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24 Feb 2008, 02:21
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Sat the GMAT this morning and finished with a 740: Q-50 V-40. I'm pretty happy with this, I was hoping for 750 but I doubt if it makes much of a difference from the adcom's perspective. Just wanted to share some thoughts...
As everyone's been saying, the GMAT Prep exams are definitely pretty much the best sample of what you'll see on the test. I sat the first GMATPrep test 3 weeks ago, got 750. Took the second last weekend and got 740, and the exact same Q/V breakdown as on the actual test. I'd definitely recommend doing the AWA sections when you practice, it's just an endurance issue. You'll be one hour more tired and less able to focus after taking them, so be sure to study under these conditions.
For me, the challenge has always been verbal. I knew my quant would be fine. I started studying about 1-1.5 hrs maybe five days per week about six weeks ago. Over the course of the last six weeks I'd say I've dedicated four hours to verbal for every one hour I studied quant. The one thing the stuck out for me on the real test was that critical reasoning was much harder than any of the practice material I had used. I was practicing on OG11, Princeton Review, Kaplan 800, and Manhattan tests, and on all of these was consistently getting 90-95% of CRs correct, but on the real test I'm sure I missed at least four of them. It just seemed like process of elimination wasn't really enough here... a lot of the CRs that test assumptions would have two or three choices which really got at some of the underlying assumptions and it seemed like a value judgment to determine the most important of these.
My weakness has always been SC. I tried using the Manhattan SC bible in the last week or two, but since I had already done all of the OG11 problems by this point I largely ignored the problem sets. This was only moderately useful to me. I'd say it's a very good resource, but if you think you'll need to use it get it right when you start studying and going through OG11, not after...
I'm not sure about everyone else, but RC for me has always been about being in the rhythm. Whenever I wouldn't do RC for four or five days and then go back to it, I would miss close to 50% of them. But if I had done a few passages the day before, then my RC's would be nearly perfect. I'm not a big advocate of studying the day before the test, but if you're going to do anything, I'd suggest going through a couple of RC passages.
Finally, my secret weapon - peanut M&Ms and orange juice during the breaks. You'll need some type of sugar or something to keep you going. Obviously this may not be ideal for everyone, but worked well for me.
Crappiest part, walking out of the test center and listening to a message from the boss that he needed me to come into work (on Sat.) and again tomorrow it looks like.
Oh well, now I remember why I want to go to b-school. Best of luck everyone! Catch you all again when I start thinking about essays and such. 
As everyone's been saying, the GMAT Prep exams are definitely pretty much the best sample of what you'll see on the test. I sat the first GMATPrep test 3 weeks ago, got 750. Took the second last weekend and got 740, and the exact same Q/V breakdown as on the actual test. I'd definitely recommend doing the AWA sections when you practice, it's just an endurance issue. You'll be one hour more tired and less able to focus after taking them, so be sure to study under these conditions.
For me, the challenge has always been verbal. I knew my quant would be fine. I started studying about 1-1.5 hrs maybe five days per week about six weeks ago. Over the course of the last six weeks I'd say I've dedicated four hours to verbal for every one hour I studied quant. The one thing the stuck out for me on the real test was that critical reasoning was much harder than any of the practice material I had used. I was practicing on OG11, Princeton Review, Kaplan 800, and Manhattan tests, and on all of these was consistently getting 90-95% of CRs correct, but on the real test I'm sure I missed at least four of them. It just seemed like process of elimination wasn't really enough here... a lot of the CRs that test assumptions would have two or three choices which really got at some of the underlying assumptions and it seemed like a value judgment to determine the most important of these.
My weakness has always been SC. I tried using the Manhattan SC bible in the last week or two, but since I had already done all of the OG11 problems by this point I largely ignored the problem sets. This was only moderately useful to me. I'd say it's a very good resource, but if you think you'll need to use it get it right when you start studying and going through OG11, not after...
I'm not sure about everyone else, but RC for me has always been about being in the rhythm. Whenever I wouldn't do RC for four or five days and then go back to it, I would miss close to 50% of them. But if I had done a few passages the day before, then my RC's would be nearly perfect. I'm not a big advocate of studying the day before the test, but if you're going to do anything, I'd suggest going through a couple of RC passages.
Finally, my secret weapon - peanut M&Ms and orange juice during the breaks. You'll need some type of sugar or something to keep you going. Obviously this may not be ideal for everyone, but worked well for me.
Crappiest part, walking out of the test center and listening to a message from the boss that he needed me to come into work (on Sat.) and again tomorrow it looks like.
Oh well, now I remember why I want to go to b-school. Best of luck everyone! Catch you all again when I start thinking about essays and such. 
24 Feb 2008, 02:30
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Congrats on the awesome score and thanks for the advice.
Good luck with your apps.
Good luck with your apps.
