From 620 to 740: My Story :)

[DigvijaySingh]

I just started on this forum and found thy post... Awesome post Star.. Since I'm also working in Support project and preparing for gmat with aweful verbal, i can totally relate to thy case.. I just hope i'll end up the way u did.. All d best 4 thy life ahead...

[ramiy]

Hi Star ,
i havent got the link to the esnsips. folder yet . Please can you check and let me know . I have dropped a PM also

Thanks

[star_321]

Originally Posted by ramiy

Hi Star ,
i havent got the link to the esnsips. folder yet . Please can you check and let me know . I have dropped a PM also

Thanks

I didn't get your email ID.
As I mentioned there is some issue to get the esnip forder link. The link which I get is not working though I have maintained those documents in the shared folder.
I will send you intivite once Iget your email ID.

[FiF for GMAT]

Thanks star for your valuable input. I think for Sentence correction I will have to make some lengthy notes.

The first para was just for levity or digression or just like that, I do not know. Primarily, I think one should not be overwhelmed by the GMAT test.

According to you, does the OG and/or GMATprep reflect the difficulty level of the actual thing? I have heard otherwise and therefore, I am working on LSAT material. And, I am glad that I did.

Can I PM you for more queries?

[cartera]

Hi star

what was your hit rate in critical reasoning and SC in:

-Sets
-Gprep
-LSAT
-OG10
-OG11
-other sources practice materials used

Thanks

[gmatnov12]

star 321 ,Do you think the difficulty rate in verbal has changed ?; I have given the exam twice once in 2007 and one last week after a lot of prep in between and my score drastically went down by 50 points;How was reading comprehension at the time you took the exam ? ;One last question , is there a place I can find the answer keys to OG10 Quant ?...YOU ARE A INSPIRATION TO A LOT PEOPLE;

[star_321]

Originally Posted by FiF for GMAT

Thanks star for your valuable input. I think for Sentence correction I will have to make some lengthy notes.

The first para was just for levity or digression or just like that, I do not know. Primarily, I think one should not be overwhelmed by the GMAT test.

According to you, does the OG and/or GMATprep reflect the difficulty level of the actual thing? I have heard otherwise and therefore, I am working on LSAT material. And, I am glad that I did.

Can I PM you for more queries?

You are always welcome Fif for GMAT.

Yes the OG materia ldoes not reflect the exact thing that you see on the exam.As I mentioned before the errors that you see on the exam are same though. So use OG accordingly.

Yes you can post yours queries as and when you have. May be you can use this thread itself and many other people can benefit from your queries.

[star_321]

Originally Posted by cartera

Hi star

what was your hit rate in critical reasoning and SC in:

-Sets
-Gprep
-LSAT
-OG10
-OG11
-other sources practice materials used

Thanks

-Sets
M:32 to 34/ 37
V: 30 to 35 /41
-Gprep
M:35 to 36/ 37
V: 33 to 36 /41
-LSAT
Solved around 200 LSAT critical reasoning.
Sometimes i did well sometimes not.
But the discussion and learning was good.
-OG10
M: Almost all correct.
V: First time when I did I got around 60 to 70 percent correct. next time i got almost all correct.
I did SC and reading comprehension twice.
-OG11
Same as OG10.....
Only differnce is that I did OG11 sc thrice.....

[star_321]

Originally Posted by gmatnov12

star 321 ,Do you think the difficulty rate in verbal has changed ?; I have given the exam twice once in 2007 and one last week after a lot of prep in between and my score drastically went down by 50 points;How was reading comprehension at the time you took the exam ? ;One last question , is there a place I can find the answer keys to OG10 Quant ?...YOU ARE A INSPIRATION TO A LOT PEOPLE;

During my preparation I had put more concentration on Verbal. I did all the toughest and controversial question that I could find on this forum.
I feel I was prepared for anything that exam can throw at me.
Frankly speaking I found verbal much simpler than my earlier attempt.
I understood what Iwas reading and that helped me to solve SC,critical reasoning or reading comprehension.
So this is very important that you should understand what you are reading. This task is difficult under timed manner.Also it requires you to be calm and composed.

About reading comprehension as mentioned i got 2 very big and two decent passages. Here also if I had panicked I would have missed many questions. But again Iread the passages as they came and understood what the authors wants to convey and tried to think why he wnats to say all that he is saying. Somehow I feel that GMAC does not randomly pick nay passage from any article and form questions on them. The passages are complete in themselves nad make sense. If you read it properly you will understand why the author is writing a passage and what he wants to convey.

I am not sure whether you panicked or whether you were really alert while taking yourverbal test.
You have to do introspection about how did your really spent those 75 mins of verbal sections. Once you honestly do this excercise I guess you yourself will find what went wrong.

I have the OG10 quant solutions. The size of that document is huge to upload here. I will uplaod those document in my esnip folder. Try below link.
starmagic321's Stuff esnsips. Folder
Let me know if you have any other queries.

[gmatnov12]

start_321 , thanks for the response...you are a inspiration....this link does not seem to work ; I tried searching in esnsips. but the document there does not have answer key....one last question...how are the 800score tests...
i have reveiwed and have rebooked an exam in 4 weeks....my biggest drawback if the timing...my stike rate is not bad but I was unable to complete either math or verbal ontime in the actual GMAT;Always trying to manage time...