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Hi all,
I just finished my GMAT exam, a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, today and scored a respectable 710 - Q48 V40. (SC folks welcome
)
I want to thank GMAT club for maintaining such a vast knowledge database (thanks bb).
Special thanks for Bunuel & Walker for quants (I feel bad for scoring low in quants in spite of reading their God-level quant notes
).
Special thanks to Kevin from Magoosh for those awesome videos for idioms and CR (You rock! Being excellent to the universe helped
)
I started preparing for gmat on Dec 5,2015. I had my GMAT exam scheduled on Dec 23,2015. I had only 17 days to prepare but I took a break from work.
So, I studied around 10-12 hours per day.
Resources:
Kaplan Premier 2016
Manhattan GMAT sentence Correction
Official Guide 2015
Online Resources:
GMAT club
Economist GMAT (Free trial)
TargetTestPrep (5 day trial for $1)
Magoosh Blog ( and those awesome youtube videos)
Scores:
GMAT Prep Test 1: 620 Q44 V31
Manhattan GMAT test 1: 640 Q49 V29
Manhattan GMAT test 2 : V 32 (verbal only)
GMAT Prep Test 2: 670 Q48 V34
Actual GMAT score: 710 Q48, V40
Day 1: I started with the GMAT Prep Test 1 to know my current level. After 2 questions in Quant, I figured out that there was no point in continuing the test. I stopped the test and started reading the Kaplan Premier Quant section. I decided to study Quant for 5 days and verbal for the following 5 days.
Day 2-3: I familiarized with the quant concepts and felt that I was in a better position now. I decided to take the test (2nd half of day 3). I believed that verbal should be easy. I scored 620 (Q44, V31). I realized verbal section was totally a different animal than I expected it to be. I decided to change my strategy. I found a debrief in GMAT club (ultimate-two-weeks-study-plan-540-to-700-while-only-spending-209474.html) and decided to stick with it.
Day 4,5- Economist GMAT free trial, I concentrated more on Quants, occasionally checked some practice questions in GMAT Club (700+ questions).
Day 6,7,8 - I started working on GMAT club questions (700+) and realized that I could answer only 15% of them and those 15% took more than 2 minutes to be solved. It struck me then.
What is the point of trying to solve 700+ questions if you can not reach there on the real test?
I stopped solving 700+ and started solving 500 range questions. I was able to solve 95% the question under 1 minute. I started solving 600-700 range questions and had a success rate of 65%. I bookmarked all the questions I answered wrongly. I registered for TargetTestPrep.
Note: TargetTestPrep is really useful for quants. It helps you identify the weak areas. It also has pretty good tutorials for each topic. I would suggest people who are weak in quants to check it out. I used the software for only 3 days because I lost my internet connection due to floods and I was using mobile data to navigate through the sites. I used TargetTestPrep to identify and strengthen my weak areas (number properties & work problems).
Day 9-10 - I started solving quants problems from the official guide. I was able to solve most of the questions. I decided to check what my progress was. I took Manhattan test Prep and scored 640 (Q49 V29). My quants preparation had helped and I needed to work heavily on my verbal.
Day 11 - Manhattan Sentence Correction Guide - Took time to sink in..
Day 12 - Wanted to Check where I was. Attended verbal section only in Manhattan GMAT . Scored V32...Felt miserable.
Day 13 - Started working on CR section from Kaplan Premier 2016. Worked on the excercises in Kaplan and Official guide.
Day 14 - Started working on SC questions in official guide. Hit Rate - 45%.
Day 15 (Two days before exam) - GMAT Prep test 2 simulating exam conditions. Disappointing 670 (Q48 V34).
I finished the exam in the afternoon and couldn't digest the fact that I would not be able to achieve 700+ (Read on GMAT club that GMAT Prep mirrored actual test performance). I was very angry and decided to act. I checked the metrics and found that 50% of SC, 20% of RC and 23 % of CR were wrong. The only chance to improve my verbal performance was to improve my SC skills. I knew the concepts but I did not know to apply them. I started working on SC questions from the official guide.
I stopped picking the right answers and started eliminating the wrong answers. If a statement was wrong, I analysed why that statement was wrong.
I got a hang of it. That night, I could not sleep. So, I started watching Kevin's videos on YouTube. It helped me recap all the idioms I had studied.
