Shoot for the stars, reach a treetop

Wow. You could reach close to 800, I guess. May be you should consider tutoring soon. I was always running out of time on the quant section in my three tests.

You're a beast!!! I wanna be a beaaaaast toooo!

If I can score a 700 like you did on my next MGMAT test ill be uber happy!

Whiplash, thx so much for posting that study strategy you wrote up with the pyramid, etc. Great run down. I'll be on this forum a lot next summer after CFA L2. Going to probably follow your strategy and put in extreme hours of study to aim for 700 and shoot for the stars.

Whoa! I was in the same situation till my 7th grade! I was in Dubai then and I spoke Malayalam with my mother only (also with my friends' mothers, but that's very rare). I tell my friends that I "think" in English (I honestly do!) and they ask me "how does one 'think' in a language"... what do they know about thinking, huh?

The biggest advantage because of this is idioms, I suppose.


BTW.. 19 years?!?!??! I was at the brink of leaving engineering to become a professional CS player at the age of 19!

NICE. Yes, 19. Applying to HBS 2+2 I read your debrief. Sweet score. Hopefully, I'll be in the same boat by the time I take the GMAT. Right now I am averaging late 600s-early 700s. I need to start doing some actual studying, lol.

Thanks! I am pretty excited about my score, but I fall in the most over-represented group - Indian IT male. I wonder if there is a thread here for successful Indian IT males hmmm...

Anyways here's my 2 cents about GMAT -
After each test, spend sometime trying to figure out where you made mistakes. It needn't be the type of problems, it could also be the way you are tackling them, the way you manage the time, whether you lose focus in between, etc...

Your planning, diagrams and spreadsheets show that not only will you succeed in GMAT but will also be very popular in your study group in b-school

Haha, I have OCD with notes. I have to have them my way and it can't be any other way. You should see my school notes, lol. And thanks. I am reviewing my exams. At the same time, I haven't spent any time on Math so far so I have to spend some time doing that now as well

OK, now I am a lil afraid to be in your group

Best of luck, Whiplash! BTW, when you lash the whip does it make the sound that Chandler made or the one that Joey made? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggXbzjnffAo

HAHA. Neither. It sounds like hip-hop.

New study strategy considering the fact that I have issues with focus.

I am going to start studying MGMAT SC and Aristotle's SC Grail side-by-side in order to figure out what I need and take notes so I can just use that for reference instead of taking all my books with me all the time. Once through with that, I plan to start working on the OG for SC. Meanwhile, I am also going to work on skimming through the MGMAT Math Guides and making note of important formulas or rules that I might have not remembered earlier. After that, I plan to do the MGMAT Question Banks online and work on the GMAT Club tests to test my skills further.

For CR, I think I've already done enough studying so I am just going to work on doing problems from the OG and for RC I plan to just go with intuition and work on the OG passages along with RC99.

If I have enough time after this, I might also do the problems from the Veritas Guides (especially the DS one, to get a better feel of the math stuff)

In between this, I plan to take one CAT every weekend from now on, and two during Thanksgiving break and two every week after my finals, so that I can get my game back on and get that 750 I've been itching to get.

Wish me luck. I'll keep you guys updated about my progress

gr8 score....

y'day i tuk my diagnostic MGMAT and got 610 Q(45) and V(30).
am happy to hear that MGMAT is harder than GMATprep which is the real indicator ...

GMAT Club Test m22 34/37. Finished with 20 mins to spare. I just need to brush up on Geometry now I guess, lol.

Joining back to your journey!

When is the d.date?

December 29th!

Best of luck!!

Any gmat prep taken??

Yeah I took one before I began my preparation. Not planning to take one until next week once I finish going through some more CR and SC along with some geometry and
Number properties from the GMAT Club tests!

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Took GMAT Prep I, v 2 and scored a 770. I am ELATED!

Score Breakdown: Q50 (8 questions wrong) V47 (6 questions wrong).

Things done differently:

1. I sat in a room by myself and made sure to tune out all distractions.
2. I took notes for RC and CR and rechecked my answer with the answer I chose to make sure that it made sense.
3. I did the ABCDE POE for all the verbal questions.
4. If I didn't know an answer on Quant, I didn't just guess and move on. Instead, I gave myself 3 minutes for questions I didn't have an answer to off the top of my head and tried to work it out. I also had the timing vs. question number breakdown written on a piece of paper to make sure I stayed on track.
5. I finished the Quant section with 28 minutes to spare but I sat through the Verbal section and only had like 7 minutes left when I ended the exam, which I feel is a MAJOR contribution to this score.

Most important takeaway: My study schedule is helping me. But I am not going to get complacent. I plan to start working on the OG or the MGMAT books tomorrow and take another practice test (probably MGMAT) within this week to corroborate my score (and make sure it wasn't some freak stroke of luck, which I hope it wasn't).

Things to study:

1. Bold Faced Questions - Got three of these and got 2 of them wrong. I had no idea what I was doing. One was in an RC. I also got one other RC question about the tone of the passage wrong, so I need to work on that as well.
2. Geometric properties of circles and triangles - Got 3 of these and got 2 wrong again.
3. Modifiers and certain random idioms - Got 3 of these wrong.

Overall: Happy with the result! Going to do some GMAT Club Tests now!