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merlinacious · 2006 July 14th, 08:03 PM

Bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yay!!!!11 news Piyush.....

Gentlemen,
btw...would appreciate your feedback on what to do now.
One of the first deadlines is on 12th Oct.
Now if I give my 2nd attempt at the GMAT on say the 31st of Aug or so, do you seriously think I will do justice to the essays???
Have posted this on my debrief as well...

http://www.urch.com/forums/just-fini...erience-3.html (620 (q43 71%, v34 72%) -- My GMAT experience)

coolsrini1981 · 2006 July 21st, 03:06 AM

HEY piyush...do u recommend SETS ? and can u pls post the resources fromSETS as well..

nb19 · 2006 July 21st, 07:07 AM

hey how long did u prepare 4 the test?

hey when did u start preparing ?

hey wen did u start preparing ?

tictaktoe · 2006 July 21st, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by merlinacious

Bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yay!!!!11 news Piyush.....

Gentlemen,
btw...would appreciate your feedback on what to do now.
One of the first deadlines is on 12th Oct.
Now if I give my 2nd attempt at the GMAT on say the 31st of Aug or so, do you seriously think I will do justice to the essays?
Have posted this on my debrief as well...

http://www.urch.com/forums/just-fini...erience-3.html (620 (q43 71%, v34 72%) -- My GMAT experience)

Apply only when you are best ready with your application package. Though early deadlines are sought-after, it doesnt make sense to rush your application to meet 'em without being full satisfactied.

You can plan to put your application in the 2nd deadlines in case 1st deadline and your GMAT test date are too close for comfort! IMO, Essays require minimum 1 month of grilling ... minimum

Quote:

Originally Posted by coolsrini1981

HEY piyush...do u recommend SETS ? and can u pls post the resources fromSETS as well..

When I gave my GMAT , there was no such thing as SETS. CTG might provide you with some inputs as far as sets are concerned.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nb19

hey how long did u prepare 4 the test?

hey when did u start preparing ?

hey wen did u start preparing ?

I think 2 months , 2-3 hrs everyday and 3-4 during Sundays (6-days-a-week-work) for my first test date that got cancelled. didnt study much between that and the next test date.

tictaktoe · 2006 July 28th, 08:36 AM

School
Class of '98
salary in 2002

Harvard

$195,000

Dartmouth (Tuck)

$161,000

Columbia

$160,000

Northwestern (Kellogg)

$160,000

$160,000

$153,000

$150,000

$150,000

Pennsylvania (Wharton)

$150,000

$141,000

$140,000

$139,000

$135,000

$135,000

$131,000

Source: "B-Schools: The Payback." Forbes 13 Oct. 2003.

The average annual salary of the top 15 schools is 25% greater than the next 15 schools and 68% greater than the schools ranked 31-85.

So aim big !

CTG1983 · 2006 July 28th, 03:31 PM

So much difference between HBS and others!

thekingkisna · 2006 August 6th, 02:13 AM

hey guys..

firstly congratulations on the awesome job that you r doing..

jus wanted to know if the (750 Gmat (99%), Q-50(95%), V-41(93%))

Links to most of the resources available on net for GMAT preparation

is upto date or not?

gia · 2006 August 10th, 05:47 PM

Hi Piyush,

Congratulations on your great score and thanks for posting the prep strategy.

You mentioned in one of your posts 'Since I am a non native speaker, it wasnt something which was natural to me. When i started SC, i dint even knw what exactly are gerunds, pst participles, usage of different tenses , subordinate clause, modifier probs, restrictive nature of sentence , etc and I usually go the way a sentence used to "sound" to me.

This holds true for me too and I wanted to know how and where to start with these rules. There are so many of them and I just dont know if I should start memorizing all of them or should I start with SC questions and then see rules for each question??? I dont even think my brain can absorb so much data.

