Hello Readers, this is post number one of my experience in preparing for the GMAT exam. Just to give you some background, I took the GMAT exam for the first time 12 years ago during my last year of university but I opted to cancel my score which was a big, big mistake. A lot of time has passed since my first attempt but I recall that the questions that I was seeing at the end of the exam were easy, leading me to think that I had done very poorly. It was a bad decision to cancel the score and there are a lot of articles out there including this one from Manhattan Prep that argue why you should not. My second attempt was three years ago and this time I did not cancel my score just to receive my extremely underwhelming result of 470…….
So what went wrong? If you check out other posts on this blog page you, can see how I have been taking other arguably challenging exams so why did I perform so poorly on the GMAT exam? There are a lot of posts out there from test takers who got their desired scores and got accepted at their target business schools. This is not one of those posts but I am hoping that this gives you some insight as to the bad habits that you should avoid when preparing for this exam.