Constance

I made the PP1 test 2 times. My score obviously improved a lot (from 640 to 720). I recognize some of the questions (after 3weeks) but not all. The day after I made a 710 on the PP2 (1st attempt). The two scores are pretty close and as I will take the GMAT Tuesday, I prefere to think it is stil valuable (even if the score on PP1 is inflate).

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Hi all, It's my last week:doh: . My plan is to do only [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] questions and one or two test (PP2 again and PR). In one week, working only two hours a day and 8 hours per day on week-end, it looks impossible to go through the all OG:mad:. Where are the most difficult question (especially in Q where I always find problems to easy :grad: ) to practice in the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] ? At the end ? Also, am I the only one not going through all the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] questions :( ? Cheers, Constance

Hi Ice T, First, I must admit that I'm not sure whether my advices will be of any help: my G-day is in one week. But, like you, I'm interested by any advice on what to do the last days before the actual exam. Here is how I planned my work until now and how I will plan the coming (oh happy) days. I started three weeks ago by +/- 10 intensive days of work. I wanted to take the exam just after. But, 640 on PP1, 540-560-540 on Kaplan's tests and 600-660 on PR discourage me from making this first try. Three weeks later (now), after two hours of work per weekday (I'm back in office) and 10 hours per week-end, I've taken the PP1 again and made a decent 720 (Q50 V38). I've thus decided to use my last bullet in order to evaluate myself (I still haven't open the OG), the PP2, and made a great 710 (Q51 V32) in my first attempt. Trageting a 700+, I have planned the exam next Tuesday. I will take the next 6 days (still two hours a day and 10 hours on week-end) to go trough the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] questions. Then, as my biggest problem is in RC speed and SC (look at my poor V-score), I will try to learn a lot of idioms and improve my reading speed (cfr jamesbond007's trick). Here is what I think will help me to secure (as much as I can) my targeted score. Any comment ? Suggestions ? I wish you success, Constance

I would say the second "be" is implicit is such a parallelism, no? It is correct to use "be" but it isn't wrong not to use it, I would say. Constance (a frenchspeaking girl trying to improve her english)

Well done vingmat... What a score !!! Keep us inform of the next steps. Cheers, C

FYI, I've followed the instructions off 007 and my speed for RC has increased quite substancialy (10min per RC of 4 questions in state of 15 min). If english isn't your first language, I really think it helps. Thanks 007 !

Cooooooooooooool, now I see... It's because of "when". Otherwise, when there is no "when", the past perfect is used to differenciate between two events in the past that didn't occur at the same moment. But, with "when", the distinction is already clear, right ? I will get a look on internet too. Thanks ! Now, I will check what it gives on practice. Tense concordence remain my biggest weakness in SC. Not that my english grammar becomes good but my GMAT grammar is improving.

Do we really know if this question is from ETS ? What is the answer in the book where the question come from ? Personaly, I'm sure it isn't D. In Belgium, medicine in hospitals are given by doctors. Those doctors, like all other doctors, can easely make a prescription. Doctors aren't thus influenced by the need of a prescription in the choice of a medicine. So, the reason to choose Novex cannot be that it doesn't request prescprition. If you're right, US system must be different in that regard . I would clearly prefere B but I find the question isn't correctly formulated.

Thanks a thousand times Spiderman, you're a bright and a nice person, it's precious. The top B school where you will apply will be lucky ! By the way, I've just made a test from Kaplan on SC and I don't understand one of my mistakes (have made only three among 55, I'm in progress, yepeee). My answer was A: -When he had run for mayor of Cleveland in 1968, Carl Stokes won the election, proving that an African American Candidate can be elected in a city in which African Americans constitute a minority of the population. The correct answer is : -When he ran for mayor of Cleveland in 1968,... I don't see why the past perfect cannot be used. Carl S must have run for mayor before to have win the election, no ? Maybe it's obvious but I don't understand why and, as a my first language isn't english, I don't feel it. Thanks for you're help, my last mistakes (in SC) are always on that matter. C

What a wonderfull score... Thank you Mariam for all the advices (printed) and, most of all, for all the hope you're bringing ! Is there anyway to get some TestMagic classes from Brussels (online maybe ?!?), seriously I mean ? I swear I will work hard to understand as quick as I can ! I feel so discourage after having postpone my test (planned this afternoon) that I really need some help. The only solution I've found, for the moment, was to go out for a drink or two with friends. It gived me hope (Johanna) but not as much as you did Mariam. Good night (hope the night will bring me some advices), C

Yep, that's what I wanna to say tryst(an and Iseult) !

Imagine arranging poeple in a row. You ask evryone from the row to sit one chair further and the last one on the left goes to the first place on the right. That in a circle isn't cound as two different combination. Do it n (number of chairs) times gives you different combination in a row not in a circle. Thus, there a n!(like in a row)/n(because in a circle) combination = (n-1)! This would be my intuition. Clear ? Right ?

Yes, I've lost 225$, I tough it was better than to make a score that would compromise definitly my application. But it hurts ;-( ! When I insrcibe myself, one week before, I didn't know I would need so much practice. My application forms must be completed before december 6 and I have to take my GMAT at least two weeks in advance. So end october doesn't look so early to me. But, thus, I only have one month more. I will more or less follow your plan but I must condensate it a bit (and cross fingers): 1) PP1 followed by intense preparation (Kaplan 800, Kaplan 2005, verbal PR). Now I'm always working as I would in a real GMAT. My biggest problem is english : I read pretty slow, I have a poor grammar and I misunderstand some unusual words. Imagine what it gives on RC or SC, hu hu hu ! 2) PP1 again (cannot be bad) followed by PP2 3) [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] (especialy RC and SC) 4) cross fingers, cross fingers and cross fingers again. In any case, I would have improve my english which isn't a bad thing. Thanks again for your help about what to do first, By the way I'm always sincere, C

I already take the first PP. I was suppose to take the GMAT today (starting in half an hour !) but, because of my pour result to the PP1 (640 argh), I've decide to postpone it. I'm targetting something around 700+. Since then, I've study intensively for a week (what a wonderfull holiday) and take many other test like kaplan's (that bring me close to a nervous breakdown) and PR (better when my little brother is not screeming). I think that, what I will now do, is read the Kaplan book, take the PP2 test and only then the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] test. Hope that 3 weeks, while working, will be enough. Thanks for all your advices and courage for your studies (I'm going back to mine), PS: Wish it exists a test in french... "It's so unfair !" Calimero (french cartoon star)

Yes, it's exactly wat I was looking for. Thanks :), C PS: This forum is realy great !

Pleas help on one simple planification question... I'm hesitating between two options. Shall I start now to make the exercices of the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] book. But then, my second and last PP test will have few value in estimating my level or, shall I first do the second PP test (but, then, how to know if I'm ready) and then make all the exercices from the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] book. I've plan to pass (and hope to make 700+) the GMAT the 28th october. What would you advice ? Thanks, Constance

I eard about a new style of question in the 10th OG. Can someone tell me where I can find an exemple ? Thanks,

I've also a lot of problems with timing in RC. Someone advice me to skip at least the last one (for the moment, I'm quite obliged to do so, as I always run short of time at the end). If I skip one or two or three RC what is the maximal score I can get ? Does someone has an idea ? I'm still hoping to make a sore higher than 700, even with my Kaplan test results (bouhouhou...). Please, help a poor frenchspeaking girl !!!