And its my turn.... just came back from the test center and am very, very pleased to report that I got: 710:94%ile, Q49:90%ile, V37:83%ile. First off, a big thank you to my wife who endured my crazy anti-social, anti-house keeping study schedule for 2-1/2 months and allowed me to do this. Every weekend during the last 2 months I have been at home studying while she made sure that I was not disturbed!! I owe this to her for her support all along... Needless to say, I was very happy when I saw the report on the screen: 49Q + 37V. This was my second attempt at the GMAT; the first in 09/04 was with a 5-day prep.. ended with 620 . Not sure why I did it that way then... but I chalk it up to experimentation. The final verbal score was a bit lower than my target but ... not complaining. My target school is Univ of California, Berkeley part-time MBA, Haas school of business, so pretty much within range I think. I was dreading the fact that I will have to come back and tell everyone that I didn't score well... but thankfully won't have to do that. Going from a point where I was not consistent at all to a 710 just shows that a lot of hard work and sweat will do wonders. First off a big salute to Praet and the founders who have formed this great community of people who share and help each other to do better; It was uplifting as well as motivating to read posts about people who did well, and posts about people who didn't do so well. The key was how people rallied around someone who was disappointed with his/her performance and encouraged to give it another shot..... Thanks everyone for the continual support and encouragement. With a lot of help from ps_dahiya, GMATT73, rhyme, Iced_tea, Yezz, Fig, walletless, willget800, laxieqv, futuristic, gmatmba, necromonger, u2lover, kevincan, gmacvik, rkatl, pelihu, lan583 and a lot of others who not only helped me to learn every aspect of the test and its arcane concepts, but also endured my stupid questions and answers as well. Long-Term Test Prep : Started preparing on the 2nd of June; registered for the test and then started preparing, as it set a goal for myself. I work full time and volunteer at a business institute which wasn't an ideal situation but decided to make do with it. Initially had setup my test for Oct 2nd, but pre-poned it as I was worried that I might peak too early and also because I wanted to get an afternoon slot. Initial appointment was 8:00am on Oct 2nd; but after looking at my level of awareness @ 8:00am, thought it would be better to move it to the afternoon. Set the new test date to Sep 25th @ 12:15pm. Gave me 2-1/2 months or so of prep time. Due to work and other committments, decided to get up early and study. Got up everyday @ 5:00am and studied for about 1-1/2 hrs. Went to work and started studing again at 7:00pm for about 3-hours. Ended up with about 4.5-5 hours consistently everyday over a period of 2-1/2 months excluding the 4 day vacation Took a total of 16 tests with about half with AWA. Followed Rhyme's advice of quality over quantity... MGMAT was tougher, Princeton inline and Cambridge verbal just brutal (especially the CRs). GMATPrep and PowerPrep were inline. And believe it or not the first PowerPrep test score was 710 and my last is 710. Talk about consistency.... Hmm.. on second thoughts maybe all the prep didn't help much?? Who am I kidding... without the prep I would probably score a lot lower than this... MGMAT SC was a god-send to me.. a non-native english speaker, who didn't much care about what a dangling modifier was about 3 months ago. But things changed and MGMAT was very-very helpful. Can't say the same about the other 5 math books or the RC/CR. Diagramming didn't do much for me; took a lot of time and didn't help too much. The only thing that helped me the most on the CR was : * reading the question first, * writing the conclusion in your own words & * using a {A, B, C, D, E} grid and cross out the answers to arrive at the smallest possible set of answer choices. SC was also the same: * Read the sentence * Cross out the options from the {A-E} grid, and then work on the narrow choices. Had the worst time on DS. A week before my test my DS just crashed and started getting very stressed out about how I would do. Worked on about 6 DS sections from the 1000DS. Seemed to help, but again used GMATPrep for all