Thank you GMATclub

Congratulations, Gandiva. That is kind of you, too, to offer a helping hand when you have experienced how beneficial the community can be. Yes, as others have written above, I am curious about what went into these scores. I mean, that AWA is perfect. How many essays did you write to earn that score and get your system down? Did you improve more in Quant or Verbal, or was it pretty neck and neck? Were there specific members you would like to mention, Expert or regular member alike? Please let us know if you write a debrief. I think you would have a lot of curious readers, since you have crossed the 700 threshold.

Good luck with your applications.

- Andrew

Hi! On any section, the first things I have found, will immediately give a quick boost is removing that lingering fear about that section. Though the result of this action cannot be measured quantitatively, it will increase your score in the exam hall without you noticing it.

Now specific to verbal and more specific to your current marks, strategy for a V35 is different from that for a V25. In your case,
SC- I think thoroughly understanding MGMAT's SC will give an uplift. Read one chapter-understand-move to GMATclub's difficulty wise SC questions on that topic-Try as many as possible on that topic- More importantly read ALL the responses under that question-dwell on that question and all responses for a while before moving to the next question.
One different source is Princeton's Pdf material. Some presentations mistakes exist in this pdf. But reading all the explanations for each answer helped a lot.

CR- Since you have only 20 days to go, concentrate on mastering assumptions,strengthen,weaken, evaluate questions. Powerscore gave me a good foundation. Then attempt as many questions in gmatclub in the same manner as explained for SC. I felt my CR abilities to increase with the number of questions I attempted.

RC-In my case, I never wrote even one word in my worksheet while trying to understand RC passages. I read each para given, spent 5-10 secs mentally understanding and placing the purpose of that para mentally before moving to the next para of the passage. This saved me a lot of time and worked well for me. Try to bring in the knowledge gained in CR to solve RC questions. Start with reading the first question of RC before even reading the passage as it will help you get ready to solve the problem immediately without vaguely losing some time understanding the passage for the sake of understanding, which by itself is not required at the end of the day as you just have to answer 3-4 specific questions, one of which you can answer surely by a cursory read of the passage.

If you have more doubts, please feel free to ask.

All the best.

Hi, Thank you. Will post my preparation in the next few days so that it may be of use.

Hi Andrew,
Thank you very much. If it might be of use, I will write a debrief in the next few days.
Replying to your other queries,
1. AWA: That post by Chineseburned = eye opener. I understood the importance of structure over adjectival content. Since my daily job required writing analytical notes on the economy of the country and companies in operation, I guess I practised my writing on these notes which helped my AWA.
2. Quants (Q45 to Q48), Verbal (V35 to V41), AWA (4.5 to 6) and IR (3 to 6). These are my improvements. Will elaborate on what worked for me, in the coming days.

Thank you.

Hi Gandiva, love to hear good news from you. 730 is excellent and sufficient to go even the top business schools in US. Wish you best of luck in your application to business schools

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Thank you for your kind and wonderful offer and for your debrief!
Thanks!
BB.

Congrats Gandiva on the amazing score! :D
All the best for your apps

Congratulations for the 730! great score. Gandiva

All the best for your applications.

Congratulations govinda...
Could you please suggest best resource to study for qunats?
I have solve OG.
How's Manhattan?

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Congratulation Gandiva on achieving the amazing score :D
All the best for your application

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Congratulations on such an amazing score!!!

More than 90%ile on the verbal is just incredible.



I wanted to ask you, how did you target your weak areas in the 1st attempt and what did you do to improve them (especially Verbal)?
Did you get an ESR, if yes can you post both of them as they will be of immense help?