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I found the princeton study material very easy and not much useful. But I used the 2002 edition, so I am not sure about the later versions. The Princeton Online Course (that one of my friend registered for) that I mentioned in my earlier post, is pretty upto date with the material in terms of covering topics like Probability, permutation and combination. Standard Deviation covered there is not good at all. Similarly for Verbal section. If you are short of time, I would suggest avoid wasting your time on the Princeton study material (though the tests can be used for pacing practice....but dont relie on the scores). Btw, I didnt mention http://www.800score.com earlier, but they have 5 tests that I completed and I found the test pretty good. The great thing about those tests is that most of the questions there are new and not something you will see in other study material. This helps during preparations because getting a question during practice tests that you have already seen is quite frustrating.

Hello everyone, First of all thanks to all the great posts at this website. I found this website quite useful during my preparation, esp this thread to keep track of my preparation and set my expectation. I started my preparation in February begining and appeared for my GMAT on 5th April. I scored 730 (Q:50, V:38). Pretty much what I had expected and I am happy with the score. Since I found this thread useful, I have decided to share my experiences with all of you. GMAT: Math: I found that the math section was tougher than what I had expected. I had 2-3 standard deviation questions and one simple combination problem. I noticed that the difficulty of the question peaked somewhere around 15-25 and after 25 and at the tail end of the test, most of questions were simple and some simply ridiculous. I spent a lot of time on the first 25 questions with only 18-20 mins on the last 10-11 questions. Verbal: I was scoring around 38-44 on my practice tests, so little disappointed at the verbal score, but then I was never great at it anyway. One of the reading comprehensions was quite difficult. Other than that I was never confident on most of the SCs. CR was ok. Here are the scores of my practice tests: Test Math Verbal Total Kaplan P1 590 Kaplan P2 50 30 650 Kaplan P3 38 35 600 Kaplan P4 44 32 620 Kaplan website 44 42 700 (2-3 days before GMAT) Princeton P1 620 Princeton P2 43 35 630 Princeton P3 640 Princeton P5 51 40 730 Princeton website 50 40 720 Princeton CD 1 47 39 690 GMAT ETS1 50 35 710 GMAT ETS2 49 42 750 Legend: Kaplan => kaplan 2002 book Princeton => Online website course As you see my practice test scores where all over the place. Books/Reading material Math: Kaplan-800 Verbal: Princeton Verbal handbook Kaplanm, and ofcourse ETS 10th Edition (very useful). I plateaued out in the last 1-1 1/2 week before my tests. So I dont think there is much point in overpreparing. Best of luck to all for your GMAT preparations !!!