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First of all, thank you to the entire community of GMAT Club, especially bb and hr1212. I have finally decided to join XLRI PGDM(GM) 1 year course from Jamshedpur. I am here to share my story of MBA prep and this is the story of an average scorer in competitive exams full of uncertainties with clear determination.
My profile - B.Tech Mechanical Engineer from NIT Rourkela (Tier 1) with 9/9/9. 3years 8 months of work-ex as Area Service Manager in KTM, Triumph and Hero MotoCorp across 10 states in India.
The dream and determination of an unaware kid
I left my job in May 2025 with strong belief in myself that I will be able to prepare for aptitude tests within 2 months (yes got motivated by the marketted youtube videos😁) but reality hit hard after few focused mocks and the benchmark official mock taken in early May. I left my job with strong determination to get into B-School within this year itself, leave no stone unturned. So my schedule was to take GMAT by July end, and then prepare for CAT which was scheduled on 30th Nov, XAT on 4th Jan and ofcourse other exams like SNAP, NMAT and MiCAT. I thought of dedicating full 10hrs a day into prep only without distractions - Full JEE vibe 😂.
But this was not a youtube video of any prodigy or some kind of game that you do a step and that will take you to the next level. The game of aptitude is an experiment very personal to you. Exploration is the only key, repetition and consistency is no way to be ignored at any moment. After I realized this, I felt very insecured to finish this game within the timeline. I thought of enrolling into some course which will structure and boost my learnings. I tried TTP and enrolled to it. It showed me my expected test taking date of Sep 2025. That was a delay of two months!!! I felt like, is it that TTP is bluffing me? But thanks to it that it was so realistic!
The dreaded Verbal Section
Verbal was a dreadful section for me. This subject had scared me to toes since childhood. Never scored above 85 out of 100 in school till date 😎... Thanks to TTP, GMAT Ninja and books of Powerscore Bible RC and CR. They contributed the most to build my foundation into structured thinking and identifying incorrect options. Thanks to the streak method of Marty Murray which helped me to speed up and focus on accuracy (I will put up the links below). GMAT Club forum quiz helped to practice as much as I want in this direction and implement my strategy.
https://martymurraycoaching.com/how-to- ... ks-method/
Unpredictable DI
DI was another new area. Although I am good with handling data and graphs, but approximation techniques, sorting right column, doodling on rough sheet tackling for MSR and TPA were some of the techniques which helped me to master accuracy in this section. There are very less resources for practicing this section and non-verbal DI are even lesser. This is the most unpredictable section of GMAT FE what I still understand. I sticked to official DI questions from GMAC and GmatClub. These two are the only best sources so far I found. The best thing happened to me were to get personalized insights from mentors like BB and Harsh, Karishma Mam and from TTP mentors. Attending live sessions had helped me really to ace over this section.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-impro ... l#p3581767
Super favourite Quant
Quant had always been my favourite section and GMAT FE has easier quant questions for my mental ability. I was only to keep in mind of silly mistakes of reading question correctly, noting down right numbers for calculations and mind the exclusive answers what is asked in the question. Concept-wise I was good to go. So Gmat Ninja's method of 4 step helped me to reduce my silly mistakes in this section and I strategized to complete this section at the fastest pace so as to get sometime to revise my answers and correct if I have committed any such silly mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZ45a2 ... 7oIQeWozPp
My lifelines
Another best part of my preparation journey happened was GMAT Olympic 2025. I didn’t know that writing explanations to the questions at time pressure teaches so much about mistakes we perform during attempts. The 14 day event was amazing. That built consistency, made me more aware and going through others explanation and finding short techniques helped my to refine my thinking ability and approach to solve problems. And being in top 30, I was rewarded with one expected award and one unexpected reward. Expected one – Aringo strategy session (more on it later). Unexpected one – The pilot group of winners of Olympic along with awesome founder BB and great mentor Harsh (@hr1212) This group just fueled my journey and made it seem like a game where we used to teach others and learn for peers. We used to be rewarded a week of forum quiz for our contributions and each contribution made me more aware about my gaps. We used to compete and win one on one session with BB and other mentors. These sessions were gems for me as it used to be personalized and I understood so much about how to analyze my mistakes, deal with mental exhaustion, increasing stamina, strategizing the sections – all about myself specific and not any generic answers which were present in youtube or in other posts. I feel privileged to get these mentorship sessions. As it reduced my exploration time significantly!
