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  1. Raj, I am not an expert! However I do think it will be better if you speak to an alumnus and ask this question to them. You GMAT equivalent seem to be around the averages. With a well rounded application, I think you have a chance. As far as scholarship, it depends on you extracurricular activities, proven leadership qualities, academic and work record etc. Good Luck!
  2. Hello GMAT takers, I decided to return to this forum and share my MBA application experience. I have taken GMAT again but got 600 :( I targeted Canadian universities and received my first admit from Schulich. I am yet to be interviewed by Queen's and Broad MSU(the only US school I applied). I am still waiting to hear back from Rotman. So here is a little advice for your application: 1- Network, Network, Network. Spoke to alumnus and show your efforts to the admissions committee. Use it to show your interest about the school. 2- Attend information sessions and/or events. Build your relationship with the university starting from the early stage of your application. 3- Use your essay and overall application to demonstrate fit the school. Make sure you will add value, explaining it with specific examples. Make sure school fits your career goal. Describe specifically how it will help you to get there. 4- Finally, you should remain positive at all times. Until the decision is made, you never know what the outcome will be. Use this time to follow periodically with the university. Show your interest and passion. You should remember GMAT is only one piece of your application. It very important t have a high score if you desperately need scholarship. If not, with a little below average GMAT, you still have chance. You need to focus on demonstrating fit and explain how this school will help you to achieve your career goals. Well rounded application is key to achieve our true goal, MBA degree. Good Luck! :grad:
  3. After reading the question carefully the answer should be B not D. Malachi returns home at the end of the first day that rains, thus it rains on Monday. 4/5*4/5*1/5 = 16/125 =0,128
  4. IMO. D Question ask what is the probability that Malachi will return on Tuesday morning. He should stay 3 days in camp, so we need to calculate the probability of not rain. Thus, 4/5*4/5*4/5=64/125, which is 0.512
  5. Here is my approach. Initial water 99/100 ; after evaporation 99-x/100-x =98/100 => 9900-100x=9800-98x =>100=2x => x=50 (substance of water evaporated) 50/99 will give you percent of water evaporated.
  6. IMO. A. We already know that each box in J is lighter than those in shelf K. The median box is the 45th, the heaviest of shelf J.
  7. I haven't heard such comparison before, but I would say 680 is accurate for strong quantitative score. Looking at your RC, It looks like you can easily improve your SC score. Good luck!
  8. Good point Naso, with this information the question can be solved.
  9. If a-b is even, then a and b are either both even or both odd. If a/b is even, the a and b must both even, since odd/odd is odd.(You can plug numbers to test) We only know that a and b are even, but I am still not sure how accurate this question is. You can eliminate all answer choices by plugging a=8 and b=2. Only choice left will be D.
  10. The OA is wrong. IMO the answer is C, here is why: 1- |x+3|=14 leads to two solutions; x=11 and x=-17 2- Can be transformed into |x+2|=13, again two solutions; x=11 and x=-15 Combined we can see that x must be 11 thus sufficient.
  11. Vijay1311, -3 is an odd number and an integer. Statement 1 always leads to odd, thus sufficient, statement 2 can lead to odd or even number.
  12. IMO D x/600=y/300 => 300x=600y => x=2y Now 1 gives us an equation that can be resolved as 2y+y=3000 =>y=1000 2 can be resolved as 3x=6000 => x=2000, if x=2y => then 2000=2y => y=1000
  13. Shreeman, I have experienced the same humiliation after the exam. Certainly I am not going to leave GMAT to beat me, but with the frequency of this type of post, I start to doubt of the accuracy of practice tests. I have to point that during practice tests, I am calm and confident, but during the real exam, no matter what I do, I get excited. I certainly believe in good luck during the exam and looking forward to get a result of 700+. Good luck to you. You are not the only one facing such difficulties.
  14. Nikki700, I studied for the exam and believe to have the knowledge. I went through all practice materials that I had, so I purchased Princeton 1012 practice questions. They started out easy but still practice source. This time I am paying close attention to each question when I review them. It looks like you need to improve Quant, but I have to improve Verbal. My score 48 in quant is still low for me. Before any preparation I spored 47. My target is Q50V40. I will use ear plugs again during both sections and try to not think how much I will get. My AWA score came out as 4.5. I believe it is due to analysis of an issue. I figured that I am not giving enough examples to strengthen my opinion. September 21st is the big day, lets see what happens.