PS + DS practice. My PS thankfully was pretty ok, and after making sure I avoided silly mistakes at all costs, results seemed to get better. Used the following materials : a. OG11 b. OGQR c. OGVR d. Cambridge Test Prep software e. Princeton Review software f. Power Prep g. GMATPrep. h. Manhattan SC + CR/RC + 5 Math i. Princeton Review f. Kaplan (limited use). Test Practice Scores: PPrep Jul 08th, 2006: 710 (Q48, V40) GPrep Jul 16th, 2006: 670 (Q44, V38) GPrep Aug 12th, 2006: 690 (Q48, V38) PPrep Aug 20th, 2006: 700 (Q49, V36) CPrep Aug 26th, 2006: 660 (Q46, V39) CPrep Aug 27th, 2006: 690 (Q48, V39) GPrep Aug 30th, 2006: 730 (Q44, V47) Repeats on Q&V. MGMAT Sep 10th, 2006: 640 (Q42, V35) PrRev Sep 10th, 2006: 690 (Q44, V41) GPrep Sep 13th, 2006: 710 (Q49, V39) MGMAT Sep 16th, 2006: 650 (Q43, V36) GPrep Sep 17th, 2006: 770 (Q50, V46) Repeats on Q&V. MGMAT Sep 19th, 2006: 700 (Q46, V40) PrRev Sep 23rd, 2006: 680 (Q45, V39) ??Strange Result?? GPrep Sep 24th, 2006: 770 (Q50, V45) Repeats on Q&V Gprep Sep 24th, 2006: 750 (Q48, V44) Repeats on Verbal GMAT Sep 25th, 2006: 710 (Q49, V37) I used an excel sheet to manage the various scores and draw a trend as to where I was going; used the mean + std. devn to calculate high and low end. I hit the higher end of my scores... Expected max score was 716, ended up with a 710. Also used weightage for each test type based on difficulty. But the weights were assigned based on my understanding... no justification for them. Last week Pre-TEST Prep: I started my last week of preparation by going through all my SC error logs and CR error logs. In hindsight I didn't pay too much attention to RC as I kinda had a feeling that RC is RC whatever you do.. its still the same. As necromonger put it, the bang-for-the-buck came from SC. Put in a lot of work understanding the SC aspects... I knew all the 7 types of errors, but as I didn't pay attention to the meaning communicated by the sentences, I used to make silly mistakes. But the last week of going over my OG11 SC errors helped me to refine that aspect. For the last week, my DS + PS practice came from taking a lot of tests from MGMAT, Princeton and GMATPrep. Followed necromonger's advice to take GMATPrep as much as possible in the last 2 days and it seems to have paid off. Was very very comfortable with the software and any pre-test jitters vanished once I started off on the first couple of questions of quant on the test. Took GMATPrep twice yesterday and solved about 5 questions of each type from the 15-practice question sets in the GMAT Prep software. The test was scheduled today at 12:15pm (PST time, California). Got up around 6:30am and started to read up on all the MGMAT basics books and my SC+Math+CR notes. Completed that by about 11:00am and started to get worried whether I will make it in time, but eventually made it there on time. Contrary to some advice I decided to use a Red-bull (sugarless) to push myself a little along with a cereal fruit-bar . Seemed to keep me focussed. Not that it'll work for all.. just a data point. AWA: Test started well, AWA issue and argument went ok.. lost some interest in the argument when writing. The topics were ok, something about ethics for issue and employee survey and information sessions for argument. Quant Quant started prety well.. and kept on going well until the end. Saw 2 probability questions, a bunch of factors/divisors and some very simple ones which scared the *&#@ out of me... maybe I was bombing. But ignored that feeling and finished. Finished the last question with about 5 seconds to spare. Verbal The verbal started off ok for the first couple of questions and then hit an the second CR on the 5 or 6th question. Took my own sweet time and forgot the clock. After that point I was always trying to catch up... and never did. Guessed the last one with 5 seconds to spare. RCs were ok lenght and topic wise. There was 1 bold face CR early on and then another one about circular reasoning. Never could address them completely and decided to move on. Overall was a performance with which I am pleased... wanted to break into the 7xx zone. I am not the smartest kid on the block, but had to put my nose down and improve my score from a 620 (Q42, V34) to a 710(Q49, V27) in about 2-1/2 months. Thanks again to everyone who helped me through this and encouraged me....

