AIM IS TO VISIT THE LAND OF TECHNOLOGY!

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This is an awesome site. 

I have planned to take GMAT in the last week of December 2006. I have procured all the reading material-OG 11th edition,kaplan 800, kaplan with CD, princeton, Nova and three other local reading material available in India.

I am a great planner throughout my life. But very bad, infact the worst when it comes to execution. I plan to start my preparation from July 1st, 2006. My plan is not to start with OG. I am planning to brush up my fundamentals in maths by procuring a local but good guide on quantitative aptitude. After doing that i plan to move on to standard books like OG , princeton, kapan and others. This way i thought i could do well as i would have strengthened my fundas.

As far as maths, even though i graduated in history, i have innate love for numbers and did reasonably well in maths in higher secondary.(got 92 percent). 

As far as verbal i thought i would never touch or read any book for it till i came across the real GMAT type of questions. It is, i realised, really tough to score good marks in GMAT verbal. I thought questions will be like as we have in banking service examinations in India where i used to get hundered percent correct. Even though i studied English right from my kinder garden, i know i have to really work hard to score well in GMAT verbal section. I have to concentrate hard eventhough concentration is not my forte.

I decided to take GMAT not because i wanted to do MBA in the US.My aim is to see the land of technology, the mother of all countries when it comes to technology.I carry technology within me.( Guys reading this may wonder what i am talking about, but i dont want to reveal anything more as it would go beyond the perview of this site).Secondly i want to prove something to those people who branded me as having no logic but has only great level of intuition.Thirdly, as i was overlooked for promotion in my present organisation, i am longing to move to other greener pastures.

I always fix tall order for me. My aim is to get a perfect 800 in GMAT. I know it is tough. i always aimed for perfection, and that has been my great weakness.

necromonger · Answer

I second rhyme on his reply on realistic goals. It's very important set a realistic goal - it sounds very cool to say 'I like perfection so I want 800'. The problem with that is, you make it very difficult even to start with. So when you start your tests, remember that even a few questions wrong will take you out of the 800 list - so you'll worry more about not getting that 800 and ignore the fact that with diligence you might actually hit 750, which is fantastic.

Set a lofty goal - but something you can reach. How did you do in your diagnostic? Of course, I wish you the best in realizing your dreams, but take one step at a time.

willget800 · Answer

agree with the folks out here.. i started of with my user name as willget800. oopsy.. i quickly realised.. my blocking point was verbal.. i feel i can get 99% in math.. but in verbal if i manage 80%, i will jump up and down..

by the way does any one know how to change my user name now without loosing my existing credentials (other than create a new one)?
i already have challenges linked to this username.. but i feel stupid now with my username!

u2lover · Answer

i agree with rhyme... come back to mother Earth... the highest score I heard was achieved by my Veritas instructor (790) :shock:

and he takes it every several months... didn't hear him say 800... ambitions are great, I love them too, but this one might not be a realistic one :cry:

btw... US is NOT ahead in technology... judgding from the cell phones (ha-ha)... compare the ones in Japan and you will sure see the difference :wink:

good luck

beshtesh · Answer

Guys, thanks for all the advice, thanks also for making me realise to set realistic goals.
As for as technology, i still consider the US as the land of technology and not Japan. Some of the experiments that is going on in some US institutes are simply incredible. How will u guys react if i say that ur mind can be read, what u visulaise can be seen in computers including the colour u visualise, and your past thinking and activities can be extracted to minute details, and any part of your body can be triggered by keeping a chip in your central nervous system. Guys believe me all these are happening in the US, (at Wharton, IBM and other institutes).

necromonger · Answer

I haven't heard of research in the way you put it, and I really don't think Wharton (or for that matter IBM) is into human mind reading experiments. There sure is a lot of technology in the US in a many areas - but it's sort of unclear on why you want to do GMAT and what it has to do with mind research in US...perhaps you should focus first on a solid GMAT score. Good luck.

walletless · Answer

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