790...(Q50 V51)

Incredible, fantastic......What A Score!!!!

Don't be dissapointed....You're one of the few!!!

Happy days!!!

Amazing!!!

I would be happy with 90% of your score !
Congratulations! Fantastic score!
All the best

Congratulations!

That is a great score!

About the quant, I felt the same way as you and for the same reasons, but who cares about that if your overall score is just great.

MASSIVE RESPECT, This is trully to be admired. congratz on the great achievement and good luck .

Dude:
No wonder you are disappointed with your 50 score in Quant. Its AWESOME score!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
All the best with your APPS.

Aryan

Thanks guys.

I though rather than posting my preparation story I would compile a list of the books and softwares I used. The first 10 are roughly in chronological order. The number in parathesis is a how I rate them on a scale of 1-4 (4 being highly recommended). I have also listed pros and cons of each (IMO). Since verbal was my weak area, my feedback would be somewhat skewed.

1) PR Cracking the Gmat (3):
+ Good book to start. Nice strategies.
- few questions, way easier than actual exam

2) Kaplan Higher Score for the GMAT (4):
+ ~50 questions per type, level of difficulty
- some RC/CR questions seem delibrately confusing and their answers and not well explained

3) OG 10e/Powerprep Tests (4+):
+ verbal is very close to the real exam, lots of questions, SCs are a must do.
- quant is much easier than gmat, SC not well explained
I have heard OG11e has much better explanations but didn't get a chance to look at it.

4) Kaplan Grammar Power/PR Grammar Smart (3, if verbal is your weak area): Both are pretty much the same. Pick any.
+ explains basic of grammar,
- few practice questions, not written specifically for GMAT SC.

5) Kaplan CD (3): Would be good if you can do all sections and CATs.
+ lots of difficult questions, timed, builds stamina
- super long RCs. RC sections give you 25 min to do 18 questions which is absurd, some CR and RC explanations were unconving, scores are usually ~100 less than the actual exam

6) Kaplan Verbal Review (3 if you are weak in verbal)
+ lots of challenging practice questions. I think ~50-60 per type.
- quite a bit of overlap with CD, explanations are not very good

7) PR Verbal Workout (1)
- very few problems to work on, nothing really unique about it

8) Manhattan SC Guide (2.5)
+ good consolidated review of SC strategies
- no multiple choice practice questions, i think it's overpriced

9) GMATprep (4+): If I have time to do PP or Gmatprep, I would do latter.
+ closest to the real exam, minimal overlap with OG, i think it's the best predictor of your score.
- no explanations

10) PR online CAT (4):
+ close to the real problems, answers are very well explained, even the wrong choices are explained why they are wrong.
- nothing really negative about these

11) Baron's (1):
+ SC and CR theory are worth a quick look
- questions seem quite different from GMAT so I didnt spend much time on them

12) Arco's (0):
- i only studied some CR and SC sections. many questions didn't make any sense to me. so I just gave up on this.

13) 1000 SC/CR/RC (2): I could only do about first 200 of each. I would have liked to spend more time on it
+ very good collection of questions
- no explanations, once in a while OA appeared wrong to me.

14) GMAT Forums (4+): again, I wish I had more time to spend on these.
+ the questions and discussions are awesome. this is the only place where you can get feedback on your approach to problems, unless of course you are enrolled in a classroom course. I really value that people take out time not only to post questions and answers but also to help each other understand.
- it's somewhat time consuming, i wish there was a better to track which questions I have already attempted and which ones have OA/OE posted.

**** My practice Cat score (again in choronological order) ****
Kaplan CD Diag: 740
PP1 770 (after 1/2 of OG)
Kaplan1: 640
Kaplan2: 690
Kaplan3: 640
Kaplan4: 700
PP2 800 (after OG )
PR Online1: 760
PR Online2: 770
GMATPrep1: 780
KaplanOnline: 790
PR Online3: 760
PR Online4: 770
GMATPrep2: 780

Hey dude,

That's awesome score
Congratulations!!!

Well, you took so many practice tests, please tell us about your preparation, GMAT study plan too...

Cheers

Congratulations !!!!

Some tips on the study plan shall help us better !!!!!

Thanks

-Plumberg

Dude,
That score is awesome. Just goes to show that the GMAT is conquerable.

That's an 8 year old thread and the guy is probably helping other people in admission.

Hahah, somehow it popped up somewhere as an active discussion. Thanks for pointing it out!