I'm planning to apply in Round 2 and plan to have the GMAT done by end of October, leaving a solid 2 months for the essays and applications. I would be updating this thread as I make progress. So far I have taken a few practice tests. I'm also using the Quantum CAT by Sarvesh Kumar Verma suggested by Entwistle in this forum. My scores for the practice tests so far are as follows: 1. 14th July - MGMAT 1 - 680 (41Q - 19M, 41V - 12M) - 90 O, 64Q, 93V 2. 27th July - MGMAT 2 - 670 (43Q - 19M, 38V - 15M) - 89 O, 70Q, 85V 3. 28th July - MGMAT 3 - 690 (45Q - 18M, 39V - 14M) - 91 O, 77Q, 89V 4. 2nd Aug - MGMAT 4 - 670 (43Q - 17M, 38V - 14M) - 89 O, 70Q, 85V) 5. 9th Aug - MGMAT 5 - 670 (46Q - 16M, 35V - 16M) - 89 O, 79Q, 77V) 6. 11 Aug - Kaplan F1 - 640 (Q - 15 M, V - 13M) - 76 O, 59Q, 87V) Plan for the next three months 1. Take down all the notes from the MGMAT guides and do the questions in the MGMAT guides by end of August. Work on the OG questions simultaneously after each guide is done. 2. Do one section from LSAT test + review it every day (27 tests and three sections in each test) 3. Start working on Quantum CAT and complete it by September end 4. Work on the gmat club tests in October. Review errors in October and go through the Kaplan 800 book. 5. Take one practice test every week Wish me luck in this rollercoaster ride!

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Day 16: 2/09/11

Took notes and worked out the incorrect problems in the following chapters from the MGMAT FDPs guide.
Chapter 1: Digits and Decimals
Chapter 2: Fractions

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Day 17: 3/09/11

Took notes and worked out the incorrect problems in the following chapters from the MGMAT FDPs guide.
Chapter 3: Percents
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Chapter 7: FDPs - Advanced

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Took notes and worked out the incorrect problems in the following chapters from the MGMAT Equations, Inequalities and VICs Guide.
Chapter 1: Basic Equations
Chapter 2: Equations with Exponents
Chapter 3: Quadratic Equations
Chapter 4: Formulas
Chapter 5: Functions

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Took notes and worked out the incorrect problems in the following chapters from the MGMAT Equations, Inequalities and VICs Guide.
Chapter 6: Inequalities
Chapter 7: VICs

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Day 20: 6/09/11

Took notes and worked out the incorrect problems in the following chapters from the MGMAT Equations, Inequalities and VICs Guide.
Chapter 10: Equations Advanced
Chapter 11: Formulas and Functions Advanced

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Day 21: 7/09/11

Took notes and worked out the incorrect problems in the following chapters from the MGMAT Equations, Inequalities and VICs Guide.
Chapter 12: Inequalities Advanced
Chapter 13: Additional VICs problems

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Day 22 to Day 32: 8/09/11 to 17/09/11

Thorough review of errors in MGMAT tests (MGMAT 1 to MGMAT 5). This took quite a lot of time and I used to get a headache whenever I reviewed 700-800 level questions.

Day 33: 18/09/11

Took MGMAT 6. Scored 740 (50Q, 41V) with 95% in quant, 93% in verbal and 98% overall. I couldn't believe my eyes. :shock:

. Took Princeton Review free test to make sure this wasn't a mistake. Scored 690 (48Q, 34V). Was happy with my quant score.

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Day 34: 19/09/11

Completed the first three chapters on the MGMAT SC guide and took notes on these chapters.

1. SC basics
2. Grammar, Meaning, and Concision
3. Subject Verb Agreement

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Day 35: 20/09/11

Completed the first three chapters on the Powerscore CR guide and took notes on these chapters.

1. Introduction
2. The basics of CR
3. The question stem and answer choices.

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Day 36: 21/09/11

Completed the 4th chapter on the MGMAT SC guide and took notes.
4. Parallelism

Worked out 50 PS problems from the OG Review. The difficulty level is low, so I spent very little time doing these questions. Taking notes is a really pain.

. Hope it's worth it in the end.

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MGMAT SC guide - Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8
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Took the Knewton CAT today and scored 640 (40Q, 40V). Overall percentile - 74 with 55% in quant and 89% in verbal. Made 10 mistakes in quant and 6 on verbal. My target is to reduce these mistakes to less than 5 on each section.

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MGMAT SC guide - Chapters 10, 11, 12 and 13
PS CR guide - Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14

Started with the OG. Did about 200 questions, 100 in Quant and 100 in Verbal. Worked on gmatclub tests. Took 3 tests so far with the following scores.

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2. m02 30 37 81% 63%
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