750 Gmat (99%), Q-50(95%), V-41(93%)

[chix475ntu]

Mailed the doc.
Piyush .. can you let us know whether the tests are in the same level as actual test or not? I know that LSAT are tougher than the actual test but what about the other tests?
Thanks

[tictaktoe]

Originally Posted by SubZero

Just mailed the doc that Piyush had mailed me -

Piyush,

Which all material did you study to hone your critical reasoning skills ?
I completed the practice critical reasoning's from PR and OG.
Will the 1000CR questions be enough ?
How are the GMAT test in the 1000CR ? Are they of similar level and difficulty ?

Originally Posted by chix475ntu

Piyush .. can you let us know whether the tests are in the same level as actual test or not? I know that LSAT are tougher than the actual test but what about the other tests?
Thanks

I used OG critical reasoning and the 1000CR document which i sent you through mail for critical reasoning practice.I guess if you can complete these two it is more than sufficient for the test. However, please refer my prep post for the links to Boldface questions, which arent that common in the practice test softwares.

The level of GMAT question is far less than that of LSAT question. I gave roughly 10-12 LSAT critical reasoning test, each having around 20-25 questions during my preparation. The critical reasoning level in most of the test like PR, GMATprep, PP, Arco/combridge are almost same and can be taken as GMAT quality. Kaplan is still strict NO NO for verbal.

I came across this link.. this is the sample GMAT score card as viewed by the B school to which you will be sending your score through ETS.
http://www.gmatclub.com/download.php?mode=1&file=%2Fcontent%2Fcourses%2Fsc ores.doc

The significance and all other info about GMAT score
http://www.gmatclub.com/content/courses/scores.php

[kindergartenkid]

Why do u say Kaplan is a strict NO NO. Is the Kaplan verbal not of GMAT "quality"?
I personally found it misleading. Is that true?

[tictaktoe]

Originally Posted by kindergartenkid

Why do u say Kaplan is a strict NO NO. Is the Kaplan verbal not of GMAT "quality"?
I personally found it misleading. Is that true?

In my opinion, Yes ! its not of GMAT quality. I am not saying its not good according to English grammar but GMAT exam tests only certain set of rules and hence can be mastered by identifying the common line running through most of the problem. For e.g. in SC, being is almost always wrong in GMAT but in KAPLAN I came across many SCs where it was just the perfect answer. GMAT has , most of the times (excpet most difficult one), more than one errors in SC that can help to identify the right answer but KAPLAN can very well give you a SC where the only difference is between Although and Though!!!

RCs in KAPLAN are very abstract and the language used is difficult to relate to while reading the passage. Plus they use lot of unconventional words, which makes it even more difficult to comprehend. Furthermore, at ttimes the correct answer requires lot of analysis and reading between the lines , which is a suicide for the real GMAT test!

Disclaimer: These are only my views and should not be judged as passing conlusion on certain type of material.

[jdguram]

Hi Piyush,

A hearty congrats on your excellent score!

Is it possible for you to give a break-up of your GMAT-prep scores? I understand that the scoring algorithm of GMATprep might not replicate that of the actual GMAT. However, next to PP, thats the best which come closest to, i suppose. And I am quite worried about my score:
GMATprep1: 710
(Q 49 - 12 mistakes out of 37)
(V 39 - 11 mistakes out of 41)

Now, in quant, with 12 mistakes (3 in 1st 10), I dont understand how I could get 49! In your post, you mentioned getting 3 Qs wrong (2 in 1st 10) and receiving 51 in Q. I am not sure whether there are some non-scoring Qs in GMATprep ...

Also, I waste a lot of time on the 'divisibility' kind of problems and sometimes don't get the solution at all (as a last resource, I try puttting in actual values ... but hten this again takes up a lot of time). Do you have any document/link which can explain these concepts clearly? The links you gave for 'modulus' problems were very very helpful (thats another area of low confidence!).

Any advise/suggestion is very welcome ...
Thanks!

[chix475ntu]

jdguram..
There will be 9 questions in quant and 11 questions in verbal which are experimental questions. There is no particular formula where you can figure out where the experimental problems comes. So donot go only with the number of mistakes.

[kindergartenkid]

Originally Posted by chix475ntu

Mailed the doc.

Thanks buddy.

[sachin_gmat]

Piyush,

Congrats on thy awesome score !!! Please could you mail me the 1000 CRs.

My e-mail id: sachin.j.patil@gmail.com


Thanks in advance!!!

[marsisred]

A great post Piyush! Congrats on the awesome score! Can you please kindly email the 1000 SC and 1000 critical reasoning to followthyideals@yahoo.com

Thanks

[gmat210minutes]

Hi Piysuh,

congradulations on your score. I am a new user to the forum and your post is very helpful.

I have given GMAT in the beginning of the year, with little preparation using Princeton Review. My score was meagre 420 (Q:36 and Verbal 13).

During my practice during my first time I use to score between 550 to 580 with Quant being around 35 - 42 and verbal being around 24 - 30. I did not gave a full test during my practice and that tired me up and performed very poor in the Verbal.

I have started preparing again using OG - 10th edition this time. I have started concentrating on Quant to start with. I have started answering 37 questions with a combination of PS and DS. I made around 3 to 5 errors in the first 10 sets of test and 7 - 10 mistakes during those tests from 11 sets onwards. ( I found now I hitting more harder quesions from end of OG especially DS number properties).

I would like to know, how may mistakes I can make so that my Quant scores stays in the range of 49-51

Also how can I improve my Verbal.

Please help. My target score is 700.

Thanks

Originally Posted by marsisred

A great post Piyush! Congrats on the awesome score! Can you please kindly email the 1000 SC and 1000 critical reasoning to followthyideals@yahoo.com

Thanks