Hi Everyone,
After reading Bipolarbear’s debrief for motivation I hope to follow in his footsteps and use the GMATCLUB forums for motivation.
I am a 21 year old college senior currently on winter break, and thus no other real responsibility besides studying for the GMAT. I signed up for the test on January 23rd the day before I go back to college. If I do not get the score I want I will retake in 31 days, because well I have time, college is easy and job is wrapped up. I really want to get the GMAT out of the way now, because well when else will I have this much time to study and to not focus on any sort of job or anything else in particular.
I am neither an engineer, nor a math g-d but I think I am pretty decent. I am also an english speaking american born, natural fast reader so CR, RC I hope will not be that problematic for me. I have only seriously started studying about 10 days all spent on quant.
Over the summer just for fun I took GMATPREP 1 and got a 650 q45, v33 with 7 out of my 9 v errors coming from SC.
Last week I took GMATPREP 2 and got a 580 q44, v26 (and erased the questions by accident so I really don't know the breakdown).
I have gone through
Magoosh,
MGMAT Number Properties and just recently the
GMATCLUB Tests Diagnostic and 1-3
My results from the
GMATCLUB tests are:
12/23/2009 GMATCLUB DIAG GMATCLUB DIAG 26/45 55.2
12/24/2009 GMATCLUB TEST 1 GMATCLUB TEST 1 26/37 47.7 26M
12/26/2009 GMATCLUB TEST 2 GMATCLUB TEST 2 28/37 48.4 14M
12/27/2009 GMATCLUB TEST 3 GMATCLUB TEST 3 28/37 68.6 7M
The last column is how much time left I had.
Thus far I realize in Quant I'm weak on work rate problems and geometry, and verbal I don’t really know what I'm doing on CR and am rather terrible on SC. When I get back from my new years festivities I plan on starting verbal. I already have the Manhattan SC book, and downloaded several of the notes off this website.
Hopefully it will all pan out. Tomorrow I am going to take Manhattan test 1. I assume I will get destroyed on the verbal but hopefully the quant will show some improvement. Any feedback anyone wants to give on anything I welcome! Thank you all so much for contributing to this wonderful resource and I hope to join the 99% percentile list soon!