Guys and Gals
I have been a silent visitor of this forum for about 3 months and I finally took my GMAT after much contemplation of postponing it by another 2 months. Little disappointed with the score as I wanted to get another 30-40 points higher so the GMAT did indeed get me.. Cracked the 700 club ... I guess I got complacent because the place I want to go to for parttime only requires about 650 average...
Time period: 3 and a half months working fulltime so study time was limited to about 2-3 hrs a day on weekdays and about 6 hrs on weekends.
Non-Native English speaker,
Books used:
Kaplan -- Average
Princeton -- Average
Manhattan GMAT study guides -- Good, some of the guides
VSTUDY material -- Very good for just practice but no explanations of answers so you can use them for just practice questions
New Oriental Guides -- They are so similar to OG questions (Don't know chinese or can't read them but I read the sections which were in english and tried to make sense out them..)Good
Kaplan GMAT 800 -- Helped me do my CR's better
GMAT for Dummies (Very old edition 93 just for practice) -- I can't rate it
Arco -- useless
OG 7th edition, OG 10th edition -- The best of the best as they have explanations. But the level of difficulty is average.
A short synopsis of my test , 4 rc's one 110 lines long and 3 around 45 lines CR and SC's similar to OG level except for that they seem to have 2 choices which are extemely close so it was a little difficult in choosing the right one. Oddly I didn't get any boldface questions.. (I guess I was already put in the lower percentile by that time) Quant no probs was done 25 minutes early... (Bad planning I guess on my part..)
I will write in detail what helped me what didn't but I think the biggest bang you will get is in verbal section... Goodluck to whoever is writing their tests. I will still keep logging in now and then.. Finally I would like to thank everyone for their help in this forum..