GMAT Strategy

Mine was a disaster

osirus0830 wrote:

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.

sreak1089 wrote:Mine was a disaster

osirus0830 wrote:

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.

I sent you a pm about mine. I didn't do nearly as well as I thought I would. If you are interested in taking it again though, I think I know how we can do better.

osirus, I got my AWA score today and its 5.0
Did you get your AWA score?

Folks, I got 590 (Q44, V28) and AWA 5.0. I am not going to rest on the laurels of this wonderful achievement and instead going for GMAT 3.0 Just kidding Okie, I really need a break from GMAT. I will be taking a couple of months break from GMAT and will give myself 3 months of prep time and probably will take it in Julyish time frame.

Here's sreak signing off from GMAT 2.0 in Terminator style "I'll be back"

sreak1089 wrote:osirus, I got my AWA score today and its 5.0
Did you get your AWA score?

I just checked my email. I did get my score report. This is why I don't take the AWA seriously. I got a 5.5 and I spent 15 out of the 30 minutes on each essay. The AWA is a joke

Oh yeah On the contrary, I spent full 30 minutes on each and yet managed only 5.0 LOL

osirus0830 wrote:

sreak1089 wrote:osirus, I got my AWA score today and its 5.0
Did you get your AWA score?

I just checked my email. I did get my score report. This is why I don't take the AWA seriously. I got a 5.5 and I spent 15 out of the 30 minutes on each essay. The AWA is a joke

sreak1089 wrote:Oh yeah On the contrary, I spent full 30 minutes on each and yet managed only 5.0 LOL

osirus0830 wrote:

sreak1089 wrote:osirus, I got my AWA score today and its 5.0
Did you get your AWA score?

I just checked my email. I did get my score report. This is why I don't take the AWA seriously. I got a 5.5 and I spent 15 out of the 30 minutes on each essay. The AWA is a joke

I take that back. I realize I'm making light of something that many may struggle with. In a lot of high schools in the U.S. when you prepare for AP exams you write in class essays. I just used the same format as I did for those in class essays. Just use the 5 paragraph essay format (which is not great for actual writing but great for standardized test) and throw in two examples and you're golden

Yes, I too used the 5-paragraph format. The trouble with me is that I am very slow to take off !!

sreak1089 wrote:Yes, I too used the 5-paragraph format. The trouble with me is that I am very slow to take off !!

Yeah, that's because you cared about what you wrote...lol. I simply took a position, didn't matter if its what I agreed with, and I talked about how the author could "strengthen" his/her argument. They eat that stuff up...lol.