I then planned my mocks and repeatedly analyze, share my findings with my fellow mates from pilot group, seek mentorship there and improve. Harsh has collated a beautiful post on how to make use of AI during our prep. So I too utilized that but with caution as AI do not think critically especially in verbal section. I started from 595, then to 615, 655 and 695 in official paid mocks (It is recommended to take paid mocks as free mocks give inflated results for many biased reasons). Winning Gmat Olympic also gave free 6 month access to gmat club tests. That helped me to take many practice mocks and my scores stagnated between 655 to 695. I felt being ready for the final test.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/fix-verbal-b ... 46835.html
The D-Day
September 23[sup]rd[/sup] .Anxiety was there a bit as it was my first aptitude test after long time. Stakes were high and time already delayed. I knew second attempt is not any option this year provided I go for preparation of other exams. So I attempted it and alas!!! – ended up with 605😢 Q86 D76 V78. Was not at all ready for this score. What I felt during test was something unusual that I had not observed during official mock. The mocks were not sectional adaptive but the actual exam was! I felt this because I kept my sequence as - Q D break V and was able to ace mocks. But in main test, I completed Q within 30 mins and in D, first 6 questions were at the highest difficulty level of non verbal TPA and MSR😪😫. This derailed my confidence and that was something I had not yet experienced in any mock I took so far which failed my sequencing strategy. But I was happy about my time management (More about this on other post)
Then I reanalyzed it after score card is received. I converted SPJIMR PGPM 26 course but decided to drop the plan and go ahead with other exams.
So this was my GMAT preparation journey which laid the foundation of critical thinking, challenged my mental ability and increased my awareness about my gaps. I wanted to re-attempt GMAT but was committed to try other exams and that is another interesting story of my MBA prep journey.
Sorry for my first debrief being so long😶🌫️
Happy to answer the queries and help others who are confused in their journey and to contribute to this community!
My profile - B.Tech Mechanical Engineer from NIT Rourkela (Tier 1) with 9/9/9. 3years 8 months of work-ex as Area Service Manager in KTM, Triumph and Hero MotoCorp across 10 states in India.
The dream and determination of an unaware kid
I left my job in May 2025 with strong belief in myself that I will be able to prepare for aptitude tests within 2 months (yes got motivated by the marketted youtube videos😁) but reality hit hard after few focused mocks and the benchmark official mock taken in early May. I left my job with strong determination to get into B-School within this year itself, leave no stone unturned. So my schedule was to take GMAT by July end, and then prepare for CAT which was scheduled on 30th Nov, XAT on 4th Jan and ofcourse other exams like SNAP, NMAT and MiCAT. I thought of dedicating full 10hrs a day into prep only without distractions - Full JEE vibe 😂.
But this was not a youtube video of any prodigy or some kind of game that you do a step and that will take you to the next level. The game of aptitude is an experiment very personal to you. Exploration is the only key, repetition and consistency is no way to be ignored at any moment. After I realized this, I felt very insecured to finish this game within the timeline. I thought of enrolling into some course which will structure and boost my learnings. I tried TTP and enrolled to it. It showed me my expected test taking date of Sep 2025. That was a delay of two months!!! I felt like, is it that TTP is bluffing me? But thanks to it that it was so realistic!
The dreaded Verbal Section
Verbal was a dreadful section for me. This subject had scared me to toes since childhood. Never scored above 85 out of 100 in school till date 😎... Thanks to TTP, GMAT Ninja and books of Powerscore Bible RC and CR. They contributed the most to build my foundation into structured thinking and identifying incorrect options. Thanks to the streak method of Marty Murray which helped me to speed up and focus on accuracy (I will put up the links below). GMAT Club forum quiz helped to practice as much as I want in this direction and implement my strategy.
