drnishi

Hi everyone, hadn't visited this forum because I am not applying this year. Here are my replies: - The OG books- I would recommend you do the verbal and quant official guides if you have time after you finish OG11. - The errors- Nope, sorry. Don't have a real list. I made some notes on paper when I was reading Manhattan SC. - The breaks- I took the first break. But did not take the second. I believed that taking the second would interrupt my thought process. But this might not be true for everyone. Good luck!

Scavenger, not only is your profile very good, you also have a great spirit. Instead of taking the GMAT again, you want to focus on your apps. And that is a good sign. I think you definitely deserved 30-40 points more going by your practice test scores. Most users on Testmagic score pretty much the same on GPREP and the real GMAT. I wish you luck in your apps!

I might sound like a broken record, but for those weak in math, first learn the basic concepts (probably old text books or online tutorials) and then do the OG11 thoroughly before turning to other sources.

If you have Manhattan SC, make some flash cards (stuff that is new to you) and do the OG referring to the flash cards. Believe me, every question will be based on some rule or the other. For SC, the major strategy is to learn the types of questions- doing thousands of questions will only reinforce what you already know- might not help you learn anything new. There are only around 25-20 error types. So the questions are usually permutations and combinations of those types. Since I did just the OG11 for verbal, I might not be the best person to suggest other sources.

GMAT prep is GPREP- the free software from mba.com. If you have only 30 days left, focus on the last 20 questions in OG 11 (all sections) and GPREP software- give the test multiple times. More important than taking the test repeatedly is understanding the logic behind each problem. Good luck!

Thanks everyone. Yes, I am a physician from India but I have a unusual career background. Too long a story! Bose, I forgot to mention you. Your posts helped me a lot too! Strategy in verbal- try to do the easy ones quickly and don't dwell on them too much- the SRs are usually the ones you might find simple. The reason is that they test the exact same concepts as GPREP. Just the people, the situations and the animals change:) Do read the Manhattan SC guide thoroughly. If you save time here, you can spend more time on RC and CR.

Ha ha, serves me right for saying verbal was my strong point. Made some errors while typing my post:) Anyway, I have a ready excuse- blame it on exhaustion!

Genius, verbal was always my strong point. I never expected a 48 though. There is no secret actually. Just do the OG and Gmat prep qs over and over again and try to understand where you go wrong. The real gmat tests the same rules. Trust me, there is basically nothing new in the real gmat. If you have done the OG 11 thoroughly and you understand each question, you will ace the verbal section. I did read the Manhattan SC guide once at a bookstore. It helped too.

My prep: Did the OG, GMAT prep, the two official guides- verbal and quant once (the purple and green books). And 2 Kaplan tests. Gave GMAT prep 4 times. Visited the math forum almost everyday for a month and spent an hour there trying to solve stuff. Used to get 40 percent of the stuff wrong because the qs are sometimes very tough. The explanations posted by genius_in_the_gene and others helped. Erin, thanks for this great forum. GMAT prep 1- 720 (Before any prep) Kaplan- 690 or something like that (did not pay too much attention to the score) GMAT prep 1- 2nd time- 760 (questions were repeated) Kaplan - second CAT- 710 GMAT Prep 2- 740 GMAT prep 2, a week before the d-day- 770 So that is it. The best tip I can give you is focus on six things: 1. Gprep 2. OG 11, and official quant and verbal guides 3. Gprep 4. OG 11, and official quant and verbal guides 5. Gprep 6. OG 11, and official quant and verbal guides No, seriously! The level of questions are pretty much the same level as gprep in both the verbal and quant sections. It is the question type that matters. If you understand the question, you should be able to solve similar questions. As for the AWA, did not prepare well. Was kind of lost in the issue topic and didn't do very well. Not expecting much. That's basically it. I am not from an engineering background and the last time I did any math of this kind was back in 1995. But as long as your basics are good, you should be fine. Just be cool and give it your best shot.

Hi everyone! First of all a big thank you to users like genius_in_the_gene (who is really a genius in the gene!), ralph, e.cartman, shooter and others who post all those great problems and detailed solutions in the quant forum. Couldn't have done it without you! My score: 770 (q49 v48) Don't be scared of the laminated sheets. They are not all that bad. A detailed debrief will follow.

what are the units, tens and hundred digits of a decimal? Eg. 0.4321 What is the units digit? What is the hundreds and what is the thousands?

Agree with raj_gmat- answer is 3. The last post had all the Math correct but the last step, you needed to do 1.95 - 0.9 not 1.95 plus 0.9. So this will be 10.5/3.5 which is 3.

But the Q or B don't say that there are only native speakers. What if there are 15 people who speak just English. So don't we need both A and B?

Even if 30 percent of the students speak french, not all of them need to have French as their native language. It can be that the 15 French students and 10 Spanish students speak French. So the total is 25. So 30 percent should be then 25 and not 15. So A is insufficient. Given the data in B, that no one can speak more than two languages, the above is not possible because everyone speaks English and their native language. No one can then speak french other than the french natives. So answer is C. Does everyone agree? Language students In a class, native language of the students: 20 Spanish, 15 French, 15 Chinese. Total Number of Students = ? 1) Exactly 30% of the students speak French 2) All students speak English. None of the students speak more than 2 languages.

Can someone explain with more examples?