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I’ll try to make this short. I took the Manhattan GMAT course this fall and on the initial practice test I scored a 600. The class met once a week for 10 weeks and I found it very helpful. While I can’t speak much to the other test prep classes, I’ve heard that Manhattan focuses far more on the material, as opposed to test taking strategies. (I took Princeton Review for the SAT and that was far more oriented at test taking strats) As I hadn’t taken a math class since high school, reviewing and solidifying the fundamental concepts was extremely important to me. However, at the end of the course I scored only a 630 on the practice exam, but I felt it was largely due to time mismanagement.
Prep.
Forewarning, I could be described as a serial procrastinator (and major pot-head), so please don’t take my method as a rubric for success, it isn’t. After finishing the class in early December I scheduled the test for the beginning of February, thinking I’d give myself plenty of time for prepping. December was a wash, too busy with the holidays and probably got a total of 5 hours of actual studying in. January didn’t turn out much better, I was on vacation for three of the four weekends and the girlfriend was always a time suck during the week. That said, the two weeks prior to the test I probably got a solid 10-15hrs/wk in and I scored a 670 on a practice test two weeks before the real thing. (Timing was again an issue). Studying basically consisted solely of taking practice questions and reviewing missed problems.
Test Day 1
Took it easy the night before the test, smoked a few bowls and just relaxed. Test was at 8am on Sat morning and got there about 30 mins beforehand. One suggestion I can make for everyone, take a crap prior, especially if you’re drinking coffee. Both times I took the test I didn’t follow this advice and it made for a unpleasant testing experience. I thought the test went very well as I was taking it and I ended up with a 730 (47Q 44V), which I was very pleased with and a 4.5 AWA and 5 IR. I rushed my quant a little, and after running out of time on the two practice tests, I ended up with about 10 mins left when I finished.
Alright, I know retaking the GMAT after scoring a 730 is a little overboard, but I had read that business schools like to see you take the test twice, and I didn’t really see a downside. Also, I have a 2.7 GPA (at top UC), which I felt I needed to compensate for and wanted to improve my quant score because I had no college math background.
Prep 2.
Again, my eyes were bigger than my stomach so to speak, and I thought I would get a lot more studying, but didn’t really have the drive. I never took another practice test and studied maybe only 10 hours total, all in the week before. Wasn’t feeling very confident about improving too much, but there was little pressure and I didn’t really care.
Test Day 2
My biggest focus was making sure I completely read the quant questions and not overlook restraints (positive, integer, etc.) which I felt was a problem on the first test. Didn’t feel too different about the test while I was taking it, but to my surprise I made a big jump and ended up with a 770 (49 Q, 47 V) and a 7 on the IR. (5.0 on AWA).
My two cents. Mastering the concepts was not too difficult for me, the hardest part was identifying which concept was presented in the question. My studying consisted basically solely of taking practice questions and reviewing how the concepts were presented. I finished the last 50 questions in each section in the 13th edition Official Guide for GMAT (except for reading comp, cause I didn’t need it). Applying this fall and hoping to somehow sneak into a top 10.
Prep.
Forewarning, I could be described as a serial procrastinator (and major pot-head), so please don’t take my method as a rubric for success, it isn’t. After finishing the class in early December I scheduled the test for the beginning of February, thinking I’d give myself plenty of time for prepping. December was a wash, too busy with the holidays and probably got a total of 5 hours of actual studying in. January didn’t turn out much better, I was on vacation for three of the four weekends and the girlfriend was always a time suck during the week. That said, the two weeks prior to the test I probably got a solid 10-15hrs/wk in and I scored a 670 on a practice test two weeks before the real thing. (Timing was again an issue). Studying basically consisted solely of taking practice questions and reviewing missed problems.
Test Day 1
Took it easy the night before the test, smoked a few bowls and just relaxed. Test was at 8am on Sat morning and got there about 30 mins beforehand. One suggestion I can make for everyone, take a crap prior, especially if you’re drinking coffee. Both times I took the test I didn’t follow this advice and it made for a unpleasant testing experience. I thought the test went very well as I was taking it and I ended up with a 730 (47Q 44V), which I was very pleased with and a 4.5 AWA and 5 IR. I rushed my quant a little, and after running out of time on the two practice tests, I ended up with about 10 mins left when I finished.
Alright, I know retaking the GMAT after scoring a 730 is a little overboard, but I had read that business schools like to see you take the test twice, and I didn’t really see a downside. Also, I have a 2.7 GPA (at top UC), which I felt I needed to compensate for and wanted to improve my quant score because I had no college math background.
Prep 2.
Again, my eyes were bigger than my stomach so to speak, and I thought I would get a lot more studying, but didn’t really have the drive. I never took another practice test and studied maybe only 10 hours total, all in the week before. Wasn’t feeling very confident about improving too much, but there was little pressure and I didn’t really care.
Test Day 2
My biggest focus was making sure I completely read the quant questions and not overlook restraints (positive, integer, etc.) which I felt was a problem on the first test. Didn’t feel too different about the test while I was taking it, but to my surprise I made a big jump and ended up with a 770 (49 Q, 47 V) and a 7 on the IR. (5.0 on AWA).
My two cents. Mastering the concepts was not too difficult for me, the hardest part was identifying which concept was presented in the question. My studying consisted basically solely of taking practice questions and reviewing how the concepts were presented. I finished the last 50 questions in each section in the 13th edition Official Guide for GMAT (except for reading comp, cause I didn’t need it). Applying this fall and hoping to somehow sneak into a top 10.
11 Apr 2014, 07:25
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Well done! You're in the 99th percentile! Woohoo!
11 Apr 2014, 09:33
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how difficult Quantative section was ? what do you feel ? the difference in difficulty level between official guide and actual test ?
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