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  1. I'd say persist with the book for a few more pages. If you don't feel comfortable, may be you'll need to study the grammar concepts in further detail. Or you may try attempting the SC section of OG. Check if attempting problems helps you understand the underlying concepts.
  2. Hi, MGMATs were slightly more difficult than actual GMATs. I guess the reason is the same as I mentioned above (for MGMAT 6). But by attempting slightly more difficult questions, you prepare yourself well enough to attempt the actual GMAT questions with ease. So it definitely helped a lot. Regards, Sharma (not varun)
  3. Sumeet, Which kind of schools are you looking at? Give some details and people here may be in a better position to help.
  4. Hi all, I took my GMAT on 1st of this month. Got my AWA score today. Here is the detailed score: Quantitive 49 86% Verbal 42 95% Total 750 98% AWA 5.5/6.0 77% Test Experience This was first attempt. So I was little apprehensive about the notepads provided for use during the exam. Didn't have any issues with it and everything about the test went on smoothly. Took both the optional breaks. Preparation I had prepared for the entrance tests for admissions to Indian MBA program. These exams present a higher degree of difficulty level in Quant and therefore studying for GMAT (Quant section) was made relatively easier. I started preparing for GMAT about two months before the exam date. But actual preparation started when I booked the slot (about 1 month before the test). I started the preparation by attempting the GMATPrep test. It turned out to be tougher than I had expected. While I made a lot of mistakes and was pretty disturbed by the difficulty level, I scored a decent 710. Q49, V38. {This is the reason why my final GMAT score wasn't that exciting to me. I hardly made an improvement of 40 points after studying for almost two months.} I started with OG12.Completed the quant section, RCs and CRs. I wanted to go through the Manhattan SC book before attempting that section from OG. I got the ManhattanGMAT SC book and started understanding the theory. This is a must-read for any non-native test-taker. Helped me clear a lot of concepts. So much so that eventually I skipped the SC section of OG as I was scoring the most in this section in different tests. That brings me to the practice tests. MGMAT 1 9/14/2010 Q47, V39 - 700: Found it very difficult. Got 15 questions wrong in each section. On analyzing the test I realized that most of them were wrong due to silly mistakes. That gave me some consolation that I could improve on this. MGMAT 2 9/18/2010 Q46, V38 - 690: Same learnings as above. I also kept in mind that these test must be slightly more diffcult than the actual GMAT. Decided to take a test from some other agency to check this. Veritas FreeGMAT 9/20/2010 Q51, V44 - 730: Now this test was too easy and I was sure this does not reflect the actual difficulty level. But I thought the score was accurate as that Q/V breakup would have given 770 on GMAT. MGMAT 3 9/22/2010 Q48, V36 - 690: Many mistakes in Critical Reasoning. Had no option but to go on studying. GMATPrep 1 (retake) 9/24/2010 Q50, V44 - 770: Though some questions were repeated, this score did help to give a boost to the spirits. MGMAT 4 9/28/2010 Q49, V41 - 730: Three days before the actual exam. Some sign of improvements in scores. MGMAT 5 9/29/2010 Q50, V41 - 740: After learning a lot of new things from the previous four MGmats, tests were now appearing easier. MGMAT 6 9/30/2010 Q51, V45 - 780: Now this was surprising. Almost the easiest test I had ever seen. Could clearly see that there was something wrong with Manhattan Test program. I saw the details and realized that they have a limited pool of questions to be used over six CATs. This has questions belonging to different difficulty levels - 500-600, 600-700, 700-800 etc. As I had consistently scored around 700, most of my questions from the 500-600 level were unused and most of those in the higher pools were exhausted. Therefore, the last test had a majority of questions from 500-600 pool, giving a dream score of 780. How I'd have loved to see that on the final day. Anyways. This left me no time to attempt the GmatPrep2. Also, I did not want to be over-confident before entering the exam hall. So happily avoided GMATPrep2. For the last 3-4 tests, I started attempting the AWA questions too. I was having trouble concentrating during the Verbal section of the tests and the only way to get over it was to practice attempting many tests with the actual timelines. Attempting AWA thus helped a lot. Strategies from this forum and OG12 helped a lot in getting 5.5 in AWA. ----------------------- Just a few words about the books. OG12 - a great beginning point for your preparation. You just cannot miss this. Manhattan SC - First few chapters of the book are excellent. But reading it from the first page to the last won't help. I would advise people to start with the Idioms chapters as soon as possible. So there are two starting points - Chap 1 and Chap 9 (idioms). The chapters on advanced strategies are good and help bring a lot of clarity. But don't get bogged down if you don't enjoy reading all those details of English grammer - terms like Command Subjuntive, apposative, complex gerunds may be scary but understand the logic and SC will become very easy for you. ----------------------- Have spoken a lot. Will rest.
