I just Beat The GMAT!

Dear All,

I would just like to thank this forum and give a small word of advise, to the people who have not beat the Gmat yet....

Here is my story ( short version)

The first time I did the Gmat, I scored 590 (q 41, v 31) and I was devastated. I had been scoring 650 & 680 the weak before.

I decided to take some time to think what I did wrong.... I realized I had to start Gmat from scratch.

As I'm an engineer, Quant was not really a problem, so I decided to focus on Verbal, especially SC

I bought -

1. Manhattan SC guide
2. OG Verbal.

I took me 3 months to go through these 2 books THOROUGHLY, that is (doing ALL the exercises and understating all my mistakes)

Once I was confident with SC I started with CR.

I divided these questions into 8 types (I'm sure you can find more) but I thought that these were the most repeated.

1. Assumption
2. Weaken/Strengthen
3. Inference
4. Boldface
5. Complete the argument
6. Apparent discrepancy
7. EXCEPT
8. Argument depends on...

Then I simply did 50 questions of each... and developed a small methodology.
Simply ask your self - what??? (Conclusion) & why???? (Premise)..... AND REVISE ALL YOUR MISTAKES!!!!!

I was now confident with SC , CR.

For RC , I simply had to time my self. For me what worked best was to read slow and answer fast.

I did not want to post a complete study guide, but give you a bit of hope....

and quoting this forum - " people never fail... they just give up "

ALL THE BEST
Marcos

Thank you for your debrief, very inspiring, because my target score is 710. Good luck for your MBA application.

MarcosSalama wrote:Dear All,

I would just like to thank this forum and give a small word of advise, to the people who have not beat the Gmat yet....

Here is my story ( short version)

The first time I did the Gmat, I scored 590 (q 41, v 31) and I was devastated. I had been scoring 650 & 680 the weak before.

I decided to take some time to think what I did wrong.... I realized I had to start Gmat from scratch.

As I'm an engineer, Quant was not really a problem, so I decided to focus on Verbal, especially SC

I bought -

1. Manhattan SC guide
2. OG Verbal.

I took me 3 months to go through these 2 books THOROUGHLY, that is (doing ALL the exercises and understating all my mistakes)

Once I was confident with SC I started with CR.

I divided these questions into 8 types (I'm sure you can find more) but I thought that these were the most repeated.

1. Assumption
2. Weaken/Strengthen
3. Inference
4. Boldface
5. Complete the argument
6. Apparent discrepancy
7. EXCEPT
8. Argument depends on...

Then I simply did 50 questions of each... and developed a small methodology.
Simply ask your self - what??? (Conclusion) & why???? (Premise)..... AND REVISE ALL YOUR MISTAKES!!!!!

I was now confident with SC , CR.

For RC , I simply had to time my self. For me what worked best was to read slow and answer fast.

I did not want to post a complete study guide, but give you a bit of hope....

and quoting this forum - " people never fail... they just give up "

ALL THE BEST
Marcos

great score buddy.....hard work always pays off..

Can you pls share which mock cats u gave before ur 2nd attempt and what were your scores in those mocks ?

Congrats on your score! I'm glad to hear about your success and story with the GMAT, I got a devastating 570 a month ago while my target is 710, your story gives me hope that it is possible to reach this target