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20 Jul 2014, 03:04

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chetan86 wrote:

I have general question on RC.
1. Daily how much RC you were solving?
2. How you gained accuracy in RC?
3. How you were learning from your mistakes?
4. How you were timing yourself?
5. You were completing RC in set of 4-5? Or you were completing one RC and then after reviewing it you were moving to next RC?

** Overall strategy question
6. How you build the stamina?
7. What you did to remain focused during the exam? It is very hard to remain focus especially in last hr of the exam and that is the most crucial hr.
8. What was your daily routine to approach Verbal section? -- I am planning to solve daily 4 RCs and on alternative day solve CR and SC by timing myself. What do you suggest on this approach?

Sorry for lots of questions, but you inputs would be very much helpful.

Thanks,
Chetan

Woah! thats a lot many questions. Please find the answers inserted below

1. Daily how much RC you were solving?
I solve around 4-5 RCs per day and then analyzed the questions and identified the types which I got wrong
2. How you gained accuracy in RC?
Practice is the key here
3. How you were learning from your mistakes?
I used to go back and re read the portion of the passage from where the question came. Also I used to look for the RC which I got wrong in gmatclub and then go through the replies.
4. How you were timing yourself?
I used the stop watch on my phone and made sure that I did not take more than 2 minutes on an average for solvng all the questions in the RC.
The average was calculate by accounting for the reading time also. So (total time for reading + solving questions)/ no. of questions<= 2 mins
5. You were completing RC in set of 4-5? Or you were completing one RC and then after reviewing it you were moving to next RC?
Totally depended on my mood, no set strategy here

** Overall strategy question
6. How you build the stamina?
By sitting and practicing 4 - 5 RCs per day
7. What you did to remain focused during the exam? It is very hard to remain focus especially in last hr of the exam and that is the most crucial hr.
All my mock tests included AWA and IR. This helped me maintain my stamina for the 4 hours, especially for the last half an hour
8. What was your daily routine to approach Verbal section? -- I am planning to solve daily 4 RCs and on alternative day solve CR and SC by timing myself. What do you suggest on this approach?
I practiced all the three daily. 4-5 RCs, 15 - 20 CR and SC daily. And go through the SC notes every alternate day.

I hope I have answered all your questions. Do let me know if you have more

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20 Jul 2014, 05:07

Hi Ankur,

Thanks a lot for your inputs. Your answers would definitely help me to improve RC skill.

In my initial post, I quote some part of your debrief to ask a question but forgot to ask you.

Here it is

ankurgupta03 wrote:

Also another amendment was the practice of RCs. In all I would have solved more than 120 RCs for the 4th round of preparation.
I also maintained an error log. Not a proper excel sheet, but I kept on noting down all the problems which were incorrect and made sure to learn new concepts attached to them. I found the new concepts by searching for those questions on the GMATclub and noted the concepts down in my Error log learning.

I just want to know:
What source did you use to improve your RC skill?
Did you use 1000RC set?
Which source do you recommend other than OG?

Sorry for some more questions.

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chetan86 wrote:

I just want to know:
What source did you use to improve your RC skill?
Did you use 1000RC set?
Which source do you recommend other than OG?

Sorry for some more questions.

Hey it's OK

As mentioned in the above posts, I used the pdfs compiled by Souvik for the RC, Cr an SC preparation and would recommend the same if you are a re-taker, else finish your GMATprep exams first an then go through these.
I did not use the 1000RC set.
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ankurgupta03 wrote:

Hey it's OK

As mentioned in the above posts, I use the pfs compile by Souvik for the RC, Cr an SC preparation and would recommend the same if you are a re-taker, else finish your GMATprep exams first an then go through these.
I did not use the 1000RC set.

Hi Ankur,

Thanks a lot for your inputs.

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20 Jul 2014, 09:57

Dude...I am on the same boat....Consistently scoring Q50/51 but V is stuck at 35/36. I could see you also struggled with V35 in earlier attempts. Any piece of valuable advice on how to break V40.

Good luck for apps!!

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20 Jul 2014, 11:15

Gmat1008 wrote:

Dude...I am on the same boat....Consistently scoring Q50/51 but V is stuck at 35/36. I could see you also struggled with V35 in earlier attempts. Any piece of valuable advice on how to break V40.

Good luck for apps!!

As I mentioned in the first post itself, focus extensively on the official questions.
Solve the pdfs compiled by Souvik.

They should help for sure. Also do not neglect RC.

All the best!
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20 Jul 2014, 22:17

Hi Ankur,

I need ur help too. I am good with SC and my accuracy is 75%.
However, I suck at CRs. I just dont understand those questions. I have gone through Powerscore CR and Thursdays with Ron but no help.
Can you guide me? Can we talk over the phone since i am also Indian.

