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madhurvashisht
Joined: 23 Jan 2013
Last visit: 10 May 2015
Posts: 31
Given Kudos: 12
Status:Application process
Location: India
Schools: AGSM '16 WBS '15 Copenhagen Cranfield '14 Erasmus HEC '15 Queen's '15 (D) Sauder '16 Schulich '15 (A) Broad '16
GMAT 1: 600 Q50 V22
GMAT 2: 650 Q49 V28
GPA: 3.39
WE:Information Technology (Computer Software)
Schools: AGSM '16 WBS '15 Copenhagen Cranfield '14 Erasmus HEC '15 Queen's '15 (D) Sauder '16 Schulich '15 (A) Broad '16
GMAT 2: 650 Q49 V28
Posts: 31
04 Jun 2013, 07:24
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Hi ,
Finally i gave the GMAT today and got a score of 650 ( Q49 V 28) .
I was aiming for a 700+ score and when i saw the score of 650 i was a little unhappy as the score is under par compared to my scores in the mock tests . My timing went really haywire in Verbal and had to rush for the last 10 questions with about 10 minutes remaining .
I was working with an IT company for nearly 3 years after which i quit my job in October 2012 .I started my MBA prepration in February and gave the following mock tests :
My scores in mock tests were :
Manhattan Cat 1 : 690 Q45 V38 3/31/2013
Gmat Prep 1 : 680 Q50 V31 4/4/2013
Manhattan Cat 2 : 670 Q47 V34 4/6/2013
Manhattan Cat 3 : 660 Q45 V35 4/9/2013
Manhattan Cat 4 : 690 Q45 V38 4/12/2013
Gmat Prep 2 : 690 Q50 V34 4/14/2013
Veritas Prep free : 710 Q49 V38 4/16/2013
Manhattan Cat 5 : 630 Q45 V32 4/23/2013
Manhattan Cat 6 : 700 Q50 V35 4/24/2013
I am not able to decide whether to give a 3rd shot again in July or just continue with the application with my current score because if i give Gmat again it would be my 3rd attempt .
My target schools are :
Australian Graduate School of Management ( AGSM , Australia )
University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Queen's University - School of Business - Queen's MBA
Profile :
Indian IT , Male 26 with close of 3years of experience , 2 years and 8 months to be precise .
Worked with Tata Consultancy Services , a major IT consultancy company from Jan 2010 to June 2011 .
Worked with Sunlife Assurance Company of Canada ( a captive unit in India ) from July 2011 to October 2012 .
Finally i gave the GMAT today and got a score of 650 ( Q49 V 28) .
I was aiming for a 700+ score and when i saw the score of 650 i was a little unhappy as the score is under par compared to my scores in the mock tests . My timing went really haywire in Verbal and had to rush for the last 10 questions with about 10 minutes remaining .
I was working with an IT company for nearly 3 years after which i quit my job in October 2012 .I started my MBA prepration in February and gave the following mock tests :
My scores in mock tests were :
Manhattan Cat 1 : 690 Q45 V38 3/31/2013
Gmat Prep 1 : 680 Q50 V31 4/4/2013
Manhattan Cat 2 : 670 Q47 V34 4/6/2013
Manhattan Cat 3 : 660 Q45 V35 4/9/2013
Manhattan Cat 4 : 690 Q45 V38 4/12/2013
Gmat Prep 2 : 690 Q50 V34 4/14/2013
Veritas Prep free : 710 Q49 V38 4/16/2013
Manhattan Cat 5 : 630 Q45 V32 4/23/2013
Manhattan Cat 6 : 700 Q50 V35 4/24/2013
I am not able to decide whether to give a 3rd shot again in July or just continue with the application with my current score because if i give Gmat again it would be my 3rd attempt .
My target schools are :
Australian Graduate School of Management ( AGSM , Australia )
University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Queen's University - School of Business - Queen's MBA
Profile :
Indian IT , Male 26 with close of 3years of experience , 2 years and 8 months to be precise .
Worked with Tata Consultancy Services , a major IT consultancy company from Jan 2010 to June 2011 .
Worked with Sunlife Assurance Company of Canada ( a captive unit in India ) from July 2011 to October 2012 .
04 Jun 2013, 07:59
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What are your weak points for Verbal?
LSAT RC Bible provides a good methodology for attacking RC. It goes well with powerscore's CR Bible. I also like them for SC. Magoosh provides explanations to every SC problem for OG13 on YouTube. I haven't tried it, but it's worth checking out. I've heard small differenced between the OG questions and other prep companies questions screws people up on verbal. You may want to stick with just OG questions.
Is time a major issue for you for the verbal section? You may want to consider skipping the last RC section. There are several reasons for this:
1 If you're slow on this section then it will save you about 15 minutes
2 If you did well on the first two RC passages the questions will be more difficult, and therefore getting some of those wrong won't hurt your score that much.
3 Since about 25% of the questions are experimental one of the five questions will probably be experimental. If you guess on all of them with the same letter you will probably get one of them right. This means You're looking at getting three hard questions wrong and saving 15 minutes. That's not a bad idea.
4 If your not able to usually finish going at a comfortable speed, then you will have to guess on some questions anyways, or increase the speed you're going at which will probably cause you to get more problems wrong.
I would think you could score higher based on you Practice tests. Let us know what your thoughts are.
LSAT RC Bible provides a good methodology for attacking RC. It goes well with powerscore's CR Bible. I also like them for SC. Magoosh provides explanations to every SC problem for OG13 on YouTube. I haven't tried it, but it's worth checking out. I've heard small differenced between the OG questions and other prep companies questions screws people up on verbal. You may want to stick with just OG questions.
Is time a major issue for you for the verbal section? You may want to consider skipping the last RC section. There are several reasons for this:
1 If you're slow on this section then it will save you about 15 minutes
2 If you did well on the first two RC passages the questions will be more difficult, and therefore getting some of those wrong won't hurt your score that much.
3 Since about 25% of the questions are experimental one of the five questions will probably be experimental. If you guess on all of them with the same letter you will probably get one of them right. This means You're looking at getting three hard questions wrong and saving 15 minutes. That's not a bad idea.
4 If your not able to usually finish going at a comfortable speed, then you will have to guess on some questions anyways, or increase the speed you're going at which will probably cause you to get more problems wrong.
I would think you could score higher based on you Practice tests. Let us know what your thoughts are.
madhurvashisht
Joined: 23 Jan 2013
Last visit: 10 May 2015
Posts: 31
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 12
Status:Application process
Location: India
Schools: AGSM '16 WBS '15 Copenhagen Cranfield '14 Erasmus HEC '15 Queen's '15 (D) Sauder '16 Schulich '15 (A) Broad '16
GMAT 1: 600 Q50 V22
GMAT 2: 650 Q49 V28
GPA: 3.39
WE:Information Technology (Computer Software)
Schools: AGSM '16 WBS '15 Copenhagen Cranfield '14 Erasmus HEC '15 Queen's '15 (D) Sauder '16 Schulich '15 (A) Broad '16
GMAT 2: 650 Q49 V28
Posts: 31
Kudos:
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04 Jun 2013, 12:08
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Thanks for the advise . I will try to follow the LSAT and the Powerscore material and see how it works for me .
Timing is not generally the issue because the Manhattan mocks i gave i usually finished them on time .
It was just that today was a bad day for me with respect to timing due to which i was not able to concentrate on some easy CR questions and the marked the answers in a hurry .
Timing is not generally the issue because the Manhattan mocks i gave i usually finished them on time .
It was just that today was a bad day for me with respect to timing due to which i was not able to concentrate on some easy CR questions and the marked the answers in a hurry .
