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21 Aug 2011, 07:22
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Hi Guys,
After 2 months of hardwork, I landed up with a 680 again (Q49, V34). This is the same breakup that I had last time on May 11, 2011.
Difficulty experience breakup:
SC: I felt this section was the easiest of the Verbal section. Just 2 tricky "tense based" questions. No HiFi GmatPrep level questions.
CR: Normal types. No long arguments, no tricky and convoluted arguments. "6" assumption questions. No LSAT Type arguments. OG 12 level questions.
RC: tricky passages. The 3 smaller passages are somehow representative of OG passages, but had very convoluted options. Another thing, a very very long science passage came. Such passages are basically thrown at you to see whether you have the guts to handle such passages or not. These long passages have very easy questions though...
. But, What can i say, I got a V 34 at the end... I guess... whatever I marked were surely wrong.. coz I made over 15 mistakes in order to get a V 34.
Quant: Questions were similar to those in the GmatPrep.
What went wrong:
Quant: Screwed up 3 Quant questions (There was 1 question that asked to find an angle in a polygon figure. Got it wrong... and in another plain simple Quant question, I took Sin 30 instead of Tan 30 and got it wrong). I took this disaster in mind, psychologically hurt, and made 2 more mistakes. All in all, I screwed 5 questions. What can I say... I practiced more than 1000 questions for GMAT just to make such stupid errors...
Verbal: Many people say that when you have completed the Quant section... just forget about it and move on with the Verbal section. Dont try to recall any mistakes that you have made in the Quant section.. It will impact you.. Well, I just couldnt accept my tragic loss in Quant. I still remember that those 2 quant mistakes were still going on in my head when I was working on the 20th Question in Verbal.
My timing was very messed up at the start.. After doing 20 Questions in Verbal, I was left with just 34 minutes. But, lucky me... the SC question were so damn easy that, I finished off atleast 5 SC questions, spending just around 10 seconds on each... That saved some time... but then the following RC's proved to be a killer and sucked up all my time. All in all, I can say that i didnt spend more than 2 - 2.2 minutes on each CR questions, and didnt spend on an average more than 50 seconds on each SC question. Rest all time devoted to RC.
I managed to complete the Verbal paper with 1 minutes still to go.....
Practice Scores-
GmatPrep - 800, 780, 780, 770, 770, 760
MGMAT CATs - 780, 780, 770, 760, 750
Since I remembered many questions from my earlier attempt, the scores are very inflated.
Material Used-
Official guides
MGMAT SC
GmatClub Quant questions
many passages of RC 99
few LSAT CR question exercises
GmatPrep documents
I am planning a retake in another 1.5 months, but I have almost exhausted the entire GmatPrep material. Please suggest me what material to do and how to study for my 3rd GMAT attempt. My target score is 740.
Thanks in advance!
After 2 months of hardwork, I landed up with a 680 again (Q49, V34). This is the same breakup that I had last time on May 11, 2011.
Difficulty experience breakup:
SC: I felt this section was the easiest of the Verbal section. Just 2 tricky "tense based" questions. No HiFi GmatPrep level questions.
CR: Normal types. No long arguments, no tricky and convoluted arguments. "6" assumption questions. No LSAT Type arguments. OG 12 level questions.
RC: tricky passages. The 3 smaller passages are somehow representative of OG passages, but had very convoluted options. Another thing, a very very long science passage came. Such passages are basically thrown at you to see whether you have the guts to handle such passages or not. These long passages have very easy questions though...
. But, What can i say, I got a V 34 at the end... I guess... whatever I marked were surely wrong.. coz I made over 15 mistakes in order to get a V 34.Quant: Questions were similar to those in the GmatPrep.
What went wrong:
Quant: Screwed up 3 Quant questions (There was 1 question that asked to find an angle in a polygon figure. Got it wrong... and in another plain simple Quant question, I took Sin 30 instead of Tan 30 and got it wrong). I took this disaster in mind, psychologically hurt, and made 2 more mistakes. All in all, I screwed 5 questions. What can I say... I practiced more than 1000 questions for GMAT just to make such stupid errors...