Cheers
Gia

tictaktoe · 2006 August 24th, 11:50 AM

As you probably know by now, the GMAT is a Computer Adaptive Test ("CAT"). This means that the questions that you see on the exam are selected by the computer based on your performance on earlier questions. For example, if you answer a question correctly, your next question will be harder. If you answer a question incorrectly, your next question will be easier. The exam is trying to gauge your ability level by seeing how well you do with questions (known as "items" in testing parlance) of varying degrees of difficulty. Generally speaking, the harder the questions you answer correctly, the better your score will be.

There are other factors besides difficulty level that influence the selection of items on a particular exam (e.g., question type (data sufficiency vs. problem solving, for example), content (e.g., algebra, ratios, assumptions, etc.), and exposure (i.e., how many times has the question been seen by other test takers already that month?)). But difficulty level is arguably the most important.

The CAT does not "bucket" items into "easy", "medium", and "hard" categories. Instead, each item can be considered easy, medium, or hard depending on the person to whom it is given. Each item is tested out for a period as an unscored "experimental" during the actual exams of people taking the GMAT. After a sufficient sampling of test-takers has answered the items, ETS compares the overall scores of the test-takers with their performance on the experimental items.

If, say, fifty percent of all test-takers scoring in the 600-620 range got a particular experimental item right, that item would be considered of medium difficulty for that ability level. If ninety percent of those scoring in the 700-720 range got the item right, it would be considered easy for that ability level. When the item is then presented as a real scored question on subsequent exams, the computer uses the experimental data to determine whether the item is appropriately difficult for someone performing at a given level thus far in the exam. The computer tries to give you questions that you have a 50/50 shot at, based on your performance up to that point. The better you do, the harder your 50/50 items will be.
Each item has an "item characteristic curve" that graphs the likelihood of answering that item correctly, based on the experimental data. The curve looks like this:

source: pagalguy.com

azrizvi · 2006 September 18th, 05:35 PM

hi all,

i m taking my gmat this saturday and of all the practice tests i have taken so far i was n't able to finish any of them on time. i m usually unable to attempt the last 4-6 questions in each section so what do i do?? how can i improve this? also, for the quant section do you all compute everything on paper? i think i m spending too much time figuring out answers on the paper and thats wats causing the delay!

any advice will be greatly appreciated!!

many thanks,

zehra

2006 July 14th, 08:03 PM	#201 (permalink)
merlinacious Within my grasp! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: India Posts: 159	Bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yay!!!!11 news Piyush..... Gentlemen, btw...would appreciate your feedback on what to do now. One of the first deadlines is on 12th Oct. Now if I give my 2nd attempt at the GMAT on say the 31st of Aug or so, do you seriously think I will do justice to the essays??? Have posted this on my debrief as well... http://www.urch.com/forums/just-fini...erience-3.html (620 (q43 71%, v34 72%) -- My GMAT experience) _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ ------------- aka MErlin

2006 July 21st, 03:06 AM	#202 (permalink)
coolsrini1981 Eager! Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 75	HEY piyush...do u recommend SETS ? and can u pls post the resources fromSETS as well.. _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ Try and Try ill u succeed. If u fail try harder

2006 July 21st, 07:07 AM	#203 (permalink)
nb19 I JUST got here. Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2	hey how long did u prepare 4 the test? hey when did u start preparing ? hey wen did u start preparing ? Last edited by nb19 : 2006 July 21st at 07:07 AM. Reason: Automerged post

2006 July 28th, 08:36 AM	#205 (permalink)
tictaktoe Half way down! Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 407	Top 15 Schools: 5 yrs Post-MBA Salary School Class of '98 salary in 2002 Harvard $195,000 Dartmouth (Tuck) $161,000 Columbia $160,000 Northwestern (Kellogg) $160,000 Stanford $160,000 Chicago $153,000 IMD $150,000 INSEAD $150,000 Pennsylvania (Wharton) $150,000 MIT (Sloan) $141,000 Cornell (Johnson) $140,000 NYU (Stern) $139,000 London (LBS) $135,000 UCLA (Anderson) $135,000 Yale $131,000 Source: "B-Schools: The Payback." Forbes 13 Oct. 2003. The average annual salary of the top 15 schools is 25% greater than the next 15 schools and 68% greater than the schools ranked 31-85. So aim big ! _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ --Attitude defines Altitude--

