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Hi, For tips on SC/CR prep/material, please refer my last post. I cant suggest material because it depends on your level in math and verbal. The usual stuff should be fine I guess. Give it a good read and you can gauge for yourself. For all readers, I CANT upload material or MAIL them to personal ids. There is enough material on the internet that can be googled in seconds. Think of the GMAT as a board game and have fun playing. All the best everyone.

Hello there, Congrats on a good Quant score. About the verbal: I think i ve given really enough tips on preparing for the Verbal section. Let me just emphasize certain important ones here. * In SC practice, knowing why the other choices are wrong is more important than knowing which is the right choice. So focus on that. * Ditto for CR as well. * Learn and remember stuff from your practice sessions. There are only as many rules in grammar that the GMAT tests. So, there isnt much point in trying thousands of SC/CR practice questions. Even if you get to do only a few hundred, learn the underlying grammar and you re fit to go. *Actually, I had more trouble with RC than SC/CR. Better focus on that equally well. * For your next attempt, dont give your all to verbal and ignore quant. Keep the math engine oiled well. Lastly, for the GMAT sets and other material, refer the yahoo groups that I mentioned somewhere back in this thread. That has enough stuff. All the best and have fun practicing :grad:

Hi allgood, I m glad to have been of use to you. To all others asking for material, I guess its been a long time since clintonn (the great) posted his stuff here and thats probably why its difficult to locate it. As someone suggested, take a look at esnips. I am sorry I cannot help you further All the best everyone and remember that the GMAT is only the beginning Give it your best and dont hav any regrets :)

Amit, If you put together the verbal questions in OG 10, OG 11 and the verbal sets 21-30, then thats all the verbal practice anyone s ever going to need for a decent score (if you are sufficiently OK with verbal that is) If you ask me, dont waste time and money on the verbal supplement. This is a customized suggestion for you alone. If somebody is scoring only in the high 20s or low 30s then maybe the supplement could help.

Someone had posted a score conversion table on a scoretop forum. I dont have the link with me now or else I could have pasted that here. But I would say dont bother much about the actual score on those sets. Concentrate more on the question types, the solving method, how many questions you are getting wrong and why, etc... If you feel the urge to score yourself, take a GMATprep test.

Hi Amit, I surely recommend practicing sets 21-31. The verbal questions in those sets are really good and the best preparation for the original exam. If you are doing well with average difficulty average questions, it is always better to raise the bar and start practicing tougher ones. Particularly if your target is 40+ in the verbal section. Warm Regards Jagdish

I found the real GMAT verbal questions to be atleast twice as difficult as the GMAT prep questions. Try the verbal sets 25-30. Particularly set 27. Thats a very good indicator of what questions you ll be seeing at the 40+ level. Try your best to stick to the time limit when you re doing those sets.

Hi tks, Not all of the answers are right in those sets. Too bad that the person/group who compiled those sets did not take enough care to put in the correct answers. One thing you can do is: If you re really in doubt about the correctness of a answer, post it on Testmagic. This is a superb community of experts who ll post back in hours with the right answer and the best way to solve the question.

Hello sgmat, I had similar, innumerable questions during my GMAT prep so your questions are in no way "silly". For quant - SD and venn diagram questions are very rare on the GMAT. At max you may get 1 question on these. So dont lose much sleep over these. For practice, you can check Clintonn's thread for docs on SD and venn diagrams. I know they are there because I ve used them. For verbal -If you put together OG 10 and OG11, then you have around 400 practice questions for each section. This is certainly enough for prep. You do not need the supplementary materials as you already getting around 35 in verbal. Those would only be required for ppl getting around 25-30. Plz note that all of this is my personal opinion alone and not a fact ! Good to know you are doing well in SC. For CR, the only way out is to practise like hell. As I ve said before in other replies, check why the other choices are wrong even if you ve got the answer right. There is a difference between just practicing questions and actively learning. You should improve with each batch of 25 CR questions. Else there maybe a problem with the way you are practicing. Surely you will achieve your target verbal score. Believe in yourself.

Hello sgmat, I cannot comment on the Manhattan materials as I havent used them. But one thing that I can say is, think twice if you need to shell out money for GMAT material (other than the OG of course) because there is so much free materials out there that you just dont need the paid materials. Let me know your level in quant and verbal and I ll try to suggest a study plan for you.

Hi bmwhype, That is a doc posted by Clintonn. It contains some of the hardest problems you can ever see on the GMAT. You can mine Clintonn's thread for a lot of resources. But this one time, I ll spare you the search and post the doc here. Happy problem solving ! Jagdish

Hi Nirmal, Good to hear that you are improving in SC and RC. Need help with CR? Have you gone through the CR section in Princeton Review? If you have, consciously apply those techniques in every CR question you practise. If you have OG 10, then that has a lot of CR questions. For each question (even those you got right) check why the other choices are wrong. Soon you ll get the hang of it and improve your thought process. Be very careful when you re screening the answer choices for the first time. The one you rule out first might turn out to be the best answer. So dont apply the PoE technique for CR. Plz feel free to ask if you need anything more.

Hi Nirmal, you used to get 21 Qs wrong in wat? GMATprep? or some other test? That is important. Also you cant calculate score based on how many questions right. Some questions might not be scored at all. Also score can go up and down by a wider range depending upon the question complexity. I will advise you to concentrate more on ironing out the problem areas in SC, CR and RC as a whole. Dont think much about the number of questions wrong. Please let me know if you need to know anything more. guys, one more piece of info. I got a 6 in AWA. results came only yesterday.

Congrats to you too ilano ! funny to see quite a few ppl with exactly same score.

Hello GMATbong, This is wat I get from the reply: * I can aim for higher ranked schools * better chance for becoming a MC if I get into UNC/yale (from my list of schools) * getting a job does not depend primarily on how well I score in class. As for your question, I am an IBM employee directly hired and not a contract-employee here (does this count for something?). I am quite realistic and expect to be hired into a entry level position (analyst/associate consultant/research assistant depending upon the job titles in the company). I will analyse some higher ranked schools for my fit and get back to you...