I finally broke the 700 barrier today on my second attempt
. I've never posted on this site before, but I 've been browsing it a lot over the past couple of months!!!
So I just want to thenk everyone here on this site. You guys may not know me, but I have got to know all of you and I am grateful.
It was actually my second attempt. First time round I got 650 (Q41, V39), so I'm really please.... and hey it proves to any other retakers that it can be done. One piece of advice I would like to give everyone is not to be disheartened by low practice test scores. I've done tests by Kaplan, Princeton, PP, and GMATPREP. Only PP, and the new GMATPrep give anything like an indication. IF you wanted to know though I got:
Before My First real test
Kaplan Diagnostic 630
Kaplan 1 - 560
Princeton 1 - 610
Princeton 2 - 610
Princeton 3 - 610
Princeton 4 - 630
REAL GMAT - 650
PP - 650
PP - 680
And then 2nd time round in the past couple of weeks:
GMATPREP 1 - 690 (Q44, V40)
GMATPREP 2 - 760 (Q48, V46)
I have to say that I have a real gripe with these bogus 'adaptive' tests by Princeton and Kaplan
. They are not really adaptive at all, and they just hurt my confidence going in for the real test. I highly recommend sticking to the genuine stuff PP and GMATPrep. Also as you will see from my diary, my study focused mostly around the
OG 10th edition.
Right now I totally exhausted, but I'm also excited becuase I am about to go on a well earned holiday to California in......eleven hours time! So I'll post a full account of what happened when I get back. In the meantime I've attached a diary of every one of the 130 hours I spent preparing as well as a list of all the questions I got wrong in the
OG or was unsure about, with explanations. But I'll be more than happy to answer anyone's questions when I get back...
Good Luck to anyone who is due to take the test whilst I am away....
Thanks to All
Nahaz