I just Beat The GMAT!

ankurmit wrote:Congrats dude

you have done it.All the best for your apps.

Thank you sir, hope u get an ISB interview soon, I will bug u like anything for the ISB interview experience u have. I am applying in R2.

Very inspiring story mate! All the best. I hope you get your dream college

saketk wrote:Very inspiring story mate! All the best. I hope you get your dream college

Thank you Saket. Wish you all the best.

Congratulations Pushkal!

Very inspiring post. I will write my GMAT for the third time in a month's time and I will take your post as an inspiration to achieve my target this time.
Thanks!

And All the Best for your Application!!

abhimanyu.tanwar wrote:Congratulations Pushkal!

Very inspiring post. I will write my GMAT for the third time in a month's time and I will take your post as an inspiration to achieve my target this time.
Thanks!

And All the Best for your Application!!

I actually wrote this post in quite a hurry and did not proofread much. Still looks like I came up with a decent debrief. Makes me doubly happy. Hope I can leverage some of these writing skills in my app essays. I wish you all the very best Abhimanyu. Will look forward to your debrief.

what did u mean by "score inflates after mgmat cat 4 "

mundasingh123 wrote:what did u mean by "score inflates after mgmat cat 4 "

If you read the people who've used MGMAT series. They report seeing outlandish scores in cat5 and cat6, due to all 600 level questions appearing. apparently the reason being is that when u score 700 in the first 4 cats, the bank runs out of all hard 700 questions.

So I better used the last 15 days repeating GMAT prep than attempting MGMAT 5 and 6. BTW gmat prep repeat inflated scores send u on 7th heaven.

I see some people faltering at gmat prep repeats but my super sharp memory got me exact 760 on 4 repeats and gave me the false hope that I was gonna see the same on exam day. :mrgreen:

bblast wrote:

mundasingh123 wrote:what did u mean by "score inflates after mgmat cat 4 "

If you read the people who've used MGMAT series. They report seeing outlandish scores in cat5 and cat6, due to all 600 level questions appearing. apparently the reason being is that when u score 700 in the first 4 cats, the bank runs out of all hard 700 questions.

So I better used the last 15 days repeating GMAT prep than attempting MGMAT 5 and 6. BTW gmat prep repeat inflated scores send u on 7th heaven.

I see some people faltering at gmat prep repeats but my super sharp memory got me exact 760 on 4 repeats and gave me the false hope that I was gonna see the same on exam day. :mrgreen:

bblast you should also write a debrief on how you learnt to better manage time and finish the sections especially the verbal section on time . Could you also write a small article on that

memorization strategy to be used for CR by spotting similarity between OG and Knewton CR entries,

could either pemdas or bblast explain what exactly did pemdas mean by the above in quotes

mundasingh123 wrote:

bblast wrote:

mundasingh123 wrote:what did u mean by "score inflates after mgmat cat 4 "

If you read the people who've used MGMAT series. They report seeing outlandish scores in cat5 and cat6, due to all 600 level questions appearing. apparently the reason being is that when u score 700 in the first 4 cats, the bank runs out of all hard 700 questions.

So I better used the last 15 days repeating GMAT prep than attempting MGMAT 5 and 6. BTW gmat prep repeat inflated scores send u on 7th heaven.

I see some people faltering at gmat prep repeats but my super sharp memory got me exact 760 on 4 repeats and gave me the false hope that I was gonna see the same on exam day. :mrgreen:

bblast you should also write a debrief on how you learnt to better manage time and finish the sections especially the verbal section on time . Could you also write a small article on that

check out the RC post in my signature, that's pretty much all u need to time urself. use the RC's as check posts to judge whether u are ahead or behind time. for timing SC and CR u need to use the good old stopwatch while attempting the OG's. {make sure to review without timer}. During the test people claim to do SC's in 45 secs. I cant do that. AT verbal 40 level the SC gets very tough to be gobbled. The RC remains pretty much the same. So I targeted it !!

mundasingh123 wrote:

memorization strategy to be used for CR by spotting similarity between OG and Knewton CR entries,

could either pemdas or bblast explain what exactly did pemdas mean by the above in quotes

only pemdas can answer that, i did not get that either.

bblast wrote:

mundasingh123 wrote:

memorization strategy to be used for CR by spotting similarity between OG and Knewton CR entries,

could either pemdas or bblast explain what exactly did pemdas mean by the above in quotes

only pemdas can answer that, i did not get that either.

LOL.
The impression that i got was that one each knewton cr had a method of reasoning that could be matched to that of an OG problem and one could do well in CR in the real gmat by matching the method of reasoning of each argument that you come across to that in the og .

Wow... looks like you have really worked it off eh? I was looking at your excel sheets and dude i must say, it must have been real hardwork..in one of the debriefs on this forum someone said - "You wanna kick the GMAT, make it personal", well i can see how personal you had made it - reflects well in your excels. Turns out, it has really inspired me to write down stuff/mistakes quite the way you did, because i like being descriptive, rather than just logging correct/wrong answers. Not to forget,reminded yourslef of the mistakes and repeated stuff that mind would retain, was awesome. Hats off to you..!!

supreetb wrote:Wow... looks like you have really worked it off eh? I was looking at your excel sheets and dude i must say, it must have been real hardwork..in one of the debriefs on this forum someone said - "You wanna kick the GMAT, make it personal", well i can see how personal you had made it - reflects well in your excels. Turns out, it has really inspired me to write down stuff/mistakes quite the way you did, because i like being descriptive, rather than just logging correct/wrong answers. Not to forget,reminded yourslef of the mistakes and repeated stuff that mind would retain, was awesome. Hats off to you..!!

thanks supreet, glad my post helped. I don't know how many readers of my debrief actually downloaded my sheets, but the sheets have some pretty solid notes as well(on traps and decoys) especially for beginners. And u are right on the personalization front.

Please have a look at my RC post (in my signature), might be of some use.

Hi Pushkal,

Congrats man... Join the 700 club!!