Beat The GMAT

s138884 · Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:05 am

Hello everyone,

I got my essay scores today. 4 weeks of preparation and scored 670. OG 11th Edition, Verbal Review and Kaplan tests. I have about 4 years of work ex and working in IT wing of a Financial Co. Going to apply for MS in Computational Finance courses in various schools

Goodluck friends

S

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beatthegmat · Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:08 am

Congrats on your score! Can you share more details about your preparation strategy? There are a lot of people who want to study for the GMAT under one month, and you may be an example that inspires others.

Best of luck to you!

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s138884 · Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:39 pm

Thank you very much.

I am sorry i did not post enough information earlier.

Working and preparing for GMAT can be very difficult and aiming to beat it in 4 weeks is not easy. Coming from engineering background I was pretty confident about my quant skills and I was slightly disappointed by my quant score. I was hoping to score alteast 49.

I concentrated most of my time and efforts on verbal. I dedicated about 1 hr per day towards sentence correction excercises and about 1 or 2 RCs. I did quants only over the weekends. I found the verbal review to be a good book even though a lot of questions are repeated in OG. For AWA i read thru the AWA pdf available in this forum. I prepared a template of my own based on the various essays from that pdf. I wanted to share that template with you readers but unfortunately my system crashed about 10 days ago and I had to replace the hard disk and I lost the template.

For 4 days before the exam, I attempted about 7 mock tests but was able to complete only 4 of them. I was unable to complete the remaining ones out of frustration and exhaustion. I strongly recommend against taking so many tests just before the exam.

So folks, go beat the gmat.
Happy new year

S

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aim-wsc · Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:02 am

congrats for your score buddy.

i wish we c hv got that AWA template... Sad

nevermind, would just bump on awa section and tell us how you made one?

tell you what ... i hv been hearing not so great reports about quant lately . Neutral