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Congratulations on scoring 780 on the GMAT. I enjoyed watching your live session. Great tips and strategies :)
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can you please give us proof of your 780. That would greatly help.
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I am all for confirming and verifying scores. But I wonder how is this going to help you exactly? Help with what specifically? 😂😂😂

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idk why i keep thinking that certain people just post fake reviews and stuff for an agenda. I came across a lot of these things in my earlier life...(not saying he is fake)...it would just clear up all confusion and give me motivation
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There's no downside to having him confirm his score via GMAT Club, but I would be deeply, deeply entertained if it's all a fake.

Sure, fake debriefs have occasionally happened on this forum, and I've often suspected that certain test-prep companies have written a few fakes themselves. But in this case, it would be kind of hilarious if he'd made the whole thing up. He decided to invent this story just to push his nefarious agenda of... encouraging people to use free GMAT resources?

Especially after interviewing him on camera, I would laugh really, really hard if the whole thing was all a joke. Especially since he made zero effort to disguise his actual identity. :cool:
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Hi Colton, If you have ESR, can you please post it here? Thank you in advance.
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Hi Colton, got730butwant760

First of all let me congratulate you on a perfect verbal score. Just a quick question about LSAT practice. Did you answer the questions while keeping the pdfs on the screen or took print-outs and solved off-screen. Especially for the RCs sometimes the questions span on a different page and hence the question.
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Hi Colton, got730butwant760

First of all let me congratulate you on a perfect verbal score. Just a quick question about LSAT practice. Did you answer the questions while keeping the pdfs on the screen or took print-outs and solved off-screen. Especially for the RCs sometimes the questions span on a different page and hence the question.
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Thanks AnirudhaS. Good question - I duplicated the window and kept everything on screen. On one window I kept the passage, and on the other I would scroll through the questions. Alt+Tab allows you to switch back and forth quickly and easily. I would record answers on my paper notebook and use my phone to time.
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Hi Colton, If you have ESR, can you please post it here? Thank you in advance.
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I did not purchase ESR. Combination of being a college student and not seeing great value as most questions were answered correctly.
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Hi How to know that I have a good understanding of concept and I can go for the full practice? In SC, shall I worry about the grammar, though I have finished Manhattan SC book. Still I make error in SC for the reason not mentioned in that. And, how shall I improve my CR and RC. Is it more practice (with thorough review)? I do have list of the topics in quant in which I make most mistakes. My exam is in 28 days. Please guide. Thank you
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Hello, I know you said you spent 50min on each LSAT section, but what would you do if you took longer than 50min per section? Would you speed up and sacrifice accuracy or maintain pace and focus on accuracy?

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Hello, I know you said you spent 50min on each LSAT section, but what would you do if you took longer than 50min per section? Would you speed up and sacrifice accuracy or maintain pace and focus on accuracy?

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This was one of the only times during my practice that I would sacrifice accuracy for time. I used the full length LSAT's as a tool to test my speed and mental stamina for RC. So yes, I would speed up and potentially guess. With that being said, I usually kept pace well and didn't need to guess. That's because I used the GMATclub's LSAT source for enough RC passages that I could do them within time.

Timing and stamina was the very last phase in my practice. There's no point in practicing timing and getting questions quickly if you have weak fundamentals. Take your time initially, then full length LSAT sections at 50min shouldn't be much of an issue.

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Hi How to know that I have a good understanding of concept and I can go for the full practice? In SC, shall I worry about the grammar, though I have finished Manhattan SC book. Still I make error in SC for the reason not mentioned in that. And, how shall I improve my CR and RC. Is it more practice (with thorough review)? I do have list of the topics in quant in which I make most mistakes. My exam is in 28 days. Please guide. Thank you
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For me, it wasn't so much a black and white thing. I watched those series then did some practice questions. But after awhile I needed to go back and review then apply the topics I missed or didn't fully grasp on the initial watchthrough. It's more of an iterative process. I think i went back and rewatched those video series 2-3 times each throughout my studying. I would say, do one watch through taking notes, then just go for questions. Your error log will guide you on which topics need to be reviewed more. At that point, go back to the videos and rewatch then implement what you missed initially.
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Anyone who is interested to follow this method for preparation of verbal using only official resource. Do ping me.
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got730butwant760 while preparing for Quant, which questions did you go through here on the GMAT Club? Were they OG or some other test prep company questions?
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Overview: I went from 650 practice test to 780 official test in less than two months for free and I'll be going over exacly what strategies and resources helped me make that improvement. Feel free to PM or respond with questions if you have any. Just hoping to share my experience and help others looking to improve.

Resources: GMATclub question bank, GMATninja verbal and VeritasPrep youtube series, misc youtube vids (that's it!)

