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Here is a brief recap of my exam and prep: My test began at 4.00pm. I prefered a morning time, but there were no other slots in september for the test center closest to where I stay. I am hour before the test, finished all the paper work. The administrator told that I could start right away, but I decided to wait 10 minutes, just so to cool my nerves. AWA. simple topics, both of which I had prepared before, so that helped me relax for the remaining portion of the test. I took the break after AWA and splashed water over my face. Felt much better and ready for the grind. Quant:- Much tougher than ETS OG 10, OG 11 and even Kaplan. Almost al the questions test your quant basics in a variety of ways. Started with PS (percent increase/decrease, then moved to some probability, geometry etc) and then finally some DS. The section that I most feared was the GCD/LCM/remainder area in Number Theory. I had easy questions in that area. But I had some difficult function questions. I almost ran out of time in the Quant section, but managed to finished it with 2 seconds to spare. I was very careful in the first 15-20 questions to avoid making a silly mistake. Because i thought the quant was very tougher , I thought my score would be like 45-46. But was relieved to get a 49. Verbal:- In alll practice tests, my verbal performance was between 44-47. So I felt relaxed about verbal. That must have backfired. Because I got very tough SCs. RC and CR were OG level. Verbal started with a SCs in the first few questions. Then I had 2 back to back RCs. My first CR appeared at question 14 or Q15. I had read Spidey's notes and referred a grammar book (SAE) to polish my SC skills. In my powerprep and gmat prep tests, I had no errors in SC. However, I could not apply any of the rules in some of the SCs in the test. I think I spent too much time on those SCs and hence my time management suffered in the Verbal section. As a result, I had to click through 4 of the last questions in Verbal. I am sure that impacted my score negatively. And I got a 35. I am sure that I can perform better than that. Quant: 49 , Verbal: 35 Guys, do you think I should do a second GMAT test? Is this score good enough for some of the top schools? I know that GMAT is one of the factors in the admission criteria and not the only one. I am confident about my other factors - a good 4 year work ex. , good GPA at undergrad level (4.0) and balanced extra-curricular activities. Hence I do feel that I should not attempt the GMAT test? What do you say? PREP: I did a solid 2.5 months of prep, slow at the start but picked up in the middle and towards the end - about 2-3 months after on a weekday and then 10 -12 hours on the weekend. After going through the kaplan and princeton books, I did some GMAT test and found out my weak areas :- Number theory, Geometry in Quant, CRs in Verbal. Then I made a weekly plan to attack those areas. FOr Verbal, I was really scared of the CRs, so I did the OG CRs twice, made my notes about the patterns I found in the OG CRs. And even did the OG 11 CRs, and CRS from the 1000 CRs doc. For all the practice tests and the exercises that I gave, I made a note of all the errors, and then went through in through detail. After I got a question wrong, I do not jump to look at the explanation given in the book. Instead I try to see why I got the question wrong and see whether I can come up with the correct answer. After enough trying, if I cannot get the correct answer, then I looked up the correct answer. That process helped me a lot in understanding the finer details. In quant, I made a lot of silly mistakes. I decided to speak the process while solving the problems and that helped me to reduce the number of silly mistakes in the Quant section. Also, when you go through your error, in addition to understand why X is the correct answer, you should also understand why Y and Z are the wrong answers. Based on my experience, here's some suggestions: Resources: OG (THE BIBLE) - master this Quant: Kaplan Book , Kaplan 800, OG 11 (mainly last 150 problems) , problems from the Kaplan tests , atleast 10 problems from this forum everyday Verbal: Standard Grammar book Princeton Verbal Review (the verbal section at the end of the book is good) Kaplan 800 OG 11 (must do) 1000 CRs (must do) 1000 SCs (must do) RC doc floating on this forum (must do) For additional practice, you can do the 9 ETS paper tests and even the LSAT CR and RC sections. For the pratice tests, here are some of my scores: 1. Powerprep1 (no OG prep) - 720 (Q46, V45) - lots of silly mistakes in math 2. while doing OG Prep, ETS paper test1 - 760 3. while doing OG prep, ETS paper test2 - 770 4. After OG prep, I gave a Kaplan test - got some 600 odd score, but focused on the mistakes instead of the score 5. After OG, GmatPrep1 -730 (M 49, V 44) GmatPrep2 - 750 (don't remember the split) Powerprep2 - 760 (M51, V46) Some ADvice: 1. After going through the basics, do one test per week till the end. This will build your stamina for the actual exam 2. Don;t leave the powerprep/gmatprep till the very end. Give one in the beginning or the middle. this will help you understand your weak areas from the ETS point of view 3. Powerprep tests repeat questions after 2 attempts. But GmatPrep tests can be given about 3-4 times totally before they start repeating questions. Use that to your advantage 4. Master OG 5. Don't study on the exam day and a day before the exam. Very important that your mind stays fresh for the exam. 6. If you get very complicated equations while solving the problems, then you have messed up somewhere. I realized this during the gmatPrep tests. ETS tests your math basics and therefore they do not have problems with complicated techniques or equations on the exam Again, the sure thing to crack the GMAT is to focus on your areas one at a time, master them. and then as you give the tests, work on your weak areas and minimize the number of mistakes. Above all, enjoy the process and don't get frustrated. Although this is easier said than done. Think of the verbal section as if you are a MBA student analyzing lots of business data and the quant section as if you a MBA student doing finance work. I am stating my question again here: do you think I should do a second GMAT test? BTW, I am from India, and I read somewhere on this forum that most quant scores from India are 51/51. So I am not sure how I should interprete my Q. score. Thanks for all the help on this forum. There are a lot of amazing people on this forum. BTW, is there a forum for people in the MBA app. process? Thanks.

