Kulmiye - your post gave me a slap in the face - much needed i might add. I need to be confident. I've realized that I do know what I know. I know all of the information that will be thrown at me on Saturday regardless of my scores. Saturday will just come down to me putting it all together. The ONLY way I'll be able to put the pieces together is by staying calm... I can do this right? I mean it's just a test with a buncha questions that are worded awkwardly to throw me off? I just need to see through the matrix.
I did not take the Kaplan exam on Sunday because the moderator guy said that it was not a CAT exam. I didn't feel that I needed to take 3 hours away from studying, to do a non-cat exam. So I just did a MGMAT CAT exam instead. This was the beginning of my short lived depression. I scored the lowest on this CAT than I had EVER. The only good thing that came from taking this CAT exam was that I got 12 out of 14 SC corrections right. I was very thrilled about that. I proved to myself that I could do SC at the caliber that would be needed to score well on the Verbal section. Now for the downside.... I think I had been drilling SC so much that I completely underestimated CR, which had been my best section out of all GMAT problems. Actually that's not true... I have about a 95% hit rate in Geometry, but CR was always one of my highest scoring sections. Here's a picture of my studying on my deck when I went home this weekend:
I think on that last CAT exam I got 4 CR's correct. I decided not to read to much into that and just call it an anomaly. I've realized that I do the best on sections that I'm looking forward too and that I'm calm for. During one of my MGMAT Cat exams... out of the first 18 questions.. I had 1 sentence correction. I don't think that will happen on the real exam... at least I hope not... or... maybe I hope so... because I like SC now. OMG I didn't think the day would ever come where I would say that. I guess I can say that about the test as a whole... I like trying to figure out the pieces to the puzzle. Now I see why some people score 750 and try to take the exam again to get 800's. I don't agree with it... but I can see why they would have that drive.
TEST CENTER DRY RUN
So I've heard horror stories about people going to the wrong testing center... not being able to find parking.... etc etc blah blah... so I decided to do a dry run to the test center. I don't have to worry about parking or anything since I live in NYC. I'm not even going to take the subway for fear of it breaking down with me on it. I live in Hells Kitchen (Midtown west(ish)) and my test center is right by Bryant Park. So on Monday - on my day off.. I was "sick" ::cough cough:: I decided to time myself and take a walk.
Now I'm sure you guys heard about the bomb scare in Times Square on Saturday. As a result of the bomb scare I decided to try to avoid Times Square. Getting blown up on my test date would not be an ideal situation. So I took a different route and encountered another issue... the issue being.. Mario Lopez filming something... so I had to dig through a crowd of people. Of course I had to take a picture just to show you guys that I'm not lying.
So I took a couple of pictures and kept it moving... I got to the Pearson building on 5th avenue and thought... ok that's enough... then I wanted to see what would be required for me to get up to the floor.. all I needed to do was show my ID at the security desk and he said 31st floor. So I go to the elevator... go up to the floor... saw the office where I would go... and clocked my time at 35 minutes. I was walking really slow. I could easily do that walk in 20 minutes, but I'm not going to be rushing on Saturday.
So that's that... last but not least... and this is my favorite part haha... So last week I got an email from the Kaplan center up the street from me... Apparently Dartmouth is having an admissions event at the Kaplan Center on Saturday from 11 - 1. I think it's basically an information session. I WILL be in attendance. Yes I know you're asking yourselves "Isn't your exam Saturday?" Yes it is... So I will wake up around 9:30am... eat breakfast which will probably be Dunkin Donuts - I'm addicted... Then I'll go to this info session until 1... come home... probably go over things like what to do for AWA and stuff like that... then 3:15pm I'll start walking over to the testing center.
After the exam I will come home... update my blog - MAYBE! and then I have to hop on a train to go back to Jersey to go out with some friends... either way a drink will be in order. If you don't see a blog post from me on Saturday you know it didn't go well. If I do post.. it will just be my score!
OH! I almost forgot... I'm kinda upset that Avatar isn't rentable on itunes! I was looking forward to watching that Friday night. Do you guys have any other ideas? Nothing serious...
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