GMAT Strategy

Its weird. Going through this site today and responding to people's questions, I'm finally starting to feel like I may be ready. I have never felt like this before...lol

Yes, I saw your posts. I feel you have reached peak form. You are doing great !!

osirus0830 wrote:Its weird. Going through this site today and responding to people's questions, I'm finally starting to feel like I may be ready. I have never felt like this before...lol

sreak1089 wrote:Yes, I saw your posts. I feel you have reached peak form. You are doing great !!

osirus0830 wrote:Its weird. Going through this site today and responding to people's questions, I'm finally starting to feel like I may be ready. I have never felt like this before...lol

Thanks, I feel ready. I think you are going to kill it as well. I hope we both can come back and report two scores above 700

All the Best SREAK

I am sure you will do well.

Thank you Ajith.

ajith wrote:All the Best SREAK

I am sure you will do well.

I am starting to feel a few butterflies in my stomach with less than 48 hours to go

Revised MGMAT SC Guide, went through my error log for PS & DS and did last 16 CR questions from OG 12 (got 11 out of 16 correct) today. Yesterday I revised Number properties and Inequalities. I will revise my CR & SC notes and will revise all the formulae and flash cards tomorrow. I thought of going thru a few AWAs today but no time .. gotta work

sreak1089 wrote:I am starting to feel a few butterflies in my stomach with less than 48 hours to go

Revised MGMAT SC Guide, went through my error log for PS & DS and did last 16 CR questions from OG 12 (got 11 out of 16 correct) today. Yesterday I revised Number properties and Inequalities. I will revise my CR & SC notes and will revise all the formulae and flash cards tomorrow. I thought of going thru a few AWAs today but no time .. gotta work

I actually shut down my studying. I will just go through my warm up on Friday and then kill it. You will do well my friend. You've worked hard, it will pay off.

sreak, how did you approach going into the test? Did you attempt to make sure you knew every single thing that could be tested, or did you attempt to focus on the things you knew to ensure that you got all of those questions right? I'm a little nervous about a few areas that I know I do not know well, but I'm wondering if it will matter that much.

Hi osirus,

Right now, it is just a matter of consolidating on what you already know. Only thing, I wanted to make sure is I know all the formulae cold for Quant and all the grammar rules that I have studied for SC. I don't want be wondering about formula for volume of a cylinder or for an area of a regular hexagon in the middle of the exam. I know for sure that a few Std Deviation problems, a few mixtures-related problems trouble me. Can't do much about it now..

osirus0830 wrote:sreak, how did you approach going into the test? Did you attempt to make sure you knew every single thing that could be tested, or did you attempt to focus on the things you knew to ensure that you got all of those questions right? I'm a little nervous about a few areas that I know I do not know well, but I'm wondering if it will matter that much.

sreak1089 wrote:Hi osirus,

Right now, it is just a matter of consolidating on what you already know. Only thing, I wanted to make sure is I know all the formulae cold for Quant and all the grammar rules that I have studied for SC. I don't want be wondering about formula for volume of a cylinder or for an area of a regular hexagon in the middle of the exam. I know for sure that a few Std Deviation problems, a few mixtures-related problems trouble me. Can't do much about it now..

osirus0830 wrote:sreak, how did you approach going into the test? Did you attempt to make sure you knew every single thing that could be tested, or did you attempt to focus on the things you knew to ensure that you got all of those questions right? I'm a little nervous about a few areas that I know I do not know well, but I'm wondering if it will matter that much.

Yeah, with the geometry problems and sequences, I know to look at it for about 30 seconds, and then if I still have nothing to guess and go. Chapter 10 in the Equations Inqualities, and VICs book was the only chapter in all of the Manhattan Guides, that even after reading it multiple times I still just couldn't get. Recursive formulas and advanced sequences was just too much.

I don't think I would be nervous at all, if it weren't for me having to do well to avoid this program I got accepted to forcing me to take a prep class if I don't get a score they deem "acceptable". That is the main source of pressure for me. I hope to rid myself of all pressure before noon Friday.

Sreak, my friend, I wish you luck and all my positive thoughts will be with you during your exam. I'm signing off until after my exam. I will shoot you a private message to let you know how it went if I don't get over a 700. If I do I will post my story in the I Beat The GMAT forum. I hope you do the same. Kill it and don't be nervous or anxious.

osirus0830 wrote:Sreak, my friend, I wish you luck and all my positive thoughts will be with you during your exam. I'm signing off until after my exam. I will shoot you a private message to let you know how it went if I don't get over a 700. If I do I will post my story in the I Beat The GMAT forum. I hope you do the same. Kill it and don't be nervous or anxious.

All The best mate, hope you will kill it and entertain us with the story

Thank you so much for all the encouragement mate. Wish you too good luck and I am sure you will Beat the GMAT.

ALL THE VERY BEST

osirus0830 wrote:Sreak, my friend, I wish you luck and all my positive thoughts will be with you during your exam. I'm signing off until after my exam. I will shoot you a private message to let you know how it went if I don't get over a 700. If I do I will post my story in the I Beat The GMAT forum. I hope you do the same. Kill it and don't be nervous or anxious.

sreak1089 wrote:Thank you so much for all the encouragement mate. Wish you too good luck and I am sure you will Beat the GMAT.

ALL THE VERY BEST

osirus0830 wrote:Sreak, my friend, I wish you luck and all my positive thoughts will be with you during your exam. I'm signing off until after my exam. I will shoot you a private message to let you know how it went if I don't get over a 700. If I do I will post my story in the I Beat The GMAT forum. I hope you do the same. Kill it and don't be nervous or anxious.

It went pretty horribly. Came up short. Thanks for the well wishes. I hope you did well.