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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   24 Mar 2011, 07:11
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Heygirl,
One CAT on Friday is a good idea. Do not burn yourself out :P. A set of 5CR + 5SC + 1 or 2RC is more than enough. One more thing, you may want to revise the flashcards you have made if you have enough time. Do not let the practice test score get you down, you can do better than that on the real GMAT.

Do not eat rich food and do get enough sleep the night before the test. I remember reading a post on this forum, which said that on the test day, we can activate our brain by doing some easy quant problems (but do not look at the answer key!).

Well, I am waiting for your 600+ debrief ^^.

Best of luck!

Thanks! I'm waiting to post my debrief too :wink:
I am sure that sleep and tiredness play a big role in our score! Tiredness sucks out the concention levels in us. In my case, this means lower RC score :idea: .
I may take a GMAT prep test tommorow. But, am a little scared. I dont want to see a 550 :? . I"ll decide on that a little later today evening.
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   24 Mar 2011, 07:15
Today's plan - go through Powerscore CR bible and SC grail and do 5CR,5SC and 1 RC. I think I'm done with Quant.
I may take a prep test tommorow morning just to make sure I remember the GMAT screen ;-)

I also noticed that the GMAT prep tends to penalize us a lot for RC wrong answers! LAst time, I got 8 SC wrong,2CR and 2 RC. My score was 610. This time I got 4-5 sc wrong, 6 CR and 5 RC wrong. These RC mistakes have costed me heavily! Need to practice 3-4 RCs more, upto G-day!
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   25 Mar 2011, 10:55
I'm almost there. My G-Day is tommorow! :|
I reviewed the Powerscore CR bible yesterday. This really helped me retain the CR concepts . Also went through the Verbal flashcards posted by whiplash in the Verbal forum. Did not do any Quant practice/review. Also, too a GMAT prep test this morning and got a :arrow: 560 Q35, V 32 :x Lol, looks like my score is going lower and lower! I don't know what to expect tommorow but will still go in with a positive mind, This is my lowest quant score ever and the test exposed my weak areas :-( : I'm bad at those problems that combine avg,mean etc and some co-ordinate geometry and I got a lot of these on this test!

So target for today: review all my flascards and sleep early today! Tommorow will wake up and do 2-3 problem from Quant and 2-3 Cr/SC questions before I head to the centre. My test is at 12 noon.
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   25 Mar 2011, 13:07
windofchange,
i'm going to do exactly that: not think of the test, eat well and sleep well. funny thing is i scored my max quant score in the last gmat prep test and scored my max verbal score in today's quant test. LOL. i only hoope I can combine the two best scores tommorow.
however, will need to look at my errorlogs/flashcards one last time.
my memory is pretty volatile and i dont tend to remember the concepts and strategies if i don't review them every 24 hours. haha.
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   26 Mar 2011, 12:21
Just out of the Test centre. Got a 480. I don't know how this happened. My quant went terrible q33 v23
I have never scored below530 in any practice test :-(
May be i have to retake

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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   26 Mar 2011, 13:05
Sorry to hear you scored lower than you had hoped.

The good thing is that it's still early in the year, so if you decide to retake it, you have a bit of time to regroup.
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   26 Mar 2011, 19:15
Yes there is time for 2012admissions.however, on second thoughts I want to rethink my decision to retake The GMAT
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Sorry to hear you scored lower than you had hoped.

The good thing is that it's still early in the year, so if you decide to retake it, you have a bit of time to regroup.


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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   27 Mar 2011, 00:24
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Yes there is time for 2012admissions.however, on second thoughts I want to rethink my decision to retake The GMAT


You must be very tired after the exam, so have a break. Let us know if you decide to retake.
Have a nice weekend!
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   28 Mar 2011, 00:43
Yeah... I don't want to see you walk away from this challenge yaar... Please do re-take!

I know 480 doesn't reflect your potential!
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   28 Mar 2011, 07:35
Yipp :)

Spend some quality time with family and friends.. take a break! :D
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   28 Mar 2011, 07:55
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Yipp :)

Spend some quality time with family and friends.. take a break! :D

I will. I definitely need a break.
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   31 Mar 2011, 04:35
rohu,

Good Luck to you. I'm done with my GMAT jouney, atleast for this year. May be I"ll think about it next year. anyway, there are schools in which I can get into with my GPA.work ex and curriculars. So will target some application and see what works.
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Re: Share your thoughts on my GMAT journey [#permalink] New post   10 Apr 2011, 17:55
Hiiii!!!!!!!

It is exactly 2 weeks since I bombed my test and a picture of the day is clear in my mind even now :| . I'm considering retaking the test(good news or bad news?, I don't know). But ,this time I'm thinking of giving myself 6-7 months,no cramming or studying exam-style. Will work on the GMAT in free-style and slowly build things. I know I did not study for a 700 or a 700+ score but still the score that I got(480) devastated me so much. I'm not even going to book a test date. I believe we can book a GMAT date even on the morning oftest day(not sure of this though).

I took a break and now am thinking of getting back to the test. My only concern is I remember most of the OG answers especially in the Verbal portion. May be I need to get my hands on some other material now. Any suggestions here?

My plan is to get a basic grammar book and also develop my Verbal skills(economist.com may be :) ??) over the next one month. Not thought of the plan after this, but will start with Grammar/English.

Ok, GMATCLUB members and my friends , your thoughts/advice? :-D
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