teekays wrote:
Hello All,
First off I'm very nervous!! I haven't sat for a competitive exam in 10+ years. I'm 32, me and my wife just had a baby (1 year old), I have a good job in a medium size company but I've started to feel my career progression has stopped and I need to do study further to move ahead both financially and for moving to a better place (something more cosmopolitan than the rusty old town I'm stuck in).
I took my first GMAT prep test the day before yesterday without preparation and I got only 590 (Q38, V34). I'm kind of worried about this score. When I took GRE about 12 years ago, I was in the 99th percentile, but has age gotten to me so soon?? I have committed several silly mistakes in problem solving, couldn't organize data clearly to solve problems in quant, all solutions to sentence correction looks correct to me... the list is endless. RC was the only area I did well without mistakes, I pretty much sucked in all other areas.
My test date is exactly 3 months from now on Oct 24. Can I ever dream of getting 750+?
I have OG13 to start with, what else do I need? Any good recommendations for reading materials SC, PS, CR, DS? Online question banks? CAT tests? I've attached a question bank for RC that I found online today if anybody is interested.
Thanks a lot for your help!! I'll try to post my progress or otherwise regularly....
Hi
Lets consider 3 levels to reach your best figure.
With my experience and knowledge,Since OG13 have all the official questions Suggest it to use at 2nd level.
At start Analyze your 590 Mark test thoroughly figure out your worried locations.Your Quant score can be improved more.So would suggest to use
MGMAT material for overviewing test strategies. Once you were done with it suggest you to go with some practice questions repeat the above until you cross 45 in Quant.
Once you reach 45 Mark you can use OG13 for solving questions and also parallely prepare error logs for it.
Use all the error logs and some practice tests in Level 3.