So I gave GMAT this day the August 27, 2009 and guess what it flopped - got a mere 600. I mean after putting in 2 months in preperation just 600. Shit that sucks. I was almost crying when the pretty lady handed me the printout of my scores.
Let me ponder over what went wrong.
The GMAT perp 1 and 2 that I gave game me 680 and 700 respectively and I was pretty sure of hitting atleast 680 on the actual GMAT but mere 600. How could it be.
It just wasnt my day.
I fell sick the day before the exam and was down with stomach ache. Couldnt sleep whole night and got up without sleeping at all. I should have know then itself that the day was doomed.
The actual GMAT.
I started of with AWA and both the essays were the ones I had seen earlier so I sailed through them. This made me hope for the best. Took my 5 minute break and was back in time for Quant.
Arrggg Quant - I have always been bad at it, but while taking GMAT preps and other stimulated exams, I was getting a decent score in quant and verbal was what was proving to be a problem. In fact in all the stimulated tests, including GMAT prep, I was able to finish quant with 5-7 minutes to spare. This did it.
I had read and heard that the first 10 questions are what make or break your score. So I decided to be very sure of my answers in the first 10 questions. I double checked my answers and plugged in the other options just to be sure. First 10 questions went well. The next 10 were OK.
When I reached question 20, I looked at the clock and it said 14 minutes left. Oh man what have I done. 17 questions and 14 minutes barely enough time to read the question leave alone solve it. I d most of the questions and in the end quant ended with 3 questions unanswered. That was the death nail in my GMAT coffin.
Was too dissapointed now, didn't take the 5 minute break, although I had planned for it, as I wanted to get over with this exam as soon as possible. Again I was too down when it came to verbal, I didnt read most of the RC's fully and guessed the questions, same was with SC's, hardly applied any logic and clicked the first one that seemed right.
When the score came - I was both dissapointed and surprised. Dissapointed for obvious reasons but surprised because my Quant score was 44 (69%ile) much higher than what I had expected with 3 questions unanswered. But my Verbal score was a dismal 27 (44%ile), maybe if had concentrated more on the verbal during the exam, the total score wouldnt have been that bad.
Anyways, that was it. I came back home and took dates for my second GMAT - October 13th it is going to be. I am going to miss Round 1 deadlines for most of my desired colleges but that was to be.
I have now realized a few things that were wrong with my preperation, the most important being that during my two months of preperation there was no concistency. Secondly, I was hardly learning, though I was solving problems.
Now I have decided to follow a more rigourous approach, I ll be more consistent with my study and this blog will be witness to it.
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