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Excellent score, congrats ! :D :)

Well, u need to provide more infos about u and where do u want to apply :)... To me and by default, I will say it's sufficient ! :).... My answer is A ;)... not B or whatever ;)
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Congratulations grad_mba :-D !!!

That is an excellent score! I will be throw a party if I get to that mark :-D !
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Tremendous work grad_mba. I would kill for a Q50. I was thinking about redoing mine too , but I have decided against it. I think that the applications and interviews are far more important.

Good luck.

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Hi guys ! got done with my Gmat today - broke into the 700s

710 (q50,v37)

Well, basically i have a very bland expression right now .. unsure of whether to be happy about breaking into the coveted 700s or cry over 'darn I cudve done way much better' syndrome !

The reason is this - I made consistent 750/760s in my gmat prep tests over the last week. The Adcoms wont buy that will they :)

This was my 2nd attempt at Gmat - my first one was arnd 3 months back resulted in a 660(q47,v34) with hardly any preparation.

Anyway, just got back from the test and pretty tired for a detailed debrief but shall write one soon.

One pointer : Though you can take a 10 minute break after every session, plzzzz make sure u get back within 5 minutes.

I came back in 8 , but the finger printer wudn read my finger ! wasted some time and eventually found that the 1 minute was stolen off my Quants session !

The message read - 45 seconds have been deducted from your session ! great - a message like that is the best thing to happen just before you resume ur test :)

The question remains - Do i need to take the G again ?
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Excellent Score !

:flower :flower :flower

congratulations

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Excellent job.
Congratulations.
all the best.


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Thank you for the wishes and encouraging words :)

I really owe a lot to the GMAT club, without which my 710 just wudn have been possible. It gave me a whole classroom experience with so many enthusiastic people readily sharing their views and problems.

Now a bit about my Gmat experience -

Had my 1st shot in march - landed up with a 660 (q47 v34). After a few PM exchanges with Paul from Accepted.com, decided to give it another shot - to get into the 700s.

I took home the brownie points of identifying my weak areas through my 1st experience. Well SC was glaring right at my face :)

Thus started my 2.5 month long preparation !

decided to work on my touchy spots from the basics - brought these two books which proved to be extremely useful

- Elements of Style by Strunk and White ( trust me its an excellent book)
- Probability made Nice and Easy (one of my strong points became prob & comb)

Once I was done with the Elements of Style - went on to the bible of GMAT SC - Manhattan SC guide - man was this useful !!

Washed my hands off quants for the 1st one month and attacked the SC 1000 series. My results had dramatically improved - for once I exactly knew WHY i was choosing an answer for an SC !
I was maintaining a strike rate of ~ 22/25 !!

Once I was through with ~ 300 of the SC 1000 series , became actively involved in the club forum. I used the forum for my Quants prepz. Every alternate day I made it a point to solve 25-30 problems raised in the Forum. This pretty much covered all the quants basics, not to mention those toughies with inherent traps some ppl threw at times :)

It was now time for the challenges -oh ya .. brought the entire 25 package !Now this was really helpful. I learnt not to go by the scores in challenges - mine varied from consistent 95% to a consistent 65% :) Challenges trained me to approach a given problem through all possible loop holes - especially useful for DS questions. It mainly gave me the confidence to attack any kinda problem that might crop up in the Q session.

After this, it was pretty much the same show - took some practice tests -

prep1 - 710 (4got the break up)
prep1 - 760 (q50 v44) - surprisingly there was just one repeat q in quants
Manhattan - 730 (q45 v44) - yes Q45 !! i found manhattan Q to be way more difficult than the challenges
prep2 - 750 (q50 v40)

took a couplla paper based tests - found the Q to be way below par, hence took only the verbal sessions - was making ~ 43-44

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had a 3:00pm appointment ..things went on fine but for the 'extended' break which cost me a minute in the Q session :(

That incident really got into me and I took a good 5 minutes on my 3rd question !
No - not because I didn know how to solve, but somehow I was working with '10,000' when the q clearly said '8000' !! I knew this wasnt gonna help ..so took a 10 second brk ..a few deep breaths and resumed again !

The Q session appeared to be ridiculously easy but studded with a just a few gem of a thought provoking questions !!!

Didn have time for my last 7 questions as usual - but that has always been the case with me - I knew if i had had a decent strike rate in the 30 questions i attempted - i wud sure cross 48 :)


The verbal - oh well - I have no idea what went wrong, i was confident with all my choices and finished it with 2 minutes to spare !!! (it had never happened before) nyway ..bygones :)

Walked out with a 710 - oh well a very decent score if only my practice exams hadn hyped me up !

Materials I used :

- elements of style
- probability made nice and easy
- OG11 (didn use it much ..had exhausted it for my 1st attempt)
- PR (not a very useful book when ur looking for the challenge - too basic)
- Manhattan SC (i really know my sentences now)
- truck load of self-confidence and belief in myself :)

Profile/Plans:

Planning to apply only within the top 10. (not sure of my chances with a < 750 score)
Long term plans - to set up a sports academy back home.
Banking heavily on my very strong extracurriculars (professional International sportsperson) to boost my uniqueness.

Oh ya .. omnipresent Indian male with an engineering backgrnd + a few yrs of experience
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