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06 Jun 2007, 21:24
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I was silent witness of GMAT success of most of you for the several months already and now it's my turn to share GMAT experience with GMATClub community.
I passed GMAT on 29th of May. Scored miserably low - 510 (Q38/V23) AWA 4.0
It was my first attempt after 1 week of preparation. I did not touch AWA preparation materials at all.
Preparation materials used for GMAT (or better to say - looked through):
OG11 (did not touch verbal part of the book at all), Kaplan 800 (I read first 20 pages of this fundamental book, it was boring), some of advices and questions posted on this site.
My profile: 30 years old, male, from Uzbekistan, English is not my native language, married and have two children, bachelor of engineering.
About test day and the test itself:
Only one company in Uzbekistan is providing GMATest, and this company is located in the capital of Uzbekistan – Tashkent city. I am from Samarkand city - the city is situated 320 km from Tashkent, the day before the test I came to Tashkent by taxi, needless to say I was very tired.
Had to find hotel for myself.
I believe most of you will agree that changing bed is not good idea as you can have problems with sleep. This happened with me, I was lying on the huge bed in complete silence, trying to fall asleep but instead one of my colleagues called on my cell phone at 12:30 AM!!! Can you imagine this? I spent next hour cursing my colleague (no, all of them) and again trying to fall asleep. Result – I woke up at 6:20 completely dumb (because I slept for 5 hours), already knowing that this time I will score very low and most probably will have to retake GMAT.
My test was scheduled at 9:00.
Following advices “come early to the test center”: at 8:20 in the morning I was at test centers doors – surprise surprise – they open at 9:00!!! Next 40 minutes I spend waiting and scrutinizing test centers doors… Finally 9 o’clock, doors are open and I am in.
Next surprise – there was something wrong with Internet (it wasn’t working) and I had to wait for their system administrator, he came in one hour!!!
Although test administrator was very kind, she even tried to calm me down saying: - don’t worry, our sysadmin will be in 10 minutes but you still have sometime to prepare yourself and clear you mind – I wasn’t such optimistic and was already feeling like flunkey…
Finally everything was in order; they took my picture + fingerprints and let me in. It was 10:10 AM!!!
Interface of the actual GMAT is the very similar to GMAT prep. When I started they gave me erasable cards, pencils were complete rubbish.
AWA:
Like I wrote above – I did not spend any minute on preparing for AWA. Consequently I did not have any idea as to how and what should be written there. Thanks to the fact that I am a strong extravert and writing bull **** is not something new to me... First article was about AVIA airways company, with average of 9 to 1000 passengers complaining about company AVIA baggage handling procedures. Second was about whether Job security and salary pay grade should be dependent on work performance or on years of service.
In common AWA was not difficult. I got 4.0
Quantitative:
As you can see from the breakdown of scores, my 38 for quant is neither bad nor good one. All I did in my preparations - I just reminded to myself important formulas and did quantitative part of OG11, in common I was doing 86% of questions right. I did not keep error log. Please always remember about time management. On the real test I had to simply press middle button (selecting C) on the screen for the last 10 questions because I had only 2 minutes left. However questions were way harder that those given in OG11. So, 38 on uqantitative.
Verbal:
This is interesting. How could I get 23 on verbal is complete mystery for me. I guessed on first 21 questions and in great hurry answered to other 20 questions!!! (Even now I could not say which of them I was doing right and which wrong) I got 3 huge texts on reading comprehension, something like 10 sentence correction and the rest was critical reasoning.
I completely forgot about everything that I read on this forum - signal conclusion words etc. etc. etc., as I said I was sitting and waiting for the end of the show!!! I was not expecting great score because I knew that I came unprepared and with pumpkin on my shoulders.
I think the main ideas of GMAT CAT is to find your weak area and keep giving you questions from your “best” areas. I can not tell anything about difficulty of questions when compared to OG11 as I did not touch this part of OG11.
Uh, it was complete disaster...
I have one problem that always played bad joke with me – I can not concentrate. Even now I am writing this post and thinking about something else. I can not dedicate myself to study; you know it is much easier to sit with friends in the bar drinking cold beer and not to touch those damn books... Bad motivation I guess.
I am yet to pass TOEFL before starting other parts of application, and guys I need your advice: should I give another shoot for GMAT or should I forget about MBA dream?
Your wise points of opinion are highly welcome.
I passed GMAT on 29th of May. Scored miserably low - 510 (Q38/V23) AWA 4.0
It was my first attempt after 1 week of preparation. I did not touch AWA preparation materials at all.
