Life has changed a lot since my last post one and a half years ago. It’s interesting because I would have never imagined that it would change so drastically. It’s not because I wasn’t too sure of my abilities, but it is more due to the speed at which everything happened. After my last GMAT, which was disastrous in a lot of way, I would like to recount the same in a very concise way.
Quant: 47, Verbal: 28
Overall: 610
AWA: 5.5
The schools which I sent my scores were ISB, LBS, INSEAD, IESE and Harvard. Looking at these names and my score, you must be thinking that I have no knowledge about my abilities. Those allegations may be partially true but I would like to take up another attempt to prove it, even though i sincerely believe that MBA is not a requirement for success. We all running our rat races, some faster than the others. In the end we all finish the race regardless of how fast you were. It completely depends on us to relive the race and cherish its experience.
Everything was just about normal on the TEST day in Bangalore but I was never able to manage to keep my eyes and mind focussed in the Verbal section of the Test. Till now one of my major problems is the attention span. As we all know, GMAT doesn’t really tests our analytical or strong verbal skills, what it does is to check our aptitude to manage all those in the time alloted. It is a direct application of our day to day work life albeit for a much smaller duration. The Maths portion must be really free lunch for most Indians. We don’t really focus a lot on English grammar during our school days which hurts now but there is always a lot of scope for improvement if one wants to. If we treat studying for GMAT verbal as learning a new language, you would cherish it much more.
Somehow my nerves failed me that day or rather I failed myself that day which turned out to be better for me as I always thought I was not ready for school yet. After a week of the GMAT debacle and four months of joblessness (practically without a salary), I got a job where they asked me to move to Japan. I had no other option but this turned out to be extremely sweet as I fell in love with this country. Learnt very little Japanese though and still trying to master it before i head back home. I am not sure how long I would be here, but this experience would be a welcome addition to my profile. I am just 28, ain’t too old for MBA or am I?
