760 (Q49, V46)

[rkny02]

Ursula,

All the best for the double-header.

Raj

[zorrillo]

Ursula, amazing score! From your handling of the math, I knew you were a 750+.

Good Luck for your applications

[ursula]

Just got my official scores, and they exactly matched the unofficial scores at the test center. (I must have been getting paranoid - the last few days I kept thinking, what if I get the official scores, and it says "Sorry, we had a computer glitch. We actually meant 670, not 760!").

Only got a 5.0 on the AWA - I thought I'd done better. But then again, I don't think I want to start over just to raise my AWA score [:o)]

[Rob]

Congratulation! ursula, great work!!
Awesome ursula...!!!!
Congradt'z once again....

[jjomalls]

Ursula-

If I may ask...what did you do to prepare for topics that are barely covered in the Official Guide - primarily statistics and probability?

There are only a handful of problems in the Official Guide regarding these questions, and having taken the test once already, I know that they pale in difficulty compared to the ones on the test these days.

I've got 3 weeks, and now I need to focus in on shoring up my abilities with the toughest material. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[ursula]

Originally posted by jjomalls

If I may ask...what did you do to prepare for topics that are barely covered in the Official Guide - primarily statistics and probability?

I found that even the Kaplan Math Workbook doesn't cover that material (except basic mean & median), so in the last few weeks before my exam I signed up for the material at www.deltacourse.com. It's online only, and you can't easily print it - you have to go through it one page at a time. But the price is pretty reasonable ($27), and it certainly helped me get a better grasp of this stuff. You can also sign up for their free GMAT problem of the day (sent by email). Their website is a bit heavy on the hype - for example, their "advanced algebra" stuff turns out to be one single article about sqrt(-1). But overall I think their material was worth it - at least for me (I'm 46, and it's been a looong time since I last saw a factorial )

The comb/perm/stats/probability questions posted by some people on the problem solving forum here are far more difficult than what I would expect to see on the GMAT, and I'd never expect to solve those in 2 minutes. But trying to follow those threads and working on some of those complex problems also helped me increase my understanding.

I must say that on my actual exam I really didn't see anything particularly complex on any of these topics, though. However, being prepared certainly helped my confidence in dealing with the problems I did get.

[erkki]

Yeah, I think just knowing the formulas for combination and permutation and knowing which is which should be enough prep. You shouldn't have to worry about spending hours practicing those types of problems. And for probablility, I didn't see anything that was more difficult than a simply-worded conditional probability problem.

[nakyo]

thx for sharing~
very good experience~

[Tam]

Well done, Fabuluos scores!

I wish you the best of luck.

TAM

[angels]

Thanks ursula for the great advice and motivation.
your og grid has been a great help.

and congratulation for your success.
after reading your post, things have started looking brighter.

All the best.