Preparation materials used for GMAT (or better to say - looked through):
OG11 (did not touch verbal part of the book at all), Kaplan 800 (I read first 20 pages of this fundamental book, it was boring), some of advices and questions posted on this site.
My profile: 30 years old, male, from Uzbekistan, English is not my native language, married and have two children, bachelor of engineering.
About test day and the test itself:
Only one company in Uzbekistan is providing GMATest, and this company is located in the capital of Uzbekistan – Tashkent city. I am from Samarkand city - the city is situated 320 km from Tashkent, the day before the test I came to Tashkent by taxi, needless to say I was very tired.
Had to find hotel for myself.
I believe most of you will agree that changing bed is not good idea as you can have problems with sleep. This happened with me, I was lying on the huge bed in complete silence, trying to fall asleep but instead one of my colleagues called on my cell phone at 12:30 AM!!! Can you imagine this? I spent next hour cursing my colleague (no, all of them) and again trying to fall asleep. Result – I woke up at 6:20 completely dumb (because I slept for 5 hours), already knowing that this time I will score very low and most probably will have to retake GMAT.
My test was scheduled at 9:00.
Following advices “come early to the test center”: at 8:20 in the morning I was at test centers doors – surprise surprise – they open at 9:00!!! Next 40 minutes I spend waiting and scrutinizing test centers doors… Finally 9 o’clock, doors are open and I am in.
Next surprise – there was something wrong with Internet (it wasn’t working) and I had to wait for their system administrator, he came in one hour!!!
Although test administrator was very kind, she even tried to calm me down saying: - don’t worry, our sysadmin will be in 10 minutes but you still have sometime to prepare yourself and clear you mind – I wasn’t such optimistic and was already feeling like flunkey…
Finally everything was in order; they took my picture + fingerprints and let me in. It was 10:10 AM!!!
Interface of the actual GMAT is the very similar to GMAT prep. When I started they gave me erasable cards, pencils were complete rubbish.
AWA:
Like I wrote above – I did not spend any minute on preparing for AWA. Consequently I did not have any idea as to how and what should be written there. Thanks to the fact that I am a strong extravert and writing bull **** is not something new to me... First article was about AVIA airways company, with average of 9 to 1000 passengers complaining about company AVIA baggage handling procedures. Second was about whether Job security and salary pay grade should be dependent on work performance or on years of service.
In common AWA was not difficult. I got 4.0
Quantitative:
As you can see from the breakdown of scores, my 38 for quant is neither bad nor good one. All I did in my preparations - I just reminded to myself important formulas and did quantitative part of OG11, in common I was doing 86% of questions right. I did not keep error log. Please always remember about time management. On the real test I had to simply press middle button (selecting C) on the screen for the last 10 questions because I had only 2 minutes left. However questions were way harder that those given in OG11. So, 38 on uqantitative.
Verbal:
This is interesting. How could I get 23 on verbal is complete mystery for me. I guessed on first 21 questions and in great hurry answered to other 20 questions!!! (Even now I could not say which of them I was doing right and which wrong) I got 3 huge texts on reading comprehension, something like 10 sentence correction and the rest was critical reasoning.
I completely forgot about everything that I read on this forum - signal conclusion words etc. etc. etc., as I said I was sitting and waiting for the end of the show!!! I was not expecting great score because I knew that I came unprepared and with pumpkin on my shoulders.
I think the main ideas of GMAT CAT is to find your weak area and keep giving you questions from your “best” areas. I can not tell anything about difficulty of questions when compared to OG11 as I did not touch this part of OG11.
Uh, it was complete disaster...
I have one problem that always played bad joke with me – I can not concentrate. Even now I am writing this post and thinking about something else. I can not dedicate myself to study; you know it is much easier to sit with friends in the bar drinking cold beer and not to touch those damn books... Bad motivation I guess.
I am yet to pass TOEFL before starting other parts of application, and guys I need your advice: should I give another shoot for GMAT or should I forget about MBA dream?
Your wise points of opinion are highly welcome.
07 Jun 2007, 20:51
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Dude, you just gotta practice, practice, practice. I have the same concentration difficulties and I've done better on some stuff than I expected by far. This only comes with hard work though.
Power through it. You gotta find time to sit by yourself in silence and do the work. How important is it to you?
08 Jun 2007, 01:30
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Hi ethan_casta. Yes it is in fact very important to me, but still difficult to dedicate time and sit in silence for a couple of hours each day. Maybe this is something to do with motivation?
