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PostMon Apr 06, 2009 6:18 pm Reply with quote
Congrats!
Your post reminds me that the most difficult war is the war against ourselves
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PostWed May 13, 2009 4:38 pm Reply with quote
While examining your test exams, I noticed that on Manhattan GMAT CAT you went from 690 (Q47, V37) to 670 (Q45, V36) to 700 (Q46 V39) to 730 (Q48 V42) all in the period of one month. Your Quant seems to be consistent but your Verbal went from mid 30s to low 40s to take you past the 700 mark. I am also taking the MGMAT CAT exams and after my 5th test I'm at 680 (Q48 V35). Do you have any pointers on how you got your verbal to go up in such a short amount of time? I have MGMAT CAT #6 and GMATPrep #2 to finish off my cat testing and I would like to get past the 700 mark on these practice test before I take the test in 4 weeks.
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PostWed May 13, 2009 4:45 pm Reply with quote
krajy wrote:
While examining your test exams, I noticed that on Manhattan GMAT CAT you went from 690 (Q47, V37) to 670 (Q45, V36) to 700 (Q46 V39) to 730 (Q48 V42) all in the period of one month. Your Quant seems to be consistent but your Verbal went from mid 30s to low 40s to take you past the 700 mark. I am also taking the MGMAT CAT exams and after my 5th test I'm at 680 (Q48 V35). Do you have any pointers on how you got your verbal to go up in such a short amount of time? I have MGMAT CAT #6 and GMATPrep #2 to finish off my cat testing and I would like to get past the 700 mark on these practice test before I take the test in 4 weeks.
I don't think I really did anything special necessarily. I did carefully review all of the questions I got wrong and tried to address specific weaknesses. Manhattan provides some really good analytics for their tests. After a couple of the practice CATs, I figured out that I was doing horrible on specific question types like Boldface CR and Modifier SC questions at the 700-800 level. I then spent time targeting those question types to improve and it seemed to work.

I hope that helps.
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PostTue May 19, 2009 9:28 am Reply with quote
What a debrief!!
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PostSat May 30, 2009 6:44 pm Reply with quote
Hey ,

I see you mentioned about MGMAT, Kaplan and veritas in your debrief ,

Can anyone please share RC Strategy used in Veritas prep booklet? I tired RC Strategies explained in Kaplan,MGMAT,Priceton .....none of them worked for me ......when I browsed this community , I see Veritas prep RC strategy works for some test takers.....I would like to try that .....I dont have Veritas prep strategy books ......also they are not available in book stores.....trying to get from craigslist .......in the mean time if some one can explain in brief the strategy used in veritas prep books .....I would greatly appreciate .

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PostSat May 30, 2009 9:20 pm Reply with quote
Wow you did 6 months of studying and THAT many questions/tests and only got 760?
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PostSun May 31, 2009 5:05 pm Reply with quote
a11ee wrote:
Wow you did 6 months of studying and THAT many questions/tests and only got 760?
I think that everyone has a unique study schedule that best suits the individual. Some have more time to study, while others don't; some individuals focus on the quality of study, rather than rushing the study program.

Through Canada SMS' amazing debrief, one can conclude that his study program was based on quality, not soley quantity. The end result... an amazing score that puts him in the 99% percentile, meaning that he scored better than 99% of test-takers, worldwide.

My 2 cents Wink
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PostSun May 31, 2009 6:07 pm Reply with quote
This is exactly what i was looking for in one concise format.

You should be a GMAT General now!
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PostSun May 31, 2009 6:09 pm Reply with quote
a11ee wrote:
Wow you did 6 months of studying and THAT many questions/tests and only got 760?
760 is a great score.
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PostMon Jun 01, 2009 11:09 am Reply with quote
a11ee wrote:
Wow you did 6 months of studying and THAT many questions/tests and only got 760?
"Only" ?!?

Yeah, boy, 99th percentile... that's terrible. Smile
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PostSun Jun 14, 2009 7:38 am Reply with quote
very encouraging ..
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PostWed Jun 24, 2009 12:38 pm Reply with quote
Just amazing!

I have not been inspired more !
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PostThu Jun 25, 2009 6:49 am Reply with quote
Nice debrief son !!!!
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