I am quite relieved after the exam today, dispappointed, but glad that it's over. I would like to thank everyone on this forum. I will write a post later about prep etc.

Set X has 5 numbers, which average is greater than their median. Set Y has 7 numbers, which average is greater than their median also. If the 2 sets have no common number and are combined to a new set, is the average of the new set greater than its median? 1) The average of Y is greater than the average of X 2) The median of Y is greater than the median of X

Hi Swadeep, Did you use GMATPrep for giving your practice tests? This is the new set of tests from ETS at www.mba.com. I am trying to find if the math in GMAT exam is of the level in GMATprep, which is tougher than the one in Powerprep and ETS. Thanks Buddy

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Generally when the question has words like 'tend to' , 'probably' , definite answer choices are not the right answers . therefore A, C are out B is the answer choice which uses 'likely' and indicates some likelihood like the original passage - is the right answer

In malaria-infested areas, many children tend to suffer several bouts of malaria before becoming immune to the disease. Clearly, what must be happening is that those children’s immune systems are only weakly stimulated by any single exposure to the malaria parasite and need to be challenged several times to produce an effective immune response. Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the explanatory hypothesis? (A) Immediately after a child has suffered a bout of malaria, the child’s caregivers tend to go to great lengths in taking precautions to prevent another infection, but this level of attention is not sustained. (B) Malaria is spread from person to person by mosquitoes, and mosquitoes have become increasingly resistant to the pesticides used to control them. © A certain gene, if inherited by children from only one of their parents, can render those children largely immune to infection with malaria. (D) Antimalaria vaccines, of which several are in development, are all designed to work by stimulating the body’s immune system. (E) There are several distinct strains of malaria, and the body’s immune response to any one of them does not protect it against the others. I chose D reasoning: since the arg. mentions that the several bouts of malaria are necessary to become immune against malaria, the answer that undermines this would be some alternate cause. (D) provides some alternate cause Can someone explain why D is wrong and E is correct?

additionally, in A , "which" should be preceded by a comma. .....family, which is ... D is correct (not a but b is the correct idiom)

i agree with D what's the OA?

Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of Dickinson’s poetry often distorted her intentions. Yet Johnson’s own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion. To standardize Dickinson’s often indecipherable handwritten punctuation by the use of the dash is to render permanent a casual mode of poetic phrasing that Dickinson surely never expected to see in print. It implies that Dickinson chose the dash as her typical mark of punctuation when, in fact, she apparently never made any definitive choice at all. Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main point? (A) Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson’s early editors for their distortion of her work, his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions. (B) Johnson’s use of the dash in his text of Dickinson’s poetry misleads readers about the poet’s intentions. © Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published, virtually any attempt at editing it must run counter to her intentions. (D) Although Johnson’s attempt to produce a more faithful text of Dickinson’s poetry is well-meaning, his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.（B） (E) Dickinson’s editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts. Between B and E , I chose E. . Can someone explain why E is wrong? I thought that the "readers" as mentioned in B are out of scope

between A and B, I think B is the answer that fits

Between B and C, i think B is the answer. Because C states what is already stated in the given argument. Assumptions are unstated in a CR argument.

1. In 1, A cannot be chosen because popularity of the services does not show how they are beneficial to the employee and the company (which is what is required in the answer) 2. The paragraph mentions that smoke hoods prevent the inhalation of the gas. A sticks to this. C just mentions another aspect of the smoke hoods.

D is the answer

provided with is wrong in B, C, E. A is correct. What's the OA?

In (12) B is wrong because it uses "to try and recover". To try to .. is the correct usage. eg. To try to fix , not "to try and fix"

Hi Any idea where to get set of very difficult GMAT math questions? Most people who gave the test recently have said that Math is tougher than Kapla, OG and PR put together. Does anyone know about any practice material other than the posts on the forums here?

agree with A

geeky, in your first example (-3/2, -2) , doesn't satisfy condition 2 i.e. x/y > 1 using (-3/2,-2) for x/y gives 3/4 = 0.75 which is

agree with the OA. in the last question 240=101 + T -60 + neither -> 240= 41 + T + neither -> T+ neither = 139 Since T > 0 and neither > 0 , therefore neither -> answer is B

"atleast one blue " probability can be calculated as follows: P(atleast 1 blue in 3 draws) = P(1blue and 2 other) + P(2blue and 1 other) + P(all blue) = 3C1*4C2 + 3C2*4C1 + 3C3 = 31/35

The rise in the price of crabmeat and an increase in demand has convinced some Floridians they should try to harvest and sell a species of large crab that lives deep in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. (A) has convinced some Floridians they should try to harvest and sell a species of large crab (B) has convinced some Floridians to try harvesting and selling a large crab species © have convinced some that they should try the harvest and sale of a large crab species (D) have convinced some Floridians to try to harvest and sell a species of large crab (E) have convinced some Floridians to try and harvest and sell a large crab species will post OA OA is

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him - is a object pronoun that receives action. In this sentence - him cannot be used because it does an action (helping us) therefore him is wrong here B is the answer.