I just Beat The GMAT!

yashikk9 wrote:@avijitchak - First of all congratulations for your much deserved success. You surely had an exhaustive study plan to include all these materials.

I am sailing in the same boat with pretty good quant but horrible verbal score. I am also preparing for my not second but 3rd attempt to hit the 7xx mark.

It will be really helpful if you could share your study plan. How long did you spend covering all these materials? and what sequence you followed while covering these materials.Did u re-take same tests?

For a while I have been thinking of taking up some verbal coaching but not sure how much will it help. As my second test was screwed up all thanks to my low confidence by the time i had reached verbal section.

Confidence is something no one else can help you with. So very skeptical about coaching also.

Thanks!

avijitchak wrote:

yashikk9 wrote:@avijitchak - First of all congratulations for your much deserved success. You surely had an exhaustive study plan to include all these materials.

I am sailing in the same boat with pretty good quant but horrible verbal score. I am also preparing for my not second but 3rd attempt to hit the 7xx mark.

It will be really helpful if you could share your study plan. How long did you spend covering all these materials? and what sequence you followed while covering these materials.Did u re-take same tests?

For a while I have been thinking of taking up some verbal coaching but not sure how much will it help. As my second test was screwed up all thanks to my low confidence by the time i had reached verbal section.

Confidence is something no one else can help you with. So very skeptical about coaching also.

Thanks!

Hi,

To be very honest, I dont think its worth it to take those expensive preparatory courses. Self study should be sufficient if followed diligently.
As far as my study plan goes, I started with OG, practiced from GMATClub tests and gave full length tests on a weekly basis. I took total 10 Manhattan GMAT tests (6 + 4 repeats), 2 GMATPrep Tests and 4 Princeton Review tests. There is no substitute to practice through full length tests.

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avijitchak wrote:

yashikk9 wrote:@avijitchak - First of all congratulations for your much deserved success. You surely had an exhaustive study plan to include all these materials.

I am sailing in the same boat with pretty good quant but horrible verbal score. I am also preparing for my not second but 3rd attempt to hit the 7xx mark.

It will be really helpful if you could share your study plan. How long did you spend covering all these materials? and what sequence you followed while covering these materials.Did u re-take same tests?

For a while I have been thinking of taking up some verbal coaching but not sure how much will it help. As my second test was screwed up all thanks to my low confidence by the time i had reached verbal section.

Confidence is something no one else can help you with. So very skeptical about coaching also.

Thanks!

Hi,

To be very honest, I dont think its worth it to take those expensive preparatory courses. Self study should be sufficient if followed diligently.
As far as my study plan goes, I started with OG, practiced from GMATClub tests and gave full length tests on a weekly basis. I took total 10 Manhattan GMAT tests (6 + 4 repeats), 2 GMATPrep Tests and 4 Princeton Review tests. There is no substitute to practice through full length tests.

Thanks avijitchak!

Can you tell me how did u really improve in between the two tests? I am sure your study plan was more than 4 months based on the number of tests you wrote. All the reading material must have been done in the beginning. so a part improvement what did u do? went back to manhattan sc/rc notes or practiced problems of the types you were getting wrong...I mean did u go back to theory or was it jst practice practice practice?