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.....i am finally DONE ! 730 (q50,v38) ! i am so happy...without GMAT-Club, it would never happened ! i owe my score to GMAT-Club and to all its members. thanx gmatjang, matt, laxi, baner, freshina, antmavel, bhai, himalaya, bb, gsr, nakib, paul, praetorian, honghu !!!!! when i can manage it, ALL of u can ! about me: - 28 years old - degree in economics - self-employed; a new economy company - 5 years work experience - several awards for new economy projects; i.e. online mtv award my preparation: i started 1 year ago with my preparation. since then i prepared irregular. in the last 2 months i prepared intensly. at first i decided to prepare with a company. but it was worthless. i payed 250 euro for it. then i planned to prepare by myself. i bought kaplan, princeton, OG and several other books. but it was ineffective. i knew that i had to change my strategy. unfortunately, i never had much time to prepare because i had to manage my own company. after a pause of 3 months, i found this incredible website and i started to participate. in my attempt , i cancelled my score because i was too nervous. my big problem is my stamina. i knew all the techniques and my scores during the CATÂ´s were constantly between 680-750, but during the test i started to panic and wasnt able to manage the time. i was frustrated because i knew that i can do much better but was somehow not able to manage my stamina and my time problem. i nearly stopped my plans for my MBA but i told myself all the time that i can achieve it when my heart and my head can conceive it. i set a date for december 2005. in november 2005 i sold part of my company and resigned as managing director. i changed my strategy and concentrated only on verbal. moreover i stopped doing CATÂ´s because some of them are far away from the real test. the best part of my 3rd phase of preparation was my frequent participation in GMAT-Club and my attitude. i was relaxed and didnt spend too much time for my preparation. these 2 aspects changed everything. in my next attempt i scored 730. yes it is possible ! i can tell u guys and girls, when i can achieve it ALL of u can (matt ). its all about your attitude during the test. dont panic. stay calm. be cool. my test: AWA: didnt spend too much of my resources on AWA. i prepared a template and wrote as much as i can bout the issue and the argument. quant: the problems were much easier than the problems that we solve here. only one problem about probability. many tricky ds-problems. only one geometry-problem. one mixture problem that we already solved here. i knew the answer. i finished the section after 1h14m. i knew that i scored above 45. i took the pause and ate a cookie. verbal: i was always very good at solving cr`s and i was always very bad at solving rc`s. thats why i read about 20 articles of the economist under time limits. that really helped me. i saw one cr-problem that we already solved in the forum. it was about jets and their waste. the rc`s were really tough but i managed them because of my intense prep with these articles. i finished the section after 1h14m59s. conclusion: it was easy because i stayed relaxed all the time and so it appeared as i am at home solving problems in the forum. i said to myself: its just a test, just a test, just a test. nothing special. no reason to panic. BUT u only have no reason to panic when u prepared very well. thats the first step. what can i do for u ? i have plenty of books, tests and notes. tell me what u need and i will afford it. i attache my list of formulas ! my plans: now i will prepare my application for 2006. i know its late but i hope i can achieve it. i like to apply for INSEAD, London Business School, SDA Bocconi and one school in USA, but i am not sure about the school. what can u do for me ? i hope that some of u who already participate in a MBA-program of my choice (mentioned above) can give me some advice. (paul, u are at LBS, are u ?) maybe someone can give me an advice for an US-business-school as well. i want to be part of this incredible community forever... chris .....i am finally DONE ! 730 (q50,v38) ! i am so happy...without GMAT-Club, it would never happened ! i owe my score to GMAT-Club and to all its members. thanx gmatjang, matt, laxi, baner, freshina, antmavel, bhai, himalaya, bb, gsr, nakib, paul, praetorian, honghu !!!!! when i can manage it, ALL of u can ! about me: - 28 years old - degree in economics - self-employed; a new economy company - 5 years work experience - several awards for new economy projects; i.e. online mtv award my preparation: i started 1 year ago with my preparation. since then i prepared irregular. in the last 2 months i prepared intensly. at first i decided to prepare with a company. but it was worthless. i payed 250 euro for it. then i planned to prepare by myself. i bought kaplan, princeton, OG and several other books. but it was ineffective. i knew that i had to change my strategy. unfortunately, i never had much time to prepare because i had to manage my own company. after a pause of 3 months, i found this incredible website and i started to participate. in my attempt , i cancelled my score because i was too nervous. my big problem is my stamina. i knew all the techniques and my scores during the CATÂ´s were constantly between 680-750, but during the test i started to panic and wasnt able to manage the time. i was frustrated because i knew that i can do much better but was somehow not able to manage my stamina and my time problem. i nearly stopped my plans for my MBA but i told myself all the time that i can achieve it when my heart and my head can conceive it. i set a date for december 2005. in november 2005 i sold part of my company and resigned as managing director. i changed my strategy and concentrated only on verbal. moreover i stopped doing CATÂ´s because some of them are far away from the real test. the best part of my 3rd phase of preparation was my frequent participation in GMAT-Club and my attitude. i was relaxed and didnt spend too much time for my preparation. these 2 aspects changed everything. in my next attempt i scored 730. yes it is possible ! i can tell u guys and girls, when i can achieve it ALL of u can (matt ). its all about your attitude during the test. dont panic. stay calm. be cool. my test: AWA: didnt spend too much of my resources on AWA. i prepared a template and wrote as much as i can bout the issue and the argument. quant: the problems were much easier than the problems that we solve here. only one problem about probability. many tricky ds-problems. only one geometry-problem. one mixture problem that we already solved here. i knew the answer. i finished the section after 1h14m. i knew that i scored above 45. i took the pause and ate a cookie. verbal: i was always very good at solving cr`s and i was always very bad at solving rc`s. thats why i read about 20 articles of the economist under time limits. that really helped me. i saw one cr-problem that we already solved in the forum. it was about jets and their waste. the rc`s were really tough but i managed them because of my intense prep with these articles. i finished the section after 1h14m59s. conclusion: it was easy because i stayed relaxed all the time and so it appeared as i am at home solving problems in the forum. i said to myself: its just a test, just a test, just a test. nothing special. no reason to panic. BUT u only have no reason to panic when u prepared very well. thats the first step. what can i do for u ? i have plenty of books, tests and notes. tell me what u need and i will afford it. i attache my list of formulas ! my plans: now i will prepare my application for 2006. i know its late but i hope i can achieve it. i like to apply for INSEAD, London Business School, SDA Bocconi and one school in USA, but i am not sure about the school. what can u do for me ? i hope that some of u who already participate in a MBA-program of my choice (mentioned above) can give me some advice. (paul, u are at LBS, are u ?) maybe someone can give me an advice for an US-business-school as well. i want to be part of this incredible community forever... chris

