests.
It seems that the schools are much more concerned with the quantitative part of the GMAT. I am concerned that the schools that are my top choices (Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern) will look upon someone with the inverse of the score that I have (IE a 49Q/40V) more favorably, and dismiss my application, even if we both had the same overall score.
Do I need to retake the GMAT to try to get a better score split? Will schools dismiss me because I have a lower math score?
Thanks
21 May 2007, 01:49
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bherronp, first of all, congratulations with the great result!
Coming to your question, in general schools try to understand your score by
a) looking at you background - if you did engineering (or similar), they would expect better result in quant
b) assessing you goals - if you want to go to a highly analytical industry or function, then again they would expect higher quant score.
c) application pool - if you are from, say, India, you are essencially competing with lots of candidates with similar background and one of the easy ways to distinguish candidates is picking high GMATters.
d) other factors - E.g. they look at other parts of your application.
In the GMATClub, there are candidates who had similar experience - you may wish to ask them you questions (E.g. look for a post by pelihu)
Coming to your question, in general schools try to understand your score by
a) looking at you background - if you did engineering (or similar), they would expect better result in quant
b) assessing you goals - if you want to go to a highly analytical industry or function, then again they would expect higher quant score.
c) application pool - if you are from, say, India, you are essencially competing with lots of candidates with similar background and one of the easy ways to distinguish candidates is picking high GMATters.
d) other factors - E.g. they look at other parts of your application.
In the GMATClub, there are candidates who had similar experience - you may wish to ask them you questions (E.g. look for a post by pelihu)
21 May 2007, 07:56
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How in the world did you make 49 in verbal ? you're extraordinary !!!
Please help and tell us how you got this verbal score
Please help and tell us how you got this verbal score
