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jzhan026
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Location: United States
Schools: Booth '23 (A$)
GMAT 1: 770 Q50 V44
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21 Jul 2019, 23:39
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I'm going to keep it short.
I started my preparation the week after Memorial Day and took my exam on July 17, so that's almost exactly 7 weeks, while working full time. In aggregate, I would say that I sank about 140 hours into preparation. This is by far the most I have ever spent on any type of exams.
I used Magoosh, OG and MGMAT and went though roughly 2500 questions in the 7 week time span. I had two practice tests. The first one was Magoosh's (quant and verbal only). I got a 690. The second was MGMAT's CAT. I got 720 and 7 IR. I took the Magoosh one 5 days before the exam and the MGMAT one the day before the exam.
I spent roughly 60% of my time on Magoosh, 30% on OG and 10% on MGMAT.
My original plan was to get a base line around 700 on the first try and get 750+ on my second try. I was fully prepared to scrap the score, so much so that I rushed through the first section, AWA, on test day, thinking that it was good enough since I won't be using the score from the attempt anyway. I had 9 minutes to spare when I clicked next. Had I spent the 9 minutes polishing it, I would've definitely scored better than the 5.0 that I got. I felt pretty comfortable with the IR and Verbal sections of the exam, but I did not feel anywhere near comfortable with Quant. The first few questions were very difficult, and it seemed like the questions got easier as I progressed through the set. For IR, Quant and Verbal sections, I was able to complete them with roughly 1 minute to spare for each. Given my feeling on Quant, I was fully anticipating a score between 670-720. I was elated when I saw the score of 770 with 8 on IR. I clicked accept so quickly that I started to doubt myself immediately afterwards thinking that I may have been hallucinating. I was relieved to find out that I was not hallucinating when the proctor handed me my score printout.
Unfortunately, I can't really share any insights on how to study for GMAT, since the intensity of my study routine will likely burn the vast majority of the people out in 2 weeks let alone 7 weeks. However, I would still like to encourage everyone to focus on the matter on hand when he/she is studying for GMAT, or for that matter, anything. I find that many of my friends, who spent months or years prepping for GMAT yet still failed to obtain a 700+ score, did not focus on the exam as much as they should have. The nature of the material in GMAT demands a high level of proficiency, meaning the test taker must have seem all of the types of the questions fairly recently and have a good grasp of the concept in order to quickly match the pattern to the question.
Best of luck to everyone who is still trying to get a high score. It is doable!
I started my preparation the week after Memorial Day and took my exam on July 17, so that's almost exactly 7 weeks, while working full time. In aggregate, I would say that I sank about 140 hours into preparation. This is by far the most I have ever spent on any type of exams.
I used Magoosh, OG and MGMAT and went though roughly 2500 questions in the 7 week time span. I had two practice tests. The first one was Magoosh's (quant and verbal only). I got a 690. The second was MGMAT's CAT. I got 720 and 7 IR. I took the Magoosh one 5 days before the exam and the MGMAT one the day before the exam.
I spent roughly 60% of my time on Magoosh, 30% on OG and 10% on MGMAT.
My original plan was to get a base line around 700 on the first try and get 750+ on my second try. I was fully prepared to scrap the score, so much so that I rushed through the first section, AWA, on test day, thinking that it was good enough since I won't be using the score from the attempt anyway. I had 9 minutes to spare when I clicked next. Had I spent the 9 minutes polishing it, I would've definitely scored better than the 5.0 that I got. I felt pretty comfortable with the IR and Verbal sections of the exam, but I did not feel anywhere near comfortable with Quant. The first few questions were very difficult, and it seemed like the questions got easier as I progressed through the set. For IR, Quant and Verbal sections, I was able to complete them with roughly 1 minute to spare for each. Given my feeling on Quant, I was fully anticipating a score between 670-720. I was elated when I saw the score of 770 with 8 on IR. I clicked accept so quickly that I started to doubt myself immediately afterwards thinking that I may have been hallucinating. I was relieved to find out that I was not hallucinating when the proctor handed me my score printout.
Unfortunately, I can't really share any insights on how to study for GMAT, since the intensity of my study routine will likely burn the vast majority of the people out in 2 weeks let alone 7 weeks. However, I would still like to encourage everyone to focus on the matter on hand when he/she is studying for GMAT, or for that matter, anything. I find that many of my friends, who spent months or years prepping for GMAT yet still failed to obtain a 700+ score, did not focus on the exam as much as they should have. The nature of the material in GMAT demands a high level of proficiency, meaning the test taker must have seem all of the types of the questions fairly recently and have a good grasp of the concept in order to quickly match the pattern to the question.
Best of luck to everyone who is still trying to get a high score. It is doable!
22 Jul 2019, 00:41
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jzhan026
I'm going to keep it short.
I started my preparation the week after Memorial Day and took my exam on July 17, so that's almost exactly 7 weeks, while working full time. In aggregate, I would say that I sank about 140 hours into preparation. This is by far the most I have ever spent on any type of exams.
