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I have found this forum to be a valuable resource in my GMAT preparation, and I hope sharing my experience of taking the GMAT today will be useful to others.
Prep Material
I started out by reviewing fundamentals. I used the following material:
Manhattan GMAT Study Guides -- These are a series of seven study guides that cover most of the topics on the GMAT. Although the set is rather expensive ($150), I found it quite useful. I worked through all five of the quantitative guides and the sentence correction guide.
The Delta Course -- For 20$, this online course gives you all the tools you'll need to tackle any combinatorics and probability questions on the GMAT.
OG -- As others on this forum have stated, this is a rich source of practice questions. However, it is crucial that you read the explanations for all questions you miss to ensure that you truly understand the concepts.
Grammar Smart – A concise book that lives up to its title.
800Score AWA Guide -- This is a guide to the essay portion of the exam, and it contains good templates (attached).
Practice Tests
I did the following practice test:
Test Quant Verbal Total
PP1 46 42 710
Paper 55 43 42 700
Paper 25 45 42 700
PP2 48 39 710
Paper 52 44 45 720
Paper 42 45 39 690
Paper 37 45 42 710
PR #2 46 43 710
PR #3 44 46 720
PR #4 44 45 710
I also did the math portion of the Kaplan test. The math is much harder than the actual GMAT, but good practice. The verbal is crap.
I found the Princeton tests and PP to be the most helpful. However, the Princeton tests repeat the same RC questions through all the tests, but RC was never a problem for me, so I didn't need much practice on these.
The ETS paper test are a good starting place, but the level of difficulty of these questions is below the actual GMAT. You also have to do the problems faster, so it can throw off your timing for the real GMAT.
Advice
In the days leading up to the test, I took full practice tests (including essays) at the same time I would be taking the real GMAT. This made it a sort of ritual to take the GMAT every morning at 10AM. Today when I took the test, it almost felt routine. It definitely helped with nerves, and it also helped build the stamina to sit for a four-hour exam.
Exam Experience
The questions in the quant section were slightly harder than PP and Princeton Review, although much easier than Kaplan. I was expecting to get some gnarly combinatorics and probability questions, but only got one of each. They were both straightforward. I got one standard deviation question that asked which set of numbers has the greatest standard deviation, and the sets looked like {5 5 6 9 9}. It seemed like DS questions accounted for at least half of the questions, and many of the DS question centered on various number properties and algebra.
The verbal section was similar to the questions in PP and Princeton. There were quite a few SC problems, but not too many CR. I got four RC passage of about 50 lines each.
Hope this is helpful!
Prep Material
I started out by reviewing fundamentals. I used the following material:
Manhattan GMAT Study Guides -- These are a series of seven study guides that cover most of the topics on the GMAT. Although the set is rather expensive ($150), I found it quite useful. I worked through all five of the quantitative guides and the sentence correction guide.
The Delta Course -- For 20$, this online course gives you all the tools you'll need to tackle any combinatorics and probability questions on the GMAT.
OG -- As others on this forum have stated, this is a rich source of practice questions. However, it is crucial that you read the explanations for all questions you miss to ensure that you truly understand the concepts.
Grammar Smart – A concise book that lives up to its title.
800Score AWA Guide -- This is a guide to the essay portion of the exam, and it contains good templates (attached).
Practice Tests
I did the following practice test:
Test Quant Verbal Total
PP1 46 42 710
Paper 55 43 42 700
Paper 25 45 42 700
PP2 48 39 710
Paper 52 44 45 720
Paper 42 45 39 690
Paper 37 45 42 710
PR #2 46 43 710
PR #3 44 46 720
PR #4 44 45 710
I also did the math portion of the Kaplan test. The math is much harder than the actual GMAT, but good practice. The verbal is crap.
I found the Princeton tests and PP to be the most helpful. However, the Princeton tests repeat the same RC questions through all the tests, but RC was never a problem for me, so I didn't need much practice on these.
The ETS paper test are a good starting place, but the level of difficulty of these questions is below the actual GMAT. You also have to do the problems faster, so it can throw off your timing for the real GMAT.
Advice
In the days leading up to the test, I took full practice tests (including essays) at the same time I would be taking the real GMAT. This made it a sort of ritual to take the GMAT every morning at 10AM. Today when I took the test, it almost felt routine. It definitely helped with nerves, and it also helped build the stamina to sit for a four-hour exam.
Exam Experience
The questions in the quant section were slightly harder than PP and Princeton Review, although much easier than Kaplan. I was expecting to get some gnarly combinatorics and probability questions, but only got one of each. They were both straightforward. I got one standard deviation question that asked which set of numbers has the greatest standard deviation, and the sets looked like {5 5 6 9 9}. It seemed like DS questions accounted for at least half of the questions, and many of the DS question centered on various number properties and algebra.
The verbal section was similar to the questions in PP and Princeton. There were quite a few SC problems, but not too many CR. I got four RC passage of about 50 lines each.
Hope this is helpful!
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10 Jul 2004, 18:02
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Hey,
Congratulations. That is an excellent score.
How was the test day? You mentioned you have practiced full tests on the days leading to test. I think that is an excellent strategy.Any more special care or preperation you have made specific to that day?
Good luck with your admission process.
Congratulations. That is an excellent score.
How was the test day? You mentioned you have practiced full tests on the days leading to test. I think that is an excellent strategy.Any more special care or preperation you have made specific to that day?
Good luck with your admission process.
10 Jul 2004, 19:17
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GFunk314
Good Score and Thanks for sharing the AWA prep.
Did you take the 800Score Practise tests?
Is so, what scores did you get?
Thanks and good luck on your apps
Good Score and Thanks for sharing the AWA prep.
Did you take the 800Score Practise tests?
Is so, what scores did you get?
Thanks and good luck on your apps
