I took the GMAT this morning. I am a dork. I forgot to pay attention to the time, and didn't finish all the math questions. My little engineer brain was all, "Oooh, I know how to do this one. Let me finish it." I must have been doing well, because the questions got more difficult. Then the 5 minutes remaining thing popped up. I was just over halfway through. I left 10 unanswered. I feel like such a moron. I know I would have done better had I better managed my time. I worked lots of practice problems, but never any timed. THAT was my downfall. I would have noticed that I spent too much time.
So, I will just see what the U of Iowa people say about my score. It's right at the minimum according to what my co-workers have said. And I know at least one of them got pretty close to that minimum, and they still got in, and they are super smart people. If I can get in, I won't take it again. If the rest of my application isn't good enough to get in with a score like that, I'll take it over.
I hate the fact that you are tested not on what you know, but on how well you can take this one particular test. Ah, well. I can't do much about it now. We'll just see what the admissions lady says.
Maybe I'll go put a coat of paint on my desk and chair.
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I think you are smart. Screw the test.
thanks, Holly. Like Erin said, it doesn't test if you are smart or not, just how good you are at taking this stupid test.
Absolutely, dude.
I work with lots of idiot managers. They could probably pass a GMAT but couldn't manage their way out of a hole in the ground...
Ask me how piss poor I did on the GRE. Go ahead...if I remembered the scores, I would tell you, but they were terrible. And I still made it into grad school, which still didn't matter in the big picture.
(Oh, and it's Missy, not Anthony...whatever...it's for the grandparents...)
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