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Just as quick update for anyone interested: 740 seems to have been sufficient to at least receive an interview from my target schools. I have received an invite from IESE, Harvard and Wharton so far, but am yet to hear from Stanford. Good luck to everyone out there applying in round 2 or 3 - I hope you all get in where you want to! Kind regards, Erik

Your score will definately improve with effort mate. Many posters on these boards recommend 2 to 3 months, but with a bit of focused effort you can definately pull your score up considerably in 4-6 weeks. In my opinion, it is significantly easier to increase your performance on the quant than on the verbal. The quant essentially has about 20 different questions, just with different wording, and it doesn't take too long to learn them all. The verbal, on the other hand, is hard to improve significantly above re-studying basic grammar (e.g. the manhattan SC guide). As a case in point, my first gmatprep test was around the 550-600 mark and my actual gmat score was 740 after 6 weeks of study.

Thanks for your input guys. There is a way to solve it easily, and its called the remainder theorem. I know how to apply it generally, but I have a specific aspect of it that I don't quite grasp. I'll email that guy though - cheers!

That...is...gold!

Hi guys, I sat my GMAT yesterday and received a 740 (Q46, V46). My practice tests score have been a pretty good indicator of performance. They are: GMATPrep 1 (two weeks ago): 730 (Q48, Q41) GMATPrep 2 (one week ago: 750 (Q48, V45) GMATPrep 1 (resit two days before the exam): 750 (Q48 V46)IMO, my low quant score on the day was not due to differences in difficulty, but more due to the centre not having a pen that worked properly. I am definately smuggling in my own pen next time, as they seemed quite slack about that sort of stuff.

Effective factor: In terms of difficulty on the test, I would rank the CRs as the easiest. This of course varies alot between people, but I think I got most CRs right, and I haven't really studied this area more than a day or two. The SCs and the RC were the challenging areas IMO. As for quant, the questions themselves were very straight forward, and I obviously should have gotten a few more right. I'm resitting the exam on January 5 (already booked this in weeks ago), and I'm aiming for a 48-49 on that day. The following comes to mind about quant on yesterday's test: There wasn't a single permutation or combination problem on there I also had no coordinate geometry questions, but that may be because I messed up the first two questions as the pen didn't work Most questions were the same difficulty as those in GMATPrep 75 percent of the data sufficiency questions were related to number theory or inequalities It was generally easy to recognise which questions were experimental, as they were significantly easier than the other ones (of course, the alternative hypothesis is that I didn't understand that they were hard ;D)Hope that helps!

Hey buddy! Good to see fellow Brisbanites on here. Send me a PM if you're still around and we'll meet up for a beer one day!

First of all: Thanks for all the positive energy guys! This forum just has some of the nicest people around! I would say the SC difficulty level was about that of the OG material, besides the fact that there seemed to be about 14 or 15 of them. It wasn't hard to narrow it down to two choices, and I never got any of those really lengthy SC passages. The concepts that were tested the most (in order of appearance): parallelism, modifiers, idioms and verb tenses. Interestingly, I got maybe three or four SCs where only three words were underlined, and in those cases they were generally after the idiom. The RCs however were, in my opinion, more complicated than those in the OG. The questions were exactly the same as they have always been, but the subject matter was just alot more complicated, so I needed to read through each passage very closely, before I started answering questions, just to make sure that I had the logic and causality right. I believe there were four passages in total on the test. When preparing for RCs, I only used the official material and the guidelines from Kaplan 800. I also think that you only really need to pratice either RC or CR in detail, since these two areas pretty much test the same skills: attentive reading and logical reasoning.

Hi guys, So I finally sat my GMAT today, and I was happy to see that the score was 740. Unfortunately the quant slipped somewhat from my practice tests, but I feel a lot of that was due to not having a single pen that worked in the test room. My kingdom for a pen, or at the very least a chisel! I thought I would list a few of the main lessons that I have learnt over the last six weeks: Taking time off before the test can trim down the time requirements: Since scoring a 550 on GMATPrep in October, I spent a total of six weeks preparing for this test, with about 2-3 hours per day and 10-12 hours in total on weekends. The key for me was taking a week off before the test, to really focus in on my weak areas, and in that week I brought my GMATPrep scores up from about 650 to 750. The official guides are great, but you may need to go elsewhere to really get your head around quant: In my preparation I worked through OG11 and the two supplementary books once. After that, I started going through more advanced math workbooks since I hadn't really got ahold of the more tricky concepts yet (and still haven't, to be fair). The two most valuable books for me was EZTutorials Advanced Math Workout and the Manhattan Word Problems guide. Contribute to this forum and read through everyone's reasoning: I am quite confident that reading explanations, particularly in the math sub-section, really helped improve my basic math skills. There are too many specific people to mention, so I'll just thank you all! Get sentence correction right: Something like 14-15 questions in the verbal area where SCs, and they got down right silly towards the end - so you really need to nail this area to do well. Fortunately, with good books (Manhattan SC, Kaplan 800) and a little practice you will do well. And in my opinion, as long as you've got a basic understanding of English, having it as your second language won't really make too much of a difference in your final score.And that's what I had. Please don't hesitate to post if you have any specific questions, and I'll be happy to muddy the waters with largely incoherent babble. Have a great week!

Sum of the squares of the coordinates means that if point P is (X,Y), then the sum of the squares is X^2 + Y^2, which just happens to be the pythagorean theorem you would apply to find the radius of the circle. As such, A is right.

I would also say that D is right. 1: Simplifies to 1/x - 1/z, thus the result could be anything 2: Simplifies to (1+Z-1)/Z = 1 3: Simplifies to 2Z/Z = Z

I get 40 as well. Is the OA legitimate?

E is probably right. Take the integer 12 for instance: It has factors 2, 3, 6 and 12. 1: Not true 2: Not true (if choosing factor 12 and factor 2 for instance) 3: Not true

Agree med John. 96 only has one odd factor (3), and as such if the number is odd, then this factor must be at the end of the three-letter integer.

Thanks for that mate! I hadn't thought of that angle at all. That's probably what it is! Now I can go into my exam in about 5 hours just that little bit better informed ;D