[iday]

Hi all,
This is iday here. I've been a member of the forum for more than 6 months now. I gave CAT 2005 (scored 94) and XAT 2006 (scored 95). No calls, obviously, from any school. I decided to aim higher and booked my GMAT.

Started preps in Late March. Will do some 2 or 3 hrs of prep everyday. Used the weekends to maximum possible limit - would work for 8 or 10 hrs definitely.

The materials i used were the following:

1. Kaplan Premier edition
2. Kaplan 800
3. Princeton
4. OG 11th edition
5. OG verbal review
6. OG Math review

After more than 2 months of sincere preps, gave my GMAT today and scored a 750. I have made a detailed post abt the experience today in my blog - for those curious people who might be interested.

I did not follow any of the To-Dos mentioned in any of the books i have mentioned above, but made my own plans on attacking various question types. I would only say that we should settle with whatever we are comfortable with.

I am no big expert in GMAT preps, there are ppl who score better with lesser preps. But i'd be glad to help any of the souls out there, who are facing difficulty in GMAT preps, or have doubts. I know how difficult these times are and what difference a few good words can do

Planning to apply for Fall 2007 with some big names under consideration. Will keep the forum posted about my progress for sure.

Iday

[ahmadazeem777]

Originally Posted by iday

Hi all,

Iday

you really killed the gmat on the day (6-6-06 = day of devils) when evil is suppose to be victorious.

Congrats buddy

Azeem

[nagpalkunal]

Originally Posted by iday

After more than 2 months of sincere preps, gave my GMAT today and scored a 750.

But i'd be glad to help any of the souls out there, who are facing difficulty in GMAT preps, or have doubts. I know how difficult these times are and what difference a few good words can do
Iday

Congrats on the score. and i completely agree on the few good words.

Kunal

[amitnsitian]

hey iday,

congrats for the gr8 score...

i am also taking my GMAT in a few weeks time. will post my experience too

[Maverick2110]

Hey Kunal/Iday
Im having GMAT on 20th JULY ..
My weakest area is Verbal
Ive completed OG10 and OG11,
But still Im able to get only 27-30 correct out 0f 41 in tests.
Large part of errors attributed to RC ,but sometimes make silly mistakes in other parts (CR,SC) too.
What should be my action plan now,help me out yar ...
I need to score above 700....
Here are my scores

Verbal 800 : 1: 25
Verbal 800 : 1: 30
Verbal 800 : 3: 28

Test No 48 : 680 .. Verbal 38 .. Quant 50
Test No 52 : 700 .. Verbal 39 .. Quant 50
Test No 28 : 660 .. Verbal 36 .. Quant 50


Thanks

[iday]

@azeem, kunal and amit
Thanks a lot for your wishes guys.

@ kunal - 770 right??? which schools are u looking at??? Fall 2007???
how abt the other guys?!?!? done with GMAT???

[amitnsitian]

Originally Posted by iday

@ kunal - 770 right???

yup...answering on his behalf

Originally Posted by iday

how abt the other guys?!?!? done with GMAT???

in 3 weeks, i have to take it...

[iday]

Originally Posted by Maverick2110

Hey Kunal/Iday
Im having GMAT on 20th JULY ..
My weakest area is Verbal
Ive completed OG10 and OG11,
But still Im able to get only 27-30 correct out 0f 41 in tests.
Large part of errors attributed to RC ,but sometimes make silly mistakes in other parts (CR,SC) too.
What should be my action plan now,help me out yar ...
I need to score above 700....
Here are my scores

Verbal 800 : 1: 25
Verbal 800 : 1: 30
Verbal 800 : 3: 28

Test No 48 : 680 .. Verbal 38 .. Quant 50
Test No 52 : 700 .. Verbal 39 .. Quant 50
Test No 28 : 660 .. Verbal 36 .. Quant 50
Thanks

First of all - which software is this??? Dont go by the scores of both Princeton and Kaplan. For all that i know, Q50, V38 is not gonna be 38. It will be more than 720 atleast. Princeton guys supposedly lost their mind when they made their scoring formula. And Kaplan guys give u very difficult Questions in their tests. If this is in Princeton - u must be scoring more on the real GMAT. If this is the Kaplan test, you are doing well really. If this is something else - i've no clue.

You cannot kill GMAT verbal unless you have been really proficient in the American way of English, since child hood days. The comparitively lesser scores-to-percentile mapping explains this clearly. So dont worry about getting wrong answers in Verbal. It is bound to happen, despite our best efforts.

Verbal was my poor area too. I was hardly able to cross 35 early on. I dint do the marathon 1000 SCs as many others did, but if u have the time, i'd advice you to use that anyway. But you have mentioned that your weakest area is RC. This is good news coz RC is simple to master - all you need is to show a bit more concentration. For every Q, re read the corresponding section in the given paragraph and you must be okay.

If you havent done this already, download the GMAT prep software and take the first test. That will be the closest estimate to your score. It might still be skewed coz u have finished the OGs and you'll see questions from these books. But take this test anyway. Your score will be higher than what the pundits might agree.

Let us know once u r done with it.
But still - Q50, V38 is never gonna be 38 dood. Dont worry. For all that i see, you are doing well in V. Just keep at it.

Iday

[iday]

@amit - keep at it dude. crucial times

let us know ur exp.
we shall take on the apping journey together

Iday

[amitnsitian]

my two cents...

if u taking a kaplan test, the score is generally on the lower side coz it is a tough paper. so u can safely add a 80-100 to ur kaplan mock score.

wat say guys?