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Thanks on the verbal side. Could use a left-side, or is that a right-side, brain transplant on the math side. Feels kind of like a tie in a ballgame, not so upset over a loss, but not so happy over a win.

As far as verbal, I didn't do any of the RC piece in the OG, as I was pretty comfortable with that. Just stuck with making a grid for all problems, taking notes, and eliminating wrong answers as I came to them. I was about 92% on CR, and a little lower on SC, with the most trouble with the "Logical Comparison" problems. I made up a little spreadsheet with all of the OG answers and question types, and did my own error log, automatically tracking my right/wrong/percentages by type of question.
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Good job! Congrats!
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Thanks, some more thoughts on verbal.

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Was never much into formal grammar, but memorizing PR's 8 types of mistakes helped. I used the acronym "IQSTAMPP" to help me remember, and tried to work on identifying the type of mistake in each question/potential answer, and eliminate from there. Most of the time, it was fairly easy to eliminate 2 or 3 right off the bat based on pronoun, tense, etc. Tried to wade through as much as the clutter in the sentences as possible and reduce it to its simplest form.

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Read the passages pretty carefully, taking notes, then went to the questions. I liked this better than skimming, because I felt it gave me a better sense of what was going when I got to the questions. This works for me as time wasn't going to be a factor; I finished verbal with 18 minutes to go. RC was actually my favorite part of the section, which helps. The PR advice of looking for tone, avoiding absolute declarations, "minority passage", etc were helpful. Narrowed down choices until I was left with 1 in most cases, 2 in a few...

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Read the question first, then read the passage, looking carefully for the conclusion, if there was one. Took notes on a few, especially the bolded questions. Remembered the PR advice that ETS "rewards narrow minds" and went through the answer choices one by one. Most were pretty obvious.
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Took the GMAT for the first time today. Had a little over a month to prepare, while working full time. Been out of school for about 6 years. My score was fairly consistent with the PR and PP tests, though the last PP was a 740 after studying the OG fairly extensively. Background is that I'm an ABC who was a history major in college, and much more comfortable on the verbal than the quant side.

Did about as well as I expected on the verbal section. Got 2 RC's almost off the bat, but none were too bad. A couple of bolded section CR's and 1 fill in the blank CR, but nothing that was too unexpected or difficult.

Quant has always been my weak point, and the same here. A few questions into the section and I knew I was struggling. The questions that I was getting at the end weren't all that difficult, so I had a pretty good idea that I wasn't doing well. Got tripped up on some exponent stuff, as well as some of the harder geometry.

A bit dissapointed on the Q side, thinking about maybe taking the test again, though this score will get me the only school to which I've applied - but may limit the scholarship amount somewhat. Thinking that with some more practice, I can do 42-43 on the Q piece.

At least it's over now.


Congratulations, Stlterp. My situation is much like yours...I was a history major in college and quant is definitely my weak side. As a matter of fact, I didn't even learn basic algebra and geometry until I was a college undergrad.

If you don't mind my asking, did you take the GRE general test, and if so, do you think there's any correlation between performance on that test and performance on the GMAT?

On the GRE I did 800 verbal and 760 quantitative. Because of my lack of a substantial math background I am somewhat nervous about GMAT quant, and I'm hoping my GRE quant is an indication that I have what it takes to do well on GMAT quant.

Thanks.
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COngrats. great score. can you please expnad your acronym IQSTAMPP?
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wow congrats! :P :woohoo
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that's a very good score.
Congratulations.......
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No,

Didn't take the GREs, as I never really thought about traditional grad school. I had some math skills at one point in my life, including AP Calc & Physics in high school and one calc class in college, but it doesn't come intuitively to me.

As far as IQSTAMPP - just a quick way to help me remember the 8 issues for SC that PR espouses - Idiom, Quantity, Subject-Verb, Tense and so on.
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Congratulation stlterp. All the best in your applications :)
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Congrats stlterp....good score...

Best of luck for all your future endaevours....

cheers!
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Congratulations, stlterp.

Your insightful tips on verbal is really important. In CR, I just got to know that finding the conclusion of the argument before analizing help me a lots in getting the answer right.

Best of luck for your next attempt.

Cheers.
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