hi..
so we can either meet up at a CCD or some other coffee place... or if you all are game my house is also free.. i have a big hall which we can use.. my house is on airport road.

~AGM

arunmathew2008 wrote:hi..
so we can either meet up at a CCD or some other coffee place... or if you all are game my house is also free.. i have a big hall which we can use.. my house is on airport road.

~AGM

yep this weekend almost coming to an end . Since I am newbie to b'lore, any place is ok. I will make it in that time. So if u decide a place let us know here.

ok those who are coming over call me... my no is 9886121349

Below is my experience at Pearson center in Bangalore; the post could be useful for people going to give their GMAT at Pearson Professional Centers-Bangalore, India. That could be useful to avoid surprises and to keep yourself prepared.

Four things that surprised me:
1. Jacket inside the test room is not allowed.
Learning: Wear full sleeve shirt.

2. You get some bad quality laminated erasable bonded sheets and marker for rough. The tip of the markers were very thick. I always practiced on plan white sheets with HB pencil. This thing was the biggest surprise for me.
Learning: practice on similar erasable bonded sheets with thick black marker.

3. As the sheets were bonded, I wrote the time tracker i.e. 66, 56, … on the first page but could able to look at it again.
Learning: ask for one extra bundle of sheet, write the time tracker on it, and keep the bundle in front of you for tracking, working on the other bundle of sheet.

4. As the jacket was not allowed and I was wearing just a half sleeve T-Shirt, I requested the administrator to give me a place where AC blow is low. She gave me the corner sheet. After login, I realized the AC on top of my seat was making lots of noise. It was late, the clock was ticking and I had no time to go to the administrator.
Learning: Even before the administrator logs in for tests, circumspect your place properly and request for change in case required.

Learning: Go to test center at least once before the DDay and talk to someone who has just finished the test at the center. Even if you can’t avoid the circumstances, at least you could be prepared for it.

Let us meet up in central Bangalore. I propose to meet at Airlines Hotel
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 14&iwloc=A

at 5pm on Sunday, 1st of March

Call me on 9740068653 alternately to let me know the plan.

Thanks,

Arun

Psychodementia wrote:Let us meet up in central Bangalore. I propose to meet at Airlines Hotel

at 5pm on Sunday, 27th of February.

Call me on 9740068653 alternately to let me know the plan.

Thanks,

Arun

Welcome back, ... long time...

Arun by the way, today is 27th, Friday... Sunday is on 1st March...

Also if you guys ever meet this weekend (or sometime later) please share the snaps with us , we would love to place it on our btg's picasaweb album.

Thanks Aim-Wsc

My bad - I meant March 1st, Sunday!!!

Someone get a camera and lets take snaps. Definitely a great idea. Any volunteers for it?

Arun

Psychodementia wrote:Thanks Aim-Wsc

My bad - I meant March 1st, Sunday!!!

Someone get a camera and lets take snaps. Definitely a great idea. Any volunteers for it?

Arun

@arunmathew

What abt the tomoro meetup? will call u tomoro abt meet up

@phychodementia

will call u too tomoro. BTW it's a gr8 idea to have snaps of meetup. I liked that

Are we meeting at two places? am bit confused!! :
guys.. please synchronize to one.. and decide the final time and venue...

count me in..

Vinni

hi guys,
i am not too sure, if i will be able to make it on sunday... if Saturday is convenient for everyone, can we prepone it to Saturday at 5pm. at the same place mentioned in the link. i am cool with coming anywhere.

Did you guys eventually meet up?
How many were there?

well 3 of us, Vinni, Gayatree and me, met on saturday... and discussed about GMAT. Vinni and me shared with Gayatree abt our previous experiences with writing GMAT. we told her abt all the things which she should keep in mind regarding the test as well as regarding the whole application process. I told them abt my sentence correction abilities and then we all together solved couple of SC questions.
On the whole it was a good experience, and the best part is that i made 2 new friends

~AGM

Can I speak to one of you?
I have just given my GMAT so would be helpful as well.

arunmathew2008 wrote:well 3 of us, Vinni, Gayatree and me, met on saturday... and discussed about GMAT. Vinni and me shared with Gayatree abt our previous experiences with writing GMAT. we told her abt all the things which she should keep in mind regarding the test as well as regarding the whole application process. I told them abt my sentence correction abilities and then we all together solved couple of SC questions.
On the whole it was a good experience, and the best part is that i made 2 new friends

~AGM

there was another eventful meet that happened on Sunday. Will wait for Gayatree to give the debrief

Arun

hmmm, So Psychodementia wants to hear good things from others rather he telling himself never mind... here's the short story about Sunday meet at Airlines hotel...

We were about 5 ppl...

Started with GMAT score basics, touched upon all the topics of Quant, Verbal with some tips how to better work. The best part was to get a high score it depends on the common logics and the way one approaches the problem even though most of them refer to same books but the scores are not the same

Arun also talked about which books to refer, which are the top colleges we can apply and little bit about crackverbal on what they do and how they can help us perform better

Anything else I left out???