Thus begins my official preparation for the GMAT. Background Information I am not your usual GMAT candidate. For starters, I'm 19 years old, and I have been toying with the idea of applying to Harvard's 2+2 for a while, and hence joined GMAT Club approximately 3 months ago, I think. Though I am originally from India, I am bilingual in English and I love math. And I love Venn Diagrams. Just ask Hussain15 . Resources: 1. MGMAT Study Guides 2. The Powerscore On-Demand Course 3. The OG12 and the Official Guide Reviews for Quant and Verbal 4. Veritas Prep Guides My debrief can be found in my signature.

whip: In your error log(s), you may want to consider not including correct answers. That is a waste of your time and it won't help you at all. Plus that will make you overconfident in your ability by seeing high hit rates. What I did was only record the wrong answers, across a number of practice materials. By doing this I was able to see EXACTLY where my weak areas were, even down to the subsection within a section. Then I just reviewed that lesson and took some more practice of that same exact subsection within a section. So for instance, a big problem for me was Operations on rational numbers within number property within Arithmetic in Quant. The error logs were invaulable in focusing on these problems. Remember: diversify = fail...... and focus = win

Time to start preparing for SC!

Good luck on the study prep and all. With your comprehensive planning/work, you'd not be in bad shape in any way but my couple of nuggets from my prior experiences. Learn to commit the hours of taking the exam - it's real slow and drab for someone used to having multiple windows open with chats/etc. Secondly, if you get something right really quickly in math (and tams/brown ppl esp seem to occasionally have this from prior experiences), don't let it startle you and make you think "whoa I'm half done with math in half the allotted time - this is odd, gotta slow down" - this got me on the 2nd time I took quant and was silly, but meant that I started to lose my train of thought cos I was going too fast for first half of the section. Other than that, have fun - penn state's a riot of a school and don't forget to balance ur stress level with DM/whatever is on around campus.

This is a tremendous thread. Thanks so much for sharing. It's great reading your experience because I myself have found the test really daunting. Maybe it's because I have been out of school for a while, or maybe it's because I was no never so sharp in the first place. I actually read this article about the GMAT not being natural and it helped a bit. Best, Shannon

Good luck Shannon, and welcome to the club.

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