hullo! official scores in - 6.0 AWA! oh hell yeah!
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one thing ive learned through mgmat is that its not the answers that are important, but the process in which you get the answer.
when there are OG problems i see again, there are three things i want to make sure of:
1. do i know why every wrong answer is wrong?
2. double check for tricks and short cuts.
3. if something in the stem was changed, would i still know how to solve the problem? this is something they did a lot in the mgmat classes. they take an OG problem and change it slightly, (change a pos int to a neg int, use fractions, zero, etc.) and then it becomes not about the answer but about the make-up of the question.
if you can do those three for an OG problem, youre done with it - and youll be able to solve anything even similar to it on the real test.
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10+ hours a day. i didnt break down what i needed to do by the hour, just by the day. and it was never 10 hours of just solving questions. that wouldnt help anyone. the biggest chunk of time went to actually following the mgmat curriculum - reading the books and solving the problems, watching the 3 hour classes, rereading things i didnt fully understand, and then it was solving problems. and i would do easy/medium/hard ones every day from every type of problem... so there was enough non-difficult stuff in there to keep it "fun". and for the problems i got wrong, i spent a good 5 to 10 minutes on them to make sure i knew it in and out.
that said, it should be noted that such a day is a high-focus day. when you dont have friends or facebook, you get bored. hence wearing a ballgown dress around the house and decorating my GMAT cave under the dining room table. i had to take it step by step. the daily schedule i made was tinkered with throughout the day, changed, modified, scrapped entirely - some days i was mentally tired and couldnt look at my books - and, instead, ran away to take a long, long bath. other days i wanted to make love to them because they made me feel so smart. some days, i really couldnt think so i just watched bollywood movies and played farmville ALL DAY, making up the work little by little over the next three days. take it day by day. when things got bad, i got back onto the forums and read all the great posts to encourage myself.
you know yourself best - listen to what your body and mind says. and when its time to study, FOCUS. dont waste your time half-assing it. either you are focused or you walk away from the work and come back in fifteen minutes when you are ready. you should have only two types of modes: high-focus or decompressing. if you dont feel yourself ALL there, go smoke a cigarette, take a nap, take a shower, eat a snack, watch an episode of glee (i watched all the episodes while in the gmat cave), stay away from GMAT stuff until youve fully recharged. then go for it.
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CRs: CRs were hell for me. even after i went through all the mgmat material, i didnt really grasp CRs until maybe doing 75% of all the OG CR problems. and the only reason why i started to understand what was going on was because i had just done so many and reviewed so many and gone over WHY each wrong answer was wrong so many times. this was the last piece of the puzzle to fall into place - and it happened about 5 days before i went to take the test.
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mgmat cat verbal: ill attached the pictures of my verbal sections because i dont know exactly what youre looking for.
(screenshots moved to this entry)
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one thing ive learned through mgmat is that its not the answers that are important, but the process in which you get the answer.
when there are OG problems i see again, there are three things i want to make sure of:
1. do i know why every wrong answer is wrong?
2. double check for tricks and short cuts.
3. if something in the stem was changed, would i still know how to solve the problem? this is something they did a lot in the mgmat classes. they take an OG problem and change it slightly, (change a pos int to a neg int, use fractions, zero, etc.) and then it becomes not about the answer but about the make-up of the question.
if you can do those three for an OG problem, youre done with it - and youll be able to solve anything even similar to it on the real test.
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10+ hours a day. i didnt break down what i needed to do by the hour, just by the day. and it was never 10 hours of just solving questions. that wouldnt help anyone. the biggest chunk of time went to actually following the mgmat curriculum - reading the books and solving the problems, watching the 3 hour classes, rereading things i didnt fully understand, and then it was solving problems. and i would do easy/medium/hard ones every day from every type of problem... so there was enough non-difficult stuff in there to keep it "fun". and for the problems i got wrong, i spent a good 5 to 10 minutes on them to make sure i knew it in and out.
that said, it should be noted that such a day is a high-focus day. when you dont have friends or facebook, you get bored. hence wearing a ballgown dress around the house and decorating my GMAT cave under the dining room table. i had to take it step by step. the daily schedule i made was tinkered with throughout the day, changed, modified, scrapped entirely - some days i was mentally tired and couldnt look at my books - and, instead, ran away to take a long, long bath. other days i wanted to make love to them because they made me feel so smart. some days, i really couldnt think so i just watched bollywood movies and played farmville ALL DAY, making up the work little by little over the next three days. take it day by day. when things got bad, i got back onto the forums and read all the great posts to encourage myself.
you know yourself best - listen to what your body and mind says. and when its time to study, FOCUS. dont waste your time half-assing it. either you are focused or you walk away from the work and come back in fifteen minutes when you are ready. you should have only two types of modes: high-focus or decompressing. if you dont feel yourself ALL there, go smoke a cigarette, take a nap, take a shower, eat a snack, watch an episode of glee (i watched all the episodes while in the gmat cave), stay away from GMAT stuff until youve fully recharged. then go for it.
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CRs: CRs were hell for me. even after i went through all the mgmat material, i didnt really grasp CRs until maybe doing 75% of all the OG CR problems. and the only reason why i started to understand what was going on was because i had just done so many and reviewed so many and gone over WHY each wrong answer was wrong so many times. this was the last piece of the puzzle to fall into place - and it happened about 5 days before i went to take the test.
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mgmat cat verbal: ill attached the pictures of my verbal sections because i dont know exactly what youre looking for.
(screenshots moved to this entry)
Last edited by extrapages on Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:53 am, edited 2 times in total.
.(MGCAT CR are also so %^# weird)..did you use any marking as you go, checking or crossing or just randomly selected answers without noting anything down...when i go by ticking correct or incorrect I usually get 4 or 3 questions wrong in the end due to lack of time. total 12 or 14 wrong.
...gown-- bollywood movies!..hehe