Day 16 - More SC from official guide (solved hard questions with 95% hit rate). The POE Method worked like magic. I was happy with the performance but I did not want to test it again. I thought it was too late to get disappointed. So, I just refreshed my quant skills for the rest of the day and checked the AWA techniques provided in GMAT club.
Day 17 - No heavy lifting. I thought I was better off reviewing my error log rather than learning some new concepts. Just chilled out for the remaining part of the day.
Day 18 - D-day. Did not touch any material. Had some light breakfast and went the exam center. Many had turned in early to the center. Everyone was looking nervous. I felt like I was in some Intensive Care Unit at a hospital. But I was relaxed as hell! I convinced myself that I had put my best effort for two weeks and a single exam score couldn't judge my efforts. So, even if I had dinged, I wouldn't care(that's how human brain thinks in anxiety
)
I gave my best shot. I finished my quants in 65 minutes (I felt the questions were too easy, so I thought I might have answered a lot of questions wrongly; But I decided not to care). I found my RC passages to be too easy but SC and CR were tough. I believed I would at least get a 37 in Q because the questions were tough. I finished verbal 4 minutes ahead of time. Then, the software asked for some college details. I started filling them and I forgot that I will be getting scores in the end. I felt like a question answering zombie.
I clicked next and it asked whether I want to cancel the scores. I gave no and the score was displayed. I was searching the entire screen for that 3 digit number, especially searching whether the hundreds digit was even or odd.
710 it was....I had made it!
Key take-aways:
1. Unless you can solve 500 level questions, there is no point in trying to solve 700+ questions because in the exam, if you don't solve a 500 level question, you will never reach a 700+ level question.
2. For SC, you should eliminate all the wrong answers. The last one remaining will be the right answer. To get this, you need to learn to identify why wrong answers are wrong.
Else, you will never cross the SC hurdle...true story. (This holds good especially for non-native english speakers).
3. Hard work pays.
P.S - I have not proof read this post, except for the first line I just wanted to post my experience before I forgot about it. And forgive me if I had used too many I's. 
Let me know if you need any help. I owe GMAT club a lot!
- Sriram
I just finished my GMAT exam, a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, today and scored a respectable 710 - Q48 V40. (SC folks welcome
)I want to thank GMAT club for maintaining such a vast knowledge database (thanks bb).
Special thanks for Bunuel & Walker for quants (I feel bad for scoring low in quants in spite of reading their God-level quant notes
).Special thanks to Kevin from Magoosh for those awesome videos for idioms and CR (You rock! Being excellent to the universe helped
)I started preparing for gmat on Dec 5,2015. I had my GMAT exam scheduled on Dec 23,2015. I had only 17 days to prepare but I took a break from work.
So, I studied around 10-12 hours per day.
Resources:
Kaplan Premier 2016
Manhattan GMAT sentence Correction
Official Guide 2015
Online Resources:
GMAT club
Economist GMAT (Free trial)
TargetTestPrep (5 day trial for $1)
Magoosh Blog ( and those awesome youtube videos)
Scores:
GMAT Prep Test 1: 620 Q44 V31
Manhattan GMAT test 1: 640 Q49 V29
Manhattan GMAT test 2 : V 32 (verbal only)
GMAT Prep Test 2: 670 Q48 V34
Actual GMAT score: 710 Q48, V40
Day 1: I started with the GMAT Prep Test 1 to know my current level. After 2 questions in Quant, I figured out that there was no point in continuing the test. I stopped the test and started reading the Kaplan Premier Quant section. I decided to study Quant for 5 days and verbal for the following 5 days.
Day 2-3: I familiarized with the quant concepts and felt that I was in a better position now. I decided to take the test (2nd half of day 3). I believed that verbal should be easy. I scored 620 (Q44, V31). I realized verbal section was totally a different animal than I expected it to be. I decided to change my strategy. I found a debrief in GMAT club (ultimate-two-weeks-study-plan-540-to-700-while-only-spending-209474.html) and decided to stick with it.
Day 4,5- Economist GMAT free trial, I concentrated more on Quants, occasionally checked some practice questions in GMAT Club (700+ questions).
Day 6,7,8 - I started working on GMAT club questions (700+) and realized that I could answer only 15% of them and those 15% took more than 2 minutes to be solved. It struck me then.