Verbal: Many people say that when you have completed the Quant section... just forget about it and move on with the Verbal section. Dont try to recall any mistakes that you have made in the Quant section.. It will impact you.. Well, I just couldnt accept my tragic loss in Quant. I still remember that those 2 quant mistakes were still going on in my head when I was working on the 20th Question in Verbal.
My timing was very messed up at the start.. After doing 20 Questions in Verbal, I was left with just 34 minutes. But, lucky me... the SC question were so damn easy that, I finished off atleast 5 SC questions, spending just around 10 seconds on each... That saved some time... but then the following RC's proved to be a killer and sucked up all my time. All in all, I can say that i didnt spend more than 2 - 2.2 minutes on each CR questions, and didnt spend on an average more than 50 seconds on each SC question. Rest all time devoted to RC.
I managed to complete the Verbal paper with 1 minutes still to go.....
Practice Scores-
GmatPrep - 800, 780, 780, 770, 770, 760
MGMAT CATs - 780, 780, 770, 760, 750
Since I remembered many questions from my earlier attempt, the scores are very inflated.
Material Used-
Official guides
MGMAT SC
GmatClub Quant questions
many passages of RC 99
few LSAT CR question exercises
GmatPrep documents
I am planning a retake in another 1.5 months, but I have almost exhausted the entire GmatPrep material. Please suggest me what material to do and how to study for my 3rd GMAT attempt. My target score is 740.
Thanks in advance!
21 Aug 2011, 07:54
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Sorry to hear that you're not happy with your score.
6-Assumption questions seems like a lot to me. If you're considering a re-take maybe you should, also depends on schools you're targeting. You scored 34 in verbal and I believe you could improve by 4-5 points which will probably be more than enough to land you above 700+ mark.
SC is the easiest one to improve I believe. Go over MGMAT SC atleast twice or thrice and develop of habit of finding keywords such as on, by which, that, they,them, can, has, is, are and most importantly "and". Try to recognize the error before you try to find the split in the answer choices.
RC: Consider diagramming as recommended by MGMAT for difficult science passages. I'm pretty sure GMAT doesn't want us to remember the details of those passages anyway.
CR: Practice more and try to pre-phrase answers before reading answer choices. It helped me improve my accuracy by many folds. I read Power score CR bible and my accuracy went down. The only thing I used from CR bible is negation technique.
Quant:49 is an excellent score but there's always a room for improvement somewhere. Focus on your weaker areas and try to improve on that.
HTH.
6-Assumption questions seems like a lot to me. If you're considering a re-take maybe you should, also depends on schools you're targeting. You scored 34 in verbal and I believe you could improve by 4-5 points which will probably be more than enough to land you above 700+ mark.
SC is the easiest one to improve I believe. Go over MGMAT SC atleast twice or thrice and develop of habit of finding keywords such as on, by which, that, they,them, can, has, is, are and most importantly "and". Try to recognize the error before you try to find the split in the answer choices.
RC: Consider diagramming as recommended by MGMAT for difficult science passages. I'm pretty sure GMAT doesn't want us to remember the details of those passages anyway.
CR: Practice more and try to pre-phrase answers before reading answer choices. It helped me improve my accuracy by many folds. I read Power score CR bible and my accuracy went down. The only thing I used from CR bible is negation technique.
Quant:49 is an excellent score but there's always a room for improvement somewhere. Focus on your weaker areas and try to improve on that.
HTH.
21 Aug 2011, 08:06
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Hi,
Can you provide me few suggestions on some good CR and RC material that I can consider for my 3rd attempt? I am basically short on "relevant" material. In addition, how to gauge my performance via full length CATs? I have already consumed the MGMAT CATs and Gmat Prep CATs.
Can you provide me few suggestions on some good CR and RC material that I can consider for my 3rd attempt? I am basically short on "relevant" material. In addition, how to gauge my performance via full length CATs? I have already consumed the MGMAT CATs and Gmat Prep CATs.
