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Concentration: Finance, Operations
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25 Apr 2019, 01:20
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Hi members,
First of all, I would like to thanks GMATCLUB from the depth of my heart for the relentless support I got from here, which not only ignited in me, the fire to give in my best, but has also kept pouring oil on it, so that I may not rest till I achieve my dream score.
My GMAT journey started in November, when after a hard day at work, I realized this workplace should not be my destination. I want to grow, want to achieve something more..Remembering the famous dialogue by Captain Vikram Batra," Ye Dil Maange More", I introspected on the various options available to me at this age of my life. UPSC was now out of the game, as I was on the upper side of the age limit. Departmental promotions are a real nightmare, taking years to actually take place,and that too, with a limited growth. I wanted something more.SO, the best option I found was to go for an MBA.
Now, once I decided to go for an MBA, the choice was naturally inclined towards appearing for GMAT, coz I was already having 8 years of work experience under my belt.So, was checking different forums on internet from where I can get material and help for the exam.Then I found GMAT club and it was like I found a treasure island. From then on, I committed to myself, never to miss checking out posts and topics on GC. After that I created an account on MBA.com and scheduled my exam for April 17,2019. Yes, u read it right...I registered in November for the exam in April. I just didn't want to take any chances. As I was involved in a few lawsuits against me, I had to factor in the time that would be wasted in attending court hearings and so, to compensate for the lost time, I planned to give the exam after detailed practice.
Then, I applied for leave from my organization, as being in a banking industry, my entire day was consumed in dealing with money,money and money.It was to my unfortunate luck that I was denied leave on the grounds of staff shortage, that too, when in the past 5 years I have been working in the organization, I didn't took any of my privilege leave, and I was having a reserve of 150 days of leave in my account.So, I just put down my papers and wanted to get down to study as a free bird. But now,luck smiled at me and my controllers sanctioned me a leave without pay for 2 months. I now, took all my arsenals ( Gmatclub,MGMAT guides,Wiley's Grail Collection) and prepared myself for the war ahead.
1 month into preparation,I started becoming a bit confident in quant.This made me push my timeline to start for Verbal portion towards mid of February, so that I may have around 1.5 months for verbal , and then 15 days for revision and mock tests.But as they say, when everything in ur way seems smooth and easy, u should prepare urself for a storm ahead.In January last, owing to my lawsuits, I was summonned by the Police to come every alternate day for enquiry in my case.And as is the usual scenario in India, sometimes I had to spend my whole day,waiting for the respective officer. This wasted a lot of my time, and I started feeling nervous about my prep. Not knowing what to do under these kind of stressful situations, I decided to postpone my exam.But then, my elder brother came to my rescue and he said, Problems will come and go.Don't get botched down by them.Face them and you will see that they won't be able to harm you. So, from the next appearance in Police station, I used to take a notebook alongwith me, and used to solve quant questions waiting for the officers.
After around 20 days of trauma, I was finally freed from the menace of going to the police station. But by now, it was already 25th February and I knew that I am in a weak situation. So, started gearing my verbal preparation by reading posts by souvik101990, carcass, Bunuel, GMATNinja. One month into my verbal prepartion, I decided to give my first GMATPREP Mock and scored 730 on it. That was a real confidence booster for me.But I realized the score could be enhanced more if I can devote more time towards my RC preparation, which was dragging my score down.On the other hand, I felt my strength in Quant can help me improve my score in a better way.So, I decided to fully devote my last 5 days, from 11th April to 16th April, completely for RC Prep. and meanwhile I must focus again on Quant and Sentence Correction. I must say, this was my biggest mistake, because towards the end of my preparation, I could not gather enough courage to keep all my other subjects at side and prepare wholly for RC. So,RC got ditched and it made sure that it took its revenge from me on the exam day.
On 17th April, I reached the exam center at Gurgaon, where after the scanning and checking of documents, I was allowed to appear for the exam.Nervous as I was, appearing for the first time for an international exam,I sat down on the chair while the center member asked me for the names of the 5 schools to which I wish to send my scores to. In this stress, I selected 2 wrong programmes and later realized my mistake but nothing can be after that. Then, calming myself, I started my exam by choosing the order as : Q-V-IR-AWA. The first part of the exam went well and I felt my confidence level rising after I came out during the optional break.As my center didn't permitted me to eat anything, I just drank a glass of water and re-entered the exam room to face the Verbal part. The section started very well and I could sense a kind of comfort with the difficulty level of the questions. But after the 5th question came the first RC passage and yes, I was fired.Literally I didnt knew what to do and how to approach it.Reading and re-reading and trying to comprehend what the passage intends to, I wasted around 10-12 minutes on the passage itself.As soon as I realized this, I started guessing the answers so that I may get out of this passage.But this costed me quite a lot, because in the end I was left with 5 questions in 3 minutes, and to my sheer bad luck, 3 out of those 5 questions were from CR.I know for sure, that this mismanagement of time would have surely pulled down my score because I was not able to devote the time each CR question expected me to.
After completing the IR and AWA portion, my heart started beating at an unprecedented rate. Once the score popped up on the screen, I heaved a sigh of relief.Seeing a score of 710 with Q 50,V 36, IR 5, I was satisfied.But satisfaction is not what I wanted.I wanted a delight in my heart, and so, promising myself to re-appear for the exam,I left the exam center with a committment to increase my score.
As for the materials I referred to, I will suggest everyone who feels a bit unprepared on Quant, do refer to TargetTestPrep course.It's a wonderful course and you can take a trial for that course to decide for yourself. Alongwith this, I mainly referred to GmatClub and Grail Collection only.
Regards
Abhishek
First of all, I would like to thanks GMATCLUB from the depth of my heart for the relentless support I got from here, which not only ignited in me, the fire to give in my best, but has also kept pouring oil on it, so that I may not rest till I achieve my dream score.