2006 July 28th, 03:31 PM	#206 (permalink)
CTG1983 TestMagic Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,572	So much difference between HBS and others! _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.---Mr. Know-all CTG1983

2006 August 6th, 02:13 AM	#207 (permalink)
thekingkisna Eager! Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 34	hey guys.. firstly congratulations on the awesome job that you r doing.. jus wanted to know if the (750 Gmat (99%), Q-50(95%), V-41(93%)) Links to most of the resources available on net for GMAT preparation is upto date or not?

2006 August 10th, 05:47 PM	#208 (permalink)
gia I JUST got here. Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 7	Where to start with SC rules??? Hi Piyush, Congratulations on your great score and thanks for posting the prep strategy. You mentioned in one of your posts 'Since I am a non native speaker, it wasnt something which was natural to me. When i started SC, i dint even knw what exactly are gerunds, pst participles, usage of different tenses , subordinate clause, modifier probs, restrictive nature of sentence , etc and I usually go the way a sentence used to "sound" to me. This holds true for me too and I wanted to know how and where to start with these rules. There are so many of them and I just dont know if I should start memorizing all of them or should I start with SC questions and then see rules for each question??? I dont even think my brain can absorb so much data. Cheers Gia Last edited by gia : 2006 August 10th at 06:09 PM.

2006 August 24th, 11:50 AM	#209 (permalink)
tictaktoe Half way down! Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 407	How the GMAT finds your score As you probably know by now, the GMAT is a Computer Adaptive Test ("CAT"). This means that the questions that you see on the exam are selected by the computer based on your performance on earlier questions. For example, if you answer a question correctly, your next question will be harder. If you answer a question incorrectly, your next question will be easier. The exam is trying to gauge your ability level by seeing how well you do with questions (known as "items" in testing parlance) of varying degrees of difficulty. Generally speaking, the harder the questions you answer correctly, the better your score will be. There are other factors besides difficulty level that influence the selection of items on a particular exam (e.g., question type (data sufficiency vs. problem solving, for example), content (e.g., algebra, ratios, assumptions, etc.), and exposure (i.e., how many times has the question been seen by other test takers already that month?)). But difficulty level is arguably the most important. The CAT does not "bucket" items into "easy", "medium", and "hard" categories. Instead, each item can be considered easy, medium, or hard depending on the person to whom it is given. Each item is tested out for a period as an unscored "experimental" during the actual exams of people taking the GMAT. After a sufficient sampling of test-takers has answered the items, ETS compares the overall scores of the test-takers with their performance on the experimental items. If, say, fifty percent of all test-takers scoring in the 600-620 range got a particular experimental item right, that item would be considered of medium difficulty for that ability level. If ninety percent of those scoring in the 700-720 range got the item right, it would be considered easy for that ability level. When the item is then presented as a real scored question on subsequent exams, the computer uses the experimental data to determine whether the item is appropriately difficult for someone performing at a given level thus far in the exam. The computer tries to give you questions that you have a 50/50 shot at, based on your performance up to that point. The better you do, the harder your 50/50 items will be. Each item has an "item characteristic curve" that graphs the likelihood of answering that item correctly, based on the experimental data. The curve looks like this: source: pagalguy.com _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ --Attitude defines Altitude--

2006 September 18th, 05:35 PM	#210 (permalink)
azrizvi I JUST got here. Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 24	how to improve timing? hi all, i m taking my gmat this saturday and of all the practice tests i have taken so far i was n't able to finish any of them on time. i m usually unable to attempt the last 4-6 questions in each section so what do i do?? how can i improve this? also, for the quant section do you all compute everything on paper? i think i m spending too much time figuring out answers on the paper and thats wats causing the delay! any advice will be greatly appreciated!! many thanks, zehra

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