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750 - should I retake?

by schakiiieee » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:49 am
Hi all,

scored a 750 yesterday (98%, Q48 V45) - I feel I could improve my Quant by a lot as I did not get a single question similar to the stuff I prepared... What do you think, should I retake?

Haha, just kidding! Though Quant was weird, 750 - yeeiiih! 8)

I read a lot on this forum and I guess I learned several things from it.

1.) There are many smart people out there. (some of them with unbelievable math skills - e.g. logitech :wink: )
2.) While studying for the GMAT you can learn really important skills for life. The one thing I will probably never forget is...... doing jumping jacks! =D I read one post saying that the dude did jumping jacks in the test centre, and I liked the idea so that I would not fall asleep during the exam. Well, it worked. :D So apart from being annoying on SC in everyday life and discussing what can be interefered from someone's statement with friends (to annoy them even more) I am good at doing jumping jacks now.

Anyway, I dont think I could help you much with your preparation as I just did the usual stuff. (which is really enough)

OG, MGMAT SC, Kaplan 800...

If you have any questions, let me know. Oh, and as you might have realized by now, I am a non-native speaker. So a 'high' Verbal is absolutely doable as a non-native. I'd even suggest that we benefit from that on CR and SC. Though this sounds counterintuitive, think about the following.
CR - 'we' (=non-natives) read paragraphs more slowly... thinking more about the individual sentences and how they connect to the stuff said before. I think I would hv been worse at CR in my mother-tongue.
SC - 'we' don't make the typical 'choose-what sounds good'-errors. Only idioms might form a disadvantage here I guess.
RC on the other hand is probably more difficult for non-natives... But anyway, everything has a downside, right? :D

Though this post is not structured, one more thing about Test Day:
I felt raped doing the Quant. It was nothing like the stuff I had practiced although quant always was my strength (on the GMAT as well as in real life). So after Quant I just thought: "Okay Mr. GMAT, if you take my strength away from me, watch out what I do to yours (Verbal)."

Good luck with your attack on the GMAT. You just gotta kill it. It's all about motivation and dedication. You people are great, thanks for that forum and now I'm outta here.

Bye bye GMAT (I ll probably keep reading that page as it is so addicting to read other people's stories :wink: ).
Let me know if you think I can help you with anything,

Over and out,
schakiiieee
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Re: 750 - should I retake?

by iamcste » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:58 am
schakiiieee wrote:Hi all,

scored a 750 yesterday (98%, Q48 V45) - I feel I could improve my Quant by a lot as I did not get a single question similar to the stuff I prepared... What do you think, should I retake?

Haha, just kidding! Though Quant was weird, 750 - yeeiiih! 8)

I read a lot on this forum and I guess I learned several things from it.

1.) There are many smart people out there. (some of them with unbelievable math skills - e.g. logitech :wink: )
2.) While studying for the GMAT you can learn really important skills for life. The one thing I will probably never forget is...... doing jumping jacks! =D I read one post saying that the dude did jumping jacks in the test centre, and I liked the idea so that I would not fall asleep during the exam. Well, it worked. :D So apart from being annoying on SC in everyday life and discussing what can be interefered from someone's statement with friends (to annoy them even more) I am good at doing jumping jacks now.

Anyway, I dont think I could help you much with your preparation as I just did the usual stuff. (which is really enough)

OG, MGMAT SC, Kaplan 800...

If you have any questions, let me know. Oh, and as you might have realized by now, I am a non-native speaker. So a 'high' Verbal is absolutely doable as a non-native. I'd even suggest that we benefit from that on CR and SC. Though this sounds counterintuitive, think about the following.
CR - 'we' (=non-natives) read paragraphs more slowly... thinking more about the individual sentences and how they connect to the stuff said before. I think I would hv been worse at CR in my mother-tongue.
SC - 'we' don't make the typical 'choose-what sounds good'-errors. Only idioms might form a disadvantage here I guess.
RC on the other hand is probably more difficult for non-natives... But anyway, everything has a downside, right? :D

Though this post is not structured, one more thing about Test Day:
I felt raped doing the Quant. It was nothing like the stuff I had practiced although quant always was my strength (on the GMAT as well as in real life). So after Quant I just thought: "Okay Mr. GMAT, if you take my strength away from me, watch out what I do to yours (Verbal)."

Good luck with your attack on the GMAT. You just gotta kill it. It's all about motivation and dedication. You people are great, thanks for that forum and now I'm outta here.

Bye bye GMAT (I ll probably keep reading that page as it is so addicting to read other people's stories :wink: ).
Let me know if you think I can help you with anything,

Over and out,
schakiiieee

Congrats and well done!

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by mals24 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:32 am
Congrats. You're now an inspiration for non-native speakers. I don't know about anyone else, but your post has definitely motivated me to perform better in the verbal section. Thanks a ton.

Also shed some light on how the verbal section was on the gmat, especially CR. Was the difficulty level same as the GMAT Prep or higher. I read in a previous post that the number of evaluate the argument questions has increased. Did you face a similar situation???

Thanks and good luck with your applications. :)
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by iamcste » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:43 am
mals24 wrote:Congrats. You're now like an inspiration for non-native speakers. I don't know about anyone else, but your post has definitely motivated me to perform better in the verbal section. Thanks a ton.

Also shed some light on how the verbal section was on the gmat, especially CR. Was the difficulty level same as the GMAT Prep or higher. I read in a previous post that the number of evaluate the argument questions has increased. Did you face a similar situation???

Thanks and good luck with your applications. :)
Like means you are similar to inspiration and not exactly inspiration :roll:

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by mals24 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:12 am
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Lolz someones getting 45+ on verbal. Watch out GMAT :wink:

thanks for pointing out the error. Post edited :)

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by schakiiieee » Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:16 am
@mals24

Thats great if my post motivated you for the Verbal section!

CR - the difficulty was about the same as GMATPrep. I only got 1 (or 2?) evaluate the argument question and I smiled a LOT when I got it (coz i remembered the post you are referring to!).
I felt that the SC section was a bit more difficult than what I have seen on the GMATPrep software - not too hard to solve; but a bit more time-consuming...

Besides:
RC - it is not completely out of the world. I got 3 fairly easy sections with the usual topics,... So there is nothing unexpected there and I think after getting used to those passages you can almost eliminate 3 out of 5 answer choices just from the way they sound... :P However, the last RC I saw was..... not from this world. I still have no idea what it was talking about! :D
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by logitech » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:02 am
I felt raped doing the Quant. It was nothing like the stuff I had practiced although quant always was my strength (on the GMAT as well as in real life). So after Quant I just thought: "Okay Mr. GMAT, if you take my strength away from me, watch out what I do to yours (Verbal)."
Priceless! :lol:

Weldone my friend, good luck with your application!

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by 4meonly » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:16 am
scored a 750 yesterday (98%, Q48 V45) - I feel I could improve my Quant by a lot as I did not get a single question similar to the stuff I prepared... What do you think, should I retake?

Go back to test center and retake your GMAT!!!! :lol:

Do not exasperate us!!!! :lol:

Congratulations!!!
Good work!

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by wickely » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:56 pm
Good thing you said you were kidding or I would have had to smack you. ;-) Nice job.

One request though...can we not refer to the test as "raping" us when parts of it are too hard? That's really not cool and definitely not funny.

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Well done

by smalishah84 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:21 pm
Well done man. Excellent score. How tough was the math part? Which topics were the toughest that you found and which topic do you think had the most questions? I personally hate the absolute vaue thing. Was it on the GMAT?

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