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del@btg Just gettin' started!
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Post Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:14 pm
@Empirestateofmind : no,i did not take any classroom coaching.I adopted the self-study mode and sought guidance and motivation from forums like BTG whenever required.

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Post Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:23 pm
Hi del@btg,

Firstly congratulations on your score and hope I will also achieve this score.

You refered to 700-800 level questions in the post. I too used these questions for prep. As I am done with the prep I started doing MGMAT tests. I was astonished to find that all the questions in 700-800 pdfs are from MGMAT tests. While I am doing MGMAT tests, I am able to recognize most of the answers. Did this happen to you? If yes, how did you avoid this from happening?

Thanks for your help.

-achieve_dream

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Post Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:09 am
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Hi del@btg.....help.

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Well, it did happen to me but the percentage of questions repeated in MGMATs were too low to be a concern(less than 10%).The probable reason is i took MGMATs along the entire length of my preparation and not after completing those pdfs.It also happened many a times that the questions were repeated but the choices were tampered with.This made these questions all the more difficult as your mind is programmed for some different choices and you now have to go about it in a entirely new way.But even with the same choices i feel it should not bother you as far as you are getting answers right as it is keeping a check on whether you did your homework.

Thanks for the wishes and i wish you achieve a higher score than mine.

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Post Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:38 am
Thanks for your reply.

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Post Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:18 am
del@btg wrote:
@Empirestateofmind : no,i did not take any classroom coaching.I adopted the self-study mode and sought guidance and motivation from forums like BTG whenever required.
Thanks a lot. I was in self doubt where I can pull this thing up by myself but now I think I can! Thanks! Smile

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Thanks for the insightful debrief. While preparing for the Verbal section didn't you feel like using the Powerscore CR Bible or Manhattan CR Guide ? I am good at CR but wondering whether I should use these books or not.

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Post Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:29 pm
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Thanks for the insightful debrief. While preparing for the Verbal section didn't you feel like using the Powerscore CR Bible or Manhattan CR Guide ? I am good at CR but wondering whether I should use these books or not.
Well, as i mentioned in my debrief i was good at CR.The reasoning come instinctively to me.I didn't wanted to disturb my way of thinking by overboard theory.Instead,i chose to hone my way of thinking by solving as many variety of questions as i could.I had had a look at powerscore CR,as it is a reverred book suggested by many, but by the look of it i knew the book was very detailed and not meant for me.SC was the only verbal section in which i had to do away with my basic instincts and thus followed Manhattan SC diligently.

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Post Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:43 am
Hi,
Congrats for such an awesome score..

Could you send me the pdf files which you have mentioned ? It will be of great help.
My email id :- ravi_kant12@rediffmail.com

Thanks,
Ravi

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Post Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:33 am
@ravi :Please refrain yourself from posting your email-id as it does not go down well with the ethical code of BTG.You can use PM for any such thing.

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Post Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:13 am
congos buddy!!!

I have PMed u my mail address can please mail me those 700-800 pdfs.

thanx in advance.

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