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The following helped me score a 740 :tup: Excellent Condition - No Notes, Pen/Pencil Marks, treated with care: OG 10th Edition Kaplan Premier Program 2006 (with CD) Kaplan 800 Princeton: Cracking the GMAT 2006 (with CD) This is all you need for the GMAT, I've reviewed both the 10th and 11th editions of the OG and I prefer the 10th. While I was preparing, I collected the best notes, workshops, last day revisions, thousands of questions and the official tests I found. I will provide all this on a CD with the books. I will ship anywhere! Interested please contact mfarhat . at . hailmail dot net Thanks, and best of luck!!

hey kinder!!! welcome to the 740 club :tup: waiting for the debrief.. don't forget to mention where you plan to apply.

GL Chix. Waiting for the debrief! Do you feel like putting in the effort for a retake? I know I didn't, but I agree you have the potential to kill this test.. It's over!!!! :tup:

One month later and no AWA???

:tup: nicely done! :tup: apps to where? :hmm:

I didn't get any chance to fill in any codes after the exam was done. I did the test in Texas.

You only get one chance to fill in the university codes, at the beginning survey you take before the test. You cannot choose to send your scores, for free, to the school after you see your score. SHAME ON YOU ETS!! What a rip-off. You get to choose the schools from a pull-down menu. Unless you're going to an obscure school, no need to bring codes with you..

SZ! Congrats on doing what you needed to do. Don't let these downers touch you, if that's what the school needs, good luck to you. It's Over :tup:

Thanks Bunny. 600 and 700+, where are you applying to?

yup.. burn that Princeton Review book!!!! the questions are not representative of GMAT or any ETS material.. it's awful.. I beat myself up over their "bin 4" too, and laughed all the way to a 740.. PR IS WORTHLESS!!

natedog heh chin up man it ain't that bad.. [clap] Launcher I hope it's good enough to offset a 2.96/3.0 GPA :doh:

Not true SZ.. 3-4 questions per RC.

you signed up for a $$250 test on a bet?

Agree with SZ. Work harder on verbal and retake.

You could paint the wall using 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, or only 1 color. I'm not sure if this is the full question, but if so, we must assume equal probability that you will choose to paint the wall with any particular number of colors. Probability of painting with 1,2,3,4,5,6 colors = 1/6. If you used one color, the probability of using white would be 1/6.. 2 Colors, 1/6 + 1/5 = 11/30 chance of white being one of the two colors. ... 5 Colors, 1/6 + 1/5 + 1/4 +1/3 + 1/2 .. This will get you a number higher than one, which doesn't make sense. I am either approaching this wrong, or the question is missing something.

Thanks Bright, after you've been focused on the GMAT for a while, you realize that was just the beginning of the process, and such a small part of it.. The answer to your question is very much yes! They also ended up being easier than I made them up to be.. It's very important to take a second and ask yourself, What is this question really asking? While going through the OG, you should mark every question with the subject matter, labeling NumProp or Geometry, (or abs.value+inequality+triangle geomtery if it's a tough one :doh: ) This will help in a few ways. If you can not only answer the GMATPrep Hardbin number properties questions, but also break them down to what they're really asking, and what exactly is so tough about them, you'll be well prepared. I went through GMATPrep a few times, even though I knew many of the answers, to mine it for new Hardbin problems. :hmm:

Can you hit 700+? If so, retake.. You have some good experience, I would call the admissions office of your target school and review your qualifications..

good stuff piyush! Where are you applying man?

debrief is above :)

I agree with spear. Ratios are involved in many of the questions to add to the difficulty. Basic ratio questions are easy. I would say make sure you FULLY understand number properties, the number line and graphing approach to inequalities and abs. value, and exponents. A couple of the exponent questions had my head spinning. I believe they kept me from Q50+. Probabilities were as simple as they come. Nothing harder than OG level. I promise.

C. This is an example of a question written to sound like a GMAT question. bogus.

silvergator, Choice C keeps the same tense through the sentence. Choice E wrongly uses the simple past tense in "knew"..

trymore, you're gonna ace this GMAT.. when's your test?

