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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   06 Oct 2011, 13:16
Great debrief !!

I wanted to know how much time on an avg where u able to devote daily over the 100 days?
Where u able to complete RC99?

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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   07 Oct 2011, 08:36
Congrats for the great score !
Can you share you experience on the verbal part esp. RC bit- the level of questions & similarity of the passages to those of OG12 ? how close was the SC in comparison to the OG12 questions...

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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   07 Oct 2011, 18:30
Congrats!!! All the best for the apps,
I have a quick question, did you see any idioms tested on GMAT? I am confused whether they are still a major past of SC or not?

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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   08 Oct 2011, 22:30
@Mr Golfer
I wasn't able to complete RC99. I think that the high difficulty level passages in RC99 are too difficult and lengthy. I did the low and medium difficulty level passages only and I think that I was well prepared for RCs by doing them alongwith OG12 RCs.
Some of the RC99 passages are too convoluted and random but they helped me in understanding complex passages.

@Yogesh
I think that the RCs I got on the GMAT were tougher than the OG12 RCs. There were more on the lines of the last few passages in OG12. SCs were also not as easy as those in OG12 in which you can apply the 2-3 split easily

@York
I don't remember seeing any idioms questions but I may have got one.
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   09 Oct 2011, 19:23
Awesome score.....Congrats....Due Can You share if any of the above resources Plz?
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2011, 11:03
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Awesome score.....Congrats....Due Can You share if any of the above resources Plz?


Which resources are you talking about ? You can download the free stuff from here and for the rest of the material, you'll have to buy them as that is copyrighted stuff and gmatclub doesn't allow sharing of those. One of the first ethical lessons-before MBA ;)
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   15 Oct 2011, 03:05
Ok if you have any free resources or if you prepared any checklisyts plz do share... Nd i am not talking about copyrighted versions i know that its a crime to use
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   16 Oct 2011, 23:00
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Ok if you have any free resources or if you prepared any checklisyts plz do share... Nd i am not talking about copyrighted versions i know that its a crime to use

Here are some free resources which I used.
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   17 Oct 2011, 06:57
Thanks a lot for the resources
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   26 Oct 2011, 07:59
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Thanks a lot for the resources


You're welcome. All the best ! :)
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   29 Oct 2011, 20:45
Great debrief archimittal. I'm still struggling to maintain consistency in my preparation and unlike you, I invariably miss the targets which I set for myself . Any tips for overcoming this ?
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   02 Nov 2011, 06:09
hustler22 wrote:
Great debrief archimittal. I'm still struggling to maintain consistency in my preparation and unlike you, I invariably miss the targets which I set for myself . Any tips for overcoming this ?

The best way to achieve your target is to be realistic which setting them.We very often fantasize about setting perfect targets and meeting them perfectly. Such a scenario doesn't work in real life situations. Secondly,I think a better proposition is to have a weekly target which is sub-divided into daily ones so that you stick to the schedule.
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   17 Nov 2011, 04:55
Great debrief.Though I'm at the end of my preparation but got a few good tips about what to do before the exam and during it.
By the way, did you also feel this pattern that the last tests in the Manhattan CATs are much easier than the initial ones.I was struggling for time in the initial three and in the last 2 didn't face much difficulty.
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   24 Nov 2011, 01:42
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Great debrief.Though I'm at the end of my preparation but got a few good tips about what to do before the exam and during it.
By the way, did you also feel this pattern that the last tests in the Manhattan CATs are much easier than the initial ones.I was struggling for time in the initial three and in the last 2 didn't face much difficulty.

Yes, the last 2 exams of MGMAT are easier than the initial ones especially the first one whose quant is especially too difficult. One reason for this maybe that the from the pool of questions which they have, the questions would start getting exhausted as you take the test and by the time you reach the last 2 , you're left with relatively easier questions. But I think that the last two CATs are closer to the GMAT than the initial ones.
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   24 Nov 2011, 11:38
Congrats man.. Now I will start the 100 day counter starting tomorrow :P
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   01 Dec 2011, 21:34
@archimittal
You're the eptiome of discipline and planning. Hats off to your planning and execution!
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2011, 02:42
Great debrief.
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   14 Dec 2011, 03:57
@ashima and invincibleforce
Thanks guys. All the best to you all too! Stay put. :)
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   21 Dec 2011, 08:08
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was actually confused whether I should put this debrief or not. Given that tens of hundreds of debriefs are already present on this forum,I thought that does it make any difference whether I put up another debrief? I thought maybe it doesn't; maybe this post will be just another one posted by another jubilant test taker who wants to flaunt her score. But then I thought of all the great posts which had inspired me here over the last couple of months and thought that if these people would have also thought that they are just adding to the clutter, would I have known the right way to approach the GMAT and would I be this inspired to crack the exam. Maybe not! And that's why I thought of contributing here-maybe a minor contribution it is-but still a contribution.


Glad that you wrote the story..you can't say how many lives you can touch with a simple post :)
I took the GMAT without any plan and focus and score 600 (44,29) and I learned that there was nothing to be ashamed off.. reading your post made me think about making a plan and believing that things can improve if I want them too..so thanks for writing :)
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Re: The 100 day plan to score 740 [#permalink] New post   24 Dec 2011, 10:38
sunneysood wrote:
Glad that you wrote the story..you can't say how many lives you can touch with a simple post :)
I took the GMAT without any plan and focus and score 600 (44,29) and I learned that there was nothing to be ashamed off.. reading your post made me think about making a plan and believing that things can improve if I want them too..so thanks for writing :)


Thank you for those words. Your appreciation made me feel that it was worth writing this post. :)
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