I took the exam this morning and it was my first attempt. I joined this forum at the end of 2003 and was an active member for about 2 months. That was the last time I looked at OG and Kaplan. Back again on this forum Dec 2004. I realized that I was not getting anywhere with my verbal. I was still in the 75-80% right answers on verbal. So I decided to take gmaxonline. I think that helped me boost about 30 points in verbal. ------------------- Prep and scores: ------------------- - OG completed (sometimes glanced) - GMATCLUB Challenges are GREAT! - Original OLD paper tests Kaplan, gmaxonline, princeton tests are no good. They are ambiguous sometimes and the scoring is not accurate. ---------------- My scores: ---------------- - PP1 - 710 (before OG) - PP2 - 720 (2 days before exam) - Kaplan - 650, 640 - Online challenges - 80-98%, most recent - 92 and 93%, avg - 90% If you are already in the 49+ range, online challenges will provide you an opportunity to boost the score to 50-51 level. I did the online challenges religiously and got burnt a couple of times trying to do back to back tests to increase my stamina. Please do not attempt that:-) - I took the exams and I scored consistently between 680-740. (No official scoring. I used the formula based on number of correct answers). ------------- The EXAM: ------------- I has scheduled the test for 8:30am. I reached the test center at 7:30, had my breakfast in the car and took a conference call while waiting outside the center. I took a couple of days off, thinking that I can relax but ended up working 10 hours both days. I was up at 3:30 am on the morning of the test to facilitate resolution for a major systems issue that had a large business impact. They let me in at 8:00 and I started the test right away. I never practiced AWA seriously, so will have to wait and see the scores. I took 'slap cold water on your face' advice seriously and my shirt was wet during the first break. Quant started with eay questions. First one was arithmetic decimal simplification, second was a simple geometry. I got a hard probability question and I took time to verify it. The questions varied in difficulty and that made me wonder if I made any mistakes. But, I did not give any scope for -ve thoughts as I was very confident in Q. I had a difficult DS question and thought I nailed it. Marked E as the answer and went back to the stem to make sure that I was reading it right. I realized that question asked for the ratio and I was looking for values. At that point, instead of changing it to D, I clicked the confirm button. Rightaway, I knew I lost the chance to get a 51. I had 3 minutes for the last question, a reminder plug-in problem with E as choice. If I were to be left with less than a minute, I could not have finished that. Verbal started with 2 difficult SC's and an easy RC. I only got one bold face CR and I was feeling exausted. My mind went blank on a few questions. I finished verbal with 1 minute to spare. I usually make the most mistakes in RC and I must have done so on the test as well. I got two RC passages of medium difficulty with 65 line passages and a difficult 40 line passage in the end. Then came the survey and it took for ever. Fianlly clicked for score and saw 730! Q 50(95%) and V38(85%) Total 730 (97%) I was a little upset (easy Q 51) walking out of the test center. ------------------- My thoughts: ------------------- Successful GMAT score requires: - General aptitude (As a non-native speaker and not so voracious a reader, I knew 40 in verbal would be a stretch) - Stamina and endurance (Vensune is bang on..most of us loose by the time we get to the verbal section) - Preperation and practice (one can improve upto 80 points on SC alone) - Take one question at a time and do not get ahead of yourself (Golf really helped me here). I would like to thank GMATCLUB for providing such a great forum. ------------- My profile: ------------- I have 9+ years tech strategy, architecture, sys management experience and targeting a top 5 EMBA sponsored by my company. I took the test seriously though 80% in Q and V will get me an admission. Let me know if any of you have questions and I will be glad to answer. Best of Luck!!

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If you are doing OG for the first time and in a timed environement, the difficulty is comparable. I would discount the first half of OG.

My scores:

PP1 710 (49, 38)
PP2 720 (50, 37) (I don't remember even a single question though I knew the traps and typical mistakes one can make from what I learnt from Online challenges)

Actual 730 (50, 38)

So PP scores are close. However, I truly believe that the Q standard is higher now than ever.

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Thx for the quick reply, how abt my first ques abt all those unfamiliar topics in the real GMAT, what r those unfamiliar topics ?

Were u used to finish quant in ur PP tests (before OG) with quite a lot of time in hand ?

thx again.....

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Please give me ur input for this question..

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What was ur speed in the Verbal (in format below)?
0-10
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The topics are not new but the question types are. Ex:

- Rate and time questions with w hours for A and (w+2) hours for B
- Probability and Geometry combo
- 2 variables but one eqn is enough (with or without some contraints)
- Combinations and even odd combo
- Geometry (get the idea in 30 sec or waste 4-5 min type)
- Volumes of two vessels and data sufficiency with traps
- Sequence questions that can take more than 2 min
- Manual couting question (sometimes required in a Perm & Comb)

Online challenges have a bunch of questions that are very close to those on the actual.

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Congrats Mantha :-D

I can imagine how you must be feeling ...

I have a doubt to everyone - Mantha and I seem to have had the same Quants and Verbal break up including the percentile - yet the final score differs. Mantha 730 and I got 720 - does it depend on how you tackle the the questions or where you took the test ?

I was under the impression that once if 2 people get the same scores in Q and V they would end up getting the same final score.

A very curious (perhaps also hopeful),
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There is a chance that the confirmed report might come out to 720.

I remember a posting on this forum with similar experience.

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Hi Mantha,

Here I am hoping that my confirmed score comes out as 730 and there you are thinking that yours might come out 720.

In anycase let us hope that it is the better score :wink:

though what finally matters is probably the break up.

All the best.

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awesome score! all the best to your application.

Highly appreciated if you give more insight about your approach to increase verbal score.

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