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ashwin5619
Joined: 07 Mar 2013
Last visit: 20 Feb 2015
Posts: 15
Concentration: Operations, Technology
Schools: Tippie '16 (M)
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V35
23 Sep 2013, 06:50
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Hello Guys,
Gave my GMAT today and got a Q-49 and V-35 overall score of 700
Sorry for my long post , but I feel that my experience will help fellow aspirants who are low on confidence..
I have an engineering background and work as a procurement analyst in the oil and gas consulting industry
Basically, I am a non-native english speaker .. I would like to post my experiences to help all fellow GMAT aspirants who have difficulties in their preparation.
I started my preparations in mid May and scheduled to take my GMAT exam on aug 13. As a non-native english speaker I straight away found that I was very bad at verbal.. Read through several GMAT club blogs and posts to find the best materials for my verbal preparation. After researching I bought these books :
SC- Manhattan SC guide
RC - Power Score CR bible
Though, I bought these books I never really started preparing for my exam. I did not prepare any schedule for my preparation , I just randomly read through the books whenever I had time. By early July , I realized that I was not preparing well enough to get a target score of 700 . So, I started preparing a little seriously in the month of July.. By early August, 10 days before my exam, I gave 2 Manhattan CAT tests and scored miserably
MGMAT test 1 - 530
MGMAT test 2- 540
I realized that I would screw my actual GMAT exam and hence,re-scheduled my exam to sep 23.
I had 9 weeks prep time till my exam on sep 23.
I worked hard on my verbal and I could find that my hit rate had improved in SC from 50-60% to 70-80%
But, I was very bad in CR and I did not do any RC practice questions till then.
Gave a read of the entire CR bible and took brief notes on how to approach each question type.
Then I practiced all OG CR questions and got a decent hit rate
he biggest mistake I made in my GMAT prep was that I did not prepare a schedule , I just randomly read SC and CR that I totally ignored RC and Quants. Because of my engineering background I though that I would do well in quants . Unfortunately, I was proved wrong when I took my third MGMAT CAT test, I got a score of 530 V-30 and Q-35 .. I had only 2 weeks left for my exam and was back to square one again.My situation 3 weeks before the exam was
Quants : No prep at all
SC : had a decent rate of 70-80%
CR : had a rate of 60-70 %
RC : No prep at all
I realized that I was very short in terms of my preparation and was planning to reschedule my exam again,but decided against it and started preparing 4-5 hours a day after work ,i.e. I prepared from 9pm - 1am everyday continuously on weekdays and 7-8 hours a day on weekends. Since my Verbal rate was decent enough I decided not to prepare verbal anymore and planned to concentrate only on quants. Many suggested me that MGMAT math quants were the best material around, but as I did not have enough time to prepare MGMAT quants books and practice MGMAT questions, I downloaded the GMAT MATH prep pdf from GMAT club. Honestly, this was a real life saver for me. I read through the entire book in 3-4 days and started doing OG questions. By then, I had only 3-4 days to go for my exam. I then did not prepare for another 2 days since I had too much pressure at office and I had to leave office only by 11 pm .
2 days to D-day, I downloaded the GMAT prep software and gave my first GMAT Prep test . I scored 610 Q-43 and V-31
Was shocked to see the score. Honestly, I thought that I had prepared well enough in Quants. Nevertheless, I reviewed each and every question in quants and found that I had got 10-12 questions in DS wrong( I did not practice even a single DS question) and only 3-4 PS wrong. All the DS mistakes I made were silly though I knew how to approach them
1 day to go, I gave my GMAT PREP 2. I thought that I'd get a score above 610 because I got a hang of the questions where I answered wrongly. Again, I got a disappointing score of 590 Q-43 V-29 . I realized that in my second test, I got 10 RC questions wrong( randomly guessed 6 RC questions as I had no time) and that my verbal score hinges on how well I do my Rc's.
I was very down and dint know what to do with 24 hrs to go .. I then reviewed each and every question in my GMAT prep and got mentally prepared . I was almost sure that I needed to take the test a second time. The night before the exam I Reviewed all DS questions in GMAT prep and 700-level questions from GMAT club Quant forum .
I got mentally prepared that I have to concentrate more on DS in quants and on RC's in verbal .. Hence, decided to complete PS, SC's and CR's as fast as I could...
Test Day :
AWA- did reasonably well
IR : Got 8-9 questions right
Quants : Got very hard questions from the outset . I felt that the difficulty level in quants was way higher than what I ever came across. As the test progressed the difficulty of the questions got worse.However, was able to finish all the question on time and got a good feeling that I'd get somewhere around 46-47 in Quant
Verbal : I was good in SC and CR ,so I answered these questions as fast as I could so that I could give more time for my RC's(my weakness) .
Finally, because of my GMAT Prep scores I felt that I'd get only 630-640 because many GMAT clubers suggest that the GMAT prep gives an actual indication of where we stand.
Then, the score appeared 700 Q-49 and V-35 ...
Mistakes in my prep :
No scheduled preparation
Overconfidence in Quants
No practice tests until 2 days before my exam .
Advise : Never get disheartened. Don't lose hope .. GMAT is just an exam ...
Work on your weaknesses and develop your strengths..
NEVER GIVE UP !!!!!
Gave my GMAT today and got a Q-49 and V-35 overall score of 700
Sorry for my long post , but I feel that my experience will help fellow aspirants who are low on confidence..
I have an engineering background and work as a procurement analyst in the oil and gas consulting industry
Basically, I am a non-native english speaker .. I would like to post my experiences to help all fellow GMAT aspirants who have difficulties in their preparation.