Thanks,
Vaibhav

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21 Jul 2014, 06:52

Hi Ankur,
Firstly congrats on your brillant score!! Your spirit is really commendable.. My weakness is the Quant Section. Can you please guide me, which is the best course for Quant. I am really confused between so many of them.. So please let me know.. Also my target score is 600+ since i want to apply for Masters . Thnks .

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21 Jul 2014, 08:46

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truebluepiscean wrote:

Hi Ankur,
Firstly congrats on your brillant score!! Your spirit is really commendable.. My weakness is the Quant Section. Can you please guide me, which is the best course for Quant. I am really confused between so many of them.. So please let me know.. Also my target score is 600+ since i want to apply for Masters . Thnks .

I am not ankur but can respond on this.

Plz subscribe to GC tests as they are awesome for scoring Q50-51.
If done with GC tests, please complete Manhattan Advance Quant guide.
If above is completed, please follow Bunuel, our GC Math expert, for more practice.

Hope that helps!

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23 Jul 2014, 03:45

truebluepiscean wrote:

Hi Ankur,
Firstly congrats on your brillant score!! Your spirit is really commendable.. My weakness is the Quant Section. Can you please guide me, which is the best course for Quant. I am really confused between so many of them.. So please let me know.. Also my target score is 600+ since i want to apply for Masters . Thnks .

I hope all your queries are clarified.
I could not have answered it in a better way than TGC

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Hi Ankur. Just got around to reading your debrief... You deserve a standing ovation :wave

Many many congratulations for your score. Now please hang up the GMAT boots (I know you have!)

I hope that you are writing about passion being one of your major strengths in your essays (bring it in somewhere, even if you haven't so far!).

Really like the way you quoted The Grey!

Today, you have bested this beast, Hercules! Come the next one awaits....
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gmatbugsme84 wrote:

Hi Ankur. Just got around to reading your debrief... You deserve a standing ovation :wave

Many many congratulations for your score. Now please hang up the GMAT boots (I know you have!)

I hope that you are writing about passion being one of your major strengths in your essays (bring it in somewhere, even if you haven't so far!).

Really like the way you quoted The Grey!

Today, you have bested this beast, Hercules! Come the next one awaits....

Yes, finally I see the boots hung quietly in one corner of the wall

I was actually not writing about it, but will for sure now ...
The Grey was the actual motivation for me. Made sure to read the lines whenever I felt low and wanted to chuck it

Hercules

Thanks a lot

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04 Aug 2014, 20:54

Hi,

What was your process for SC. Especially the new format of very long underlined?
Did you use POE, process similar to CR..Read each answer choice independently and cross out any mistakes you see.
Or did you use the old method 3/2 splits. If you used your own approach please share it.
Thanks Ankur.

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amanthapar wrote:

Hi,

What was your process for SC. Especially the new format of very long underlined?
Did you use POE, process similar to CR..Read each answer choice independently and cross out any mistakes you see.
Or did you use the old method 3/2 splits. If you used your own approach please share it.
Thanks Ankur.

Splits are the best way to solve the SC questions.
Try to identify the mistake in choice A if thee is any, else move to other choices and then strike out the choices which have the same mistake.

Finally you will mostly be left with 2 or in some cases 3 choices.
Now for the fully underlined sentence, i used to compare the sentences vertically (vertical reading) and then come at the last (and hopefully the correct

) choice.

Hope this helps.
Let me know if you need more clarification.
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Congrats Ankur. Brilliant debrief. You definitely deserve the GMAT Score. Although after reading the debrief, i am a bit intrigued - so many adcomms tell us that any score above 700 is sufficient, yet thats not the realty.

I am also planning to apply this year. After all the hardwork of getting a 700+ GMAT, never know if its going to be enough.

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ankurgupta03 wrote:

"The minute you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held so long"
I held on too long to let it go, and finally got it

One final tip for the Re takers: Write the following lines on the first page of your notebook

"Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight i'll ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day"

Some of the best quotes. I love the movie grey. Congratulations and good luck in the future. Never give in.
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Hi ankurgupta03,

Congrats on your score but I am really shocked to hear that ISB considers 710 a low score. I mean really; the average at some of the Top B schools in the World is around 710.

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As sad as it may sound but 710 is a low score at ISB for an applicant from the IT background in India.
For rest of the applicant pool, it is not as the average score at ISB too is 710

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Amazing Ankur !!
You set an example.
After a long time, I am here on Gmat club and I am thrilled to read your debrief.
Congrats!!

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Amazing Ankur !!
You set an example.
After a long time, I am here on Gmat club and I am thrilled to read your debrief.
Congrats!!

Thanks a lot and good to see that you are studying at XLRI.
I can recall the discussions on the ISB thread last year

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