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From mid 600 twice to 760 Updated on: 14 Sep 2015, 21:55
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So last week I scored 760 (Q47 V47) on my GMAT and wanted to share a few things:

I took the GMAT twice before and scored in the mid 600s: first time i ran out of time on Q and had to randomly click through 7 questions, second time same thing happened to me but in V section (11 questions). Second exam showed to me that my V wasn't as good as I thought.

I then took a year long break and started studying again since I knew I could get higher score.
I used MGMAT books and also signed up for Magoosh. I also bought the new OG2016 books and MGMAT Advanced Quant book.[/list]


Quick materials review:


  • I used MGMAT to review quant concepts, but I didn't do any problems from MGMAT guides, as I found them too hard compared to GMAC questions.
    MGMAT Advanced Quant: i found it was not very useful for me, it repeated a lot of the things from the regular MGMAT books and addressed a few very difficult problems, and I didn't think it would be worth the effort to spend a lot of time on those.
  • I did all the questions from Magoosh, and I found their videos quite good: they explain difficult Q and V concepts very well.
  • Quant: I found Quant comparable in difficulty to GMAC, but the way the questions are worded is just not the same in subtle ways.
  • Verbal: RC is too hard and I found a few CR and SC problems too ambiguous for my liking. The Verbal videos on the other hand are extremely helpful and do a very good job explaining things such as "because of" vs. "due to" etc. (I am not a native speaker)

Studying:


  • After doing Magoosh questions (I like that they were online so I didn't have to be at home to do them) I decided to stick only to OG questions. There are minor differences in the way the questions are written in MGMAT / Magoosh, and that put me off from using unofficial questions. There are enough questions in the OG to learn all you need. I kept track of the questions I got wrong on an excel sheet and reviewed them after.
  • The biggest breakthrough for V for me came from subscribing to The Economist: the way the articles are written, the language, the structure - all are just like the RC passages. And the articles are quite good as well so I'm glad I got into reading it and will continue to do so.
  • I did all MGMAT practice exams, but I didn't give too much importance to the scores (they were all high 600s). MGMAT CATs are way too hard, i could not finish Quant on time most of the times. I always did AWA and IR as well and always in the morning at the same time as I would take the real test.
  • I bought GMAT Prep exam pack 1 for the extra 2 exams and I did one in the very beginning, one in the middle, and the other 2 just before the real test, just to get my timing down and get attuned to the real GMAT test. I used GMAT Write for the last 2 GMAT prep tests to score my AWA. I did all the OG IR problems as well (there's only 50). I usually skipped 1 or 2 to make sure I finish on time though.
  • I also bought GMAC question pack (there's a coupon online for discount if you look) at the very end of my prep, so I only did maybe 50 questions. I then stopped since I got 730 on the last GMAT Prep and i didn't need any more wrong answers / different question types to throw me off my game before the real test. However, I wish I had bought the question pack sooner and did those questions instead of / in combination with Magoosh questions.

Glad I'm done, I was a bit disappointed in my Q score, but the percentiles these days for Quant are just insane, and there's no way i'm retaking this test (47/51 is close to max score and is an excellent score in my opinion). Now on to the hard part, actually getting into a business school.

Cliffs:

Get GMATPrep Question pack and exam pack and OG16 and stick to OG questions
Magoosh videos are great for Q and V explanations
Read reputable publications to get ready for RC
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Congratulations on your great score:)




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So last week I scored 760 (Q47 V47) on my GMAT and wanted to share a few things:

I took the GMAT twice before and scored in the mid 600s: first time i ran out of time on Q and had to randomly click through 7 questions, second time same thing happened to me but in V section (11 questions). Second exam showed to me that my V wasn't as good as I thought.

I then took a year long break and started studying again since I knew I could get higher score.

I used MGMAT books and also signed up for Magoosh. I also bought the new OG2016 books and MGMAT Advanced Quant book.

Quick materials review:

I used MGMAT to review quant concepts, but I didn't do any problems from MGMAT guides, as I found them too hard compared to GMAC questions.
MGMAT Advanced Quant: i found it was not very useful for me, it repeated a lot of the things from the regular MGMAT books and addressed a few very difficult problems, and I didn't think it would be worth the effort to spend a lot of time on those.

I did all the questions from Magoosh , and I found Magoosh videos quite good: they explain difficult Q and V concepts very well. I found Mahoosh Quant comparable in difficulty to GMAC, but the way the questions are worded is just not the same in subtle ways.
Magoosh Verbal: RC is too hard and I found a few CR and SC problems too ambiguous for my liking. Magoosh Verbal videos on the other hand are extremely helpful and do a very good job explaining things such as "because of" vs. "due to" etc. (I am not a native speaker)


Studying:

After doing Magoosh questions (I like that they were online so I didn't have to be at home to do them) I decided to stick only to OG questions. There are minor differences in the way the questions are written in MGMAT / Magoosh, and that put me off from using unofficial questions. There are enough questions in the OG to learn all you need. I kept track of the questions I got wrong on an excel sheet and reviewed them after.

