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My initial preparation/performance feedback/opinions please! 16 Jun 2006, 09:59
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Hi everyone,

I've begun studying for Gmat since 1st June 2006. It's now about 15 days - of which I would say I've studied for about 2 hours a day on an average (I have a full time job that keeps me busy). It's been 10 years since I graduated, so all my concepts are rusty, and I certainly am no sharp shooter like the younger people on this board :). I'm diligently recording my performance metrics and hopefully some day after my GMAT exams, I will be able to share it with the members of this great forum.

For now - I just want an opinion from my fellow boarders, I did the Kaplan diagnostic test today, and I got "71.05%", is that good? How did you fare?

-My OG GMat prep test 1 which I did with 0 preparation got me 620.
-I took 2 paper tests on 10 and 11 June in which I got 680 and 650 (the 650 was done with 0 breaks for the whole duration, I wanted to test my endurance)
-Today Kaplan diagnostic online quiz is 71%.

Am I doing Ok? Any feedback greatly appreciated.
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My initial preparation/performance feedback/opinions please! 16 Jun 2006, 10:57
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I don't know what are you achieveing with doing so many tests without studying. The tests are for knowing the weakness and then work on the weakness and then take test again to find other wekness. The cycle goes on. I would suggest you not to interpret too much from the test scores.

Answer following questions yourself:

1. Why you got the questions wrong?
2. Why you got the questions right?
3. What type of questions (PS, DS, SC, RC, CR) bothers you?
4. Did you made an error log of the question you got wrong?
5. What is your weak area, Verbal or Quant?

Work on these and then plan accordingly. Good luck.
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My initial preparation/performance feedback/opinions please! 16 Jun 2006, 11:10
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with such short study, your score are good. with good study plan you can definately join 700+ group.
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My initial preparation/performance feedback/opinions please! 16 Jun 2006, 11:56
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ps_dahiya, I see your point. I took the first diagnostic test to see where I stood, and I took 2 old paper tests only to get an idea of the tests after some initial prep. The kaplan diagnostic test is recommended by the kaplan book to be the first one to do. I do not plan to take frequent tests from now on.

I am spending most of my time now analyzing my problems and working on them. Since you asked, here is a quick run down

a) When I started, my quant sucked and verbal was relatively better.
b) Quant improved sharply once I brushed my skills, but verbal improved slowly
c) I realized that verbal wasn't my strength! my weakest was SC because I'm awful in formal recognition of grammar. So I'm working hard at overcoming it and I think I'm making some progress.

I do keep a detailed log of my performance. Every time I do practise tests or full tests, I record the book/material, the section, number of questions attempted, how many correct and wrong, time taken, performance % and notes. And in due time I want to see how I'm improving. Right now, in terms of %, my quant ranges from 86 to 91% (both PS and DS), while SC hovers at 70%.

Neverthelss, thanks for the straight feedback, I'll try not to go overboard with tests!
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ps_dahiya, I see your point. I took the first diagnostic test to see where I stood, and I took 2 old paper tests only to get an idea of the tests after some initial prep. The kaplan diagnostic test is recommended by the kaplan book to be the first one to do. I do not plan to take frequent tests from now on.

I am spending most of my time now analyzing my problems and working on them. Since you asked, here is a quick run down

a) When I started, my quant sucked and verbal was relatively better.
b) Quant improved sharply once I brushed my skills, but verbal improved slowly
c) I realized that verbal wasn't my strength! my weakest was SC because I'm awful in formal recognition of grammar. So I'm working hard at overcoming it and I think I'm making some progress.

I do keep a detailed log of my performance. Every time I do practise tests or full tests, I record the book/material, the section, number of questions attempted, how many correct and wrong, time taken, performance % and notes. And in due time I want to see how I'm improving. Right now, in terms of %, my quant ranges from 86 to 91% (both PS and DS), while SC hovers at 70%.

Neverthelss, thanks for the straight feedback, I'll try not to go overboard with tests!
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Great going. I did not mean to offend you, this was just my point of view. My take would be to work 60-70% on verbal and 30-40% on quant.
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Great going. I did not mean to offend you, this was just my point of view. My take would be to work 60-70% on verbal and 30-40% on quant.[/quote]


None taken at all! Thanks once again.
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