I have been hovering around this forum for quite a while but never posted yet so I guess id rather start here.....i had joined this forum about a few months back with the hope to give gmat by March of this year, however due to the workload coupled with laziness i have pushed it to Aug'13....
Anyways something about me,
Im from India, with an engineering background , mechanical engineering , completed my engineering in 2009 from a reputed engineering college, post which i joined a leading Steel manufacturer in india and have been working there ever since, currently im heading one of their manufacturing units in southern part of india - thats a brief background about me.
That being said,
The reason im here as with most of you is to enhance my views / preparation wrt to gmat and also have a community wherein i can ask doubts questions and contribute whatever i learn through my entire experience of giving gmat.
Now with regards to gmat,
I had given one mock gmat last August , with no preparation what so ever and had scored a lowly 610 (Kaplan diag test).
the analysis of which was - my quant was good (needed more focus in DS though)....however my english was kinda pathetic, so thats my focus area, if anyone can suggest some good online tutors wrt verbal in general that would be of great help.
Finally my target gmat score is around 760+ and am working towards that, if anyone can suggest some good study material with problems in the range of 700+ level it would be great again, (I have searched around and got some material already but anything else would help).
Also my target schools are top 20 B-schools as per Financial Times list with my focus being Duke Fuqua, do give your suggestions wrt my target score , focus schools(if its farfetched or realistic) etc
Thanks, hoping to get some mentors/friends here and have fun while prepping up for my gmat...