The biggest breakthrough for V for me came from subscribing to The Economist: the way the articles are written, the language, the structure - all are just like the RC passages. And the articles are quite good as well so I'm glad I got into reading it and will continue to do so.

I did all MGMAT practice exams, but I didn't give too much importance to the scores (they were all high 600s). MGMAT CATs are way too hard, i could not finish Quant on time most of the times. I always did AWA and IR as well and always in the morning at the same time as I would take the real test.

I bought GMAT Prep exam pack 1 for the extra 2 exams and I did one in the very beginning, one in the middle, and the other 2 just before the real test, just to get my timing down and get attuned to the real GMAT test. I used GMAT Write for the last 2 GMAT prep tests to score my AWA. I did all the OG IR problems as well (there's only 50). I usually skipped 1 or 2 to make sure I finish on time though, because I always found that they stuck the easy questions at the very end of IR (was not the case on the actual test though).

I also bought GMAC question pack (there's a coupon online for discount if you look) at the very end of my prep, so I only did maybe 50 questions. I then stopped since I got 730 on the last GMAT Prep and i didn't need any more wrong answers / different question types to throw me off my game before the real test. However, I wish I had bought the question pack sooner and did those questions instead of / in combination with Magoosh questions.

Glad I'm done, I was a bit disappointed in my Q score, but the percentiles these days for Quant are just insane, and there's no way i'm retaking this test (47/51 is close to max score and is an excellent score in my opinion). Now on to the hard part, actually getting into a business school.

Cliffs:
Get GMATPrep Question pack and exam pack and OG16 and stick to OG questions
Magoosh videos are great for Q and V explanations
Read reputable publications to get ready for RC
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So last week I scored 760 (Q47 V47) on my GMAT and wanted to share a few things:

I took the GMAT twice before and scored in the mid 600s: first time i ran out of time on Q and had to randomly click through 7 questions, second time same thing happened to me but in V section (11 questions). Second exam showed to me that my V wasn't as good as I thought.

I then took a year long break and started studying again since I knew I could get higher score.
I used MGMAT books and also signed up for Magoosh. I also bought the new OG2016 books and MGMAT Advanced Quant book.[/list]


Quick materials review:


  • I used MGMAT to review quant concepts, but I didn't do any problems from MGMAT guides, as I found them too hard compared to GMAC questions.
    MGMAT Advanced Quant: i found it was not very useful for me, it repeated a lot of the things from the regular MGMAT books and addressed a few very difficult problems, and I didn't think it would be worth the effort to spend a lot of time on those.
  • I did all the questions from Magoosh, and I found their videos quite good: they explain difficult Q and V concepts very well.
  • Quant: I found Quant comparable in difficulty to GMAC, but the way the questions are worded is just not the same in subtle ways.
  • Verbal: RC is too hard and I found a few CR and SC problems too ambiguous for my liking. The Verbal videos on the other hand are extremely helpful and do a very good job explaining things such as "because of" vs. "due to" etc. (I am not a native speaker)

Studying:


  • After doing Magoosh questions (I like that they were online so I didn't have to be at home to do them) I decided to stick only to OG questions. There are minor differences in the way the questions are written in MGMAT / Magoosh, and that put me off from using unofficial questions. There are enough questions in the OG to learn all you need. I kept track of the questions I got wrong on an excel sheet and reviewed them after.
  • The biggest breakthrough for V for me came from subscribing to The Economist: the way the articles are written, the language, the structure - all are just like the RC passages. And the articles are quite good as well so I'm glad I got into reading it and will continue to do so.
  • I did all MGMAT practice exams, but I didn't give too much importance to the scores (they were all high 600s). MGMAT CATs are way too hard, i could not finish Quant on time most of the times. I always did AWA and IR as well and always in the morning at the same time as I would take the real test.
  • I bought GMAT Prep exam pack 1 for the extra 2 exams and I did one in the very beginning, one in the middle, and the other 2 just before the real test, just to get my timing down and get attuned to the real GMAT test. I used GMAT Write for the last 2 GMAT prep tests to score my AWA. I did all the OG IR problems as well (there's only 50). I usually skipped 1 or 2 to make sure I finish on time though, because I always found that they stuck the easy questions at the very end of IR (was not the case on the actual test though).
  • I also bought GMAC question pack (there's a coupon online for discount if you look) at the very end of my prep, so I only did maybe 50 questions. I then stopped since I got 730 on the last GMAT Prep and i didn't need any more wrong answers / different question types to throw me off my game before the real test. However, I wish I had bought the question pack sooner and did those questions instead of / in combination with Magoosh questions.

