[vivek_cbe]

lets stick to one thread sandy. i dont want too many bookmarks

Dont worry about your work ex now. Just focus on your gmat....

as for the material i have the following :
Princeton 2007
Barrons
Powerprep software
GMAT test prep
Kaplan 2006 CD

After finishing these, i plan to get the official guide to gmat 11th edition. its slightly expensive - 1900 rupees but i hear its worth every pasie!

first get familiarized with gmat as a test and slowly let it sink in...i learnt a lot by reading threads in PG.

you can do the same.

[amitnsitian]

Originally Posted by vivek_cbe

Barrons

you dont need this buddy. and OG 11 is a must without fail. one more thing, dont get depressed with your Kaplan scores. they are really demotivating .
i have gone thru the GMAT journey so just thought to share watever little knowledge i have gained.

[sandy_venkat]

ya. we'll stick to this thread. even i learant a lot just by reading the posts ppl in PG. hey u can look out for the second hand books.
u know wat, i got this OG 11 ed for a mere 600 bucks man..u wont believe it. just look for stores which xerox it and sell. dont end up paying 1900 for it. let it be ur last resort. and ofcourse, in TN, the xerox business blossoms big time. so just check out....

[vivek_cbe]

yeah, let me finish my current materials first.

@amit

dude, its not just kaplan which i took. i did some intro tests on powerprep and even on topics like sentence correction i was really struggling. i am kind of surprised that having learnt english all my life i couldnt correct some basic mistakes in these sentences.

i took TOEFL in 2001 i believe and scored 283/300. Just wondering if i can carry the same form in GMAT . GRE verbal was a disaster for me and i think i got 450/800 :(

can you give me some tips?

[amitnsitian]

@vivek_cbe - i can give a tip for sentence correction. it worked for me atleast. do one thing - whenever you find something new in SC; then plz note it down in a diary. new could a new rule or a phrase or an idiom or an exception to a general rule. just revise this diary whenever u take a test and keep adding such observations. read it b4 GMAT and it will be very helpful for you

[ram_bubbly]

Guys ..count me in too.Yet to take my Gmat and planning for it sometime in the feb/March.Thanks Vivek for a good thread.

[vivek_cbe]

@ram

please tell us something about yourself

[krazykoolrohit]

sorry guys. i guess i will have to catch up every day as i am in a different time zone than you guys are. Vivek. Can we make two threads? one for GMAT march.april club and other for PGPEX. so that we are in touch with both.

as more and more people join in, we will create a mess with discussions and stuff in the same thread and vital information posted for PGPEX will be lost.

[krazykoolrohit]

as for me, i have still to buy books and look into preparations. But i am with you guys for sure for april dates. Problem is that i cannot start my preparation atleast for next 3 weeks due to some commitments.

I want to buy some books though now and i need help. I tries solving some maths and verbal questions and found out that i am a bit rusty. its been almost 4 years since i touched them . so can anyone suggest my path (keep in mind that i may need to brush up some fundamentals here and there). I plan to buy following books:

Verbal Workout for the GMAT, 2nd Edition (Graduate Test Prep) - Princeton Review
Kaplan GMAT 800, 2006-2007 (Kaplan Gmat 800)
Kaplan GMAT, 2007 Edition: Premier Program (Kaplan Gmat (Book & CD-Rom)) -
The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review
The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review
Cracking the GMAT with DVD, 2007 Edition (Graduate Test Prep) - Princeton Review
The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition

Can anyone help me eliminate out of these or add something essential to the list. right now the list amounts to 125$ :-?

[krazykoolrohit]

Vivek/Venkat/Ram,

one more suggestion. While PG is a good forum to get inspired, i also want to start a seperate mail chain with our problems and queries. Let me know if it is a good idea.

Please note that I have been with PG since last 2.5 years now (although my points got deleted somehow) and i am totally loyal to this forum. But i also feel that we shud not and cannot overload this forum with all our basic queries and doubts and should try and solve them ourselves first before posting it here.

So a mail chain can work and if we cannot resolve any problem ourselves then we always have PG experts to help us.