  15. I am going to retake GMAT after 4 weeks. I hoping to get 700+ this time. I changed my preparation strategy and I will post later if that helped to improve the actual GMAT score.
  16. Sid12, you have wrong reasoning. In your solution you combined statement 1 and statement 2, but stated D as an answer. Even so, IMO the answer is E. The fact that x^2+y^2 = 6 has two possible solutions, negative and positive. If it the equation was something like X^3+Y^3=6, then there would be only one solution. Hope this helps.
  17. IMO E is the answer. 1- States than 20% of its purchase price, not the total price after each year. 2- We still don't know when the car is produced.
  18. I heard GMAT Quantitative is more difficult than GRE Quantitative and GMAT Verbal is easier than GRE Verbal. I guess this is good to know.
  19. IMO the answer is D. After retaining the use of ' that ' is awkward. In C requiring the retaining is wrong. I believe after requiring a subject such as 'employee' should follow. E is not parallel with the rest of the sentence. Thus I would say D. which answer choice is the least erroneous one? There is no such thing in GMAT. One answer is always grammatically correct.
  20. Satyajeet, I am actually surprised that 620 is 70 percentile, but that is just not enough. I used Manhattan series and OG12 books. In addition I used Kaplan Verbal and OG 11th edition Sentence Correction. I solved some 1000 series questions, but I haven't found them relevant to the actual exam. I used bellcurves.com for a month, but they have too many repeating questions. DS questions on the actual exam appeared to be harder, but I wasn't expecting 48 at all. Math is my strength and in my last practice tests I got no less than 50 with frequently getting 51. The only place I got Q48 was the Manhattan GMAT practice test, which all say that are harder than the real exam. Even so, my last Manhattan GMAT scores average 680, where my maximum is 690 a week before the exam. I need advice guys, during the last month I tried to solve 15PS 15DS 15CR 15SC and 2 RC per day. The only strategy that I think would help at the moment is analyzing questions in more depth. Give me your comments please.
  21. Dear friends, Today I wrote my GMAT and the result is more than disappointing to me. I scored 620 - Q49(82 percentile) V27(42 percentile). My last practice scores on GMATPREP were continuously over 700, 760 being the highest. I tend to make 2 practice test a week, one on Tuesday at 13:00 and one on Saturdays at 13:00. I followed this practice, because I scheduled my exam to Tuesday 13:00. In fact last week this time I made 740 - Q50V40 on GMATPREP. I also made Manhattan GMAT practice test, where my last 3 scores are 670, 680 and 690. After the exam I felt confident that I would score at least 700 that is why I submitted the report. I was shocked when I saw 620 on the screen, but you have to accept the realities. Unfortunately GMAT doesn't gave a detailed report so you can see where and what kind of mistakes you have made. My weakest area is my Reading, but in the exam I was focused and felt confident in each answer I made. I event felt the passages were quite easy to understand. But that could be because of wrong choice I made prior them. At this point I seek expert advice. Please share your experience and comments with me. With this score I am far away from my dream schools. Also I am seeing some repeat questions in GMATPREP, but is it truly effecting my test score to be high.
  22. Hi 740Wannabe, You have to stop relying on your ear. Certainly you need to focus on SC and solve more problems there. By practicing many questions, you will be able to identify what the sentence is testing and differentiate one sentence from another. Pay attention to details in each of the answer choices. That would give you a clue for what has been tested. Many GMAT takers advice 3 things; practice, practice and practice. Cheers.
  23. Congratulations Canadian PhD., This is a balanced decent score. Have you done any GMATPREP practice test and if so what was your score range. I am willing to take GMAT in 2 weeks. My practice scores in GMATPREP are 50-80 points higher that MGMAT. I see many repeating questions in GMATPREP, thus I am not really sure how well it reflect the actual exam. I am considering doing an MBA in Canada. Which are the schools you are interested in? Cheers.
  24. My first though was B, but since it is wrong I would say A. Can someone explain this one.
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