[GMAT 730] Thank you and Question on IR score

[yh_movement]

Hello Manhattan

As I believe you can feel from this post, I am not a native speaker - I am asian male with 5yr working experience at one of the investment banks.

I had GMAT on last friday and finally received 730 after twice of failure.... It took 4 months for me to get this level....:-) I would like to thank first Ron, Stacey, and other Manhattan tutors for all your great helps. I am also very glad that I confirmed my brain cells are still quite alive to handle such high level of logic after more than 10years of smoking and million cups of alcohol.....

Anyhow, here are my scores

Aug 27th AWA 5.0 / IR 6 / Q50 / V21 - 610
Oct 27th AWA 5.5 / IR 7 / Q51 / V26 - 650
Nov 29th AWA NA yet / IR 4 (AARG) / Q51 / V36 - 730

My concern now is that whether IR4 will be fine...as you can see from my two earlier attempts, I could get 6 & 7 on IR and I think I considered IR maybe too easily..

Many people who are preparing MBA application now advised me low IR is ok, for two reasons;

1) IR still does not have enough pools for precise evaluations. Therefore the schools will not take it seriously.
2) My previous IR scores were already very good thus the schools
will take this in their consideration.

I am not sure whether these advises are true or not....can you kindly share your opinion?

[StaceyKoprince]

Congratulations! (And I'm glad we were able to help.)

I just answered someone else asking this same question - I'll tell you my opinion, but I'm a GMAT expert, not an admissions expert. You need to talk to an admissions consultant. :)

I haven't heard of any schools this year saying that they are actually using the IR score, so if you are applying this year, then it probably does not matter. In future years, the schools could decide to start factoring the score into their decisions, but we don't know when this might start, nor do we know how they'll factor the scores in. They might decide that getting one high score is enough, even if that wasn't on the same test as your high Q and V scores.

So, since you're applying this year, I think you're probably fine - but go into our Ask An Admissions Consultant folder to see what they think!