MikeJung

After done with OGs and a little bit of random questions from here and there, I was more confident and wanted to give another powerprep. I hoped to get at least 650. Quant was fairly easy and I managed to solve everything with no problem(I saw many repeats from OGs and TM which made me more confident) and verbal was just a cakewalk. click click click 540 popped up. i couldnt believe and say sh!t for a minute and cursed out loud. I stood up and looked out the window thinking if I should stop doing this. I was standing there for like an hr looking down cars and people passing and walking by from the 11th floor. I was extremely busy with work as i had to travel frequently to east coast to set up another branch office and didnt have much time to study. well i didnt wanted to frankly at least for a month or so. Time went by quickly. In september, I decided to take the real one, and scheduled right away. To be continued. sorry gotta get my work done on time.

just got my AWA score 5.5 my profile 27 yr old Korean male working at a mid-sized diversified finance industry. 2 yrs of WE(+4yrs in military) my final attempt was ended with Q49 V41, total 730 which is 10 points lower than the previous result. I was mad at first but had to admit that there s nothing i can do with it. I would like to thank Asshu_79, TBAY and many others. Aashu_79, without ur help and guidance, I could not have earned 49 on math. I THANK YOU. TBAY, thanks for ur constant support and great math Qs. Thank you very much. My GMAT prep started in april 2006 with some prep course(I chose not to list the name of the institution) which was a total waste. I stopped going there and bought a princeton reivew and many other books available at the bookstore(Kaplan this Kaplan that) which later I found them useless too. I was hopeless and felt that 700 is something far out there. Meanwhile, i was serching for some GMAT forums and ran into Testmagic, scoretop and many others. I registered right away and downloaded powerprep software. I wanted to give it a shot to see where I stand. I got 490. I was in the middle of nowhere with no idea how to study for GMAT. > Ordered OG11, OG verbal, OG Quant, Mahanttan SC, and LSAT next 10+s from amazon and went thru everything except LAST in 2 weeks. Marked every questions i got wrong on an extra sheet of paper attached to the front page so that I could jump right on them everytime I got a chance to. Quant sections from OGs are great in my humble opinion but Verbal was too easy. I needed some more hardcore as twinsplitter suggested. so I started focusing on LSAT Verbal questions. at the same time, i read WSJ and economist everyday. Joined Yahoo GMAT group. there are a lot of great resouces and I downloaded and saved everything in my laptop from there. Especially GMAT sets are by far one of the most valuable resources we can ever get. you must have them. Some of the materials from yahoo group esp. manhattan Quant problems are too hard and are designed that I have to spend more than 3-4 mins to solve. I tried just a few of math questions and found that they are not reflective so threw them all away. such a waste! dont waste your time on Manhattan math qs. sorry i gotta go. to be continued.

my full debrief will follow

just got back from test center with Q49

leaving a few Q unanswered each section could knock it down ur total 50ish

one more post to hit 1340 posts! =)

THANK YOU, TBAY. I am still reviewing all the math Qs i collected from Gprep and Q forum since my math was only 47 so i gotta bump it up to at least 49 to hit the 8 mark. I havent done anything much for V since i was ok. i only hope that i havent got rusty yet. dude honestly yall cant even imagine how much i have dedicated to this sh!t and i still am. but its all good. my 9 month journeys now coming to an end in 2 n 1/2 hours and it would be completely done. I have fought for anything and everything in life whether its good or bad and i havent failed and I wont. we will see what i can do. G'night folks.

great explaination

great score. time to chase ur dream.

congrats. very competitve score for pt

OA is C.

stem 1> for y to be an integer, x has to be 5. y=2 SUFF stem 2> y can only be 2. SUFF hence D

think its C. stem 1> 2 values 3, -5 not suff stem 2>(n+2)^n=125 there are many values for n not suff both 1 and 2, since n is integer, try both values and see if stem 2 holds. n+2=125^(1/n) if n=3, 5=(5^3)^1/3 thus n is 3. hope that helps

what the hell is this?

analyzing campaign expenditures, the media has had as a focus the high costs and low ethics of campaign finance, but they have generally overlookied the cost of actually administering elections, which includes facilities, transport, printing, staffing, and technology. a. b. analyses of campaign expenditures by the media has been focus on c. in analzing campaign expenditures, the media have focused on d. media anayses of campaign expenditures have had as a focus e. in their analyss of campaign expenditures, the media has been focusing on what u think and WHY?