I used Magoosh, OG and MGMAT and went though roughly 2500 questions in the 7 week time span. I had two practice tests. The first one was Magoosh's (quant and verbal only). I got a 690. The second was MGMAT's CAT. I got 720 and 7 IR. I took the Magoosh one 5 days before the exam and the MGMAT one the day before the exam.
I spent roughly 60% of my time on Magoosh, 30% on OG and 10% on MGMAT.
My original plan was to get a base line around 700 on the first try and get 750+ on my second try. I was fully prepared to scrap the score, so much so that I rushed through the first section, AWA, on test day, thinking that it was good enough since I won't be using the score from the attempt anyway. I had 9 minutes to spare when I clicked next. Had I spent the 9 minutes polishing it, I would've definitely scored better than the 5.0 that I got. I felt pretty comfortable with the IR and Verbal sections of the exam, but I did not feel anywhere near comfortable with Quant. The first few questions were very difficult, and it seemed like the questions got easier as I progressed through the set. For IR, Quant and Verbal sections, I was able to complete them with roughly 1 minute to spare for each. Given my feeling on Quant, I was fully anticipating a score between 670-720. I was elated when I saw the score of 770 with 8 on IR. I clicked accept so quickly that I started to doubt myself immediately afterwards thinking that I may have been hallucinating. I was relieved to find out that I was not hallucinating when the proctor handed me my score printout.
Unfortunately, I can't really share any insights on how to study for GMAT, since the intensity of my study routine will likely burn the vast majority of the people out in 2 weeks let alone 7 weeks. However, I would still like to encourage everyone to focus on the matter on hand when he/she is studying for GMAT, or for that matter, anything. I find that many of my friends, who spent months or years prepping for GMAT yet still failed to obtain a 700+ score, did not focus on the exam as much as they should have. The nature of the material in GMAT demands a high level of proficiency, meaning the test taker must have seem all of the types of the questions fairly recently and have a good grasp of the concept in order to quickly match the pattern to the question.
Best of luck to everyone who is still trying to get a high score. It is doable!
I started my preparation the week after Memorial Day and took my exam on July 17, so that's almost exactly 7 weeks, while working full time. In aggregate, I would say that I sank about 140 hours into preparation. This is by far the most I have ever spent on any type of exams.
I used Magoosh, OG and MGMAT and went though roughly 2500 questions in the 7 week time span. I had two practice tests. The first one was Magoosh's (quant and verbal only). I got a 690. The second was MGMAT's CAT. I got 720 and 7 IR. I took the Magoosh one 5 days before the exam and the MGMAT one the day before the exam.
I spent roughly 60% of my time on Magoosh, 30% on OG and 10% on MGMAT.
My original plan was to get a base line around 700 on the first try and get 750+ on my second try. I was fully prepared to scrap the score, so much so that I rushed through the first section, AWA, on test day, thinking that it was good enough since I won't be using the score from the attempt anyway. I had 9 minutes to spare when I clicked next. Had I spent the 9 minutes polishing it, I would've definitely scored better than the 5.0 that I got. I felt pretty comfortable with the IR and Verbal sections of the exam, but I did not feel anywhere near comfortable with Quant. The first few questions were very difficult, and it seemed like the questions got easier as I progressed through the set. For IR, Quant and Verbal sections, I was able to complete them with roughly 1 minute to spare for each. Given my feeling on Quant, I was fully anticipating a score between 670-720. I was elated when I saw the score of 770 with 8 on IR. I clicked accept so quickly that I started to doubt myself immediately afterwards thinking that I may have been hallucinating. I was relieved to find out that I was not hallucinating when the proctor handed me my score printout.
Unfortunately, I can't really share any insights on how to study for GMAT, since the intensity of my study routine will likely burn the vast majority of the people out in 2 weeks let alone 7 weeks. However, I would still like to encourage everyone to focus on the matter on hand when he/she is studying for GMAT, or for that matter, anything. I find that many of my friends, who spent months or years prepping for GMAT yet still failed to obtain a 700+ score, did not focus on the exam as much as they should have. The nature of the material in GMAT demands a high level of proficiency, meaning the test taker must have seem all of the types of the questions fairly recently and have a good grasp of the concept in order to quickly match the pattern to the question.
Best of luck to everyone who is still trying to get a high score. It is doable!
Hi jzhan026,
Welcome to GMATCLUB! Congratulations on a fantastic score and thank you for sharing your debrief. I am sure a lot of people will appreciate you taking some time out to share your experience. Did you give any mocks during your preparations? How did you perform in them?
Thanks and we look forward to your engagement with the community. All the best!
and not extreme. You are not abnormal 
) I did 2-3 hours per day of studying during the week + 10 or 15 hours on weekends. 20-30 hours per week was a normal schedule for 2 months out of 3 and even more if you take into consideration reading books to build my grammar and RC skills.
