I have been cribbing abt not finding time and the works ... and the situ. hasnt changed much. But I did get the wheel rolling this week ... Have begun by reviewing the basics of QA ... which I am horrible at ... yes sir ... I am an engg. who sucks at Math. And I feel that any person who is not that good at QA must begun here. There are a lot of re-discoveries that you will make.

After hitting that off ... its off to the practice problems ... first the problem solving part then the DS.

venom Says

Yeah! Time for action now. So guyz gear up and share your action plans. How have you started the preparation? What books to begin with? I have picked up a copy of Kaplan GMAT and planning to start with it over weekend.

Good to have you with us Hocus Pocus. Hydies are great ppl ... I am sure you'll rem your stay forevre. Here a crash course in Hyd-lingo ... just to get you started. you'll be coming across a lot of it ....

Hao - Yes
Nakko - No
Parsun - Any point of time in the past
-ich - As in 'aisich' 'waisich' ... means aisa ... waisa
-oon - As in 'jaatoon' 'aatooon' 'kartoon' ... means I am ... going, coming, doing
yarron - Very respectable way of refering to someone in the 2nd and 3rd person
miyan - Highy respentable way of refering to someone you totally rever

The list is long ... so ppl .. please add to it.

I work at B'pet too. PM me and I'll see if I can help you with the accomodation part. Wich co are you joining here ?

Hey Hyderabad Junta ,

Nice to see an active thread going on for GMAT preps ! Am Vignesh aka Vicky and i would be moving into Hyderabad for my work on 8th from chennai and am looking at giving GMAT sometime by june/july too . Would be great to know you all and do some combined preps to crack GMAT .

This is the wrong place to post this so please pardon me , would it be possible to get a flat for accomadation in and around begumpet cos thats where my office would be .

Cheers,
Vicky.

Yeah! Time for action now. So guyz gear up and share your action plans. How have you started the preparation? What books to begin with? I have picked up a copy of Kaplan GMAT and planning to start with it over weekend.

Raghu,
In addition to OG(Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition), GMAC has come up with 2 more books this time -
The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal ReviewThe Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review

OG is must. For the other 2, you need to take a call. All of them have retired GMAT questions.

Venom.

Venom,
tnx for the inputs! Guess time for me to prepare rather than thinkin abt resources !!

Hey Hyderabad Junta ,

Nice to see an active thread going on for GMAT preps ! Am Vignesh aka Vicky and i would be moving into Hyderabad for my work on 8th from chennai and am looking at giving GMAT sometime by june/july too . Would be great to know you all and do some combined preps to crack GMAT .

This is the wrong place to post this so please pardon me , would it be possible to get a flat for accomadation in and around begumpet cos thats where my office would be .

Cheers,
Vicky.

Raghu,

In addition to OG(Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition), GMAC has come up with 2 more books this time -
The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal ReviewThe Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review

OG is must. For the other 2, you need to take a call. All of them have retired GMAT questions.

Venom.

Rags,

Check this thread... http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/gmat-and-related-discussions/10205-official-guide-gmat-review-edition.html

It has all the info you might need. Post if you have any further questions.

Venom.

Hey Venom,
I'm convinced to buy 11th ed.. long story cut-short., can U let me know is it only a single book i.e. 11th ed OG or some other supplements to be bought ? I'm a bit confused about that..

Rgds,
Raghu.

hey junta....

I jus recently started prep for GMAT.... been doing the Princeton Review.....

I have found some stuff on the net. Check out these sites.....


www.angelfire.com/scifi2/gmatplus/gmat.html
[url=http://ashishb.blogsome.com/2005/06/16/gmat-for-beginners-2/
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/gmat-related-discussions/10794-countdown-mba-6.html
http://gmatjj.blogspot.com/
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/gmat-related-discussions/11586-gmat-links.html
http://www.4tests.com/exams
http://www.beatthegmat.com/**
http://www.gmattutor.com/**
http://www.beatthegmat.blogspot.com/

I am not aware of any source of GMATPREP cd's.
For the OG 11ed hunters, I could find the book in Koti book market,priced between Rs 1500-1600. There are limited copies available, guess 2 in my knwledge. Also, the xerox copies are available @Rs 550-700.

Cool ... so the 11th ed is finally here .. eh??

