OK, since there were a number of personal messages about my preparations I decided to put it here:
After I got a miserable 600, I realized my mistakes. I thought I would be able to trick the system. So I spent a LOT of time on first 10 question both on Quants and Verbal sections, to ensure that I got the right answer. I thought that if I nail first 10 and last 10 questions I surely get 700+. Since during the first questions CAT determines your ability and the last ten questions are usually never experimental and will give me a strong finish.
So during those 10 first questions I checked each answer three or four times, by solving the question straight, applying POE method, looking with left eye alone and right eye alone
. As a result, I totally mismanaged my time and screwed up the whole exam. It appeared that after first 10 questions I had so little time left, so that it was impossible to solve other questions correctly.
This time, I ignored all the "strategies" and simply solved all the answers as quickly as possible, so i finished Quants with 10 minutes spare and Verbal with 15 or so minutes spare.
MGMAT CATs really helped me to beat the time management problems that I had. I would also like to point out on the explanations to the answers that
MGMAT CAT provides. That what really helped me to identify my weak areas.
Besides
MGMAT has a much harder Quants section, so the real GMAT quants was just a piece of cake.
BUT, Verbal section was really pain in the ... But, even on
MGMAT I scored minimum 35 and max 40. So real GMAT verbal 30 is definitely well below my abilities. Perhaps I was too cocky after nailing my quants section.
Again I find
MGMAT SC very very useful. Also
MGMAT CAT explanations helped a lot to spot idioms, so that I never made the same mistake again. RC was always a good area for me. And I really didn't concentrate much on this. CR appeared to be problem.
MGMAT CAT has some really difficult CRs. I mean it either the weird logic of test constructors, or my impaired logical abilities
. I still don't understand some of the CRs from
MGMAT CATs.
Today I received my AWA 5.5!
Well friends suggested me to score over 720 on real GMAT to have a chance be admitted to Stanford or Wharton. So, i ll probably give it another shot.
So again, do you think I have any chance be admitted with 680?