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Motivatedtowin
Joined: 17 Oct 2014
Last visit: 16 Mar 2023
Posts: 18
Given Kudos: 29
Location: India
Concentration: Healthcare, Nonprofit
Schools: Kellogg '18 Haas '18 Sloan '18 CBS Wharton '18 Tuck '18
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V37
GPA: 3.7
WE:Research (Pharmaceuticals and Biotech)
29 Dec 2014, 06:10
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Gave GMAT few days back. Although I wasn't really happy with my score. 
I had promised myself to give back to the forum by posting my debrief.SO 
Background: I am an Indian female, just finished my Masters in Biotechnology. Was working for 4-5 hours alternate days a week while preparing for GMAT.
Pre-Preparation mindset: I was really confused after finishing with my masters. Had absolutely no idea where I was headed. Plus I was really low in life at that time (really long story involving bad decisions and multiple failures)
Warm up:Before starting my prep i took this test on a website and scored a 640. People told me to work hard....not going to be tough blah
...I seriously doubted it 
I started with Arun Sharma (LOD 1) for quant. But I was just..sort of studying. Generally I work very hard to get what I want. But the problem was I wasn't sure why I wanted it there were too many things weighing on my mind....mostly why MBA 
So I studied for 3 hrs daily...But mostly with zero achievement..
I realized life could not go on like this.I needed some inspiration and the right material.So I spoke to one of my friend's who had given GMAT and got introduced to this forum. I read a number of highly motivating debriefs. Got highly motivated
That's when the real prep started 
Actual prep time: 2 months
I got my hands on
-Manhattan quant guides
-OG 13th edition
-Manhattan sentence correction
-CR powerscore bible
- 6 manhattan practice tests (free with the SC guide)
-2 free GMAT prep tests
-GMAT Club
First and foremost I made a poster saying GMAT 700 Saw it everyday. And stopped being negative. Everytime I got a negative thought I replaced it with more positive thoughts. Instantly.It helped me a lot.
After decorating my room with inspirational stuff I got down to real studies. I went through the manhattan guides for a week. Did its practice questions. (Not all, but most of them). Then I took a Manhattan test and scored 600
I was like OMG.. 
went through the guides again. This time making notes. Took MGMAT test again. Got 600 Decided not to take anymore tests as it was killing my confidence.
By this time I was bored of studying maths, so decided to switch subjects. Started with CR powerscore bible. Read through first few chapters.Loved the approach. Read the book twice, made notes and started practicing Qs from Gmatclub and 1000CR. After having achieved satisfactory accuracy, moved to SC.
For SC I Read through few chapters from Manhattan SC, made notes. practiced with 1000 Sc and club Qs. As soon as i finished the book I revised it. I was scared of losing all that material from my grey matter after having drilled it into my brain painstakingly.
Then I took another MGMAT test and got a 660
By this time I was so positive that I did not let the score bring me down. I sat quietly and analysed my mistakes and made an error log. My error log was hand written and clean. Question source, few starting words and reason for going wrong.
I realized I had major timing issues with quant. And verbal was ..well .I could not apply what I had learnt as I would simply run out of patience with the tough CR and SC qs. Many times I did not read all the answer choices. So I made two folders on my laptop,
Quant 45 to 51
Verbal 35-40
For quant I did the Bunuel signature collection and followed his explanations for all questions. I spent considerable time doing permutation and combination. From Gmat club.
For verbal I started doing lot of questions tagged 700-800. And read expert replies for each one of them.
For RC I used to skim the passage and then go to the Qs. I could not write anything on the rough paper. It just didn't work for me. I used to just read through the passage as soon as possible and go back to it for the questions.
By this time I had taken all the MGMAT tests and one GMAT prep (690). I even took veritas free test and scored 690. (one week away from my test).
For IR I went through the Manhattan Interact videos which were really really good. AWA I followed chineseburned template and read 2 more essay examples.