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07 Mar 2006, 08:28

That's outstanding Christoph, those quantitative scores are stratospheric. I'm a native New Yorker who reads the Economist and Financial Times religiously (both British publications), and agree that they are probably the best material to read to sharpen your critical reasoning skills, because they are so well researched and tightly written.

One note of caution, though, for those that use them to prepare for the GMAT, is that you have to be careful not to pick up their idioms and pronoun usage, which are (slightly in the case of the Economist, moreso in the FT) different than the canonical American uses that show up on the test. I realized that I had picked up British grammar over the years, and was getting some Sentence correction questions wrong because of it.

Anyway, outstanding on your part. Best of luck!

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07 Mar 2006, 08:32

Great going Chris!

Cheers :beer

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07 Mar 2006, 08:36

Hey Christoph,

I guess you're one step ahead of the game here, I'm still waiting to hear from Insead- ... do you know how it works- does this mean I'm already out if I don't hear back by Friday?

Thx,

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07 Mar 2006, 08:41

thx to all !!! i try as hard as i can :-D

mimac, check your mails...

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10 Apr 2006, 12:21

hi everybody,

i had my interview at IMD. it was quite tough and lasted for abt 6 hours. it included: two interviews, a class attendance, a case discussion, a lunch and an impromptu presentation.

the interview for LBS is next...

:-D

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10 Apr 2006, 15:54

christoph wrote:

hi everybody,

i had my interview at IMD. it was quite tough and lasted for abt 6 hours. it included: two interviews, a class attendance, a case discussion, a lunch and an impromptu presentation.

the interview for LBS is next...

:-D

IMD cannot afford to loose you.
Did you travel to Lausanne? Good excuse to visit such a wonderful place

IMD is my dream school

I will send you pm to discuss your experience.
Best wishes to LBS!!!

duttsit

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10 Apr 2006, 16:31

Great score dude!

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11 Apr 2006, 00:49

duttsit wrote:

christoph wrote:

hi everybody,

i had my interview at IMD. it was quite tough and lasted for abt 6 hours. it included: two interviews, a class attendance, a case discussion, a lunch and an impromptu presentation.

the interview for LBS is next...

:-D

IMD cannot afford to loose you.
Did you travel to Lausanne? Good excuse to visit such a wonderful place

IMD is my dream school

I will send you pm to discuss your experience.
Best wishes to LBS!!!

duttsit

yes, duttsit. lausanne is a very beautiful place. actually, its the "greenest" city in Europe and IMD is right in front of the lake. its amazing.

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11 Apr 2006, 00:50

Great Score dude!! All the best in ur application!

Wish me luck to

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11 Apr 2006, 04:33

sm176811 wrote:

Great Score dude!! All the best in ur application!

Wish me luck to

go for it...

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11 Apr 2006, 11:35

accepted at HEC and IMD :-D

awaiting decision from INSEAD and IESE

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11 Apr 2006, 12:08

christoph wrote:

accepted at HEC and IMD :-D

awaiting decision from INSEAD and IESE

That's cool Chris :-D

When & where is the party? :banana

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11 Apr 2006, 13:12

Congratulations ! IMD is very selective..great achievement !

christoph wrote:

accepted at HEC and IMD :-D

awaiting decision from INSEAD and IESE

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11 Apr 2006, 17:24

christoph wrote:

accepted at HEC and IMD :-D

awaiting decision from INSEAD and IESE

I envy you

Celebration time
:woohoo

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12 Apr 2006, 10:49

Awesome, Chris! A BIG Congrats!
Hope you get into others too & have the pleasant problem of choosing among the best!

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18 Apr 2006, 14:58

thx...

don't hesitate to ask me questions abt INSEAD (essays + inteviews), IMD (essays + inteviews), LBS (essays), HEC (essays + inteviews), HARVARD (essays), IESE (essays + interviews) and STANFORD (essays).

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19 Apr 2006, 11:11

Hey christoph.
Congratulations from me too on your achievements. I am really interested in IMD and would appreciate some information on the application process, the essays and the interviews. I can see from their brochures that they value diversity and would appreciate your inside view in whether a candidate with unconventional background does stand a chance.
I hope that, provided you decide to attend IMD, we will share more than a taste in music.
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19 Apr 2006, 11:11

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