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hi David, thanks for taking the time to answer our queries. profile : indian male gmat 700 26th october 2005 770 29th november 2005 work ex : limited i have about 15 months of full time postgraduate work ex . in my own company which manufactures and exports leather goods. so i am typically involved in interacting with clients , managing production and marketing the company . i have done my engg in computer sc from a reputed institute in india and am in top 5% of the class . was Recruited by Daimler chrysler for an extremely high salary but didnt join , as my own business intrigued me a much greater amount . 2 internships 1. in netherlands (2 mnths) 2. Daimler Chrylser (5 months ) FULL TIME lot of extra curricular activites , coordinator of mensa, vice president of rotaract club under which i have organised blood donation camps collecting a record number of units . tree plantation drives, eye check up camps etc . questions: 1. gmat score: do schools typically take the highest , or the highest in light of your other scores , spoke to representative from wharton who said that they look at all the scores , didnt understand what that meant . 2. limited work experience , how big a disadvantage is it , how can i effectively bolster my appliccation assuming applying next year is not option. 3. Working in your company advantage/disadvantge. 4. Please suggest a couple of schools which typically might take younger applicants with high gmat scores . With Best regards, Yashovardhan Gupta

TEST CENTRE EXPERIENCE : sorry guys slightly late , but was out of town for a couple of days . my test slot was on the 29th of nov , at 1700 - 2100 hours at prometric kolkata . and some construction work was going on at a nearby site where heavy machinery is cranked up at 1900 hours , hence the chaps at prometric called me up and told me to come early and start by about 4 . i even wore the "ear muffs" , they are great and i would advise anybody who has a problem concentrating in a noisy environment to wear them . awa: pretty regulation stuff, started of with an analysis of an arguement followed by issue and wrote a couple of trite essays based on some plagiarized templates . wasnt really bothered much as i had scored a 5.5 when i had first appeared for my gmat. hence ended up writing some really long essays , which werent even edited for typos , (hope i at least get a 5 so it doesnt look too bad). break: splashed water on the face, it has become quite a popular thing to do and let out a bellow in the washroom to get my adrenalin pumping and reminded myself that the real test starts now .... it sort of worked in removing a sort of complacency which had set in due to the awa's math: math in short was ridiculously easy , in fact it was so easy that i was left wondering that am i doing anything right ,(probably they were experimental questions ). math continued to be easy with 1 probab , 2 per/comb and lots of inequations and statistics , do brush up on stats . finished with about 15-20 mins to spare . traded in my scratch paper for a new one , made a grid for verbal got fresh pencils etc and went for my break . consumed a red bull , (good stuff) , and a chocolate which i shared with the security guard .... more splashing of water and i was ready for the main section. verbal: started of with a shocker of an sc , spent about 4-5 mins until the picture became clearer. but a got a couple of sitters after that , so that helped to bring my timing back to normal . 4-6, 7-10 rc , pretty regualtion stuff i guess , got a boldfaced question really early on i thing sometime around 20th or so, the only one by the way, and it was really big , and i mean big. luckily the second statement was a conclusion and it made the choice of answer a lot quicker . everything went fine till about the 37th question, when i had about 6 -7 mins left , pretty good pacing till then , but i got damn excited that i was doing well and sort of switched off , just switched off and lost quite a bit of time didnt help that it a tough and lengthy cr , followed by one of those 4 line sc's where everything was underlined . so had about 3 questions with about 60 secs left . so instinct in one of the sc's and blind guessing on 2 cr's ended the verbal. finished the survey , filled it out properly , and was ready to see me score was expecting a 51 in math and about late 30's or 40's in verbal about 730 - 740 so was pleasantly surprised to see 770 , went mad , let out a stifled yelp and punched my fist, ( as is the norm , hehehe) and ran out to take my score report ................. test prep strategy to follow:

i heard , read your post in fact. dude i seriously think you should retake . if not anything the atmosphere , which you become used to and the increased confidence that you have a good score and can cancel your scores should anything go bad , does wonders .... your advice was invaluable , thanks once again

thank you so much

hi everyone , 770 ( m 50 , v44) unbelieveable , i have no idea how , a fluke i guess .. awesome am too happy . THANKS a lot guys , i really owe you one .... will write an extremely detailed post later , am too drunk to type coherently . yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

brilliant performance dude , all the best for your app's

actual gmat 700 (m 50, v 34) pp1 710 ( before prep) pp2 780 (after prep and half of og ) princeton review 690, 720 , 720, 730(during prep) kaplan 600 gmat prep 720 (before prep), 710 (before og)

best of luck for yur apps parag ,

congrats dude , i have an extremely basic question . i believe there are three kinds of toefl tests . cbt/pbt and internet based test. which one did you give and which one would you advise to give etc. also if you could post a study strategy or prep schedule it would be very helpful , so that we could prioritize our material etc. thanks a ton dude

