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by zaffar » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:01 am
thank you stacey for your reply.

i did some questions from OG11 today around 50 from each section and most of them are repeat from OG 10. is there any good in doing OG11? these questions are of no use to me because i finished doing OG10 last week. if most of them are repetition of OG10 then i will start doing the questions i got wrong in OG10.

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by Stacey Koprince » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:45 am
I think the overlap is around 60-70% (between OG 10 and 11). So there are some new questions, but most are not. The verbal and quant supplements, though, are all new questions (the purple and green books).
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by HW » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:55 am
Stacey-I heard the opposite,in fact I brought it up in this thread.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1602

Somone mentioned that the overlap is 20% between 10th and 11th and that the verbal and quant is identical to the 10th

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by Stacey Koprince » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:54 pm
Hmm. I've never done an analysis myself - that's just what I've heard others say. Let me ask around the curriculum department and see if anyone knows the definitive answer!
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by zaffar » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:55 am
Hi,

I start practicing AWA yesterday will post my template for opinions/suggestions.

I gave GMATPrep CAt II today and scored 600 :oops: verbal part totally destroy me and in Quant i miscalculated time and was left with 11 q in last 10 mins. tried to do it as quickly as i can but could only do 9 and 2 were left. and out of those 9 questions, i got 8 wrong :cry: . in these 9 first 7 were DS and last 2 were PS. My Breakup for test is
Quant scaled score :- 44
verbal Scaled Score :- 28

but i got 16 questions wrong and didnt attempt last 2 questions and still 44. is there some bug in GMATPrep or is this normal?
quant wrong question number were : 5-6-9-14-15-17-18-19-27-28-29-30-32-33-34-35 and out of these 5 questions (14-15-17-34-35) were PS and allother 11 questions were DS. :x

In verbal i attempted all questions and in this part too I got 16 wrong but scaled score is 28 :? in this i got wrong 1-2-5-7-11-14-16-18-20-23-26-29-30-31-33-37. out of which CR-3 RC-5 SC-8 SC part, which i thought was my strongest of three sections, was the worst one. and RC which I thought was my weakest i got only 5 wrong out of 4 passages.

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by Stacey Koprince » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:01 am
no bugs - your score isn't a function of the number wrong but of the difficulty level of the various questions. As you see, you can get the same # wrong and still get very different scores. (Well, obviously the number you get wrong matters a bit - you can't get them all wrong! - but the difficulty level is the thing that really matters.)

Also be aware of two important things:

No matter what you score you will get a lot of questions wrong. That's just how the test works. Even someone scoring an 800 will get a number of questions wrong.

A math raw score of 44 corresponds to about the 70th percentile and a verbal raw score of 28 corresponds to about the 50th percentile. I just call this out b/c the math and verbal aren't scaled the same. (For example, a 44 on verbal is the 97th percentile and a 28 on math is the 25th percentile.)
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by zaffar » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:42 am
wtf man ... this verbal will ruin my GMAT :cry: :x .

my score and hit rate is dropping day by day instead of rising.

My GMAT is on coming saturday and i was targeting 720 + hahahhahhah. I am an ass :oops:

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by Notmyking » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:16 am
Pls share the analysis of recent Gmat prep you have taken.

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Its not over ............until I Win

by zaffar » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:27 am
11 hours to go. test tomorrow @ 9:30 :shock: :lol:

Wish me Good Luck. 8) :)

Now only prayers can save me.

and one more thing

Its not over ............until I Win

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by Notmyking » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:10 am
Wish you all the best. You will come out with flying colors.

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My Real GMAT

by zaffar » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:58 am
atlast i took GMAT today. Came back an hour ago. I dont want to tell the experience. No experience was good, what i dont want to tell is my result :? :x :oops:

will write it when i'll be in better mood.

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Re: My Real GMAT

by beatthegmat » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:21 pm
zaffar wrote:atlast i took GMAT today. Came back an hour ago. I dont want to tell the experience. No experience was good, what i dont want to tell is my result :? :x :oops:

will write it when i'll be in better mood.
Zaffar:

I'm sorry to hear that your experience was stressful. Take your rest, and we'll be here to help you figure out what you wish to do next.

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