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it. I stared and stared remembering that the Princeton Review book said the first 4-5 questions are the most important in both the verbal and math portions. The book said to take more time to ensure that these questions are correct. Here I was staring at the first question with no idea what-so-ever how to solve it. The rest of the math section is a blur, I felt good and bad but I have a burning memory of that first question and the feeling of impending doom when I had to guess the answer.Next was the verbal section. There isn't much to report on that other than you need to brush up on your basic grammar before you attempt the GMAT. So I reached the final question and hit the next button and the test brings you to a page where you decide whether or not you want to view your scores. If you hit NO then the scores get dumped and you never know what happened and you are out $250. If you hit yes you get your unofficial score report and a printout to fax to the school. Well, school starts in eleven days so I felt I had no choice even though I was pretty sure I bombed the test.

Now the University of Connecticut doesn't have a minimum required GMAT score to get into the program (thank god) but they do have an average of participating students. UConn's average was something like 550-580 or somewhere around there. I then hit the accept button to print out my unofficial score sheet. That one action brought down the average score of participating student. I did in fact make get accepted and I wrote a wonderful letter of intent. My whole package was completed and submitted by the 12th of January. I got my acceptance letter the following day via mail.In my own opinion I think schools will favor work experience, a well-written letter of intent, and so flattering letters of recommendation over a GMAT score. In case you were wondering I scored a 470 and I really am proud of it. This test is amazingly complex and I had about 2 weeks of study time. My advice is to sign up for the test and make a commitment then work towards your goal, which is the date of the test. Basically in the words of a super catchy Nike phrase: Just Do It.

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