Greetings from India

Hi Vidyuth,

I am starting to prepare for GMAT. Please recommend me the books you are using for preparation of quant.

Thanks,
Vicky

TO brush up ypur concepts go for Total gmat math book and than fr further advanced and gmat type quant try manhattan books fr quant..you can purchase those from flipkart....

Consider Kudos if my post helps!!!!!!!!1

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I would like to add something in the highlighted text.
I would say not only these companies are underestimating the GMAT but they themselves are not fully prepared to teach GMAT (Except for e-GMAT). As per my experience, they haven't done enough research upon GMAT, its structure, scope, and most importantly how GMAT differs from Indian MBA entrances i.e. CAT, XAT, SNAP etc. and hence there is huge qualitative gap between GMAT material offered by these companies and that offered by Global Test prep giants such as MGMAT, Veritas, Kaplan etc.

I apologize for the strange wording, but i am strongly against misguiding students in their crucial phase of career.

Narenn.

PS : Glad to know, VERITAS has opened its office in Pune. Great!!

Hi Vidyuth,

I took a look at your Manhattan CAT. Since you’re just starting out, it’s hard to get incredibly specific on what to work on, but here are a few tips:

1) You’re finishing both Quant and Verbal with lots of time to spare. You may want to think about slowing down to work more carefully on some problems. However, it’s not unusual to finish a bit early on your first exam, because there are some problems you have no idea how to approach. You may actually slow down as you start studying, because you will know how to work a larger proportion of the problems.

2) You need some explicit practice in Data Sufficiency. Right now you’re missing most of the problems of this type. This is not too unusual for a beginner, but this should balance itself out as you go forward. Make sure you get familiar with how to handle DS right away, so that you can comfortably use DS problems for practice as you study each math topic.

3) You are very unbalanced in your math performance. Some areas, such as geometry, are very high, while others, such as algebra and word problems, are so low they’re nearly random. Make sure your fundamentals are strong. I recommend our Foundations of GMAT Math book for that. If you know how to handle all the basics, it’s not too hard to put them together to handle tougher problems.

4) Your Sentence Correction needs a lot of work. This is not uncommon for non-native speakers. I recommend that you work through our Sentence Correction strategy guide slowly, chapter-by-chapter, building up notes and key strategies as you go.

5) Another key verbal skill you need to work on is inference. This comes up in Critical Reasoning (Draw a Conclusion) and Reading Comprehension, and you’re getting hit pretty hard right now. Make sure to read up on inference and practice this extensively. You can’t get a great verbal score without good inference skills!

Good luck!

Dear Dmitry,

Noted. Will let you how my next CAT goes.

Thanks.

Vidyuth