KAP1 -- 590 KAP2 -- 640 PPrep1- 740, before the OG. KAP3 -- 640 PPrep2- 710, before the OG. GPrep1- 700, GMATPrep repeats a few OG questions. Gprep2- 750 REAL GMAT : 740 -- 98% :tup:

Thanks guys, I'm not going to even try to touch the excellent debriefs by arjmen, tictak, twinn and others I'm sure you've read. If you haven't, go read them. What I will do is a list a few things from my experience, and maybe help someone like the people on this forum helped me. The Prep: The Pricenton Review Sucks. Their Quant sucks and is not representative, especially the hard bin. Their Verbal basics are ok, but there is better practice material elsewhere, see 1000SC+CR, and really, don't bother with the tests or their scores. This book is written for people struggling to reach 600+. Their main strategy is to identify the answers an average test taker would choose, and not pick them... huh? :wallbash: Kaplan is OK for math review, but the questions are not representative. The book is good for learning how to pick numbers, backsolve, etc, but the Verbal material on the CD tests is something else, I doubt anyone at Kaplan actually read these RCs..Don't bother.. The only thing the Kaplan tests are good for is time pratice.. Their scoring is way off, everyone knows it, and Kaplan still ships the same crap CD every year! [clap] Kaplan 800 is better written, that along with the helpful workshops is all you need from Kaplan. The OG! The real GMAT is very, very close to the OG. The hard bin quant on the GMAT is very, very close the OG hard bin. Forget the horror stories. Use the book to work on your weak areas, and understand all the explanations and the concepts behind them. ETS has some great writers, and it shows in the verbal section in this book and on the GMAT. All you need for pratice is the OG. Do the PowerPrep tests before the OG. Do the GMATPreps after. Do Kaplan in between. Use Princeton as toilet paper and ask for your money back. The Test: Chill out, it's easier than you think. Relax. Don't do vodka shots the night before. Try to know where the test center is before the test. :doh: I ran a couple of miles that morning. You walk in, copy down a confidentiality pledge in your own writing, wait for a few minutes..... and go! AWA: I read a post that said if you can write, you don't need to prepare. I completely agree. I only read the questions on the practice tests. Just make sure you can get your thoughts together and an essay typed in 30 mins and hope you get something interesting to write about.. I had to write an AOA essay about real vs. plastic flowers. [clap] QUANT: If you take advice from a Q48 in a forum of Q51s, really. I ran through GMATPrep a couple of times after the first to put a ceiling on the difficulty and get a feel for how the test ramps. The real GMAT started off with a really basic question, made me think by question 4 and stop to rethink by question 9. I think I made two mistakes in a row and felt the difficulty level drop noticeably. The rest of quant was very close to mid-level OG questions, easy. I was confident in almost all my answers, but I was frustrated because the difficulty never went back to where it was. I got bounded by ETS.. :yuck: It's OK to get one wrong, but it really hurts when you get them wrong in a row.. watch out. VERBAL: Started easy with one CR, one SC, and one 40 line RC. I was sure of all my answers and got another killer 60+ RC a few questions after the first. I only got two BoldFace questions, both in the second half of the test; I really think these are still "experimental" as people are getting them at random spots in the test. I wanted to pay ETS back for quant, and I am confident I could not have made more than 3 mistakes on verbal, none in the first 15. GMATPrep gave me a 42 with only 4 answers wrong before, only the first of which was in the first 12 questions. Killed by ETS! Watch how you use the time, the pattern is the same, 2 RCs early, 1 RC towards the very end. Make sure you have enough time. I said wtf and clicked Proceed expecting a Q4x and V50, but I'll take this :p Be glad to help.. I'll stick around for a bit.. KAP1 -- 590 KAP2 -- 640 PPrep1- 740, before the OG. KAP3 -- 640 PPrep2- 710, before the OG. GPrep1- 700, GMATPrep repeats a few OG questions. Gprep2- 750 REAL GMAT : 740 -- 98%