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Okay I royally screwed myself. I took the GMAT about a month ago and scored a 630 (42Q and 34V). I studied my ass off and felt confident that I could increase my score the 2nd time around. I was doing well (mid 600s) in my practice tests and felt like I was much more prepared going into my 2nd exam. As I looked at my score for the 2nd exam (480, 27Q and 29V) I was seriously about to DIE. I am SOOO DEVASTATED and I have no idea what happened!! I contacted the administration to see if there was a mistake..but apparently I just really screwed up.
Now i have to decide whether it makes sense for me to try to take the GMAT again when the 2nd round of application deadlines are coming up so close!! I am running out of time and plus i have to wait 31 days to retake the exam again. If i score low again that means my 2 most recent scores will be bombs.
I don't know what to dooooo! Everytime I think about this I feel like crying.
Now i have to decide whether it makes sense for me to try to take the GMAT again when the 2nd round of application deadlines are coming up so close!! I am running out of time and plus i have to wait 31 days to retake the exam again. If i score low again that means my 2 most recent scores will be bombs.
I don't know what to dooooo! Everytime I think about this I feel like crying.
12 Nov 2007, 13:46
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katgirl82
take control of urself and try again and this time take it seriously.
Did you actually study to tackly the same questions like the ones you had in ur first test?
the same happened to me as well but in my practice tests. and i realised that i had been considering the quantity not the quality. it really depends on what your resources of study are.
good luck.
12 Nov 2007, 19:26
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I hate when girls pull out the cry card, it works every time. 
Anyway, on a more serious note, that kind of fluctuation in just a month probably means you don't have your fundamentals in place. And that change was much more pronounced in your Quant score.
I think you really need to sit down with a GMAT guide and go through it slowly to understand the nature of the questions being asked.
For Quant, it is probably much harder (but no more time consuming!) than Verbal, but it can be done. Don't think that just doing lots of practice questions will do the trick, you need to study the basics and do exercises to solidify your math skills. When you truly understand the basics, I am 100% sure that you will see a huge increase your math scores to the 90+ %iles. That's the thing about Quant, you don't need to know a lot, you just need to really know the basics.
For Verbal, isolate what kinds of questions your doing well/poorly on. Of the three types, SC, RC, and CR, people tend to have more trouble one some than others. Try to figure out which of them you need to improve on, and again learn the fundamentals.
The GMAT is all about learning the fundamentals really down pact. Once you do that, use sample questions to solidify your learning and identify where you can further improve yourself.
Hope this helps,
J
Anyway, on a more serious note, that kind of fluctuation in just a month probably means you don't have your fundamentals in place. And that change was much more pronounced in your Quant score.
I think you really need to sit down with a GMAT guide and go through it slowly to understand the nature of the questions being asked.
For Quant, it is probably much harder (but no more time consuming!) than Verbal, but it can be done. Don't think that just doing lots of practice questions will do the trick, you need to study the basics and do exercises to solidify your math skills. When you truly understand the basics, I am 100% sure that you will see a huge increase your math scores to the 90+ %iles. That's the thing about Quant, you don't need to know a lot, you just need to really know the basics.
For Verbal, isolate what kinds of questions your doing well/poorly on. Of the three types, SC, RC, and CR, people tend to have more trouble one some than others. Try to figure out which of them you need to improve on, and again learn the fundamentals.
The GMAT is all about learning the fundamentals really down pact. Once you do that, use sample questions to solidify your learning and identify where you can further improve yourself.
Hope this helps,
J
