I am taking the GMAT once again and it no longer seems like the beast that it once was. It is now more of a pain in the bum than anything else as I’ve already been accepted into a graduate program. The impulse was there to give up on several occasions but in the end I did persevered though not with the higher scores that we all hear about from people who merely “took a weekend class and then aced it.” On this little tidbit: with the exception of a chosen few I believe that a lot of these people are full of poo and only out for a good razz –they had a hard time too.
A huge challenge of the GMAT was it’s psychological nature. I knew the material but there were always the constant fears of taking longer time than I should on one problem or not enough time on another. There were the questions with the seemingly obvious answers that may or may not have be wrong. I took the test on many occasions getting a less than desirable score that were simply the result of a bad day. There were always the constant thoughts of:
- “The GMAT is going to keep me out of graduate school, it’s going to keep me from my dream.” OR
- “Why the heck do I have to take this thing anyway?”
The simplest answer that I ever heard to the question was: “Just Because.”
It is only now, in pursuit of “free money” to reduce inevitable debt, that I have chosen to engage the beast once again. I am very much more relaxed than before and it’s great to not have a mind full of doubts. The only part that I don’t like is that I need to shovel out another $250 to GMAC. A little tip for those of you in the early stages: try to get a decent score (something 630 or above seems standard) because it can get expensive.
For those of you who are still on the other side of that great chasm called “The admissions process” hang in there. Someone wants you because it is not necessarily all about your GMAT score. There are schools, great schools in fact, that DON’T actually put too much emphasize on the GMAT score and that really DO look at the fit of the individual. So, you may very well need to take the GMAT multiple times. Hang in there folks!
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