thanks chix , thats some really good advice

hi everyone , gave gmat a while back and scored 700 :hmm: . extremely dissapointed. :( but first let me provide some background: i am computer science graduate , indian with a year of work ex . sufficiently strong in maths and weak in verbal, like most people out here. i sporadically prepared for about a month and a half with a lot of breaks in between when i had a lot of work. but serious preparation was only for a week . however i think i had a good test preparation strategy was adequaetly well prepared to score 730+ , just a bad day i guess and as i have benefitted from a lot from posts by people such as twinnsplitter, ursula, jeepers, and tianlong . i will give a detailed account of what i did, though not a succes story, some of you could apply relevant information in your study strategies. but first the text experience while it is still fresh test experience: my test was scheduled at 9:00 at the centre in prometric , which i had checked out before to know stuff like where the loo's are and what id's we need to get , earplugs et cetera. and i reached by 8:50 very late and was further delayed by the incessant amount of checking that happens in india . i had to write confidentiality agreement , by write i mean that they actually make you copy out the agreement and sign it below . and a mugshot was taken after which i was shoved in to my cubicle time 9:15, yep they started late. my awa started with an analysis of an issue for which i wrote an extremely simple though sufficently long essay's as i heard somewhere that length is a factor though not a crucial one, vaguely based on a template developed by twinnsplitter, who is probably one of the greatest minds in the gmat fraternity. i have always found analysis of an argument simpler because it doesnt require any creativity but rather just the ability to refute some amount , some debating skill do help here. after some rudimentary attacks on things such as staistics and incorrect comparisons i was on my way to the heart of the test. the one thing good that gmat does is start with the awa , as it really calms your nerves down before the real action starts . my math section was far too easy initially. in fact it was so easy that i was wondering whether i commited some stupid errors and the difficulty level had nor risen . so i ended up taking extra time . i got 3 probability questions one of which required quite some thought , the details will be put up in the respective forums. one ratio question which i got was more than 8 lines long , almost like a boldfaced cr question and took quite some time to figure out what was needed . in fact probably the reason why i got a 50. by the time the last question came i had 40 secs left , though an easy one i did not possess enough time to mark the right answer. i think it is crucial to finish the test . as i dont think i made any error till that stage. the verbal !!!!! this is probably the most important section on the gmat and learning from my mistakes could enable you guys to do much better. 1st error : didnt use my break to well , read a lot of tips on what to do in the break and took water , bananas, chocolate and red bull . ended up only having the chocolate, and also met a friend from iit roorkee in the hallway , that also consumed some time. so in short use your breaks well , if needed just take a leak and come back fast and sit in front of the terminal until time. in fact when the test started i wasnt quite well prepared for it , it was too sudden . as in most cases my test started with an sc , which in hindsight was quite simple one but i stared at the screen until quite some time until i could figure out what was happening. it was follwed by 3 more sc's and a barrage of critical reasoning questions. my first passage was quite late around the 7th or 8th question and extremely long , in fact all my passages were extremely long , one of them being 80 lines long " massive i know" . anyway i spent a lot of time in the initial questions of the verbal section due to lack of concentration and the fact that i was getting extremly irritated with the procter walking around in his heavy and noisy boots. to add to it some toefl guy was talking , i didnt bother to look at to whom , but the guy was talking !!!!!!. all of this led to the fact that i had only 17 mins left for the last 20 questions and was contemplating cancelling the test , but soldiered on got a simple rc which helped in by time a bit a science passage with 4 questions i think took 2 mins for that followed by some sc's which helped in managing time a bit however i reached the end with 5 questions remaining and 40 seconds on the clock blindly guessed from then on. in hindsight i would say the pivotal factor would be my lack of time management , and i think it is very important to give a lot of times tests . i totally agree with TIANLONG in this . and also a lot of time is wasted in just acquiring information rather than studying. i spent a lot of time just getting hold of info but didnt study much . not beneficial . ill give my test preparation strategy which was quite strong ,in another debrief , and i seriously feel that some of you could benefit from it . my practice test scores are as shown below : pp2 : 710 , started with this some 3 months back at one of these training centres no prep, no idea even about the time required in the test. gmatprep1 : 720 , before prep princeton review : 690, 720, 720, 730 ; all during prep kaplan : 600 . wierd huh , extremely demoralising didnt study for 2 days after that. good review though. ims diagnostic test: 710 , a training centre in india gmatprep2 : 710 "after prep , but before starting og" :-( powerprep1 : 780 " after doing math and part of sc from og, no rc and cr though . so slightly skewed :-) so in conclusion my score is ok . not good and would want to take it again but am still undecided . it would be great if i could get some suggestions and opinions , needless to say i am extremely confused. my prep startegy and debrief is yet to come , stay tuned......

you can find it on www.mba.com , of course you have to register before you can download it

hi vimo great score congrats , what an improvement awesome , could you give us some tips for motivation , considering you have it in plenty and what you did to pysche yourself up to study for your third attempt

congratulations , an m51 , neat ! :tup:

great score dude .. all the best for your applications :tup: