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I started to prepare GMAT, and felt it could be useful and motivating to share my experience. That’s why I decided to open that topic: feel free to comment or to give me advices: every word you say will be helpful!
Background and state of mind: a bit worried about where I come from and where I want to go.
I recently decided to apply for different PhD in business schools. It means I have to prepare and score quite well on GMAT, though I have never been confronted to standardized examinations. Even worse, I did not practiced "real" maths for now 7 years. Finally, I am not a native english speaker even if I am quite used to write and read English (I lived for one year abroad, studying in an english-speaking program in philosophy). I think it states quite well why I decided my topic to be entitled "a long and tough GMAT journey": my academic and professional background at first do not meet at all the GMAT requirements.
I now want to move ahead to a PhD program in a B-School in Europe (Bocconi, LBS, HEC, ESSEC, EM Lyon) in order to study in depth strategy and/or OB in a cross-disciplinary perspective. I already thought about different topics I would like to study. But before those exciting plans, I have to think about graduation tests (GMAT/GRE), and I fear it might be really tricky.
However, do you think applying to those programs is realistic ? How could I optimize my application, given the current elements?
First step: choosing between GMAT and GRE, and looking forward a first attempt on Sept./Oct.
I first wondered about which test I should take. I want to thank you all for your active and really instructive participation on the fora: I think it was one of the most complete source of information I could find on the Internet. Comparing GMAT and GRE, I decided to prepare to GMAT for several reasons :
- It seems there are many discussed strategies on the internet, and it also seems literature about GMAT is abundant. Besides, a friend of mine gave me its MGMAT preparation books, which seemed to be really amazing.
- I had a look to Magoosh comparison between GMAT and GRE. At first sight, I preferred the way GMAT is examining skills and knowledges. Though it’s totally subjective, I think it may have an importance for my motivation not to decrease through months.
- As a non-native english-speaker, it seemed easier to work and improve my GMAT score: GRE is composed of a large part of vocabulary, which may be a bit tricky to beat for someone like me.
- I think I can possibly improve my quantitative skills quite fast, or at least faster than my verbal skills. Though I did not studied maths for a long time, I remember it was one of the subjects I was the best at when I attended high school. I decided to go to literature because of the taste I had for arts and classic humanities. Let’s see if I can « reactivate » forgotten concepts fastly.
Writing that topic, I hope I could give my preparation a meaning having feedbacks from other experienced/current GMAT takers. That’s why, I will try to feed that « log book » as often as possible. Feel free to criticize/to give me advices. At the moment, things may appear quite clear in my mind but they are not. I actually do not know whether achieving such a progression is possible or not because of my background, but I still keep faith intact
. I hope my experience may help some students as well. So … thank you for reading such a stodgy text, and see you soon on the fora 
!
I started to prepare GMAT, and felt it could be useful and motivating to share my experience. That’s why I decided to open that topic: feel free to comment or to give me advices: every word you say will be helpful!
Background and state of mind: a bit worried about where I come from and where I want to go.
I recently decided to apply for different PhD in business schools. It means I have to prepare and score quite well on GMAT, though I have never been confronted to standardized examinations. Even worse, I did not practiced "real" maths for now 7 years. Finally, I am not a native english speaker even if I am quite used to write and read English (I lived for one year abroad, studying in an english-speaking program in philosophy). I think it states quite well why I decided my topic to be entitled "a long and tough GMAT journey": my academic and professional background at first do not meet at all the GMAT requirements.
I now want to move ahead to a PhD program in a B-School in Europe (Bocconi, LBS, HEC, ESSEC, EM Lyon) in order to study in depth strategy and/or OB in a cross-disciplinary perspective. I already thought about different topics I would like to study. But before those exciting plans, I have to think about graduation tests (GMAT/GRE), and I fear it might be really tricky.
However, do you think applying to those programs is realistic ? How could I optimize my application, given the current elements?
First step: choosing between GMAT and GRE, and looking forward a first attempt on Sept./Oct.
I first wondered about which test I should take. I want to thank you all for your active and really instructive participation on the fora: I think it was one of the most complete source of information I could find on the Internet. Comparing GMAT and GRE, I decided to prepare to GMAT for several reasons :
- It seems there are many discussed strategies on the internet, and it also seems literature about GMAT is abundant. Besides, a friend of mine gave me its MGMAT preparation books, which seemed to be really amazing.
- I had a look to Magoosh comparison between GMAT and GRE. At first sight, I preferred the way GMAT is examining skills and knowledges. Though it’s totally subjective, I think it may have an importance for my motivation not to decrease through months.
- As a non-native english-speaker, it seemed easier to work and improve my GMAT score: GRE is composed of a large part of vocabulary, which may be a bit tricky to beat for someone like me.
- I think I can possibly improve my quantitative skills quite fast, or at least faster than my verbal skills. Though I did not studied maths for a long time, I remember it was one of the subjects I was the best at when I attended high school. I decided to go to literature because of the taste I had for arts and classic humanities. Let’s see if I can « reactivate » forgotten concepts fastly.
Writing that topic, I hope I could give my preparation a meaning having feedbacks from other experienced/current GMAT takers. That’s why, I will try to feed that « log book » as often as possible. Feel free to criticize/to give me advices. At the moment, things may appear quite clear in my mind but they are not. I actually do not know whether achieving such a progression is possible or not because of my background, but I still keep faith intact
. I hope my experience may help some students as well. So … thank you for reading such a stodgy text, and see you soon on the fora !
It seems my topic is not very inspirational 
. For sure, I'm just starting my preparation and there's still nothing concrete to discuss on .
. For sure, I'm just starting my preparation and there's still nothing concrete to discuss on . 
31 Mar 2016, 22:02
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Based on how much you wrote. I think you're overthinking things and could have already lost the psychological battle. I hope I'm wrong though.
PS. I didn't even read what you wrote, only up to the 3rd line where you said you're worried.
PS. I didn't even read what you wrote, only up to the 3rd line where you said you're worried.
