790 GMAT (q50, v51)

[hemi61]

Great Job. Keep it up. Your writeup is very informative. Hope you'll be able to hang around this great site for some more time and inspire others!

[mahachi]

Well Done!

[TwinnSplitter]

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been as active lately, finals are coming up and so I've had to start buckling down for school. Just wanted to let you all know that I just got my official score report back, and the scores/breakups are exactly as they were on the unofficial report, which was a big relief after this post (Official GMAT score report) scared the hell out of me. Also, I got my AWA score, and it was a 6.0 , which made me really happy considering I didn't spend any time editing the essay and thus thought that I wouldn't get a good score as a result of the grammatical errors which were undoubtedly present in the essay. One reason that I believe I did well is because

Originally Posted by TwinnSplitter

My school has some of the most stringent general education requirements in the country, with 8 of the required courses being based solely on writing essays.

but also, I think that my strategy of thinking up some big words and flexible real world examples helped me greatly. I didn't do any practice for the AWA portion of the test, but this was because I have written several essays over the past couple years. And, this probably wasn't a good idea for me since I did poorly on timing (as I said earlier, I was still editing with a few seconds remaining, without being able to do a thorough edit). So if you're a bit rusty (or even if you're not), it's probably a good idea to write just one practice essay for the analysis of an issue and one practice one for analysis of an argument (any more than that and you're wasting valuable prep time which could be spent elsewhere, in my humble opinion). Other than that, to see my strategy/experience on AWA, check out some of my posts earlier in this thread.

If you have any more questions, I'm right here

[Gmatnov]

wow great score !!

[Gmatnov]

great posts,
congrates buddy !!

[sauce]

Friend,

Congratulations !!! Thanks for putting it all together

[TwinnSplitter]

A couple more points I remembered about AWA:
1) It's been said many times, but it's worth repeating: transition words that provide structure to your argument are very important. Words/phrases such as for example, in addition, furthermore, thus, however, therefore, consequently, and so on are all very helpful in showing that you know how to set up a logical argument.
2) Another thing that's been said several times: length is important. My essay was extremely long, and I think that as long as you have enough material to keep it interesting, your essay will be more impressive if it's long.
3) Don't let how you think you did on the essay affect your mentality for the actual test. When I first finished AWA I thought I did very poorly compared to how I normally write, but I reminded myself that AWA didn't matter and regained my composure, which I believe was crucial to scoring so well.

See you all in the chat tonight!

[vinhtt]

Originally Posted by TwinnSplitter

Needless to say, I am absolutely thrilled right now. I want to say thank you to Erin, SecurityGeek, Lego, Grey, Stormgal, Cute, Prep2Max, Armjen, and everyone on this forum!!
Also, I want to say thank you to former members such as Shaq, Spiderman, Ursula, and TheBullFighter, who were very active when I first came across this amazing site and who got me started along the right path. I have A LOT to say, so stay tuned.

it's very amazing when i see your score/
it's incredible!
congrutalation!

[rajdeeps2002]

Twin,
Great Achievement.congratulations .would Be Great If U Good Share thy Tips For The Preparation Of The Verbal Section

[amit2012]

Cograts Twin,, This is indeed great