740(Q 49, V42)

[jay_hou]

Erin and fellow TestMagicians,

I took the exam today. Relieved that it is all over.
I would really like to thank fellow TestMagicians and Erin from the bottom of my heart for setting up this website. I cannot tell you how much this site has helped in my preparations. I am specially indebted to the guys who posted on SC and critical reasoning forum. I have tried to summarize my take on the actual GMAT. Hope it is some help to the future test takers.

1. Official guide is the god of all test preparation material.
2. Princeton Review book is the god of all test taking strategies.

If you can do all the questions in the Official Guide twice paying attention to why u got a certain question wrong, chances are you will really do well on the real test. I used the POE( process of elimination) technique to the hilt. Well in my case, this is true only for the verbals since I am an engineer and english has never been my forte.

3. Get a grid going like most of the posters have continually advised. The last thing u need is to get confused and read an imporbable answer twice.

4. The math was relatively simple and I am tempted to say that the level of questions were best mimiced by the tough Official Guide questions. You really dont need to go through all the tough math questions posted in the problem solving section of the forum.

5. The powerprep exams are by far th best indicators of your score. I scored a 750 and 740 on the powerpreps I had taken. Even the distribution of the scores between the verbal and the quant was exactly the same. Having said that. I would like to point out that although I had done Official Guide, I did not know the answers by heart while I was taking the power preps.


Whew, I dont know what more I need to say!
Its great to be in the 700 club.

[ursula]

Congratulations, jay!!!
Welcome to the 700 club!

Your prep certainly paid off - of course now you may have to adjust your self-image and stop thinking that English is not your forte