@Anyone who picks it up ... reviews at this thred are a must ... or else all of us will keep PM-ing you till you get fed up :)

So ... hows it going people ... I am still in the "find the freaking time to study" mode. Do keep telling me how much you guys have already covered and how good you have got at stuff ... at least that will get me to put in some time.

Zilch

I am not aware of any source of GMATPREP cd's.
For the OG 11ed hunters, I could find the book in Koti book market,priced between Rs 1500-1600. There are limited copies available, guess 2 in my knwledge. Also, the xerox copies are available @Rs 550-700.

Hi all,
count me in too.. Zilch, that was a useful post indeed ! I plan to tk GMAT by march end.. I've jus started prep.. guess really need to speed up esp. coz: 1) am verbally challenged
2) Verbal skills esp. AWA can't be improvd in a short span of time.

I've got 10th ed of OG.. I've seen ppl sayin better to use 11th ed.. any further inputs on why 11th ed and not 10th ed ?

Rgds,
Rags.

Rags,

Check this thread... http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/gmat-and-related-discussions/10205-official-guide-gmat-review-edition.html

It has all the info you might need. Post if you have any further questions.

Venom.

Hi all,
count me in too.. Zilch, that was a useful post indeed ! I plan to tk GMAT by march end.. I've jus started prep.. guess really need to speed up esp. coz: 1) am verbally challenged
2) Verbal skills esp. AWA can't be improvd in a short span of time.

I've got 10th ed of OG.. I've seen ppl sayin better to use 11th ed.. any further inputs on why 11th ed and not 10th ed ?

Rgds,
Rags.

hey
i am in hyderabad..... plannin to give GMAT by April End or May first week.

I have started out with Princeton should be done wid it in a week or so. Can we get GMAT prep Cd's anywher in Hyd ???

hey mee too planning 2 write GMAt sometime in may/june/july . i am a chartered accountant with 1 yrs post qualification exp presently working as asst manager in Ge captial. wud be applying in fall 07 to H/W/S/TUCK/GSB/COLUMBIA/KELLOGG.


its better we guys meet on some week end it wud help us know each other better

zilch,
those were some very useful posts! thanks a ton mate.

I am planning to take GMAT by April, haven't started prep yet. I will definitely update my progress on this thread and if you guys ever plan to meet up or exchange material then involve me as well.

As of now, I am planning to buy Princeton Review and Kaplan to kick-start my prep. I'll scout for other books as and when needed, since I have observed that if I get too many books I don't use any ;).

Well 10th seems to be out of stock at most book stalls too ... I presume you are talking about the Original print. But there are these photocopied-spiralbound-avatars that are available. An original might cost you 1400 or so .. but this comes at about 400 odd. Also, the original is mostly never bought-back by the store, whereas they are mostly willing to take back the pirated copies ... though I dont see the logic in that!

Availability ... I faced some problems too ... but I was promised by most stalls at Koti (hope you are familiar with the place) that they could arrange it within a day (pirated copy). And personally I have no qualms using a pirated copy ... ppl can choose to differ with that.

But moi the impatient types ... so I just hooked up with some pals and took one copy from them as soon as they were done with their test ... I should have been equally eager to read at least the first page of the book ... but I havent done that yet !!! All I had to offer in return was some essay editing services ... not to mention ... havent done that either ... not yet atleast.

But IMH study plan ... OG figues towards the end. I agree it is a bible ... but you better get ultra-super-religious first to be able to get the depth and breadth of concepts like GOD and the nature of human life. TRANSLATION: Learning tricks and tactics from OG has two drawback:
# Its too unstructured to be a great way to learn the approach we need to take towards problem types. Which is best done by more structured and somewhat advanced books like Kaplan. So you get the approach from there and fine tune it to what ETS is going to throw at you using OG ... again ... this is my impression from reading high-scorer opinions ... I havent used OG yet.
# You are already done with your most imporatnt practice material.

A 790 scorer, TwinSplitter from the TestMagic forums quotes another guy in his post saying ... Kap. is like an athelete training at altitude so that the real thing is easier by comparison. And I tend to agree.

But my issue right now is beyond getting books ... I am just not giving time to my prep ... all I am doing for GMAT is disbursing gyan at forums ... if anyone has faced the work-gmat-timebalance issue and has some pointers ... plese share them here.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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-school-discussions-mba-abroad/12859-phoren-mba-he-dreamz.html



HTH

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

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?

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

AM IN :D.

Regards,
DC.

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.