On test day:
Arrived 30 mins early. My palm sensor just wasn't working like i did the drill for about 7 8 mins. Finally got to my seat, got comfortable started the AWA tutorial and wrote the template on my scratch pad. The scratch pad felt really weird. 
its not a normal paper and pen But the argument was easy. My typing sucked. But i managed to put my thoughts in an organised manner, finished early and corrected errors. When I reached IR my nerves gave away and I totally bombed it. I had scored an 8 on GMAT prep but no time to practice after that. Took the break, had sneakers, talked to myself and went inside smiling 
Quant looked easy. I got loads of DS questions. I saw a number of easy questions and iI thought Ill end up with a 40 or something. Got 49
Verbal was tough. Sometimes I had to read the lines 2 3 times to make sense. Half way through my verbal I realized I would be seeing my score soon and I almost had a fit. Then i told my brain to shut it and concentrated on the screen ahead. Finally after the verbal I answered the qs about sending scores and blah...
And saw a 700. I was just a little disappointed with verbal...but knew with minimum prep time I had achieved a good score.
Take aways
1)Take a test date. I did not have one till the end and wasted lot of time wondering aimlessly.
2)Stay positive. During the final weeks of my prep I even scored a 580 on my prep test.I told myself its ok. Saw my poster of 700 again and carried on my work. Also whenever my evil brain tried to push me down I used to sing GMAT 700 GMAT 700 in my mind. insane i knw 
3)There were a lot of resources that I could not do justice to due to lack of time. Like the advanced Quant Manhattan, 1000 SC and CR. But I would have surely completed them with time. Although 1000 SC/ CR has mixed reviews I feel they are a good practice for getting used to applying the concepts/rules.
Final note: My application is not until next year, so thinking of retaking. I think I could have done much much better with little more time.
But the most important thing I gained from the test was my confidence.
I might have missed out on a few things so in case you need any information feel free to ask
I had promised myself to give back to the forum by posting my debrief.SO Background: I am an Indian female, just finished my Masters in Biotechnology. Was working for 4-5 hours alternate days a week while preparing for GMAT.
Pre-Preparation mindset: I was really confused after finishing with my masters. Had absolutely no idea where I was headed. Plus I was really low in life at that time (really long story involving bad decisions and multiple failures)
Warm up:Before starting my prep i took this test on a website and scored a 640. People told me to work hard....not going to be tough blah
...I seriously doubted it I started with Arun Sharma (LOD 1) for quant. But I was just..sort of studying. Generally I work very hard to get what I want. But the problem was I wasn't sure why I wanted it there were too many things weighing on my mind....mostly why MBA So I studied for 3 hrs daily...But mostly with zero achievement.. I realized life could not go on like this.I needed some inspiration and the right material.So I spoke to one of my friend's who had given GMAT and got introduced to this forum. I read a number of highly motivating debriefs. Got highly motivated
That's when the real prep started Actual prep time: 2 months
I got my hands on
-Manhattan quant guides
-OG 13th edition
-Manhattan sentence correction
-CR powerscore bible
- 6 manhattan practice tests (free with the SC guide)
-2 free GMAT prep tests
-GMAT Club
First and foremost I made a poster saying GMAT 700
Saw it everyday. And stopped being negative. Everytime I got a negative thought I replaced it with more positive thoughts. Instantly.It helped me a lot. After decorating my room with inspirational stuff I got down to real studies. I went through the manhattan guides for a week. Did its practice questions. (Not all, but most of them). Then I took a Manhattan test and scored 600
I was like OMG.. went through the guides again. This time making notes. Took MGMAT test again. Got 600 Decided not to take anymore tests as it was killing my confidence.By this time I was bored of studying maths, so decided to switch subjects. Started with CR powerscore bible. Read through first few chapters.Loved the approach. Read the book twice, made notes and started practicing Qs from Gmatclub and 1000CR. After having achieved satisfactory accuracy, moved to SC.
For SC I Read through few chapters from Manhattan SC, made notes. practiced with 1000 Sc and club Qs. As soon as i finished the book I revised it. I was scared of losing all that material from my grey matter after having drilled it into my brain painstakingly.
