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05 Aug 2007, 22:36
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Disclaimer : These are just my midnight ramblings. Dont waste your time. I write gibberish anyway.
After watching a Friday 11pm BOURNE ULTIMATUM show from the second row in the theater, I decided to kick start my OG prep. Very Wise!!! I must admit. I started with the Green book(Quant Review) and solved the first 80 problems in about an hour.
Cakewalk!!!
Well... Only until I checked my answers. 8/80 were wrong. It was morale shattering. Math wasn't even supposed to be difficult. Definitely not PS and most definitely not the first 80 questions in OG. I felt silly and stupid. The mistakes could be typified by the following two examples
1*1 = 2
2*2 = 2
I figured 2 is not my lucky number... at least not today!!!
Saturday...
I wasn't brave enough to work on quants again after the previous day's debacle, so I decided to do what was supposed to be the easiest of all books available. PR Verbal section.
verbal bin - 1 => 23/25 correct. Not a bad start. I consoled myself.
Verbal bin - 2 => more than 50% of my CRs wrong. Others were OK.
That just did it. If I cant get 50% right after 2 weeks of preparation, I am just not ready yet. Oct 2007 GMAT is just not happening!!!
For almost 1.5 days, I did nothing but to slack off at the gym, watch baseball, cook, call friends and folks back home and browse around with no real sense of direction.
A few minutes back...
For lack of better things to do, I decided to do the next 60 PS questions in the same Green book(81-140). 95 minutes. Ooof!!! There were atleast two questions for which I answered wrong first but immediately corrected it after re-reading the question again.
Checked my answers:
All 60 correct.
I am confused now. Am I ready or not? Is it too early to call either way?
I am going to give myself one more week before I dare to think of postponing my October plans!!!
Until then I'll continue to spam this forum with no mercy
After watching a Friday 11pm BOURNE ULTIMATUM show from the second row in the theater, I decided to kick start my OG prep. Very Wise!!! I must admit. I started with the Green book(Quant Review) and solved the first 80 problems in about an hour.
Cakewalk!!!
Well... Only until I checked my answers. 8/80 were wrong. It was morale shattering. Math wasn't even supposed to be difficult. Definitely not PS and most definitely not the first 80 questions in OG. I felt silly and stupid. The mistakes could be typified by the following two examples
1*1 = 2
2*2 = 2
I figured 2 is not my lucky number... at least not today!!!
Saturday...
I wasn't brave enough to work on quants again after the previous day's debacle, so I decided to do what was supposed to be the easiest of all books available. PR Verbal section.
verbal bin - 1 => 23/25 correct. Not a bad start. I consoled myself.
Verbal bin - 2 => more than 50% of my CRs wrong. Others were OK.
That just did it. If I cant get 50% right after 2 weeks of preparation, I am just not ready yet. Oct 2007 GMAT is just not happening!!!
For almost 1.5 days, I did nothing but to slack off at the gym, watch baseball, cook, call friends and folks back home and browse around with no real sense of direction.
A few minutes back...
For lack of better things to do, I decided to do the next 60 PS questions in the same Green book(81-140). 95 minutes. Ooof!!! There were atleast two questions for which I answered wrong first but immediately corrected it after re-reading the question again.
Checked my answers:
All 60 correct.
I am confused now. Am I ready or not? Is it too early to call either way?
I am going to give myself one more week before I dare to think of postponing my October plans!!!
Until then I'll continue to spam this forum with no mercy
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06 Aug 2007, 15:34
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hahaha, I actually read your midnight ramblings...
I think you're going through what we ALL went through while preparing for the GMAT. I often get the easy problems wrong in Math and I go, "what if I miss these stupid ones on the test???" Don't worry too much about it. And DON'T do that many questions in one sitting! I thought I did a lot (30 PS and 30 DS), but try to vary your problems. Do DS/PS one night, then do RC/CR/SC another night. If you keep on doing one, you'll lose your edge on the others. October is a long ways away and you have a lot of time to prepare.
Just do things in smaller chunks and really understand why you made mistakes. If it's because of 1*1 = 2, then disregard that and remind yourself to double check all math next time. don't let that shake your confidence, and focus on the harder questions and why you missed those.
I hope this help... otherwise, stay on course and you should be fine!
I think you're going through what we ALL went through while preparing for the GMAT. I often get the easy problems wrong in Math and I go, "what if I miss these stupid ones on the test???" Don't worry too much about it. And DON'T do that many questions in one sitting! I thought I did a lot (30 PS and 30 DS), but try to vary your problems. Do DS/PS one night, then do RC/CR/SC another night. If you keep on doing one, you'll lose your edge on the others. October is a long ways away and you have a lot of time to prepare.
Just do things in smaller chunks and really understand why you made mistakes. If it's because of 1*1 = 2, then disregard that and remind yourself to double check all math next time. don't let that shake your confidence, and focus on the harder questions and why you missed those.
I hope this help... otherwise, stay on course and you should be fine!
06 Aug 2007, 18:40
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Thanks dude. I hope nothing different. But I am glad that there are a few others who have gone through this indecisive phase.
It is exactly what I initially thought too. I thought if I can solve 25 problems on math and verbal everyday in this forum, I should be fine.
It gives me some variety. The questions posted here are usually from the tougher bins. 50 a day looks very few suddenly
