.....i am finally DONE ! 730 (q50,v38) ! i am so happy...without GMAT-Club, it would never happened ! i owe my score to GMAT-Club and to all its members. thanx gmatjang, matt, laxi, baner, freshina, antmavel, bhai, himalaya, bb, gsr, nakib, paul, praetorian, honghu !!!!! when i can manage it, ALL of u can ! about me: - 28 years old - degree in economics - self-employed; a new economy company - 5 years work experience - several awards for new economy projects; i.e. online mtv award my preparation: i started 1 year ago with my preparation. since then i prepared irregular. in the last 2 months i prepared intensly. at first i decided to prepare with a company. but it was worthless. i payed 250 euro for it. then i planned to prepare by myself. i bought kaplan, princeton, OG and several other books. but it was ineffective. i knew that i had to change my strategy. unfortunately, i never had much time to prepare because i had to manage my own company. after a pause of 3 months, i found this incredible website and i started to participate. in my attempt , i cancelled my score because i was too nervous. my big problem is my stamina. i knew all the techniques and my scores during the CATÂ´s were constantly between 680-750, but during the test i started to panic and wasnt able to manage the time. i was frustrated because i knew that i can do much better but was somehow not able to manage my stamina and my time problem. i nearly stopped my plans for my MBA but i told myself all the time that i can achieve it when my heart and my head can conceive it. i set a date for december 2005. in november 2005 i sold part of my company and resigned as managing director. i changed my strategy and concentrated only on verbal. moreover i stopped doing CATÂ´s because some of them are far away from the real test. the best part of my 3rd phase of preparation was my frequent participation in GMAT-Club and my attitude. i was relaxed and didnt spend too much time for my preparation. these 2 aspects changed everything. in my next attempt i scored 730. yes it is possible ! i can tell u guys and girls, when i can achieve it ALL of u can (matt ). its all about your attitude during the test. dont panic. stay calm. be cool. my test: AWA: didnt spend too much of my resources on AWA. i prepared a template and wrote as much as i can bout the issue and the argument. quant: the problems were much easier than the problems that we solve here. only one problem about probability. many tricky ds-problems. only one geometry-problem. one mixture problem that we already solved here. i knew the answer. i finished the section after 1h14m. i knew that i scored above 45. i took the pause and ate a cookie. verbal: i was always very good at solving cr`s and i was always very bad at solving rc`s. thats why i read about 20 articles of the economist under time limits. that really helped me. i saw one cr-problem that we already solved in the forum. it was about jets and their waste. the rc`s were really tough but i managed them because of my intense prep with these articles. i finished the section after 1h14m59s. conclusion: it was easy because i stayed relaxed all the time and so it appeared as i am at home solving problems in the forum. i said to myself: its just a test, just a test, just a test. nothing special. no reason to panic. BUT u only have no reason to panic when u prepared very well. thats the first step. what can i do for u ? i have plenty of books, tests and notes. tell me what u need and i will afford it. i attache my list of formulas ! my plans: now i will prepare my application for 2006. i know its late but i hope i can achieve it. i like to apply for INSEAD, London Business School, SDA Bocconi and one school in USA, but i am not sure about the school. what can u do for me ? i hope that some of u who already participate in a MBA-program of my choice (mentioned above) can give me some advice. (paul, u are at LBS, are u ?) maybe someone can give me an advice for an US-business-school as well. i want to be part of this incredible community forever... chris

Great Score Chris. Having gone through many of your post, I knew you are definitely a 700+ material. Many congratulations to you, and all the best for your applications.

Congratulations Cristoph!! Excellent Score!! Gud luck with your application process.

GlÃ¼ckwunsch Christoph!!! Ich beneide deine Willenskraft und deine Geduld, und wie du unschwer siehst, hat es sich gelohnt! 730 ist top uns du hast dein Ziel erreicht I've been expecting your "share your gmat experience" post any day and there it is;) Good luck with the apps!!

thx for all ur congratulations ! i just finished my essays for INSEAD ! now its time for LBS !

here are some important links: math: https://regentsprep.org/Regents/mathb/5A ... Angles.htm https://www.themathpage.com/aPreCalc/per ... ions-2.htm https://www.themathpage.com/aPreCalc/per ... tm#perm%20 https://www.robertniles.com/stats/stdev.shtml https://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/mepres/book8/bk8i2/bk8_2i4.htm https://regentsprep.org/regents/math/mat ... ode=permut https://regentsprep.org/regents/math/mat ... ode=combin https://www.cqeweb.com/Chapters-HTML/Cha ... apter3.htm https://regentsprep.org/Regents/mathb/1D ... lesson.htm https://www.hostsrv.com/webmab/app1/MSP/ ... s&s3=basic https://www.7stones.com/Homepage/Publisher/angleMC.html https://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch12/range.htm https://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/sim ... rategy.htm https://invsee.asu.edu/srinivas/stdev.html https://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/book ... ion3.rhtml verbal: https://cctc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html https://aliscot.com/bigdog/pronouns.htm https://www.englishpage.com/index.html https://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/ https://www.webster.com/ https://www.bartleby.com/usage/ https://dictionary.reference.com/

Those links explain how much you prepared for gmat...that's great.

Thanks Christoph for the wonderful links. Good luck with apps!

I am always late I've just come back to China today and I've been very busy during Christmas holidays filling in all the necessary docs for MBA applications. Fantastic news Christoph !!! Congratulations again ! I am very happy for you Your determination was the key

Great job christoph! You give hope to us all! I have 2 months to go before my test. You mentioned that you trained intensely the last two months before your test. What was your schedule like during this time?

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