Good morning everyone,
Yesterday after one year of preparation I retook my gmat and scored 680 (Q48 and V35).
My first gmat online attempt was a 480 (Q25 V32) and I had 3 technical issues during the work vacation of this year. I finished doing the exam on the first working week of september.
I'd like to thank
brunel (Quant) and
daagh (Sentence correction guru).
After the first failure, I really put myself on a critic self-examination and I realized I had really made several mistakes in HOW to prepare the GMAT.
In particular, my first strategy that led to failure was to do an EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF EXERCISE without studying the concepts in THEORY.
GMAT is not about QUANTITY but QUALITY.
I really recommend the following:
- Don't buy mba gmat mock tests, they overstate score in my opinion and do not give an analysis on the performance. They are a waste of money. You can pick the same questions from this forum with the tag GMAT prep.
- For mocks use Mahattan mocks. In particular use their statistics to guide you through your preparation.
- Study Powerscore and Manhattan handbook for gmat critical reasoning
- Use the exercises from GMAT material (verbal review, quant review and general review) for 30% of your exercises and use this forum for 70% of your exercises (selecting the topics you want to exercise on by clicking on search tags )
- Organize a notebook by argument and each argument must be structured in this way 1)Theory 2)
Error log - For quant focus heavily on the most frequent topics you can find on a post of math revolution here in the forum
- For verbal SC-> Daagh explanations (follow him) and for RC just read a lot of long boring stuff, use long passage tag.
Thank you all for this amazing journey.