790 GMAT (q50, v51)

[vinhtt]

Needless to say, I am absolutely thrilled right now. I want to say thank you to Erin, SecurityGeek, Lego, Grey, Stormgal, Cute, Prep2Max, Armjen, and everyone on this forum!!
Also, I want to say thank you to former members such as Shaq, Spiderman, Ursula, and TheBullFighter, who were very active when I first came across this amazing site and who got me started along the right path. I have A LOT to say, so stay tuned.

i am a new member in this forum, i learned the gmat test and i tried to do some field in this test. I must say the congratulation on your result in this test.
you are absolutely excellent. i want you to share with me your exprience in this test

[trinity0612]

Congratualtions twinsplitter! Ur briefing was truely inspriring. I have a question! Is it a good idea to attempt the PP tests more than once? My target is 700+..i hv finished half OG..should i give the PP tests now..and give it once again when i am done with OG...

Also..these PP tests are adaptive..so each time i give the test..the questions would be different!
Suggestions are welcome...

[greycellz]

Awesome post!! Totally agree with alakshma - you have a great future ahead of you.
If I ever drop by Chicago, I'll look you up

[wwteo]

congrats on your amazing score. its a real inspiration to all of us aspiring mbas.

just want to ask a quick question. How did you find out about the Testmaster's material on CR strategy? I'm also looking up the LSAT as a means of improving CRs as I'm starting to find the strategies given by PR and Kaplan probably not too sufficient in cracking CRs and RCs...

[Weekender]

your post was really amazing and inspiring.
thank you so much i am sure it will certainly help a lot of us in this forum.
you certainly have a great future ahead....well planned i should say.
all the best.

[TwinnSplitter]

Thanks everyone again for your kind words. I'm really glad my posts helped everyone, although I'll never be able to fully pay back TestMagic for helping me achieve such a great score (one note I forgot to mention in my debriefing--this is the only forum I used, except for when people would link to other forums for some resources ).

should i give the PP tests now..and give it once again when i am done with OG...

Honestly, I believe that it depends on how you've been going through the OG. As long as you haven't been memorizing the answers, I think that doing the PowerPreps more than once will still remain an accurate predictor of your scores. The only type of questions which I feel you could possibly remember the answers for without actually memorizing them are DS and CR. However, I still do believe it's best to use powerprep (even if you've taken it already) as you near the test for two reasons: 1) a confidence boost, which is extremely important to your test day mentality, and 2) gets you used to the screen setup, which is EXACTLY the same as that on the real GMAT.

If I ever drop by Chicago, I'll look you up

Sounds good!

How did you find out about the Testmaster's material on CR strategy?

Unfortunately they don't really have printed material with their strategies on it, they just teach it in class. I forgot to mention that I took the TestMasters class for the LSAT. However, after that I realized that the only thing the class was helpful for was the logic games on the LSAT (which aren't on the GMAT), and so I decided not to take a class for the GMAT. For CR, basically the only advantage of that class was that they gave you real LSAT CR (or as the LSAT refers to these questions, logical reasoning) questions to practice on, rather than the poorly written Kaplan and PR ones.


Which brings me to an important point I forgot in my debriefing:
Don't use Kaplan and PR's logical reasoning questions. What is considered a correct answer to them would often be considered an incorrect answer on the GMAT, which will then really screw with your ability to know what type of answers the real GMAT looks for. LSAC and GMAC put a lot more time into researching their questions, and there are more than enough real LSAT and GMAT questions out there to practice on.


Cheers everyone and keep the questions coming!

[TwinnSplitter]

One thing I just remembered about the test:

I got an extremely strange SC, in which it used semi-colons, even though each part seperated by the semi-colons could not stand on its own as an independent sentence. However, none of the answer choices fixed this, so I just went with the choice that best maintained parrallelism within this warped use of semi-colons.


Erin, any ideas as to when it is alright to use semi-colons even though the seperate parts cannot stand on their own? I've seen it done this way in real-life, but I thought that on the GMAT it is always incorrect to use semi-colons when the components aren't complete sentences in themselves.

[slick045]

Hey Twin, when do you graduate? are you on an accelerated schedule?

[TwinnSplitter]

I'm not on any accelerated schedule, but I did graduate from high school a semester early with a lot of advanced placement credits (and I also started school at a young age), so I'll be graduating in exactly a year

[Erin]

Erin, any ideas as to when it is alright to use semi-colons even though the separate parts cannot stand on their own? I've seen it done this way in real-life, but I thought that on the GMAT it is always incorrect to use semi-colons when the components aren't complete sentences in themselves.

I've seen one type of sentence on the TOEFL that doesn't have a verb and can stand alone, something like this:

The greater the mass of an object, the greater its gravity.

But other than that, I'd need more clues to know what it could be. Do you recall anything of the structure? Did it have a subject and verb? A subordinating conjunction (although, if, because, etc.)?