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Finally , i have taken the GMAT on Aug5th,Hyderabad,India
and scored 710(Q50,v37). Special thanks to GMATclub,Stacey and Ron from Manhattan and Farihah,my colleague
I have no time now. I will update this later.Bear with me.
I started thinking seriously about GMAT 12 months back.My preparation had many breaks in between ,but i made a serious prep from May '10.
Satisfied Or not :
1. I was not happy after seeing the score at the test center since i was targetting for atleast 730
2.But ,considering my improvement on Verbal part, i think i should be satisfied to have crossed 700.. because
a) i don't have reading habits
b) i don't read novels,general articles,magazines
c) i have difficulty in reading at a good pace
So all these resulted in a mere 26 in my first mock test
May '10 : Took my first mock test on GMAT Prep 580 (Q43 ,V 26/28)
Analysis : i dint complete both sections in time.i was short of atleast 7 questions.
Lesson : Ok, since this is my first test, and since it has been a long time since i did quant, i was kind of ok with Quant performance
From the next mock, i improved my quant performane to 48 <still did not finish the test >, after atleast 5 tests, i was stuck up with my old habits .
But after 5-6 tests,i was able to complete quant in time.
At the same time, verbal performance was not even improving by an inch after 5-6 tests. I wondered whether i will be able to reach 30 ever...
You could see my posts in 'frustrated etc.,'
Old habits:
1.when i don't understand a word or sentence i don't go forward.
I read 501 RC book, <it is basic and very simple > but this has brought a lot of change in me...
The way i looked at passages changed drastically...
New habits:
Go in line with the author.I used to start reading sentences as if someone is narrating a story to me..Quickly got a grasp of all paragraphs..
If i don't understand something, i will make a judgement from the surrounding sentences or the author's tone towards the passage.From then on, whenever i read a passage ,i used to understand where the turning points of the passage are and with this approach, now did some OG passages , and i
used to get almost correct..
CR :
For CR, i started with CR bible. That is a good book. Then ,i practised CR in OG . I was getting only 40% correct..
Felt something was wrong..I realised i should use common sense rather than do some negation techniques , prephrase answers/assumptions.
I realized that blindly applying some techniques will not work..
only three things important in CR:
1) Focus on the argument and conclusion... That's it
2) different question types and approach
3) eliminate out of scope/unrelated answers
SC:
Surprisingly , i was good at SC.Since, in my childhood,i used to learn some grammar. Though i forgot them, i took around 20-30 days to finish one grammar book.
Good thing is that i had natural interest towards Grammar.I did not learn grammar for the sake of learning .I did a systematic approach..
I will follow up with this later.
Why am not happy after 710:
In all manhattan CATS , my verbal percentile used to stay on 99% till question number 30-32... From then on, because of lack of time, it used to drop to 80-90..
As you know,i am a slow slow reader. Given me some time,accuracy will be higher.
And i feel the same thing happened in the real exam..
I had only 6 minutes for the last 4 questions,which included 2-3CRs.
Probably i lost them because of time.. and thats why 37.. perhaps i should have scored 2 more points in verbal ....
Anyhow,if at all i retake, i will do that only after improving my reading speed.
I want to develop a natural skill rather than do something for the sake of exam.
I will update about quant..later..
Btw, how are my prospects?
710 (Q50,V37)
Very good academic background,graduated from the no.1 university in our state with 83%, and my secondary and +2 level percentages are 90%
experience : 5 years
industry :IT ,software engineer.
and scored 710(Q50,v37). Special thanks to GMATclub,Stacey and Ron from Manhattan and Farihah,my colleague
I have no time now. I will update this later.Bear with me.
I started thinking seriously about GMAT 12 months back.My preparation had many breaks in between ,but i made a serious prep from May '10.
Satisfied Or not :
1. I was not happy after seeing the score at the test center since i was targetting for atleast 730
2.But ,considering my improvement on Verbal part, i think i should be satisfied to have crossed 700.. because
a) i don't have reading habits
b) i don't read novels,general articles,magazines
c) i have difficulty in reading at a good pace
So all these resulted in a mere 26 in my first mock test
May '10 : Took my first mock test on GMAT Prep 580 (Q43 ,V 26/28)
Analysis : i dint complete both sections in time.i was short of atleast 7 questions.
Lesson : Ok, since this is my first test, and since it has been a long time since i did quant, i was kind of ok with Quant performance
From the next mock, i improved my quant performane to 48 <still did not finish the test >, after atleast 5 tests, i was stuck up with my old habits .
But after 5-6 tests,i was able to complete quant in time.
At the same time, verbal performance was not even improving by an inch after 5-6 tests. I wondered whether i will be able to reach 30 ever...
You could see my posts in 'frustrated etc.,'
Old habits:
1.when i don't understand a word or sentence i don't go forward.
I read 501 RC book, <it is basic and very simple > but this has brought a lot of change in me...
The way i looked at passages changed drastically...
New habits:
Go in line with the author.I used to start reading sentences as if someone is narrating a story to me..Quickly got a grasp of all paragraphs..
If i don't understand something, i will make a judgement from the surrounding sentences or the author's tone towards the passage.From then on, whenever i read a passage ,i used to understand where the turning points of the passage are and with this approach, now did some OG passages , and i
used to get almost correct..
CR :
For CR, i started with CR bible. That is a good book. Then ,i practised CR in OG . I was getting only 40% correct..
Felt something was wrong..I realised i should use common sense rather than do some negation techniques , prephrase answers/assumptions.
I realized that blindly applying some techniques will not work..
only three things important in CR:
1) Focus on the argument and conclusion... That's it
2) different question types and approach
3) eliminate out of scope/unrelated answers
SC:
Surprisingly , i was good at SC.Since, in my childhood,i used to learn some grammar. Though i forgot them, i took around 20-30 days to finish one grammar book.
Good thing is that i had natural interest towards Grammar.I did not learn grammar for the sake of learning .I did a systematic approach..
I will follow up with this later.
Why am not happy after 710:
In all manhattan CATS , my verbal percentile used to stay on 99% till question number 30-32... From then on, because of lack of time, it used to drop to 80-90..
As you know,i am a slow slow reader. Given me some time,accuracy will be higher.
And i feel the same thing happened in the real exam..
I had only 6 minutes for the last 4 questions,which included 2-3CRs.
Probably i lost them because of time.. and thats why 37.. perhaps i should have scored 2 more points in verbal ....
Anyhow,if at all i retake, i will do that only after improving my reading speed.
I want to develop a natural skill rather than do something for the sake of exam.
I will update about quant..later..
Btw, how are my prospects?
710 (Q50,V37)
Very good academic background,graduated from the no.1 university in our state with 83%, and my secondary and +2 level percentages are 90%
experience : 5 years
industry :IT ,software engineer.
07 Aug 2010, 10:47
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Great score Aravind 
Congrats once again and best of luck for your applications.
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Looking forward to know bit more about your SC preparation.....
Congrats once again and best of luck for your applications.