  5. Why do you consider two cases here? 2^2n = 16 = 2 ^4 => 2n = 4 There is absolutely no reason to consider (-2) ^2n. OG also hasn't talked about the negative value.
  6. (A)Most of the 200 participants improved their emotional state and lowered their stress levels. A very generic statement. The results are stated only for 10 + 20 = 30 students. So can't pass a judgement on the majority. (B)During each week of the experiment, the participants spent at least 2 hours less on their academic work as a result of concert attendance. The use of an expression like 'at least' should be checked as soon as you encounter it. The argument assumes that attending the concert must have eaten into the time students had for academic work. Easy to see that this cannot be accepted as the only possible truth. ©Listening to classical music for at least 2 hours per week improves the emotional well-being of the majority of young adults. Another attempt to direct your attention to what you feel subconsciously about the topic. Do not listen to the subconscious as the answer needs to be directly deduced from the passage. (D)More than 6 participants attended at least 14 concerts during the course of the experiment. As all the students attended "at least 12" concerts (Each of the 200 participants attended at least 1 two-hour concert of classical music per week over the course of 12 weeks of their spring semester. ), we know the lower limit. Now, we also know of two separate groups - one that attended the greatest and one that attended the fewest number of concerts. This is were one needs to pay special attention to the terms being used. The passage says 'greatest': not greater, not more, but greatest. The use of superlative should tell you that there are at least three separate groups of students as per their relative frequency of attendance. Those who attended the fewest correspond to the group of 20 students; 10 students form the group that attended the greatest number of concerts. The rest, 170 students, form the third group. In the extreme case, the group of 20 must have attended at least 12 concerts. Correspondingly, the group of 10 must have attended at least 14 to appear on top of other 190 students. This gives you D. (E)At least some of the students participated in the study in order to gain free access to classical concerts Again, not even closely related to the information stated in the problem stem.
  7. Congratulations mymagic. Will start using a timer now. :)
  8. IIM-Ahmedabad is the first to announce the deadline each year. This year, forms will be available from 1st of Sept, 2010. Last date of application is 30th of Nov. Click here for details
  9. Are there any candidates here targeting the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) (equi to a PhD) from the IIMs in India? I am looking for people to discuss few aspects of the applications process, entrance exams (as GMAT is not the only test for these courses) and some IIM specific details. Of course, others with any useful info can surely chip-in.
  10. Does anyone have any information about the other disciplines? Are such options of joining the private sector open/relevant/lucrative for candidates from fields such as Business & Public Policy, Management of Organizations, Marketing etc.?
  11. This statement is flawed. The equation x/y > 1 tells us that x > y only if x & y both are positive. When both of them are negative, the integer with higher absolute value is in fact smaller than the other. Consider -5 and -2. -5/-2 is indeed > 1. But -5 is not > -2. Hope this clarifies.:tup:
  12. @atishree, can you correct the (2) statement here. Looks like you missed an operator here.
  13. Seems pretty straightforward to me (am I missing something). Even the calculations are not required here. 1. x 2. y And of course, the answer will be known if (1) and (2) are put together. Ans: C
  14. Preparing for GMAT (Aug '10).

    Targeting MBA/Phd prog in India beginning in fall 2011.

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