nailin16
Hi
I took gmat twice and have exhausted almost everything official and i am into this bad habit of remembering the answers so the stock is of no use now.
And its really tough to replicate gmat official questions.I have had practised from unofficial sources in past, and had a really bitter experience. I realised its a waste of time and effort.
So please let me know what can i do in such a scenario.
I really need some good question bank for verbal.
have heard a lot about
magoosh,are
magoosh questions close to official ones.
Dear
nailin16,
This is Mike McGarry, the GMAT Expert from
Magoosh. I will say a few things.
First of all, at
Magoosh, each question undergoes significant statistical evaluation. Obviously, we don't have the enormous data pools that GMAC has readily available, but with our customer base, we extract a tremendous amount of information. This allows us to drop questions that aren't effective and improve others, to ensure that we are offering the highest quality question. In other words, on a much smaller scale, we use processes quite similar to those GMAC uses to regulate question quality. I wouldn't make the claim that our questions are as good as official questions, because I am often in awe of those questions, but among non-official questions,
Magoosh's questions are as good as anything available.
I would also give a mention to
MGMAT, which also has very high quality questions. I have great respect for what those brilliant people do.
I also want to make a broader point. Students often naively imagine that GMAT success is primarily a matter of finding the right material, for example, the best questions. Yes, finding high quality material is important, but what most people fail to recognize that the quality of the material is about worth about 10% of GMAT success, and what you bring, your attitudes & diligence & dedication, count for the other 90% percent. Almost all GMAT test takers have the GMAT
OG and other excellent materials, but only 10% cross the magic 700 threshold. What you have communicated here is that you have been using the highest quality questions, the official questions, and twice already you have gotten GMAT results with which you are not happy. My friend, it's crucially important that you embrace
the habits of excellence. That blog gives an overview, and the linked blogs give more information. In every aspect of your work, you need to embrace the habit of striving for excellent. In all your writing, make every sentence something that would be correct on the GMAT SC (this is not true of your post at the top of this thread). Do mental math several times a day. Force yourself to read and understand challenging material. Raise the quality of your focus and conscientiousness throughout your life. Remember,
how you do anything is how you do everything.
My friend, I am very ambitious for your success. Practice
Magoosh questions and, much more importantly, strive to integrate the habits of excellence as deeply as possible into every aspect of your life.
Does all this make sense?
Mike