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Shiladitya
Joined: 27 Jun 2014
Last visit: 25 Oct 2020
Posts: 9
Given Kudos: 2
Location: India
Schools: NTU '20 (A)
GMAT 1: 730 Q50 V40
GPA: 3.1
28 May 2018, 07:22
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Hi,
Just gave the GMAT a couple of days back and would like to sharemy experience .
A brief introduction, I am an Indian male engineer and at this point of time, if you wish to stop reading, that's absolutely fine
, I graduated about 2 years back from one of India's premier institutes. Unfortunately I consider myself an accidental engineer, not an engineer by choice or compulsion but simply because I hadn't been able to figure out what else to do. Fast forward 5 years and I found myself working as a Business Analyst, catering to leading Airlines across the world. As a business analyst, I had plenty of exposure to sales pursuits and lots of pre - sales and due-diligence and fell in love with this kind of work and therein lies my inspiration for an MBA.
Preparation: I started preparing a couple of months back, sometime in the second half of March. Below were the different stages of my preparation.
During the first week of my preparation I gave one of the free GMATPreps. I got 680. This was to tell myself where I stand.
I started with the OG but soon realized that I would need additional practice in terms of the quality of questions. I finished the OG and gave one of the free MGMATs and scored a 680. This may not seem much of an improvement but the aim was not to look for improvements but rather weaknesses and I found plenty - Statistics, Permutations and Combinations, Sets to name a few. However I was happy with my overall progress and moved to Verbal. I went through the MGMAT SC as suggested by learned GMAT Club members and liked their approach but I felt they focused more on the grammar rather than on the meaning of the overall questions, which is extremely important for doing well in SC. I attended a few webinars and with enough practice taught myself to look first and foremost at the meaning of the sentence before jumping into eliminating answer choices or "splits" in answer choices as the MGMAT SC guide would say.
For CR, I went though the PowerScore CR Bible. I liked the approach - some of the strategies, though named quite magnanimously, are quite simple and easy to adopt. However the book does tend to get too theoretical at times. I solved the OG and the OG Verbal twice and in my second attempt got close to a 90% accuracy rate. For RC, I again relied on the OG , however I would take time to read GMAT size passages as frequently as I could.
Post completing all the three OGs I gave the second GMATPrep test and scored a 700. Encouraging signs, but I realized DS was becoming a major challenge and road blocker. A senior advised me to go through Nova's Data Sufficiency and this really helped. During this phase I also went through the GMAT Club Quant book- I don't know how many of you have had a chance to go through this but I can safely say this is one of the most underrated resources for Quant out there. This is a must and what's more it free for all!
I gave a Veritas free test shortly after this and scored a 710. I noticed Q48-Q49 was holding me back and this is when I decided to get the GMAT Club CATS. This was a turning point in my quant preparation. These tests are truly adaptive and the best you can find. The questions are novel and solutions by Bunnel to some of the more difficult problems are mind boggling to say the least. These tests showed me how very simple concepts such as, if x sqaured is a integer, x need not be an integer , or if xy is an integer x and y need not individually be integers, can be exploited to make questions harder. Overall these tests are a must, specially if you are aiming for the Q51 mark. There are 25 Qaunt CATs and I routinely gave 2 Quant CATs per day. I gave the first few ones in practice mode to help me with my speed; over the course of the next 12 days I managed to get a 51 quite regularly. Bolstered by this, I scheduled the GMAT for the 26th May.
I completed the Quant tests and attempted the MGMAT free test again, scoring 730. I noticed a vast difference in my ability to solve complex DS problems
At this point of time, I came across EGMAT's pre-thinking approach in one if the webinars. This was exactly the same as pre-phrasing mentioned in the PowerScore CR but I simply did not have enough time to attempt or enroll for EGMAT's verbal course. However to improve my performance in SC and CR , I attempted the 800 tests for Verbal as well as Quant. Their quant level is just above par with respect to the actual GMAT and their verbal while not quite indicative of the actual GMAT is still good enough for practice.
I gave GMATPrep 3 and 4 and scored 760 and 730 respectively, a week before my actual GMAT, and knew that I could expect to score anything 730-750 on 26th.
Test Day
Center : Unisoft Technologies, Bangalore
I have heard quite harsh reviews about this center but I found this place to be extremely tidy, cozy and neat, even homely. It's a small center with 5 work stations, but the lady is quite cooperative and helpful and overall it was quite a good experience. During my mocks I had conditioned myself NOT to take breaks ; this is because you are required to scan your palm twice once while going out and once while coming and a lot of GMAT club members had mentioned this exercise tends to eat up valuable break time. I had chosen the third option : Quant, Verbal, IR and AWA. At the end I was quite happy to see a 730 and pleasantly surprised to see a 7 in IR, having never scored more than 5 ever!
As I contemplate on this journey, I do wonder whether I should have focused a bit more on RC and Verbal in general and that would have certainly helped me get a 750 but then, life is full of haves and have nots! Feel free to reach out in case you want any help. I am really thankful to all the members of this amazing community here at large, have learned a lot from them and hope to learn a lot more as I embark on the next phase of my MBA journey.
