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    Thumbs up 720 (Q49, V39) - 96 percentile



    Ok, just got back from 4 hours of torture. But in the end, I was happy to see the result
    • Q - 49 - 90 percentile
    • V - 39 - 89 percentile
    • Overall - 720 - 96 percentile
    I will debrief later today
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    Congratulations on your awesome score.
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    awesome. let me be the first to congratulate you. best of luk for next leg. (..oops chix did it before me...talk abt concurrency eh!)
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    congrats for that fab score! awaiting yr debrief
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    Smile Great Score

    WELL DONE BALA.CONGRATS .ENJOY UR SELF.WAITING FOR THE DEBRIEF.
    ALL THE BEST FOR APP.
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    My Background:

    I am 30 years old, Indian, California resident, a software developer by profession, working in a top 3 movie production studio.

    Scheduling of test:


    I decided to take GMAT in July and fixed the date - July 30th to be exact. Let me quote TicTakToe here - "While a very late test date would rob you off the HEAT of the moment and one starts feeling kind of saturated during the long wait to the test date, a test date too early would leave less time for you to work on your potential weaknesses". In my world, work tends to expand with time, so I decided to give about 2.5 months prep time and fixed October 17th as the G-day.

    Days leading to the test:


    I have taken many competitive tests before - from TOEFL, GRE to MCSD etc. So I was not nervous. Although I am not a morning person, I scheduled my exam for 8am because the mind'd be fresh in the morning. I am a firm believer in giving as many tests as possible - therefore I took the Friday off, used Friday, Saturday and Sunday to acclimatise myself by giving complete practice tests (starting at 8am). I also went for a long walk yesterday evening. So although I was anxious, the early morning routine + walk gave me a good night's sleep.


    G-DAY:

    I had taken everyone's advise and scoped the place out on Saturday. So reached the center without any worries by 7:15. They let everyone in by 7:30. Competed the formalities and was ready to take the test by 7:45.

    AWA (dedicated to TicTakToe and his wonderful template)

    Analysis of issue came first. It was about razing old buildings to facilitate new development. I was fully prepared with a customized version of TTT's template, so it was a breeze. I was able to write around 6 good sized paragraphs.

    Analysis of Argument came next. It was about relationship between extra hours and productivity. Again, used the template to get in 5 good sized paragraphs.

    I then took the break. I was feeling good because the day had started off on a decent note. I think I will definitely get 5 or more in AWA. Went to loo - drank a red bull - came back to my computer right on time.

    QUANT

    Then came the Quant. In practice tests, I usually aim to complete 6 questions in 15 minutes, 13 in 30 minutes, 21 in 45 minutes, 26 in 55 minutes, 31 in 65 minutes and the rest.
    • First 6-8 questions were a breeze. I was in Q9 after 11 minutes - I then slowed down to make sure I dont commit any mistakes.
    • But questions 10-12 took me close to 20 minutes. Realized i was wasting time trying to solve the DS questions to get the value of "x". So after 30 minutes, I had completed only 13 questions.
    • The "toughness factor" of questions seemed to increase from 8-9 on and stayed pretty much there until 21-22.
    • It then got down to medium questions. I was surprised to see really easy ones like "|-a| * (-b) + |-c|". This led me to believe that my scoring was going south
    • The "toughness factor" remained in "easy to medium" range from 25 on. Completed quant with 1 minute to spare
    Other tidbits - I got just one very very simple combination question (the notes in TM are much much more than enough). No probability whatsover. Also got a very very basic Standard Deviation question. I thought the "tough ones" I got were mostly geometry. If you are prepping, make sure you understand how to calculate the distance from one corner of a room to another corner to determine shortest, longest distances etc. (There is an OG problem and I have seen it in TM too)

    Difficulty level - Somewhere between PowerPrep and GMATPrep


    VERBAL

    The following are my observations about the verbal section. In the days leading to the practice test, I found that I usually commit 60% of my mistakes in SC, around 30% in RC and 10% in CR. I have the following to say about the actual test
    • Started of with 4-5 SCs. Then got couple of CRs. On the 9th, I got a medium RC
    • Sentence Correction was a "B that ends in H". For some reason, I thought I received tons and tons of them. I received more SCs than one usually gets in practice tests
    • Critical reasoning, which I hoped would save me in verbal, was tough too. I was demoralized by the time I got to first RC (q9). Only one assumption question in CR though. Quite a few inferences
    • RC's were a breeze. I found all 4 of them interesting. No biology nonsense - but pretty interesting ones about sand dunes etc. I am confident that I got almost all of them right.
    • 75% into the section, I still hadnt seen any bold face variety, so I thought I was doing really really bad in verbal. The constant flow of SCs didnt boost my confidence either. I imagined that the examination engine had somehow realized that I was a sitting duck in SCs, so kept throwing more at me!
    • Finally bumped into one of them (bold face) at the very end.
    • Finished with 1 minute to spare in the end
    Difficulty level - RC = medium, CR = Powerprep/Gmatprep, SC = Kaplan/1000 SC.

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    Let me quote TTT again - "The most important things during the test is NOT TO PANIC. Stay calm n cool even if you are stuck somewhere. If you can manage that , its not very difficult to crack". This is true 100%. I honestly didnt think I would score 650 when verbal was in progress!
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    Excellent debrief Bala.

    Which were the toughest questions in Quant ? You mentioned that you had got stuck somewhere from Q10 to Q12.
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    Hi bala,

    Very nice score. can you tell us what is the topic of the RC ?
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    Preparation
    • Princeton Review Verbal workout
    • Kaplan GRE/GMAT Math workout
    • Princeton Review GMAT 2006 edition
    • Kaplan GMAT 2006 edition
    • Finally, OG
    • Started in the first week of August
    Practice test scores
    • Power Prep1 (two weeks after starting prep, before OG) - 650
    • GMAT Prep1 (midway during OG) - 710
    • Kap 1 - 640
    • PR 1 - 640
    • Kap 2 - 570
    • Kap 3 - 620
    • Kap 4 - 560
    • PR 2 - 640
    • PR 3 - 630
    • Kaplan Online - 720
    • PR 4 - 610
    • GMAT Prep 2 - 720: Q49, V40 (after OG) - 2 days before
    • Power Prep 2 - 760: Q51, V41 (after OG) - The day before
    • ACTUAL TEST - 720: Q49, V39
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    SC

    I also prepared GRE style flash cards with all the idioms & formulas to remember. It was an exhaustive list, taken from Spidey's notes + Princeton review etc. But I just got ONE idiom SC though - a "just as .... so too"! So I am disappointed. But this list of idioms gave me confidence - so you may want to do it.
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