I just Beat The GMAT!

Hi All

Just back from my gmat 2nd attempt and i scored 720 (M 50 V 37), in my first attempt last year i scored 600 (M 44 , V 29) , largely because i panicked and didnt skip tough questions in the end ran out of time in both verbal and quant .

I will just pinpoint the differences between the prep both times .

1) Manhattan SC guide , Its a Must to do . I had terrible accuracy of 50-60% , Manhattan raises it by 20% atleast !

2) if SC is weak , i strongly reccomend 1000 SC, for many 1000 SC seems waste of time coz of no solutions . this is where google comes in install the google toolbar and copy the question stem of all the questions you got right . Open https://www.beatthegmat.com and click search site , 80% of the times u will get solutions by gmat guru s on this terrific firm for others use google global search . I did 800 odd questions from it not only it raised ma accuracy i started doin SC question under a minute

3) After finishing all your prep i.e OG 11 , OG 10 and Kaplan 800 .
Do ETS paper tests except for 2-3 paper tests all tests have new questions which are not in OG s . These tests will set you up nicely for GMAT .

4) Lots of Practice of DS questions , my accuracy in PS was always good. in DS learn to skip when you encounter tough ones no point wasting time During my GMAT prep tests i had gotten Maths 50 when i had 9 questions wrong and 51 when i had only four wrong ! see no point getting stuck it doesnt help !

I know many here will say 720 is not great but for me after a disaster last year its great i would have taken this score before exam .

My GMAT mock scores were

Kaplan CD 1 560
Kaplan CD 2 600
i dont agree with their verbal solutions ! hence left them
GMAT Prep 1 710 M 50 V 36
Gmat Prep 2 750 M 51 V 41 here i had all the RC questions correct , so this is a key for those looking score in this range

Thats all at the moment will add something else if i come to know i missed something

You are free to ask me anything .
Thanks a ton to this site and spidey, sahil, rajat_nda their material rocks and to Gmat gurus who share their gyaan

This is my first ever post on any forums in an effort to help others

Sandy

Tremendous improvement, really heartening to see.....Congratulations

Congratulation for the great score...
From where did you practiced the DS questions

nice one, chakk te fatte kang sahab.

congratulations !

please do share your experience of RC and CR.

Congrats sandykang!
I am curious what studying did you do in between the kaplan tests and after them? and what was the time period? Your scored seemed to make a large leap fast

Hi Sandy,

Congratulations! Do you reccomend a classroom test prep course through Kaplan or Princeton? You've abbreviated the names of books, so could you please give full names as I'd like to follow suit.

Thanks!

@ chillgmat - dude i practiced DS from OG 10, OG 11 , math review Kaplan 800 . All these add up to 600+ questions i guess thats kind of enuff . And oh yes i also did DS questions from www.platinumgmat.com quality was good for tough ones .

@ indir0ver - i did OG 10, OG 11 and kaplan 800 for CR . i never gave so much attention to RC , this is where i lost extra 20 marks i guess SOme days i got all RC questions correct and on bad days just 50% . I think the key is to increase your speed and looking back to passage while answering , I had no time for looking back in my last RC on real test .

@taryn123 - dude kaplan cd tests always give u 60-70 lesser than ure expected score on GMAT , however i had realized to cross 700 i need more than 49 in maths coz my verbal still sucks so learnt to guess tough ones earlier i wasted too much time on them and ran out of time for others . In GMAP prep 1 i scored 50 in Maths and yet i had 9 wrong answers see if u answer a high difficulty question wrong penalty is not huge Key is to answer all questions with in time , something that didnt happen in my first GMAT for both sections .

@sanjbhatia - you need to decide watever is best for you , i have always used coaching classes as a venue to meet new people(girls preferably ).If u think in classroom course u do well then go for it but u can save ure bucks because so many gmat gurus and gmat gyaan flows on this firm for free

Congrats Sandy ! you beat the GMAT ........

can u pls share your email id?