YogurtCookie

Masters in a Quant field Hours of study: 80 hours. In order taken: Manhattan 1: Q 161 Manhattan 2: Q 163 Manhattan 3 : Q 163 Manhattan 4: Q 166 Manhattan 5: Q 166 Manhattan 6: Q 164 ETS Book 2: Q 170 Took 10 day break from quant and studied a lil bit of verbal.. barely.. I couldn't concentrate cuz I broke up w/ my ex around this time lolll Looking at my verbal scores, I really should have concentrated. Love doesn't aid your academics. ETS Book 2: V 153 ETS Book 1: V 158 Q 170 PowerPrep 1: V 161 Q 169 (Silly mistake thinking about my ex. couldn't concentrate at all but somehow my verbal turned out to be 161.) PowerPrep 2: V 156 Q 167 (Two mistakes. One silly, and one I admit I didn't know.) PowerPreps were taken just 2-3 days before the actual test. Actual : V 158 Q 170 (VQVQV.. Which V is dummy..?) I do not know what happened with my verbal score The score itself is pretty consistent with my practice verbal scores, but the 'feelings'! I was at the exam constantly saying: oh my god I perfectly understand each passage I will definitely get 162+!! and yeah 158. When doing practice verbal sections I was not confident and didn't understand fully, but the score didn't improve with better feels. For quant, the difficulty was around the same as ETS, easier than Manhattan. I had 10 min left for the first quant section, went over it again. The second section was more complicated. I think I did better because I was actually concentrating. Not the same with verbal. This is not because I was more concentrated. The passages and sentence completions.. they were all substantially easier. but why??? what did I do wrong ..... I am not sure whether I should retake the exam for verbal.. I am applying for top quant programs, and it seems like the average verbal percentile is above 90%. Should I spend the next 3 weeks working on verbal?