760 (Q-48/V-46) - Think I did the GMAT

Hi Rishi,
You said that you prepared for just 2.5 month. For a person who doesn't have that super duper brain,do you think that this much time is sufficient for getting a good score ?

Hello everyone

I've been a silent spectator on this forum all this while when i've been preparing for the GMAT so now that it's over and done with, just thought i should post my strategies so others like me could also benefit from these:

Brief background - Engineer from India, WE - 3yrs in IT

Preparation Time - Started preparing in July so roughly 2 and a half months

Practice test scores

Kaplan Free test - 760
Princeton Free test - 740
Veritas Free Test - 710
MGMAT Free test - 740
GMAT Prep 1 - 770
GMAT Prep 2 - 760
GMAT Prep 1 (Retake) - 780
GMAT Prep 2 (Retake) - 780

Practice material used

Used the following for both quant and verbal - OG 10,11,12 & Kaplan Advanced

Additionally used the following material for verbal:

SC - Manhattan SC - The best book for SC as is universally acknowledged by all
- Aristotle SC Grail - Found this surprisingly useful for SC, sort of like a concise version of Manhattan with an excellent idiom list

CR - Powerscore CR Bible
- Some LSAT practice tests

RC - (set of 99 passages across difficulty levels)

I was always depending on Verbal as my stronger area so worked very hard on improving the same.

Test Experience - Nerves really tend to get the better of you initially. Think I started badly in Quant but settled down after the 1st 8-10 questions. Had a candy bar during the break and started with verbal which went like a breeze. clicked on Report scores and was overjoyed to see a 760 on the screen :-D

In case there are any specific queries would love to address those. Also in case any of you need any of the practice materials mentioned above just PM me.

Cheers!

s/w engineer, 3yrs IT ... ... same boat, matey! Wonder how many folks like us are out there! I hope LBS doesn't discard one of our applications thinking - geez! this guy applied twice with a different name!

In fact, I think I saw someone here who is from my company :O. Apart from LBS, I ll be applying to Harvard, Stanford, Haas and Stern (atleast that's what I plan to do) unless I crack and opt for safer schools.

Congra, Rishiraj. I think you did great. I know it's a lot of work as I myself am in the middle of the GMAT preparation process too.

I have roughly 10 days till the test date. What do you think is important to do during this period? Would that be going through as many practice tests as possible? I kinda burn myself at least 8 hours per day practicing as much as I can, but did not see much improvement.

Thanks and Congra again.

Hi Rishi,

I am practicing passages from RC99.. thanks... the material is really good and more like GMAT questions...

can you please tell the passages and Q's in real GMAT was like Medium / High difficulty passages in RC99?

my accuracy is fine. but i took 19 mins for 1 HIGH difficulty passage and 8 mins for MEDIUM difficulty passage.

Any inputs would be useful...

does RC99 state the difficulty of each passage?

Thanks for sharing the resources, I hope all the verbal material must help...