My GMAT journey started in November, when after a hard day at work, I realized this workplace should not be my destination. I want to grow, want to achieve something more..Remembering the famous dialogue by Captain Vikram Batra," Ye Dil Maange More", I introspected on the various options available to me at this age of my life. UPSC was now out of the game, as I was on the upper side of the age limit. Departmental promotions are a real nightmare, taking years to actually take place,and that too, with a limited growth. I wanted something more.SO, the best option I found was to go for an MBA.
Now, once I decided to go for an MBA, the choice was naturally inclined towards appearing for GMAT, coz I was already having 8 years of work experience under my belt.So, was checking different forums on internet from where I can get material and help for the exam.Then I found GMAT club and it was like I found a treasure island. From then on, I committed to myself, never to miss checking out posts and topics on GC. After that I created an account on MBA.com and scheduled my exam for April 17,2019. Yes, u read it right...I registered in November for the exam in April. I just didn't want to take any chances. As I was involved in a few lawsuits against me, I had to factor in the time that would be wasted in attending court hearings and so, to compensate for the lost time, I planned to give the exam after detailed practice.
Then, I applied for leave from my organization, as being in a banking industry, my entire day was consumed in dealing with money,money and money.It was to my unfortunate luck that I was denied leave on the grounds of staff shortage, that too, when in the past 5 years I have been working in the organization, I didn't took any of my privilege leave, and I was having a reserve of 150 days of leave in my account.So, I just put down my papers and wanted to get down to study as a free bird. But now,luck smiled at me and my controllers sanctioned me a leave without pay for 2 months. I now, took all my arsenals ( Gmatclub,MGMAT guides,Wiley's Grail Collection) and prepared myself for the war ahead.
1 month into preparation,I started becoming a bit confident in quant.This made me push my timeline to start for Verbal portion towards mid of February, so that I may have around 1.5 months for verbal , and then 15 days for revision and mock tests.But as they say, when everything in ur way seems smooth and easy, u should prepare urself for a storm ahead.In January last, owing to my lawsuits, I was summonned by the Police to come every alternate day for enquiry in my case.And as is the usual scenario in India, sometimes I had to spend my whole day,waiting for the respective officer. This wasted a lot of my time, and I started feeling nervous about my prep. Not knowing what to do under these kind of stressful situations, I decided to postpone my exam.But then, my elder brother came to my rescue and he said, Problems will come and go.Don't get botched down by them.Face them and you will see that they won't be able to harm you. So, from the next appearance in Police station, I used to take a notebook alongwith me, and used to solve quant questions waiting for the officers.
After around 20 days of trauma, I was finally freed from the menace of going to the police station. But by now, it was already 25th February and I knew that I am in a weak situation. So, started gearing my verbal preparation by reading posts by souvik101990, carcass, Bunuel, GMATNinja. One month into my verbal prepartion, I decided to give my first GMATPREP Mock and scored 730 on it. That was a real confidence booster for me.But I realized the score could be enhanced more if I can devote more time towards my RC preparation, which was dragging my score down.On the other hand, I felt my strength in Quant can help me improve my score in a better way.So, I decided to fully devote my last 5 days, from 11th April to 16th April, completely for RC Prep. and meanwhile I must focus again on Quant and Sentence Correction. I must say, this was my biggest mistake, because towards the end of my preparation, I could not gather enough courage to keep all my other subjects at side and prepare wholly for RC. So,RC got ditched and it made sure that it took its revenge from me on the exam day.
On 17th April, I reached the exam center at Gurgaon, where after the scanning and checking of documents, I was allowed to appear for the exam.Nervous as I was, appearing for the first time for an international exam,I sat down on the chair while the center member asked me for the names of the 5 schools to which I wish to send my scores to. In this stress, I selected 2 wrong programmes and later realized my mistake but nothing can be after that. Then, calming myself, I started my exam by choosing the order as : Q-V-IR-AWA. The first part of the exam went well and I felt my confidence level rising after I came out during the optional break.As my center didn't permitted me to eat anything, I just drank a glass of water and re-entered the exam room to face the Verbal part. The section started very well and I could sense a kind of comfort with the difficulty level of the questions. But after the 5th question came the first RC passage and yes, I was fired.Literally I didnt knew what to do and how to approach it.Reading and re-reading and trying to comprehend what the passage intends to, I wasted around 10-12 minutes on the passage itself.As soon as I realized this, I started guessing the answers so that I may get out of this passage.But this costed me quite a lot, because in the end I was left with 5 questions in 3 minutes, and to my sheer bad luck, 3 out of those 5 questions were from CR.I know for sure, that this mismanagement of time would have surely pulled down my score because I was not able to devote the time each CR question expected me to.
After completing the IR and AWA portion, my heart started beating at an unprecedented rate. Once the score popped up on the screen, I heaved a sigh of relief.Seeing a score of 710 with Q 50,V 36, IR 5, I was satisfied.But satisfaction is not what I wanted.I wanted a delight in my heart, and so, promising myself to re-appear for the exam,I left the exam center with a committment to increase my score.
As for the materials I referred to, I will suggest everyone who feels a bit unprepared on Quant, do refer to TargetTestPrep course.It's a wonderful course and you can take a trial for that course to decide for yourself. Alongwith this, I mainly referred to GmatClub and Grail Collection only.
Regards
Abhishek
25 Apr 2019, 18:48
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Thank you for sharing your story! I’m so happy that TTP was able to help you hit a Q50. If you need any advice regarding a retake, feel free to reach out.
Good luck!
Good luck!
26 Apr 2019, 00:09
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Congratulations on joining the 700 Club, Abhishek! Looking forward to hearing the next chapter in your journey.
