Hi all,
I have been a regular in the forum and GC is the only forum I visit w.r.t.
I wrote my GMAT today and got a 770 :D
I got 51 in Quant which is only 98 percentile!!!!!!!!! :O -- I thought it was 99 percentile
and I got a 46 in Verbal which is 99
and the total 770 is also 99
I started preparing a couple of months back when I did all the questions of
OG and did the 2 GMATPrep tests
I got a 720 and possibly a 760 (because I got Q50 V46 then and that kind of sums to 760, though I get the feeling that I saw 780)
I bought
MGMAT Sentence Correction and skimmed through the chapters and wrote my 1st
MGMAT and got a score of 710.
Then I took a really long break of about 3 weeks because of work and restarted my prep with
MGMAT tests and I scored a 640 and a 680 and then a 710.
I took some time to go through my wrong answers and understand where I made mistakes.
In the 2 600s I got the penalty for not completing the quant and verbal parts respectively.
After that I wrote the 6th
MGMAT and got a 750 and then yesterday I took a GMATPrep and scored a 760
I have been pretty good at arithmetic and though I am a native of India, I am more comfortable talking in English than Malayalam (my mother tongue) so I guess I had that advantage.
For me it was more of keeping the composure during exam time than learning more formula or grammar rules. So I really doubt whether my prep strategy will help anyone. Besides there is plenty of material in this forum. I went through all the basic math formulae and the basic grammar rules and before each section in the GMAT mentally prepared myself accordingly. I must have written ~500 in each of the AWA essays and followed the structure mentioned in the Chineseburned AWA guide.
For future GMATers my advice is,
1. Go through the entire set of
OG books
2.
Manhattan GMAT Sentence correction is really good - teaches you where to look for mistakes in the sentence
3. Before writing the AWA go in with the attitude that you have to write 4 paragraphs with a total of 500 words (thats like 20-24 lines)
4. Before the quant session, go in with the attitude that you have to be as quick as possible, do not waste time re-checking, do not waste time trying to find the complete solution in data-sufficiency
5. In the verbal session, the best method is to find all the 4 wrong answers than to figure out which is correct.