GMAT aspirants at Hyderabad - Study Group

[venom]

All GMATters at Hyderabad are invited to participate in this thread - An attempt to collectively pin the beast. This is another regular thread to club up the efforts of all Hyderabad junta aspiring to crack GMAT. I would appreciate if some Master GMATters who have cracked it also participate to enlighten us.

This thread primarily focusses to bring along the people @Hyd to discuss,share and help. We can help each other with discussions, materials and experiences.

I have kickstarted it...lets pursue it to achieve the best...

[xyz]

Hey Venom thats a good idea .. I am sure there a lot of us from Hyd planning to take GMAT.

It will be grt to share our knowledge and resources.

[darthcoder]

You guys cud add me to ur group .
AM interested in taking the GMAT.

AM IN .

Regards,
DC.

[venom]

Welcome aboard guys!! So we are sailing on the same ship

A quick question... I have not been able to lay my hands on a copy of OG 11ed. at any book stores @Hyd. Could you guyz point me to a shop where I can get this book?

[sikhoya]

Any updates on this one? OG availability in hyderabad?
BTW, im planning to give the GMAT sometime in sep-Oct.

[Zilch]

Hi guys .. I am from hyd ... me plannning to take the test too .... havent decided when though.

Just to share my pov ... After I did some research and here is what I have generally concluded:

On the test:
VA - Usually as hard as OG
QA - Harder than OG if you are targeting a high score

Prep material:
VA - Spidy/Sahil notes (found on TestMagic forums), OG
QA - This is where you need Kaplan (the GMAT book as well as K800) as they have the tougher questions. And OG

Full length tests: Idea is to get the stamina required for the duration of the test and not to estimate the score on G-day. The more you can take .. the better.


Also, for people who are yet to get started on figuring out the prep strategy, these might be helpful:


There is a dude whos put together a nice page with all the resourses that you will ever come across for GMAT ... the link to his page is here:
http://home.comcast.net/~dave.kim/index_files/Page423.htm

He has also written a "GMAT Study Strategy" page ... which I think is pretty neat. The link to this page is available on the page I have linked above.

With a more desi pov ... there is a GMAT_FAQ document that PshycoD has prepared, you can find the link to it in his signature on most posts. Its a very helpful piece too.

For those of you, looking at Fall 07, please visit the thread:
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/b-scho...he-dreamz.html



HTH

[venom]

Zilch,

That was an useful post. The link really has enormous info.

Btw, have you been able to grab a copy of OG 11ed? Could you point me to any stores @Hyd where its available?

Thanks,
Venom.

[Zilch]

I tried a lot to get the OG 11th Ed myself, but I couldnt get it. The options that I saw at the end were:
# Order from mba.com or amazon.com
# Order at a book stall and wait for the copy to arrive (ext time 3 weeks)

But after reading a few posts about the content of the 11th Ed in comparison with the 10th ... I feel it hasnt got much (IMHO) ... and after pondering a lot whether its worth the 1600 (est.) price I kinda voted against it and have planned to go with the 10th one.

Whsat say you guys?

[venom]

The posts about OG 11ed do mention the overlaps between 10ed and 11ed. It further mentions the newer edition is better compiled. I still feel OG 10ed will be not much of a compromise.

Surprisingly, I could not grab a copy of that either!! Could you?

[xyz]

Hey guys I think it will be a better idea to order for OG 11th online. OG10th has retired GMAT question , but they wudld be real old and OG11th will have comparatively more recent questions.

Also the explanation in OG 11 seems to be better.