Strategy: First, I took a diagnostic exam to see where my weaknesses were - pretty standard stuff. Scored 650 (42Q 37V) and knew I needed to increase both. I'll breakdown quant and verbal strategies below because I approached them each a little differently.

Quant: I used GMATclub question bank and just started doing questions. For every question I got wrong, I would find the underlying topic it was testing, look up a youtube video and learn that skill inside-out (khanacademy is your friend). I repeated this process, working my way up in difficulty, until I rarely saw a question that was testing something I had not seen before. Repetition is key here but even more important is understanding the underlying concepts and reasons you got a question wrong. I guess you could call it calculated repetition.

Verbal: I would estimate 80% of my time spent practicing was directed towards verbal. Seeing as the GMAT composite score weighs heavily on verbal, I knew I had to be bulletproof on this section. (Side note: perfect quant + 50th percentile verbal = 640 composite, whereas perfect verbal + 50th percentile quant = 740 composite)
I approached verbal differently than quant in that I didn't go straight for practice questions. I binge watched the aforementioned youtube series. After watching these, following along on the questions, and taking note of the rules that GMAT likes to test, I was ready to begin practicing. It's crucial to practice only OG questions for verbal. Test prep companies just can't replicate the nuances that the GMAT looks for, and by studying with these other sources, you're essentially training the wrong skillset. I took some free practice verbal sections from a couple different test companies and scored anywhere from -4 to -7 because the questions test things that the GMAT just doesn't look for. Stick to OG for verbal.

Now I am going to say something seemingly contradictory. LSAT is a tremendous verbal study tool. It is the closest thing to what actual GMAT questions are testing and it is much harder. If you're aiming for perfection or close to it, it's not enough to just study right at the level you want to attain, you have to study above it. (Think athletes training with resistance bands) After doing about 300 LSAT RC questions, I was able to breeze through GMAT passages and questions. But again, it's not enough just to do 300 questions, you have to know why you got them wrong, and right for that matter, for the questions to really be beneficial. Do keep in mind that LSAT logical reasoning is more logic-based and strict regarding argument structure, whereas GMAT CR is more focused on applied reasoning and "outside the box" thinking. Do LSAT to drill logic skills, then use GMAT OG questions to integrate logic and creativity together for CR.

That's a very high level overview of the past two months for me. If you have any questions or want me to go more in depth about a specific area, just comment or shoot me a PM. I'd love to connect and help out! Also want to say thank you to GMATNinja Bunuel and all the other experts that provide fantastic explanations on this site.

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Thanks for sharing!
Can you name the free resources and practice books you used to practice the LSAT questions? I would really appreciate that.
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Thanks for sharing!
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You can find them on GMAT Club - it is the CR and RC questions.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/quiz.php?menu=1
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Overview: I went from 650 practice test to 780 official test in less than two months for free and I'll be going over exacly what strategies and resources helped me make that improvement. Feel free to PM or respond with questions if you have any. Just hoping to share my experience and help others looking to improve.
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Hi got730butwant760,

Congratulations, and all the best for the applications. :)
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Hi ,

I want to follow your practice for RC but finding it difficult to find LSAT questions.

Did you consider LSAT filter in GMAT Club question bank ?

It would be very kind if you can tell me where to get LSAT official questions.
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Hey Colton, How should i improve my grammar. The GMAT SC is different from what i have encountered earlier in school's standardized tests. Its pretty confusing to say the least...How to improve>
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Hey Colton, How should i improve my grammar. The GMAT SC is different from what i have encountered earlier in school's standardized tests. Its pretty confusing to say the least...How to improve>
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highly recommend the veritas prep sentence correction youtube series. that should get you through about 90% of what the GMAT will throw at you
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Hey Colton, How should i improve my grammar. The GMAT SC is different from what i have encountered earlier in school's standardized tests. Its pretty confusing to say the least...How to improve>
highly recommend the veritas prep sentence correction youtube series. that should get you through about 90% of what the GMAT will throw at you
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I cannot seem to find it...In the GMATclubs youtube channel, it has GMATNINJAS SC ...and some vids from veritas prep...however no 'veritasprep series'
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Hello, got730butwant760, thanks for sharing your story and congrats on your great score!! I am currently struggling with pacing specifically on verbal section. You mentioned in the video that by spending extra time on each question during prep and practicing with the more difficult LSAT questions, you were able to answer the questions efficiently during your exam. I was wondering if you could share a little bit about your test experience in terms of timing. When you took the actual GMAT, did you find yourself in a place where you just did not need to worry much about the time because you had become so adept from your previous LSAT training? Or were you still highly conscious about the clock in order to finish all the questions in time? Thank you!!
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