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this page every couple of days to make sure I knew what the school wanted.

I then contacted several people and kindly asked them to write a letter of recommendation and mail it to the campus. The school only required two letters but I figured the last thing you want is to find out just before the deadline that one of the people you asked had forgotten the letter. I then opened my resume on my computer and updated it as necessary and sent that in with my resident affidavit.

All that was left was my letter of intent and the feared and loathed GMAT, which I remember I needed to study for. So around the end of December I broke out my GMAT book and blew off the dust and made an effort to study. I studied and I studied. I watched videos and I took practice test, in my opinion I would immediately take the practice test and use that to hone your skills.

The GMAT is a very funky test and quite hard. So by the time the week of my test rolled around I was scoring above 500 and feeling good about the test.Friday morning, January 9th, 2009. I woke up extra early and drove to the testing center more that 3 hours early to give myself time to do a little cramming before hand. I found a nice Starbucks in a Target at Westerly, Rhode Island and grabbed my book and had some coffee. I then reported to the testing center 15 minutes early and signed some forms and locked some snacks up in a locker. Then they seated me for the test.

The first part of the test is the Analytical Writing portion, essentially two essays you need to complete during a one-hour time frame. One essay is Analysis of an Argument and the other is Analysis of an Issue. Now during my studying the practice test always had the Issue essay first so I just assumed this was how it was. I got my question and the timer started. I breezed through the essay and felt fully confident that I was going to kick some butt on this test. I hit the next button to go to the next essay and the screen said congratulations you have completed the Analysis of an Argument essay. I reread the statement and immediately began to feel hot and flushed. I just wrote the perfect Issue essay for the Argument part. Son of a Bee. I trudged into the next essay and wrote a similarly structured essay.

I then took the optional ten-minute break to recollect myself.Then I went and sat down for the math portion of the test. I had been brushing up and felt fairly confident. Then the first question popped up. I had absolutely no idea how to solve

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