The Road To "Prediction"

It was a cold and lonely year end for me. I had decided on forgoing the year end trip to NY with friends and here I was thinking about how much I am missing out on, rather than studying. My GMAT exam was less than a month away and I was hoping that not going to NYC will make me feel less guilty. Well in a way that helped. Watching a bunch load of DVDs prevented any feeling of guilt that might have been pondering to show its ugly face.
For the last month or so I have been preparing with some degree of regularity, for my GMAT exam. 10 questions each of Sentence Correction, RC, CR, Problem Solving and DS on weekdays and a full fledged model exam over the weekends. Thinking about all those hours spent at the Enoch Pratt Library in downtown Baltimore, now appears to me to as time that was well spent.
I had set a reasonable goal for GMAT. Any score greater than or equal to 700 would appeal positively to my lazy conscience. Scores of 650 or less in my earlier tests did indeed cause a few flutters but then I kept telling myself that the actual exam is always easier than the practice tests. Although a voice inside me was trying to make a feeble attempt to ask "Who the hell are you trying to kid?", I guess I was successful in strangulating it. Yet again my conscience was spared the pain of undergoing a change of habit.
And so the story went on till the penultimate weekend before my exam. I answered a test from GMAT Prep. The score.....760!!!!! I was overjoyed. I was actually considering buying my buddies beer that night and announcing to the world that the 'Master of GMAT' has arrived. Good sense prevailed....thankfully. Next weekend's test scores 710 and 710.
I answered my GMAT on Jan 23rd 2007. My score...surprise surprise...710!!!

Step 1 accomplished.