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21 Nov 2011, 06:26
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After 4 months of serious preparation, yesterday I gave GMAT and got the score 730 (Q51, V37).
First, many thanks BB. You don't know it but I have gone through so many of your posts to keep the head above the water.
Some background about myself. I am from India and my schooling was not in English. I guess that is reflected in verbal score. Anyway for last 11 years I have been working for international clients, spent 1.5 years in Europe, so I became very comfortable with English. GMAT tests your understanding of various nuances in the grammar. I think I fell short there.
I thought I was very good in quant because for the last 4 years, I have been technical architect for an IT product. Anyway just to make sure, I purchased gmatclub tests and I am so glad that I did it. Those tests blew me off. I scored 22 in first test. Shamefully I have to admit that was a slap in face
. Those tests taught me a lot. I got rid of a bad habit of skipping the last line in quant (I solved for radius and question was asking for Diameter 
). But after 1 months or so, I started scoring 33 to 35 correct answers in these tests. That surely helped.
Then I gave Kaplan CAT 1 and bombed by 580 (Q50, V26). Shocked from the result, I abandoned the studies for next 3-4 days. Did not have the courage to look at that score.
Anyway after few days, I found myself mindlessly browsing gmatclub again and I was reading one of the posts by BB where he mentioned "don't get fooled by lower scores in Kaplan". I understood what he meant or at least that is the interpretation I drew. So I started preparing again and gave Powerprep 1-740 (Q50, V40)...Yey!!!
Finally I tasted the blood (700+). I started preparing again and improved on Kaplan and scored 670 (Q50 V34).
Powerprep 2 was 740 (Q50, V40).
At this point of time I found that I was making mistakes in inequalities. I jumped back to MGMAT quant guide and scolded myself for skipping that section. That helped a lot as I got 5-6 questions on inequalities on real GMAT.
Verbal was a different story altogether. I feel that I should have spent 2 more months on reading Ron Purewal for SC alone. I understand the grammar now but on many occasion I selected the choice which sounded better. It hurts to see that my verbal dropped from 40 to 37.
Stacey advised to stay with problems for longer time. Now I understand that. My 2 cents are that do spend time in finding out why the wrong choices are wrong. No need to rush through 10 to 12 practice exams.
If I get 5+ marks on AWA, big credit will go to chineseburned. I will post later on this.
There is a ppt "Flashcards - Quantitative Review.ppt" in gmatclub. That was a good resource.
I have prepared word list which you can use. You need to install https://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/download-mnemosyne.php and import the csv file. Let me know if you have more questions.
Best of Luck to those who are trying.
Time to get busy with essays
First, many thanks BB. You don't know it but I have gone through so many of your posts to keep the head above the water.
Some background about myself. I am from India and my schooling was not in English. I guess that is reflected in verbal score. Anyway for last 11 years I have been working for international clients, spent 1.5 years in Europe, so I became very comfortable with English. GMAT tests your understanding of various nuances in the grammar. I think I fell short there.
I thought I was very good in quant because for the last 4 years, I have been technical architect for an IT product. Anyway just to make sure, I purchased gmatclub tests and I am so glad that I did it. Those tests blew me off. I scored 22 in first test. Shamefully I have to admit that was a slap in face
. Those tests taught me a lot. I got rid of a bad habit of skipping the last line in quant (I solved for radius and question was asking for Diameter ). But after 1 months or so, I started scoring 33 to 35 correct answers in these tests. That surely helped.Then I gave Kaplan CAT 1 and bombed by 580 (Q50, V26). Shocked from the result, I abandoned the studies for next 3-4 days. Did not have the courage to look at that score.
Anyway after few days, I found myself mindlessly browsing gmatclub again and I was reading one of the posts by BB where he mentioned "don't get fooled by lower scores in Kaplan". I understood what he meant or at least that is the interpretation I drew. So I started preparing again and gave Powerprep 1-740 (Q50, V40)...Yey!!!
Finally I tasted the blood (700+). I started preparing again and improved on Kaplan and scored 670 (Q50 V34).
Powerprep 2 was 740 (Q50, V40).
At this point of time I found that I was making mistakes in inequalities. I jumped back to MGMAT quant guide and scolded myself for skipping that section. That helped a lot as I got 5-6 questions on inequalities on real GMAT.
Verbal was a different story altogether. I feel that I should have spent 2 more months on reading Ron Purewal for SC alone. I understand the grammar now but on many occasion I selected the choice which sounded better. It hurts to see that my verbal dropped from 40 to 37.
Stacey advised to stay with problems for longer time. Now I understand that. My 2 cents are that do spend time in finding out why the wrong choices are wrong. No need to rush through 10 to 12 practice exams.
If I get 5+ marks on AWA, big credit will go to chineseburned. I will post later on this.
There is a ppt "Flashcards - Quantitative Review.ppt" in gmatclub. That was a good resource.
I have prepared word list which you can use. You need to install https://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/download-mnemosyne.php and import the csv file. Let me know if you have more questions.
Best of Luck to those who are trying.
Time to get busy with essays
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21 Nov 2011, 17:12
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Great score! Congratulations!
Good luck for apps!
Good luck for apps!
21 Nov 2011, 21:38
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hey ashutosh
congrates for the score and all the best fr application part
could u please explain your verbal startegy?
congrates for the score and all the best fr application part
could u please explain your verbal startegy?