Just gave the GMAT a couple of days back and would like to sharemy experience .
A brief introduction, I am an Indian male engineer and at this point of time, if you wish to stop reading, that's absolutely fine
, I graduated about 2 years back from one of India's premier institutes. Unfortunately I consider myself an accidental engineer, not an engineer by choice or compulsion but simply because I hadn't been able to figure out what else to do. Fast forward 5 years and I found myself working as a Business Analyst, catering to leading Airlines across the world. As a business analyst, I had plenty of exposure to sales pursuits and lots of pre - sales and due-diligence and fell in love with this kind of work and therein lies my inspiration for an MBA.Preparation: I started preparing a couple of months back, sometime in the second half of March. Below were the different stages of my preparation.
During the first week of my preparation I gave one of the free GMATPreps. I got 680. This was to tell myself where I stand.
I started with the OG but soon realized that I would need additional practice in terms of the quality of questions. I finished the OG and gave one of the free MGMATs and scored a 680. This may not seem much of an improvement but the aim was not to look for improvements but rather weaknesses and I found plenty - Statistics, Permutations and Combinations, Sets to name a few. However I was happy with my overall progress and moved to Verbal. I went through the MGMAT SC as suggested by learned GMAT Club members and liked their approach but I felt they focused more on the grammar rather than on the meaning of the overall questions, which is extremely important for doing well in SC. I attended a few webinars and with enough practice taught myself to look first and foremost at the meaning of the sentence before jumping into eliminating answer choices or "splits" in answer choices as the MGMAT SC guide would say.
For CR, I went though the PowerScore CR Bible. I liked the approach - some of the strategies, though named quite magnanimously, are quite simple and easy to adopt. However the book does tend to get too theoretical at times. I solved the OG and the OG Verbal twice and in my second attempt got close to a 90% accuracy rate. For RC, I again relied on the OG , however I would take time to read GMAT size passages as frequently as I could.
Post completing all the three OGs I gave the second GMATPrep test and scored a 700. Encouraging signs, but I realized DS was becoming a major challenge and road blocker. A senior advised me to go through Nova's Data Sufficiency and this really helped. During this phase I also went through the GMAT Club Quant book- I don't know how many of you have had a chance to go through this but I can safely say this is one of the most underrated resources for Quant out there. This is a must and what's more it free for all!
I gave a Veritas free test shortly after this and scored a 710. I noticed Q48-Q49 was holding me back and this is when I decided to get the GMAT Club CATS. This was a turning point in my quant preparation. These tests are truly adaptive and the best you can find. The questions are novel and solutions by Bunnel to some of the more difficult problems are mind boggling to say the least. These tests showed me how very simple concepts such as, if x sqaured is a integer, x need not be an integer , or if xy is an integer x and y need not individually be integers, can be exploited to make questions harder. Overall these tests are a must, specially if you are aiming for the Q51 mark. There are 25 Qaunt CATs and I routinely gave 2 Quant CATs per day. I gave the first few ones in practice mode to help me with my speed; over the course of the next 12 days I managed to get a 51 quite regularly. Bolstered by this, I scheduled the GMAT for the 26th May.
I completed the Quant tests and attempted the MGMAT free test again, scoring 730. I noticed a vast difference in my ability to solve complex DS problems
At this point of time, I came across EGMAT's pre-thinking approach in one if the webinars. This was exactly the same as pre-phrasing mentioned in the PowerScore CR but I simply did not have enough time to attempt or enroll for EGMAT's verbal course. However to improve my performance in SC and CR , I attempted the 800 tests for Verbal as well as Quant. Their quant level is just above par with respect to the actual GMAT and their verbal while not quite indicative of the actual GMAT is still good enough for practice.
I gave GMATPrep 3 and 4 and scored 760 and 730 respectively, a week before my actual GMAT, and knew that I could expect to score anything 730-750 on 26th.
Test Day
Center : Unisoft Technologies, Bangalore
I have heard quite harsh reviews about this center but I found this place to be extremely tidy, cozy and neat, even homely. It's a small center with 5 work stations, but the lady is quite cooperative and helpful and overall it was quite a good experience. During my mocks I had conditioned myself NOT to take breaks ; this is because you are required to scan your palm twice once while going out and once while coming and a lot of GMAT club members had mentioned this exercise tends to eat up valuable break time. I had chosen the third option : Quant, Verbal, IR and AWA. At the end I was quite happy to see a 730 and pleasantly surprised to see a 7 in IR, having never scored more than 5 ever!
As I contemplate on this journey, I do wonder whether I should have focused a bit more on RC and Verbal in general and that would have certainly helped me get a 750 but then, life is full of haves and have nots! Feel free to reach out in case you want any help. I am really thankful to all the members of this amazing community here at large, have learned a lot from them and hope to learn a lot more as I embark on the next phase of my MBA journey.
28 May 2018, 08:53
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Shiladitya
Hi
Congratulations on your great score. Thanks for sharing a detailed debrief.
It will be useful to all of us. Best of luck for the applications.
01 Jun 2018, 01:39
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Congrats on the gmat score. All the best for your applications 
