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720 at last....... 17 Dec 2005, 13:15
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Hi All,

I am done with my GMAT ordeal...Atlast ended up with 720
My preparations were no different from that in the posts here on the club. But still, If anybody is interested, I will definitely post the details.

Before I go into the present test, let me tell you:- this is my second attempt. My first attempt was two months ago and ended upwith a 640.. It was a real shock to me. My practice tests all rated between 680- 740 including Kaplan practice tests.. I was completely lost..I didn't know what to study...My verbal score was in the 30's. But the quant was in the 90th percentile... My work schedule was getting ehctic too... IN the last two months all that I did was to go thru the 1000SC that was floating around the club. I went trhu the posts on this club too. Atlast, today I ended up with 720 with 89 pecentile in verbal and 90 in quant...

My practice tests are an all time irony...These are scores before my first attempt

Kap Cat1 680
Kap CAT2 720
Kap CAT3 710
Kap CAT4 710

Poweprep 1 740
Powerprep2 710

GMAT prep 710
prep 2 690

As you can see, these were not anywhere close to my first score..I didinot attempt any tests in the last two monhts except the gmat preps. I attempted those tests once agian and got nearly the same score....

So the moral of the story is :- Practice test are not way identical to the actual test...Just have confidence in yourself and attempt the test...

If anybody has any specific questions regarding preparation or test experience, Please post them..I will definitely naswer, in detail.

Before I wind this up, a million thanks to Laxie, duttsit ,nakib and all those out there...Although i didin't post much ,I owe my verbal concepts to this club...I used to go thru almost all the posts ion tha past two months...Most often ,the answers would all be there nad I never used to post the same thing again... But I cleared a lot my concepts from those explanations... I would like to specifically mention this:- Laxie....You are awesome....your explanations rock.....Your explantions for a question in number properties helped me alot with a question in the test....Thanks a million for taking the effort to post thsoe on thsi site.....

Oops...i guess there are a lot of typos...sorry for that...

Please post any queries..and I will try my best to explain those....
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720 at last....... 17 Dec 2005, 15:46
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Congrats.
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720 at last....... 17 Dec 2005, 20:37
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Congratulations! That's very good score :good
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720 at last....... 17 Dec 2005, 21:15
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Congrats! :banana

Persistence definitely pays off...good luck with apps! :beer
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720 at last....... 17 Dec 2005, 22:04
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Amy, I'm so happy for you!!!! :) :) ...your efforts paid off ..your story and those of many others here inspire me a lot!! We can always "push the limit" :) .... All the best lucks to your application and many things in life. Please be back here in this dear forum whenever you have time so that we always have inspiration,okie?!! :)
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720 at last....... 17 Dec 2005, 22:59
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Congrats Amy.

:woohoo

your score will inspire all of us here.

good luck on your future.
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720 at last....... 18 Dec 2005, 00:05
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BTW, were quant and verbal similar to that of GMATPrep?
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720 at last....... 18 Dec 2005, 00:26
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Congratulations, Amy_v.

How do you compare the difficulty level of the two GMAT tests you've taken? Someone said that the difficulty level varies much from test to test. I'm wondering if that's true. Thanks!
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720 at last....... 18 Dec 2005, 00:28
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The other question is: during your second time preparation, have you done any math preparation at all? Thank you.
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720 at last....... 18 Dec 2005, 08:07
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Thanks everybody...I will hang around for a while...

Okay here are the score details:-

First GMAt

Verbal 30 59%
Quant 47 47%

Second GMAT
Verbal 39 89%
Quant 49 90%

GMAT Prep

Verbal 90%
Quant 88%

I reset my other GMAT accidentally. I don't remembr the scores. But I am sure it was pretty muh similar.....

I still don't hink I did muh during my second preparation. I was too tired and frustrated after my first attempt..As I told, I just attempted around 700 questions in that 1000 SC. did nothing for RC or CR....But I guess I cleared numerous concepts in SC. Each question that I got wrong, I used to come to GMAT CLub and search for that questions and read thru the discussions. THis was the only thing I did. As for mym ath preparatiion, I used to attempt the questions on the Math Forum and that was pretty much it.... The last weekend Iwent thru all the formulaes etc....

I feel GMAT score owes a lot to the mental state and the kind of attitude that you have during your exam...SO if therei snayone out there who feels frustrated after their first attempt I urge you to try once more.....

Well , the difficulty level...

I am not sure if this makes sense.... But, My quant was fairly easier than the first time...At a certain point I even felt If I was doing really bad becuse all those questions appeared easy.... Just get your fundamentals right.... You donot ahve to do enormously complicated questions...that is not GMAT style...the questions in Kaplan are not relally representative of the test... If you do OG , you should be fine.....

But Verbal,...the RC's were tough...but I must admit...unlike those essays in Kaplan Cats, the vocabulary used in GMAt was fairly simple. The essay was not easily decipherable but the vocabulary was not composed of those hard to crack words. If you can, Please read thru hte essya with a lot of concetration and try to understnad the menaing of the passage...I ma not in favour of all thsoe skimming techniques...If you understnad the passage.. the rest of the questions will be easier to naswer...

The SC's were tough...But then most of the concepts were covered in the 1000sc that we have on the club....

As for Math, just take a good look at all those explanations in the math forum.....That is all it takes to ace the quant... This is what I feel...
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720 at last....... 18 Dec 2005, 08:09
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Nope...But i did visit the Math Forum, say once a week and used to go over the questions posted that week...By then all the questions would be answered and detailed explanations would be there.. So I used to answer tham nad compare with them with those in the discussions....
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720 at last....... 18 Dec 2005, 08:38
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Thanks for sharing all your experience with us, Amy.

Best wishes for your applications!
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