Got my official GMAT score

[Al Neri]

Quantatative:

. Sealed Score: 38
. Percentile: 56

Verbal:

. Sealed Score: 35
. Percentile: 76

Analytical writing: 5.5 (out of 6) or 87%

Sealed score: 600 percentile: 70

Anyone know where that puts me in terms of the gmat? I am posting on gmat . com also

for me.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez


Quantatative:

. Sealed Score: 38
. Percentile: 56

Verbal:

. Sealed Score: 35
. Percentile: 76

Analytical writing: 5.5 (out of 6) or 87%

Sealed score: 600 percentile: 70

Anyone know where that puts me in terms of the gmat? I am posting on gmat . com also

for me.

Nice, I would guess that would put you in the 70th percentile

What score were you shooting for?

What schools are you applying to?

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez


Quantatative:

. Sealed Score: 38
. Percentile: 56

Verbal:

. Sealed Score: 35
. Percentile: 76

Analytical writing: 5.5 (out of 6) or 87%

Sealed score: 600 percentile: 70

Anyone know where that puts me in terms of the gmat? I am posting on gmat . com also

for me.

Nice, I would guess that would put you in the 70th percentile

What score were you shooting for?

What schools are you applying to?

lol, ask a stupid question...

 

[Gibsons]

Did you take any prep classes?

 

[krunchykrome]

Im just curious, how did you study for the GMAT? What tools did you use?

 

[Al Neri]

well, I did take Kaplan. I went to the class, I did the homeworks. The class helped me pick apart how to answer the questions not so much the "meat and potatoes" of doing the work they ask.

They could have condensed the class to two 2 hour sessions and one 1 hour session (2 per section, 1 for the essay instead of about 10 3.5 hour sessions) on the 15 or so different types of questions per section and how to write to the audience (read: graders) on the essay.

The 1400 I paid for the course could have been used better.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez


Quantatative:

. Sealed Score: 38
. Percentile: 56

Verbal:

. Sealed Score: 35
. Percentile: 76

Analytical writing: 5.5 (out of 6) or 87%

Sealed score: 600 percentile: 70

Anyone know where that puts me in terms of the gmat? I am posting on gmat . com also

for me.

The easiest way to figure out where that "puts [you]" is to check out the websites of the schools you're interested in and look at the profile for their most recently admitted class. If you're comfortably in the middle 80%, you're fine.

[Edit] Before anyone says anything...yes, I completely understand that higher is better

 

[athithi]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez


Quantatative:

. Sealed Score: 38
. Percentile: 56

Verbal:

. Sealed Score: 35
. Percentile: 76

Analytical writing: 5.5 (out of 6) or 87%

Sealed score: 600 percentile: 70

Anyone know where that puts me in terms of the gmat? I am posting on gmat . com also

for me.

Err...that's scaled score, not sealed score 600 makes Top 20 unlikely for you unless you have a very interesting profile (even so, I would doubt it as there are plenty of applicants with very interesting - real or imagined - profiles withscores more than 600 on the GMAT).

For comparision, my score was:

Q+V: 700, 92 percentile
Q: 40 scaled, 62 percentile
V: 45 scaled, 98 percentile
AWA: 6.0, 95 percentile

I was interested only in the Top 20 FTMBA programs and with my score I didn't even bother applying (obviously, I didn't think my profile would compensate for my relatively mediocre score, particularly Quant). I could take it again and I am sure I can break 740, but I am 32 already and have a pretty decent career so the trade-off might not be worth it for me.

 

[xchangx]

Is the GMAT like the SAT where you can take it multiple times and the schools take the best score?

 

[Scarpozzi]

The MBA program I applied for did an equation that averaged in my GPA from undergrad for me to be accepted. I only needed to make like a 400 or something on it to get in....so I didn't study and signed up for the test the night before I took it.

 

[LegendKiller]

You'll not get into a top20 MBA program with a 600 unless you have top tier undergrad, GPA, references, and essays. Even then it's a crapshoot whether you'll get into one. With a 600 you are looking at 2nd tier schools.

Personally, I had a 620. I scored about where you are in quant, 90% or so in verbal, and 6 out of 6 on the essays. I went to a 3rd tier school since I didn't have many 1/2nd tier options where I needed to look (south florida).

It hasn't hurt me at all, since I am working in an i-bank (not as a back-office monkey), and I have my CFA charter.