{"id":477,"date":"2008-05-04T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-04T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:42:20","slug":"60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlorenzlong.com\/justscoresGMAT.gif\" width=509 height=445 border=0 alt=''><\/p>\n<p>I think these scores are pretty good for an art major that hadn&#8217;t taken a standardized test in over four years.  I would have liked to see a better result on the quantitative &#8211; but they only gave me two geometry questions &#8211; and that was my best &#8220;subject.&#8221;  I probably could have scored higher on verbal as well if I&#8217;d been able to spend more time on that &#8211; but I knew math was my weakest point so I spent maybe 85% of my study time on it.  I only did one practice essay and ended up getting a perfect score on the writing assessment &#8211; so no problems with the written word.   &#8230;of course&#8230;when one has a blog that usually goes without saying&#8230;or&#8230;WITH saying&#8230; a lot of saying!  Someone who likes watermelons wants me to take the test again because I&#8217;d get a higher score if I had more time to study &#8230; but 620 is good enough to get into a good school if UCLA isn&#8217;t interested (which is likely as most of their applicants already have other graduate degrees and GMAT scores in the 700s).  A large part of me would rather just get started at a good school than wait and apply again at the best school (UCLA is ranked #1 in MBA programs at the moment).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think these scores are pretty good for an art major that hadn&#8217;t taken a standardized test in over four years. I would have liked to see a better result on the quantitative &#8211; but they only gave me two geometry questions &#8211; and that was my best &#8220;subject.&#8221; I probably could have scored higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}