Glad I'm done, I was a bit disappointed in my Q score, but the percentiles these days for Quant are just insane, and there's no way i'm retaking this test (47/51 is close to max score and is an excellent score in my opinion). Now on to the hard part, actually getting into a business school.

Cliffs:

Get GMATPrep Question pack and exam pack and OG16 and stick to OG questions
Magoosh videos are great for Q and V explanations
Read reputable publications to get ready for RC
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wonderful debrief.
can u just give few more tips on how to improve on verbal to 47(I cant even think of it as of now :roll: )
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So last week I scored 760 (Q47 V47) on my GMAT and wanted to share a few things:

I took the GMAT twice before and scored in the mid 600s: first time i ran out of time on Q and had to randomly click through 7 questions, second time same thing happened to me but in V section (11 questions). Second exam showed to me that my V wasn't as good as I thought.

I then took a year long break and started studying again since I knew I could get higher score.
I used MGMAT books and also signed up for Magoosh. I also bought the new OG2016 books and MGMAT Advanced Quant book.[/list]


Quick materials review:


  • I used MGMAT to review quant concepts, but I didn't do any problems from MGMAT guides, as I found them too hard compared to GMAC questions.
    MGMAT Advanced Quant: i found it was not very useful for me, it repeated a lot of the things from the regular MGMAT books and addressed a few very difficult problems, and I didn't think it would be worth the effort to spend a lot of time on those.
  • I did all the questions from Magoosh, and I found their videos quite good: they explain difficult Q and V concepts very well.
  • Quant: I found Quant comparable in difficulty to GMAC, but the way the questions are worded is just not the same in subtle ways.
  • Verbal: RC is too hard and I found a few CR and SC problems too ambiguous for my liking. The Verbal videos on the other hand are extremely helpful and do a very good job explaining things such as "because of" vs. "due to" etc. (I am not a native speaker)

Studying:


  • After doing Magoosh questions (I like that they were online so I didn't have to be at home to do them) I decided to stick only to OG questions. There are minor differences in the way the questions are written in MGMAT / Magoosh, and that put me off from using unofficial questions. There are enough questions in the OG to learn all you need. I kept track of the questions I got wrong on an excel sheet and reviewed them after.
  • The biggest breakthrough for V for me came from subscribing to The Economist: the way the articles are written, the language, the structure - all are just like the RC passages. And the articles are quite good as well so I'm glad I got into reading it and will continue to do so.
  • I did all MGMAT practice exams, but I didn't give too much importance to the scores (they were all high 600s). MGMAT CATs are way too hard, i could not finish Quant on time most of the times. I always did AWA and IR as well and always in the morning at the same time as I would take the real test.
  • I bought GMAT Prep exam pack 1 for the extra 2 exams and I did one in the very beginning, one in the middle, and the other 2 just before the real test, just to get my timing down and get attuned to the real GMAT test. I used GMAT Write for the last 2 GMAT prep tests to score my AWA. I did all the OG IR problems as well (there's only 50). I usually skipped 1 or 2 to make sure I finish on time though, because I always found that they stuck the easy questions at the very end of IR (was not the case on the actual test though).
  • I also bought GMAC question pack (there's a coupon online for discount if you look) at the very end of my prep, so I only did maybe 50 questions. I then stopped since I got 730 on the last GMAT Prep and i didn't need any more wrong answers / different question types to throw me off my game before the real test. However, I wish I had bought the question pack sooner and did those questions instead of / in combination with Magoosh questions.

Glad I'm done, I was a bit disappointed in my Q score, but the percentiles these days for Quant are just insane, and there's no way i'm retaking this test (47/51 is close to max score and is an excellent score in my opinion). Now on to the hard part, actually getting into a business school.

Cliffs:

Get GMATPrep Question pack and exam pack and OG16 and stick to OG questions
Magoosh videos are great for Q and V explanations
Read reputable publications to get ready for RC
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Congratulations to your score and your relentless effort. I am now struggling at my Verbal score, still stuck at under V30. Your V47 is just a dream to me :-).

Related to the Question Pack 1, could you please show me the website having the discount code?
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Glad I'm done, I was a bit disappointed in my Q score, but the percentiles these days for Quant are just insane, and there's no way i'm retaking this test (47/51 is close to max score and is an excellent score in my opinion). Now on to the hard part, actually getting into a business school.
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Agreed, quant percentiles are insane. They've been dropping like crazy over the last few years. Your 760 is what schools are going to look at though, so you're all set there.

Excellent debrief. Wish you all the best for the application process.
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Nice debrief. Congratulations.
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