Story of the GMAT taker ; from author personal experience.

GMAT

Quick note : This article is dedicated to whoever preparing for their GMAT test, the possible future GMAT taker, or whoever read my blog regularly.

If you are not familiar with GMAT, GMAT stands for “Graduate management admission test” which every business student has to take before they apply for graduate school. Since I am planning to go back to school in this fall, I need to take this test in order to use the result to apply for school.

The typical preparation for GMAT test is about 3-6 months according to GMAT handbook, but the duration for preparing for GMAT can be varied since every individual has different knowledge ’s depth in math and english language.

Well, for me, I only spent like about 1 month to study/prepare for it. Which I thought it should be enough for me to score at least 500 for the business school that I intended to apply. On the other hand, GMAT is testing the general knowledge of high school math and english, and I thought shouldn’t be too hard for me.  Since it didn’t worry me too much, I just took it easy, and within that one month, I have done the Kaplan practice test, both math and english and they all seems pretty straight forward BUT…… everything thing seems fine until I actually took the test yesterday morning, the test was HORRIBLE … and my result didn’t meet the requirement of the school…I SCREWED !!!!

But guess what, it’s all good, I deserve it, cause that is what happen when you take thing lightly.

This is what bothered me in the test:

• My lack of preparation and prior knowledge to the question made me stuck with the questions that I didn’t know how to solve, and time was ticking when you are stuck with difficult questions.
• When you are stuck in one place, and you see the time is still ticking, that can make you rush yourself and get nervous.
• Taking the test from the book and from the computer are different, because you don’t get to review all questions at once but one question at a time.
• The marker and the erasable notepad that the test center provided SUCK!!! But you have no choice but get use to it.

Practice makes perfect and be prepared !!!!!

Even though I admitted the defeat but I promise I will make a big comeback next time…

But $250 is a little too expensive to buy this freaking experience isn’t it? =D

Lesson of the day : Never underestimate your opponent and take the challenge lightly.

Advice for future GMAT’s taker : Knowing how to do the practice test’s question is not enough, you need to really know what to do when the question is ask differently, unless you have a strong knowledge background in both math and english. TIME MANAGEMENT is CRUCIAL in the test.