[nagpalkunal]

Hi All

Gave my GMAT yesterday in Delhi - scored a not so bad 770! (Q 50 and V 44)
(i am just luking for the bloke who said the last PP score is what you would actually get:angry::bad-word::snipersm: - had got 780 in that :()

Jus kiddin. anyhow I am here for all to seek help. However may I add that people who are about 650+ levels already would take more from me cause I am not really gud at basing opinions on subject matter. I will only help you guys by guiding you to the right answers.

Cheers

Kunal

[justdoit_cat]

Originally Posted by nagpalkunal

Hi All

Gave my GMAT yesterday in Delhi - scored a not so bad 770! (Q 50 and V 44)
(i am just luking for the bloke who said the last PP score is what you would actually get:angry::bad-word::snipersm: - had got 780 in that :()

Jus kiddin. anyhow I am here for all to seek help. However may I add that people who are about 650+ levels already would take more from me cause I am not really gud at basing opinions on subject matter. I will only help you guys by guiding you to the right answers.

Cheers

Kunal

cool...... 770 is a decent score!!

[nagpalkunal]

Originally Posted by justdoit_cat

cool...... 770 is a decent score!!

hi JDI

I wud say so. just thot of helping junta with their prep. So here i am boasting about my score

Kunal

[xyz]

Hey buddy thats an awesome score so welcome to the fal 2007 applicant gang !!!

[cattiee]

great score!Congrats!How did u go on to prepare,which books did u refer to?CONGRATS once again!

[Psychodementia]

Congrats Kunal !! that is an awesome score - needless to say

And thanks for volunteering to help out newbies on GMAT, there is a thread out there which reachmonil has started.

Cheers !!

Arun

[ankush_infy]

hey kunal,

mast score maara hai........pec mein bhi kafi talent hai , yaar i am also planning to give GMAT in june end and need serious advice from u. need to call u bro...

[amitnsitian]

hey kunal,

congrats for the fundoo score.

can u pls guide us for the prep - the books, strategy, etc

thanks

Amit

[nagpalkunal]

Hi Puys

thanks for the wishes.

am in chandigarh right now taking some days off from office. shall be in delhi from monday onwards so will give a detailed reply to everybody later on.

to summarise:

I have already appeared for CAT twice, scored 98.66 and 98.50 both the times. needless to say it wasn't a gratifying effort either time.
basically to say that i had some preparation for such an exam.

started off earnestly in mid-march.
took all my material except for Kaplan 800 from the net and friends
Two CDs for Kaplan (making a total of 6 tests and 2 diagnostics)
OG - English: last october when i wanted to prepare but had to leave it cause of office pressure.
OG - Maths: still haven't finished it. think that it is not worth the time. really not boasting but to say that i thot i was above the OG
1000 SC: again did about 400 odd of the questions. But seriously guys, that is one exercise you should be serious about. no jokes attached. one helluva thing for practicing SC
Kaplan 800: The GOD of ALL. it has some serious questions but attempt the book only if you are fairly confident about general things. otherwise it might break your confidence in the short term. The book can be had in Delhi from Old Delhi (nai sadak i think) bought it for 650/-.
Loads of questions from Net:I dont know how many questions I attempted out of the stuff from the net. tons i wud say.

Summary: My prep was more tuned towards english than maths. SC was
the bete noire. more comments later on.

Results of Mock Tests that I took:

Kaplan 1/1 : 630
Kaplan 2/1 : 640
Kaplan 1/2 : 630
Kaplan 2/2 : 630
Kaplan Diagnostic : 700
Kaplan 3/2 : 640
Kaplan 4/2 : 630
I dont remember exactly but about four of them were in March (didn't touch Kaplan or their reviews after the last test - kaplan can be confidence sapping!!)
Cambridge Test : 720-760 (it gave me a range! what can i say)
ETS 1/2 : 760 (2 weeks before the exam)
ETS 2/2 : 770 (6 days before the exam)
PowerPrep 1/2 : 780 (3 days before the exam)
PowerPrep 2/2 : zilch. didn't have the time for this one. let it go.
Had Princeton Tests too but didn't go thru them : lack of time and lack of erputtation for princeton to be a decent evaluator

Other than these simulation tests, i did give the paper tests from ETS (retired and found from their site) i gave about 6 of these tests on weekends january thru march : averaged 740 in those. mostly on account of english mistakes. I wud say these tests prompted me to think more seriously about English. Hence the recommendation from my side to go thru them.
Other than this I did give one more test from Scoretop (Set 17 i think) which is supposed to be a collection of recent JJ. again gud for people to think about and note the subtle change that has come about in GMAT since Pearson took charge. (more on this later)

Oh and i did eat a couple of 5 Stars in the 2 breaks that I got in the exam. ;-)

more later

Cheers

Kunal

[nagpalkunal]

Originally Posted by ankush_infy

hey kunal,

mast score maara hai........pec mein bhi kafi talent hai , yaar i am also planning to give GMAT in june end and need serious advice from u. need to call u bro...give me ur number...

pm me on monday. shall give u the number in the reply

Kunal