Then I took another MGMAT test and got a 660
By this time I was so positive that I did not let the score bring me down. I sat quietly and analysed my mistakes and made an error log. My error log was hand written and clean. Question source, few starting words and reason for going wrong.
I realized I had major timing issues with quant. And verbal was ..well
.I could not apply what I had learnt as I would simply run out of patience with the tough CR and SC qs. Many times I did not read all the answer choices. So I made two folders on my laptop, Quant 45 to 51
Verbal 35-40
For quant I did the Bunuel signature collection and followed his explanations for all questions. I spent considerable time doing permutation and combination. From Gmat club.
For verbal I started doing lot of questions tagged 700-800. And read expert replies for each one of them.
For RC I used to skim the passage and then go to the Qs. I could not write anything on the rough paper. It just didn't work for me. I used to just read through the passage as soon as possible and go back to it for the questions.
By this time I had taken all the MGMAT tests and one GMAT prep (690). I even took veritas free test and scored 690. (one week away from my test).
For IR I went through the Manhattan Interact videos which were really really good. AWA I followed chineseburned template and read 2 more essay examples.
On test day:
Arrived 30 mins early. My palm sensor just wasn't working
like i did the drill for about 7 8 mins. Finally got to my seat, got comfortable started the AWA tutorial and wrote the template on my scratch pad. The scratch pad felt really weird. its not a normal paper and pen But the argument was easy. My typing sucked. But i managed to put my thoughts in an organised manner, finished early and corrected errors. When I reached IR my nerves gave away and I totally bombed it. I had scored an 8 on GMAT prep but no time to practice after that. Took the break, had sneakers, talked to myself and went inside smiling Quant looked easy. I got loads of DS questions. I saw a number of easy questions and iI thought Ill end up with a 40 or something. Got 49 Verbal was tough. Sometimes I had to read the lines 2 3 times to make sense. Half way through my verbal I realized I would be seeing my score soon and I almost had a fit.
Then i told my brain to shut it and concentrated on the screen ahead. Finally after the verbal I answered the qs about sending scores and blah...And saw a 700. I was just a little disappointed with verbal...but knew with minimum prep time I had achieved a good score.
Take aways
1)Take a test date. I did not have one till the end and wasted lot of time wondering aimlessly.
2)Stay positive. During the final weeks of my prep I even scored a 580 on my prep test.I told myself its ok. Saw my poster of 700 again
and carried on my work. Also whenever my evil brain tried to push me down I used to sing GMAT 700 GMAT 700 in my mind. insane i knw 3)There were a lot of resources that I could not do justice to due to lack of time. Like the advanced Quant Manhattan, 1000 SC and CR. But I would have surely completed them with time. Although 1000 SC/ CR has mixed reviews I feel they are a good practice for getting used to applying the concepts/rules.
Final note: My application is not until next year, so thinking of retaking. I think I could have done much much better with little more time.
But the most important thing I gained from the test was my confidence.
I might have missed out on a few things so in case you need any information feel free to ask
mvictor
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Last visit: 14 Jul 2021
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Concentration: Finance, Economics
Schools: Stanford '20 (WD)
GMAT 1: 650 Q49 V30
GPA: 3.92
WE:General Management (Transportation)
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29 Dec 2014, 07:22
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congratulations on getting a good score!
Good luck with your application next year
Good luck with your application next year
Motivatedtowin
Joined: 17 Oct 2014
Last visit: 16 Mar 2023
Posts: 18
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Given Kudos: 29
Location: India
Concentration: Healthcare, Nonprofit
Schools: Kellogg '18 Haas '18 Sloan '18 CBS Wharton '18 Tuck '18
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V37
GPA: 3.7
WE:Research (Pharmaceuticals and Biotech)
Schools: Kellogg '18 Haas '18 Sloan '18 CBS Wharton '18 Tuck '18
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V37
Posts: 18
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29 Dec 2014, 07:28
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mvictor
Thanks a lot
need all the good luck for my app 