What is the point of trying to solve 700+ questions if you can not reach there on the real test?
I stopped solving 700+ and started solving 500 range questions. I was able to solve 95% the question under 1 minute. I started solving 600-700 range questions and had a success rate of 65%. I bookmarked all the questions I answered wrongly. I registered for TargetTestPrep.
Note: TargetTestPrep is really useful for quants. It helps you identify the weak areas. It also has pretty good tutorials for each topic. I would suggest people who are weak in quants to check it out. I used the software for only 3 days because I lost my internet connection due to floods and I was using mobile data to navigate through the sites. I used TargetTestPrep to identify and strengthen my weak areas (number properties & work problems).
Day 9-10 - I started solving quants problems from the official guide. I was able to solve most of the questions. I decided to check what my progress was. I took Manhattan test Prep and scored 640 (Q49 V29). My quants preparation had helped and I needed to work heavily on my verbal.
Day 11 - Manhattan Sentence Correction Guide - Took time to sink in..
Day 12 - Wanted to Check where I was. Attended verbal section only in Manhattan GMAT . Scored V32...Felt miserable.
Day 13 - Started working on CR section from Kaplan Premier 2016. Worked on the excercises in Kaplan and Official guide.
Day 14 - Started working on SC questions in official guide. Hit Rate - 45%.
Day 15 (Two days before exam) - GMAT Prep test 2 simulating exam conditions. Disappointing 670 (Q48 V34).
I finished the exam in the afternoon and couldn't digest the fact that I would not be able to achieve 700+ (Read on GMAT club that GMAT Prep mirrored actual test performance). I was very angry and decided to act. I checked the metrics and found that 50% of SC, 20% of RC and 23 % of CR were wrong. The only chance to improve my verbal performance was to improve my SC skills. I knew the concepts but I did not know to apply them. I started working on SC questions from the official guide.
I stopped picking the right answers and started eliminating the wrong answers. If a statement was wrong, I analysed why that statement was wrong.
I got a hang of it. That night, I could not sleep. So, I started watching Kevin's videos on YouTube. It helped me recap all the idioms I had studied.
Day 16 - More SC from official guide (solved hard questions with 95% hit rate). The POE Method worked like magic. I was happy with the performance but I did not want to test it again. I thought it was too late to get disappointed. So, I just refreshed my quant skills for the rest of the day and checked the AWA techniques provided in GMAT club.
Day 17 - No heavy lifting. I thought I was better off reviewing my error log rather than learning some new concepts. Just chilled out for the remaining part of the day.
Day 18 - D-day. Did not touch any material. Had some light breakfast and went the exam center. Many had turned in early to the center. Everyone was looking nervous. I felt like I was in some Intensive Care Unit at a hospital. But I was relaxed as hell! I convinced myself that I had put my best effort for two weeks and a single exam score couldn't judge my efforts. So, even if I had dinged, I wouldn't care(that's how human brain thinks in anxiety
) I gave my best shot. I finished my quants in 65 minutes (I felt the questions were too easy, so I thought I might have answered a lot of questions wrongly; But I decided not to care). I found my RC passages to be too easy but SC and CR were tough. I believed I would at least get a 37 in Q because the questions were tough. I finished verbal 4 minutes ahead of time. Then, the software asked for some college details. I started filling them and I forgot that I will be getting scores in the end. I felt like a question answering zombie.
I clicked next and it asked whether I want to cancel the scores. I gave no and the score was displayed. I was searching the entire screen for that 3 digit number, especially searching whether the hundreds digit was even or odd.
710 it was....I had made it!
Key take-aways:
1. Unless you can solve 500 level questions, there is no point in trying to solve 700+ questions because in the exam, if you don't solve a 500 level question, you will never reach a 700+ level question.
2. For SC, you should eliminate all the wrong answers. The last one remaining will be the right answer. To get this, you need to learn to identify why wrong answers are wrong.
Else, you will never cross the SC hurdle...true story. (This holds good especially for non-native english speakers).
3. Hard work pays.
P.S - I have not proof read this post, except for the first line
I just wanted to post my experience before I forgot about it. And forgive me if I had used too many I's. Let me know if you need any help. I owe GMAT club a lot!
- Sriram
26 Dec 2015, 18:42
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Congratulations! Great debrief. Best of luck on your future endeavors.
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