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thanks to all !

Thanks guys , Got my AWA 5.5 ...

doudou8, What do you think is the actual problem ? Meaning you should get an idea overall from ur GMAT Prep exam. Because If you understand RC, CR and just follow some real simple steps, you should be able to get 80 -90 % accuracy there !?

Thanks all for the wishes. :D .. I think feeling of 710 is over and it seem like now feeling a little bad for nothing getting that extra 20. Anyway, best of luck to all who still have to give there exam !

Hello David, First of all, thanks for doing a great job here. Personally responding to every question. Question 1 : What kind of facility your firm provides ? Is it with writing essay, choosing information about MBA Program and or how to improve your profile and present it better ? Question 2 : Could you please comment on my profile. I have still not decided if I want to go part time or full time !! Profile : GMAT Score : 710 (may be 730 would have been better) Close to 5.5 years of work experience mostly in healthcare industry - currently working with Baxter Healthcare (fortune 500), the best in there field. Worked with research and education based Non-profit for almost 2 years I have a bachelor's degree in production engineering from India- Was the topper of the class for all the 8 semesters - Have a gold medal . I have a Master in Mechanical Engineering from US (University of Illinois at Chicago) - I chose it because I was awarded a full tuition waiver for the first year of study. GPA in master was 3.9/4.0. I have few publications and papers presented in the field of healthcare. Extracuricular, I have been ok but nothing out of the world sort. Some community work thru baxter, but nothing out the world sort. So overall what do u think about my profile, I m still not sure if I should go full or part time. Or may be part time initially and then go full time later on. I want to get into Univeristy of Chicago (first preference close to work) and then kellogs and purdue. Any comments on my chances, Thanks so much BB

Shooter, The standard of question you post on quant, I think you should be fine. This is GMAT, how difficult can it be. Key is not to make stupid mistakes. Well I had a lot inequality problems and couple of mean and a SD question. nothing out of the world. You know a lot of SC question were weird, nothing like I had seen. I mean one of the question had paranthesis and one of the question had like 3 dashes at different place in each option . I had a good mixture of SC. A couple long ones, rest were ok. IDIOMS man very important. CR were fine. I actually did not read any book for CR, so cannot clearly say what is tough and what is not. Did last 50 question of OG, I would say all the question on the on GMAT were that level. Nothing out of the world.

Thanks dude, I was just overwhelmed with number of rules in SC, esp the idioms. I always got those wrong and everytime it was a new idiom. I m not really good at cramming rules. Like I said, I was expecting a 730, but may be 710 is ok. I have to figure out if I can get in to some good school.

RRGMAT, First, I never gave MGMAT. I did not have time. With work and 7 weeks of prep, I just couldnt do too much. (Laziness also a important factor here - I always had some excuse for not to study) Like I said, I finished way too in advance. I had like 15 min left on quant, I thought I aced it. For whatever reason, I felt like it was easier than GMAT Prep. Can't really say. I scored couple of 50's on gmat prep and a 48 and a 49. Again like i said, the biggest problem was I always made sure that i make stupid mistakes :p:p For verbal, actually i got a couple 40 + scores on gmat prep. I would say if you feel like you are doing really good on RC and CR and reasonable on SC. I would say go for it. One more thing, from my experience, whatever little I have. See I m not the most serious guy on earth, so for me taking an EXAM DATE WAS VERY VERY IMPORTANT. Looking at your practice test, I would say give yourself a 3 weeks and go for it.

Olla all, NOTE: Most Important is to understand that its just a stupid exam. It has nothing absolutely nothing to do with how smart or how good you are. This is how I feel about any exam. Because I could have got the best of my scores from quant(50-gmat prep2 first attempt) and verbal (42- gmat prep1 first attempt) and got 750 too. The target was to get anything above 700. So I guess should not complain at all. Here's the scores I got during my practice, I do not remember the Quant and Verbal split. GmatPrep 1 - 710, 730 (some repeats)(Quant was always between 48 - 50) Gmat Prep 2 - 740, 720 (some repeats)(Verbal varied from 36 - 42) Kaplan - 580, 610 - It seem pointless and so stopped doing it, ofcourse did not have time either Princeton online - 730 Manhattan online - 690 Power prep - 720, 730 (Repeats) The funny part was that all I prepared during close to 7 weeks prep was sentence correction and that remained my weakest point till the last. The reason might be that I was too lazy to pick Manhattan and do it from scratch. I think the most important thing was that if I got good accuracy in SC, I could score 750 above. But I just couldn't figure it out. So many rules, so many idioms, so many exceptions , after a point it was like trying to hit a moving target. The last GmatPrep I gave, I got 7 SC wrong (not abnormal by my standard), 1 RC wrong and 1 CR wrong (not abnormal by my standard) So no advice on SC. RC and CR always went by my hunch (no real method here too :hmm:) My funda was that if you understand the passage or the argument clearly you can get it right. I had a 95% - 100 % accuracy on it. Maths was a shocker. I realised 2 week before my exam that I was not as good as I thought. Ofcourse, as I expected could not get the 50 I was expecting. My major problem was that I could get the toughest question right but get the easiest question wrong :rolleyes:. I just could not figure out how to fix it, the harder I tried the worst it got. D Day -- The previous day I was stuck in a meeting till 4.30 PM. Reached home by like 5.30. Went to a near by temple, read some hanuman chalisa. Some where I felt that it really helped in calming my nerves. I got so calm that I came back and did not revise anything. :tup:. My exam was scheduled at 8.00 in the morning. Funny part was that I wrote 7500 greenbay road and was searching the center at 6500 greenbay road. Anyway, I kept 30 min extra, which helped. The test started with AWA, I practiced for it once. It went fine. The strategy (I know i know finally I have a strategy) was to have a summary , 3 paras and a conclusion. Took a 10 min break. Started QUANT, I thought I was on cruise control. For some reason, I thought it was going really good. I finished it in 60 min. Took the next 10 min break. Verbal, again was going really good. I knew no matter what I do I will get my SC's wrong, so made sure I don't screw up my RC and CR. Again finished the section 10 min before. Because the whole thing went so well, I thought I would see something like 740. :grad::grad: ... Anyway, I did not feel too bad. Relaxed now. I have to figure out what to do with the score now. I want to take this oppurtunity to thank all who helped me in the process.. esp sourav16 , Queen09, Diehard, hina and queen02 and many others who helped me in my journey, which was very painfull (not really used to studying at all). I have missed my cricket, tennis and volley ball, which I m gonna start right at this moment. Let me know guys, if you guys need any help. Debriefs have been the biggest motivations for me. I used to read it everyday. I m not reviewing what i wrote so excuse me if there are any grammetical !! errors ...

a1 = 2, a2 = -3, a3 = 5, a4 = -1, and a1+a2+a3+a4 = 3 , then the series repeats itself 96/4 = 24 24*3 + a1 = 74

factors of 2, 5 will not have recurring decimals. Everything else would

what is ST ?

So R = PS/Q . First option. P is divisible by 140. Now Q could have prime factor 7 and 5 and it cancel the 5 in P and because we don't know anything about S. 1) is insufficient. 2) option says that P is infact 7^x meaning a factor of 7. So, PS/Q has to be a factor of 5. Answer C.

the assumption you are making is that both 4 and 5 chapter have equal pages to the rest of the 12 chapters. Which is not correct

Cannot be C. It uses was, the medal is still an award. for in D changes the meaning E the best option