https://martymurraycoaching.com/how-to- ... ks-method/
Unpredictable DI
DI was another new area. Although I am good with handling data and graphs, but approximation techniques, sorting right column, doodling on rough sheet tackling for MSR and TPA were some of the techniques which helped me to master accuracy in this section. There are very less resources for practicing this section and non-verbal DI are even lesser. This is the most unpredictable section of GMAT FE what I still understand. I sticked to official DI questions from GMAC and GmatClub. These two are the only best sources so far I found. The best thing happened to me were to get personalized insights from mentors like BB and Harsh, Karishma Mam and from TTP mentors. Attending live sessions had helped me really to ace over this section.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-impro ... l#p3581767
Super favourite Quant
Quant had always been my favourite section and GMAT FE has easier quant questions for my mental ability. I was only to keep in mind of silly mistakes of reading question correctly, noting down right numbers for calculations and mind the exclusive answers what is asked in the question. Concept-wise I was good to go. So Gmat Ninja's method of 4 step helped me to reduce my silly mistakes in this section and I strategized to complete this section at the fastest pace so as to get sometime to revise my answers and correct if I have committed any such silly mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZ45a2 ... 7oIQeWozPp
My lifelines
Another best part of my preparation journey happened was GMAT Olympic 2025. I didn’t know that writing explanations to the questions at time pressure teaches so much about mistakes we perform during attempts. The 14 day event was amazing. That built consistency, made me more aware and going through others explanation and finding short techniques helped my to refine my thinking ability and approach to solve problems. And being in top 30, I was rewarded with one expected award and one unexpected reward. Expected one – Aringo strategy session (more on it later). Unexpected one – The pilot group of winners of Olympic along with awesome founder BB and great mentor Harsh (@hr1212) This group just fueled my journey and made it seem like a game where we used to teach others and learn for peers. We used to be rewarded a week of forum quiz for our contributions and each contribution made me more aware about my gaps. We used to compete and win one on one session with BB and other mentors. These sessions were gems for me as it used to be personalized and I understood so much about how to analyze my mistakes, deal with mental exhaustion, increasing stamina, strategizing the sections – all about myself specific and not any generic answers which were present in youtube or in other posts. I feel privileged to get these mentorship sessions. As it reduced my exploration time significantly!
I then planned my mocks and repeatedly analyze, share my findings with my fellow mates from pilot group, seek mentorship there and improve. Harsh has collated a beautiful post on how to make use of AI during our prep. So I too utilized that but with caution as AI do not think critically especially in verbal section. I started from 595, then to 615, 655 and 695 in official paid mocks (It is recommended to take paid mocks as free mocks give inflated results for many biased reasons). Winning Gmat Olympic also gave free 6 month access to gmat club tests. That helped me to take many practice mocks and my scores stagnated between 655 to 695. I felt being ready for the final test.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/fix-verbal-b ... 46835.html
The D-Day
September 23[sup]rd[/sup] .Anxiety was there a bit as it was my first aptitude test after long time. Stakes were high and time already delayed. I knew second attempt is not any option this year provided I go for preparation of other exams. So I attempted it and alas!!! – ended up with 605😢 Q86 D76 V78. Was not at all ready for this score. What I felt during test was something unusual that I had not observed during official mock. The mocks were not sectional adaptive but the actual exam was! I felt this because I kept my sequence as - Q D break V and was able to ace mocks. But in main test, I completed Q within 30 mins and in D, first 6 questions were at the highest difficulty level of non verbal TPA and MSR😪😫. This derailed my confidence and that was something I had not yet experienced in any mock I took so far which failed my sequencing strategy. But I was happy about my time management (More about this on other post)
Then I reanalyzed it after score card is received. I converted SPJIMR PGPM 26 course but decided to drop the plan and go ahead with other exams.
So this was my GMAT preparation journey which laid the foundation of critical thinking, challenged my mental ability and increased my awareness about my gaps. I wanted to re-attempt GMAT but was committed to try other exams and that is another interesting story of my MBA prep journey.
Sorry for my first debrief being so long😶🌫️
Happy to answer the queries and help others who are confused in their journey and to contribute to this community!
Congrats APram! I am genuinely so happy for you. You have always had one of the sharpest Quant minds in the pilot group, which honestly amazed me 🙂
I am glad I could play a small part in your journey. More than that, we are grateful to have you in this community. You did not just prepare for yourself, time and again you were among the first to step up and help others. And what really stood out to me was that you stayed consistent through those ups and downs.
Wishing you the very best for the journey ahead!
I am glad I could play a small part in your journey. More than that, we are grateful to have you in this community. You did not just prepare for yourself, time and again you were among the first to step up and help others. And what really stood out to me was that you stayed consistent through those ups and downs.
Wishing you the very best for the journey ahead!
25 Feb 2026, 13:27
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Thank you once again 😊
Will keep contributing to the community further 😇
Will keep contributing to the community further 😇
hr1212
