700 Q47 V39

[banke_bihari]

I think I'm done with Gmat. Scored 700(Q47, V39). I had scored 660(Q47,V34) about a month back. Not a great improvement but I'm happy to have crossed 80% in Verbal(87%) and almost 80% (79%) in math. Just one of the hurdles crossed towards an MBA. Although I have not been an active participant in the forum, I have been motivated by the debriefs of people on here. Your debriefs have been really helpful and motivating.

Not that I am an expert but if anyone has any questions, I would be happy to answer them. Only thing I would say is persistent practice on your weak areas will definitely give the results you want. Good luck to everyone!

[aaadith]

banke_bihari,
can you tell me the books you followed? how did you prepare for AWA?

[gimmeenergy]

Hey Bihari .... Congrats man ...

[banke_bihari]

Originally Posted by aaadith

banke_bihari,
can you tell me the books you followed? how did you prepare for AWA?

Hi Aadith,

I had every book in the world with me. I don't think all of them are required. The Most important ones are as follows:

1. Official Guide 10/11. The problems towards the end(last 100-150) are more challenging and must be done a couple of times to get a hang of the exam. I would recommend doing the SC questions multiple times. For people whose native language is not English it should help a lot in improving the score in SC. Although we think that our English is good Gmat english is completely different, esp SC.
2. Manhattan Gmat Sentence Correction, Word Problems.

For tests go for Gmat Prep. I would suggest do the tests as many times as possible. It keeps on throwing new questions as your scores improve. I also used Gmatfocus. This is especially useful for quant. It gives you a good idea for your actual quant scores. My last few Gmatfocus scores were in the range of 45-51. I got 47(although I wish I got a few points more). The quant on the real GMAT this time(as compared to last time) for me was really really tough. I got at least 2 Probability, 2 Permutation & Combination and 4-5 Arithmetic and Geometric Progression questions and the rest of the questions were really challenging. In the end I had to hurry as I did not have enough time to solve the questions so I had @ 1 minute for each question max.

I didn't prepare much for Awa. Just looked at a few templates from this forum and some other forums.

[banke_bihari]

Thanks gimmeenergy, one part done. More than a few more steps to go for the actual MBA.

[gmatroad2]

Congratulations, your score is amazing!!!, how was your verbal part in the real test compared with gmatprep?

[banke_bihari]

Hi gmatroad2,

I found verbal to be ok i.e. not excruciatingly difficult nor easy. I thought my skills in SC had improved from my last attempt at GMAT and that made me more confident on SC, and I felt I could "see" the right answers more easily. The difficulty at least to me in Verbal is that unlike Math where you can pretty much know if you know the answer or not, or you make a silly mistake, in verbal it's difficult to guess how you're doing. The only way to know is to see how well you do in the verbal section on GmatPrep(make sure you do not remember the right answers in Verbal on GmatPrep when you review them. I did not review my verbal answers on GmatPrep, just checked how many SCs,CRs,RCs were wrong, and how I improve with every new attempt at GmatPrep).

I don't know which area is weaker for you in verbal but for SC I would suggest you get the Manhattan SC guide, read through it and then go through the SCs in OG 10 at least twice. It will probably take you 40 minutes to go solve 30 SC problems daily, but probably 150 minutes(5 minutes per question to go through the explanations and understand why they are incorrect). Combined with the rules you learnt from Manhattan SC,after two times going through OG SC you will begin to see a pattern in those answers and should definitely help you with SC.

For critical reasoning and reading comprehension again I think practice should help. I believe OG10 provides enough practice material, however it takes a lot of time to go through the answer explanations once you solve say 30 problems daily.

Hope this helps!

[fgmat]

Banke bihari.....that was just an awesome score.....

Please advise more on the verbal part of the exam esp for critical reasoning and reading comprehension and also discuss little more on the DS part of the quantitative section of the exam.

Cheers!

Regards,
fgmat

[rajatmeh]

First of all congratulations.
What is GmatFocus?

[jieu2969]

Congrats , awesome score.,,,,