Anatomy of a 780 (Q50, V47) courtesy Scoretop
I hadn’t planned to write a debriefing. But some of my friends here on ScoreTop seem to think that such a summary might be useful’so here it is. Fair warning, this is a long one.
I’ve never been much for standardized tests. I can’t say why. My marks in school (all 20 years of it) were fine, but my various board scores, while sufficient, were never particularly impressive. Frankly, standardized tests scare me. They scared me then and they scare me now. Why? I think that it has to do with what seems to be their essentially arbitrary and judgmental nature on the part of these exams. I suppose they may be necessary. Still, there?’s something elemental about the exclusionary purpose of the entrance exam that bothers me on a visceral level. The point is that, in approaching the GMAT, as in most everything else, fear is bad. Fear makes people do all kinds of stupid things. Regardless of my attitudes and opinions in this regard, I had to confront these demons, in their territory, and find a way to neutralize them. I did this through my interaction with all of you here on ScoreTop. So, whatever you?’ve got to do, be it meditation or exercise or baking cookies or knitting socks or posting verbal A&E for 20 GMAT Sets, find a way to manage your fear.
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