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Congratulations, Andrea! Awesome work -- a 120-point improvement is HUGE. And that score will hopefully be plenty for the schools you're looking at.

Have a blast in business school! :beer
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Well done.
I wish i could do it like you as well. I am from a pool of applicant that the highest scores except me have been in mid 500. Taking the education quality and being a non native speaker, it seems i am against a summit as high as Mount Everest.

However, reading debrief such as yours only gives me energy and courage to push forward.

Thanks for sharing.
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Hi diegocml,

I've applied to CASS Business School (City University - London) and SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan).
Thanks for the congrats!

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Hi,
Your post is so motivating man. I took my first GMAT 3 months ago and scored a disappointing 500 (Q37 v20) without preparing the verbal section. Since then I have dedicated almost 3 months into preparation, studying daily for 2-3 Hours, never wasting time. My job is pretty tough (working at a drilling site) but I manage to study during whatever little time I get in between work. I have even registered for the E-GMAT course and feel I have improved immensely on the Verbal section as well. On my first attempt I kid you not, I had zero clue of what answer choice I was selecting. My exam is on the 27th of June and I haven't taken any full practice tests since my first attempt. However, I feel I would score somewhat better than last time since the content seems to be much clear. My target is to score 600, anything above that would be great.

Any particular advise that I should follow, especially for the verbal section? CR and RC are still my weakest link

I have completed OG twice, used Manhattan Quant Guides, GMAT Club tests (for Quant) and E-GMAT for complete verbal.
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Hi diegocml,

I've applied to CASS Business School (City University - London) and SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan).
Thanks for the congrats!

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Hi,
Your post is so motivating man. I took my first GMAT 3 months ago and scored a disappointing 500 (Q37 v20) without preparing the verbal section. Since then I have dedicated almost 3 months into preparation, studying daily for 2-3 Hours, never wasting time. My job is pretty tough (working at a drilling site) but I manage to study during whatever little time I get in between work. I have even registered for the E-GMAT course and feel I have improved immensely on the Verbal section as well. On my first attempt I kid you not, I had zero clue of what answer choice I was selecting. My exam is on the 27th of June and I haven't taken any full practice tests since my first attempt. However, I feel I would score somewhat better than last time since the content seems to be much clear. My target is to score 600, anything above that would be great.

Any particular advise that I should follow, especially for the verbal section? CR and RC are still my weakest link

I have completed OG twice, used Manhattan Quant Guides, GMAT Club tests (for Quant) and E-GMAT for complete verbal.

Hi TalalAzam,

Thanks for the compliments!

Well, it is difficult to say because I have quite a good linguistic background (I studied languages and economics but English was definitely the "deepest" subject we studied, from all points, conversation, grammar, morphosyntaxes etc ) so for instance with the SC part I have never ever studied or prepared it and managed to score a 97 pct on the second attempt.
Me, too, was quite weak at CR and managed to improve my percentile from 20pct to 40pct. I don't have a specific advice, one of the thing that helped me the most was to always bear in mind that, even though in the verbal part it is difficult to notice it, just as for the problem solving questions there is an answers that MUST BE TRUE, just as with numbers.
Of course I practiced almost all official questions available on this website and tried to pay attention to experts explanations on this forum. Another thing that helped me very much was reading first the question stem and try to identify the question type: it is a weaken question?
Ok, I tried to read the text with the most suspicious and "aggressive" mind as I could, since the argument MUST be weak somewhere.

For RC, as specified in my post, the GIN RC technique helped me very much, try to google it!


Good luck for the next attempt!!!!
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