GMAT Cracked - 770 (Q-50, V-45)

[ankush_infy]

Originally Posted by rahul2842

Hi Ankush,

Thanks a lot for answering my questions.

After reading your reply, I have left SC1000 for the time being and went back to Kaplan. I have done close to 80 questions from Kaplan Premier and Kaplan SC Practice Sets (had downloaded a pdf from somewhere). I had reasonable accuracy there. Now that I am getting the accuracy I have to focus on time. As of now I am taking close to 2 mins per question which is way above the desired time. I guess the only way to improve on the time is to practice. Will do more questions and then maybe move to sc1000 again.

So what stage are you on the journey to MBA?

Thanks,
Rahul

Once your accuracy is fine you will definetly be able to increase your speed because of the increased confidence. Keep practicing.

Also, as Sandipan has pointed out Manhattan SC will also give you some concepts which will help clarify some of the fundamentals. So simultaneously you can start reading that book as well. But the only thing which will help you improve is the practice and you will learn things while practicing. Whenever you do a mistake you should precisily analyze what went wrong in your thinking.

Similarly when you hit it right you should know why you chose that answer. When you are able to do this you will definetly be more faster and more accurate.

[ankush_infy]

As asked by some of you people about my MBA journey:

I recently got an admit from NYU Stern school of business. I am also considering 1-2 other schools but most probably will be joining NYU Stern.

Here is the thread i started for taking queries for the admission process:

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/intern...s-welcome.html (Admitted at NYU Stern!! Queries are welcome..)

[ajeesh.aj]

congrats buddy.. all the best for your future

[rahul2842]

Originally Posted by ankush_infy

Once your accuracy is fine you will definetly be able to increase your speed because of the increased confidence. Keep practicing.

Also, as Sandipan has pointed out Manhattan SC will also give you some concepts which will help clarify some of the fundamentals. So simultaneously you can start reading that book as well. But the only thing which will help you improve is the practice and you will learn things while practicing. Whenever you do a mistake you should precisily analyze what went wrong in your thinking.

Similarly when you hit it right you should know why you chose that answer. When you are able to do this you will definetly be more faster and more accurate.

Yup .. would keep practicing. I have already read Manhattan SC and true, its a good book for SC. Thanks for taking time out to advise on this. Would bug you again when I start RC .

Congrats on the admit, great going.

Rahul

[rohan_sb]

Hey Ankush....

I would be starting my GMAT preparations in sometime........ plannig to apply for Fall 09...
What would be the ideal strategy and the duration to go about preparing for GMAT.... and when should we be taking the test if we plan to apply for FALL09.....
Could u plesae suggest books with which i shud start my preparation with.....??

Gave CAT this year... did not make it coz Quant proved me NEMESIS...
i personaally consider QUANT as my weaker side.... though i have an engineerig background......... i know it sounds strange.. but it is the fact....
also would like to know... how do we improv our verbal scores in GMAT.....

Expecting some guidance from while preparing for the test.....

Thanks in advance...
Rohan.....

[iammanusharma]

hi, I'm working as software engineer since 2 yrs. Now i'm planning to do mba. Have a few queries plz help me out..

1. Is it worth spending around 30 - 50 lakhs for doing mba in US taking into account the salary that we get after completion.
2. How about considering Mba from NUS, Singapore ..
3. when is the right time to write GMAT

[drshakya]

hi i am a doc preparing for gmat , i have gone throug ur suggestions, i am having lots of difficulty in english section , i am reading ims notes , plz suggest what to do,

[stylosun]

That was really moving experience ....!!lets see wht happens with me this August..!!

Originally Posted by ankush_infy

My D-DAY experience

I took my appointment at 8 AM and i never gave a single test at that time. Many people said that give atleasy one test at 8 but i didnt listen. I believe, Its all in the mind
I gave all my mock tests between 10-2PM. Actually i had to go to library to give the tests.
Also before the exam i only slept for 5 hrs. Somehow didnt get sleep till late

Anyways, i reached my centre at 715 AM and waited will 730 to enter the center. Those 15 minutes i used for self motivation
Entered the exam room at 750AM after completing all the formalities. Selected the schools and then started with AWA. I had the format to write the essays, wrote the essays in that format and was able to put in good ideas in them. All in all was very satisfied with my performace here, given that i had put only 2 days of prep for this section.

Took a 10 minute break in which i had 1 Red bull. Again motivated myslef for the real test now. Started with Quant.

Initially in Quant questions were easy and i was rechecking all the answers will Q10. but after Q10 difficulty level started increasing and questions were taking lot of time. I speeded up after Q 17 and didnt recheck any of my answers after that. I got some 2-3 probability questions in between which i was able to answer. Overall the difficulty level was same as that of GMATPrep. For the last question i had 2 minutes and i strated it leisurely. It involved some large calculations and finally when i came with answer, it didnt match any of the choices, and only 15 seconds were left. I had to guess this one. I knew that i wil not be able to hit 51 in Quant. Anyways, my aim was only 50, not 51. I knew with 50 in Maths i can still do well. So i was satisfied.

Now took another 10 minutes break. I took another red bull . Looked into the mirror, said to me that here starts the most imp 75 mintues test. It all depends on these 75 minutes whether i will make it or not, so just motivated myself to have confidence and give my best shot.

Started verbal with 2 SC's, average ones. Then came an easy CR.
Got my first RC at Q3 which i marked comfortably and i was confident of my accuracy till now. Then came a series of SC's and CR's. SC's were getting difficult. At Q 10 gt my second RC of 4 questions. It was a large RC but i handled it well. After this there were 3-4 SC's in line, some of which were difficlut and toom time. Then at Q24 giot my third RC which was small but a difficult one. At Q33, git my last 4th RC, average length and avg difficulty. After Q31 it was getting difficuly for me to concentrate because the feeling of result kept coming in my mind. Tried hard and was able to concentrate for some more moments, but i had increased by speed now to complete the test ASAP. Also after 15 th question my spped reduced due to difficulty, so i had to increase my spped after 28th question to bring it back to 2 minutes per queestion. This is imp because last questions are imp and you should have time for them. Finally i had 12 mintes for last 5 questions. took my time for these question. Also now i was worried since i didnt get any bold face CR till now. So again i felt difficult to concentrate.

Finally Q40 was a bold faced huge CR which was very difficult in which i took 3.5 minutes. Then for last question i had 2.5 minutes till left. Makred it it 1/2 minute and clicked on next with 2 minutes still to go.

Now, i could hear the beat of my heart and was feeling very tense. THe bad ting is you have to fill an 8 page survey after the verbal section and i was getting very tense while filling it .

Finally i got the screen to accept / reject scores. And clicked on report scores. The page haged to calculate my score and for me the whole world hanged in those 5 seconds. i Colsed my eyes and prayed. When i opened my eyes, i saw 770 ( 50, 45) - was shoced for 2 minutes. Didnt utter a word just kept looking at the screen.

Thanked God, looked out of the window to check if everything is real and called the test admin. She asked me to click next. Didnt want to get past that screen but clicked on End test.
Took print out of the score, switched on my phone and already my friends were calling me .

So this is my D-Day story, if you people have any doubt you can always ping me, take my mail id /phone number and we can take it forward from there.

Thanks guys

[drshakya]

hi ,plz suggest how to improve english for gmat

[vicky.verma]

Originally Posted by stylosun

That was really moving experience ....!!lets see wht happens with me this August..!!

Dude!!!

Sentence correction

That was really moving experience ....!!lets see wht happens with me this August..!!

happens to me


Sorry can't help it