Took the GMAT, question on my results

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Hi,

I just took the GMAT yesterday and I scored a 720, which I am very happy about, but here is the thing: I got 46 in verbal (99th percentile) but only 43 in quants (70th percentile).

Is it bad?

I was not surprised because even though I worked only on the quant side for the last 7 months, I just reached my max and I don't think I could do better than that, even with more studying.

But I am planning to apply to top 10 schools, anybody has an opinion on the consequences of this weird score on my applications?

maverick101 · Answer

Congrats buddy,

I don't have answers for your question but pat on the back, "GOOD JOB".

Why don't you tell us about how you prepared and how your CAT scores improved.

lanter1 · Answer

Is it bad? No there are a lot of people on here who would love that score. As far as the breakdown, you may want to try to raise the quant score especially if applying to a top-15. They like to see the 80/80 split on the scores and most of the top-15 are quant intensive.

kidderek · Answer

I wouldn't say it's bad, however schools might be concerned if a weak quant background is consistent with your stats, such as college grades.

This scores goes to show my theory that the gmat weighs heavily more the verbal portion in evaluating the total score. What would the final score be if the percentages were reversed?

alimad · Answer

You have an excellent verbal score, could you share the resources you used ?

zazainzeus · Answer

Actually I'm so sorry, but I did not study verbal-the only thing I did was to do all the exercices in the OG for sentence correction at least twice, because I'm not a native speaker and I thought it would be sad to lose points because my grammar isn't perfect.

But reading comp and crit. reas., every time I tried to apply strategies (kaplan offers strategies for each type of question), my score kept going down.

I think concentration is key here. It's the last hour of the exam and when you get to Q20 you think, only 20 questions and I get my score, and you start losing concentration. Well stay concentrated. You need to focus your entire body and mind on each individual question. There is no approximate answer on the GMAT verbal-4 answers will be wrong. If you pick an answer and have a doubt or if it seems imperfect, then you have the wrong answer. It's exactly like quant in a way, except because it's not numbers you can't verify your answers.

maverick2011 · Answer

70th percentile in quant isn't bad. Everybody says the top schools like an 80/80 split, but I don't think your Q-score will be that big of a deal. That is especially true if you have good grades in calculus, statistics, etc in college. I also think it depends on what area you want to concentrate in during your MBA. That is, if you are going for finance it will have more weight than if you are going for say marketing...

Plus, 720 is greater than or equal to the average of all schools (tied with Stanford).

Plus, 720 is greater than or equal to the average of all schools (tied with Stanford).

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