WhartonPlease ..nice nick!
Here is what I did over the past
35 days:
1) Started with Kaplan GMAT 2004 ..The book was alright..learned some strategies that I didnt know earlier. The CD was useful, ..got a 630 on the dignostic test..but then my scores went downhill...never scored more than 550 on the full tests! Had heard that these tests dont mean anything so didnt worry too much.
2) Next started with the Princeton review Cracking the GMAT 2004 ..I liked this better than Kaplan..fnished all practice tests..scored roughly 700 on all of the CD tests..but lot of questions were recycled..so these scores are suspect..
3)Then came the
OG..but before that I wanted to give the powerprep tests to gauage my score..since all the questions are from the
OG and I wanted to get a true picture of where i stood.. Did as much as could from the
OG in the 2 weeks before the test. Decided to do only the last 1/3rd questions as other users had mentioned..
Some other points :
1)
OG Quant is helpful but is definely easier than the real test. Some of the tough questions on the real test I had not seen on any study guide...but practice enough and you should be able to tackle most of the questions..some of the easier questions on the real test were very similar to
OG questions.
2) I did NOT maintain a mistakes spreadsheet as may users here suggest..I did review my mistakes though..just didnt note them down ( one can only speculate if this would've improved my verbal score!)
3) Do not panic if you think you are not doing well on the real test. You cant really predict how well you are doing..atleast I couldnt at all...
Thats it for now! All the best for your exam...
San