I started my preparations in mid May and scheduled to take my GMAT exam on aug 13. As a non-native english speaker I straight away found that I was very bad at verbal.. Read through several GMAT club blogs and posts to find the best materials for my verbal preparation. After researching I bought these books :
SC- Manhattan SC guide
RC - Power Score CR bible
Though, I bought these books I never really started preparing for my exam. I did not prepare any schedule for my preparation , I just randomly read through the books whenever I had time. By early July , I realized that I was not preparing well enough to get a target score of 700 . So, I started preparing a little seriously in the month of July.. By early August, 10 days before my exam, I gave 2 Manhattan CAT tests and scored miserably
MGMAT test 1 - 530
MGMAT test 2- 540
I realized that I would screw my actual GMAT exam and hence,re-scheduled my exam to sep 23.
I had 9 weeks prep time till my exam on sep 23.
I worked hard on my verbal and I could find that my hit rate had improved in SC from 50-60% to 70-80%
But, I was very bad in CR and I did not do any RC practice questions till then.
Gave a read of the entire CR bible and took brief notes on how to approach each question type.
Then I practiced all OG CR questions and got a decent hit rate
he biggest mistake I made in my GMAT prep was that I did not prepare a schedule , I just randomly read SC and CR that I totally ignored RC and Quants. Because of my engineering background I though that I would do well in quants . Unfortunately, I was proved wrong when I took my third MGMAT CAT test, I got a score of 530 V-30 and Q-35 .. I had only 2 weeks left for my exam and was back to square one again.My situation 3 weeks before the exam was
Quants : No prep at all
SC : had a decent rate of 70-80%
CR : had a rate of 60-70 %
RC : No prep at all
I realized that I was very short in terms of my preparation and was planning to reschedule my exam again,but decided against it and started preparing 4-5 hours a day after work ,i.e. I prepared from 9pm - 1am everyday continuously on weekdays and 7-8 hours a day on weekends. Since my Verbal rate was decent enough I decided not to prepare verbal anymore and planned to concentrate only on quants. Many suggested me that MGMAT math quants were the best material around, but as I did not have enough time to prepare MGMAT quants books and practice MGMAT questions, I downloaded the GMAT MATH prep pdf from GMAT club. Honestly, this was a real life saver for me. I read through the entire book in 3-4 days and started doing OG questions. By then, I had only 3-4 days to go for my exam. I then did not prepare for another 2 days since I had too much pressure at office and I had to leave office only by 11 pm .
2 days to D-day, I downloaded the GMAT prep software and gave my first GMAT Prep test . I scored 610 Q-43 and V-31
Was shocked to see the score. Honestly, I thought that I had prepared well enough in Quants. Nevertheless, I reviewed each and every question in quants and found that I had got 10-12 questions in DS wrong( I did not practice even a single DS question) and only 3-4 PS wrong. All the DS mistakes I made were silly though I knew how to approach them
1 day to go, I gave my GMAT PREP 2. I thought that I'd get a score above 610 because I got a hang of the questions where I answered wrongly. Again, I got a disappointing score of 590 Q-43 V-29 . I realized that in my second test, I got 10 RC questions wrong( randomly guessed 6 RC questions as I had no time) and that my verbal score hinges on how well I do my Rc's.
I was very down and dint know what to do with 24 hrs to go .. I then reviewed each and every question in my GMAT prep and got mentally prepared . I was almost sure that I needed to take the test a second time. The night before the exam I Reviewed all DS questions in GMAT prep and 700-level questions from GMAT club Quant forum .
I got mentally prepared that I have to concentrate more on DS in quants and on RC's in verbal .. Hence, decided to complete PS, SC's and CR's as fast as I could...
Test Day :
AWA- did reasonably well
IR : Got 8-9 questions right
Quants : Got very hard questions from the outset . I felt that the difficulty level in quants was way higher than what I ever came across. As the test progressed the difficulty of the questions got worse.However, was able to finish all the question on time and got a good feeling that I'd get somewhere around 46-47 in Quant
Verbal : I was good in SC and CR ,so I answered these questions as fast as I could so that I could give more time for my RC's(my weakness) .
Finally, because of my GMAT Prep scores I felt that I'd get only 630-640 because many GMAT clubers suggest that the GMAT prep gives an actual indication of where we stand.
Then, the score appeared 700 Q-49 and V-35 ...
Mistakes in my prep :
No scheduled preparation
Overconfidence in Quants
No practice tests until 2 days before my exam .
Advise : Never get disheartened. Don't lose hope .. GMAT is just an exam ...
Work on your weaknesses and develop your strengths..
NEVER GIVE UP !!!!!
23 Sep 2013, 08:07
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Hi there,
Congratulations !!
Stunned to read an amazing debrief with so many coincidences and the score with such a deviation.
Rgds,
TGC!
Congratulations !!
Stunned to read an amazing debrief with so many coincidences and the score with such a deviation.
Rgds,
TGC!
Marcab
Joined: 03 Feb 2011
Last visit: 22 Jan 2021
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Status:Retaking after 7 years
Location: United States (NY)
Concentration: Finance, Economics
Schools: Simon '15 (M$)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V39
GPA: 3.75
23 Sep 2013, 08:14
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Nice one Ashwin.
I can imagine how much happy you would have been on getting such score after seeing GMAT Prep scores.
Party Hard!
I can imagine how much happy you would have been on getting such score after seeing GMAT Prep scores.
Party Hard!