CONGRATS Haas, now it's not only a time to party, but to check this out... remember what you promised me??? best of luck to you in the future... and there was no doubt in my mind that you would reach your goal!!!

Absolutely U2Lovergirl... I actually sneaked in and downloaded Joshua Tree album and a few songs from the "best of collection".... Time to go back to the songs ... U2lovergirl, thanks so much for all the help during all this... and the great song recommendations.

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CONGRATS Haas,

now it's not only a time to party, but to check this out... remember what you promised me??? :wink:

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Thanks for the list U2...

I will keep away until the GMAT...

u2lover

Adding:

from recent ones:
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Miracle Drug very powerful song, IMO
Love and Peace
A man and A woman
Electrical Storm
Kite

from the older:
The Fly
Until the end of the world
Stay (faraway, so close)
Gone
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (this one is from Batman soundtrack)
Bad
All I want is You
Please
So Cruel
Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Acrobat
Silver and Gold
The Electric Co
Another Time, Another Place
Out of control
New Year's Day

MUST HAVE ALBUMS: well for me... all of them :wink:

... for others the following:

The Joshua Tree
The Achtung Baby
How to dismantle an atomic bomb
both "The Best Collections"

and if you want to watch the concerts, I recommend "The Zoo TV" tour in Australia... and the "Vertigo" tour in Chicago or "Elevation" tour in Boston

what a list :wink:

MAKE SURE to check those all out AFTER the GMAT life... that is if you are interested... otherwise you might get addicted and start reading more and more about the band rather than studying SC book :lol:

best of luck to you in the future... and there was no doubt in my mind that you would reach your goal!!!

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Absolutely U2Lovergirl...

I actually sneaked in and downloaded Joshua Tree album and a few songs from the "best of collection".... :lol:

Time to go back to the songs ...

U2lovergirl, thanks so much for all the help during all this... and the great song recommendations.

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Absolutely U2Lovergirl...

I actually sneaked in and downloaded Joshua Tree album and a few songs from the "best of collection".... :lol:

Time to go back to the songs ...

U2lovergirl, thanks so much for all the help during all this... and the great song recommendations.

no problem, make sure to keep in touch... this is by no means a good-bye... and should you become a U2 fan we'll party away with Bono one day :lol:

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Good for you! It's so nice to see examples of hard work paying off so handsomely. Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions I have posted. I hate to lose such an enthusiastic cyber-colleague!

Congratulations,

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I am really sad. Yes, I am sad because we will loose you from this forum. It is not good to loose guys like you, PS_dahiya and Matt from this forum in such a quick succession.
BUT Bingo.....You did it. Congrats....You are all done. All the best for your apps process.

Your posts and approach to answer and give explanation were awesome. I always looked for your posts. Hope you find some time and keep contributing on this forum

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Thanks gmacvik... but I am sure we won't be going anywhere. We'll be around and post whenever we can, if only a little less frequently.

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AWESOME MAN CONGRATS.

I HAVE TO RUN BUT WILL BE BACK TO POST TROPHY LATER.

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Haas, Congratulations dude! It was great to see you post in spirit with that score. I sincerely hope HAAS lets you in and you have a blast doing your MBA. You're another example of systematic "butchering" of GMAT and I'm glad you found some of my tips helpful. That's the great thing about this forum - all the help everyone provides. I'm done with GMAT but I spend some time everyday on this forum simply for the great people and good stories they have to say.

Very nice. Good luck wit your apps.

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HASS Iâ€™m so glad for you,

GREAT SCORE!!!. There is the proof that with hard work --> great results arrive.

My best wishes to you and your family. Now go celebrate.
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Congratulations Haas. Now you have a solid shot at Haas! :-D

Good luck with the Apps!

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Thanks guys... its onto to the app process; lot to do in a short time.
I am debating whether R1/R2. Lot of thinking to do.

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Congrats Haas,
Thats a great score with a good split.

All the best,

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Thanks a lot Rhyme for the trophy. Gonna set that as a desktop background on my laptop.. :-)

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Thanks a lot Rhyme for the trophy. Gonna set that as a desktop background on my laptop.. :-)

Let me know if you want the PSD file. You can customize your own trophy then

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Hey Haas,

Congratulations on your acceptance to Haas.

I found your excel attachment very informative and encouraging. I think I am on the same pace as you and your result is confidence boosting for me.

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Please condone my belated congratulation, buddy :cry:

I recall you sent me a PM in which you mentioned your G-day possibly in October just a few months back ..and now that you made it earlier with such a GREAT score :-D

. YOU MADE IT! :-D

I can't be happier for you, buddy :wink:

. News on being accepted to top B-schools awaits you, buddy :wink:

. I wish you all the best!!!!

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I am so glad for your score Haas.
You were an active member on this forum and contributed some good quality stuff.
Sorry for the late wishes, I have been away from this forum for some time because of hectic official schedule.
Best of Luck in whatever you do man.

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