Hi ngufo,
all your posts are exhilarating. After goin thru your GMAT journey, now I am intersted to see your HBS journey. may i know where I can find your journey to HBS .

my mantra for GMAT & HBS is

"Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam" [I will either find a way or make one].

Hi maverick_andy,
Thanks for the kind words. My Harvard journey has been converted to Stanford journey now . The program will fit my personal and professional needs much better. Surprisingly I havent applied yet.... This year that journey will start, and I will make sure I update this blog with the details of the same.

By the way I love your mantra - it shoudl work for GMAT/HBS as well as for just living life in general

Take care,
-ngufo

ngufo wrote:Hi maverick_andy,
Thanks for the kind words. My Harvard journey has been converted to Stanford journey now . The program will fit my personal and professional needs much better. Surprisingly I havent applied yet.... This year that journey will start, and I will make sure I update this blog with the details of the same.

By the way I love your mantra - it shoudl work for GMAT/HBS as well as for just living life in general

Take care,
-ngufo

I wish you, a happy journey of Stanford. and keep updated your journey of Stanford. So we can embrace each and every moment of it. . and it serves as a map for us.

Absolutely - you can count on it

Wish you all the very best!

Take care,
-ngufo

Hi Ngufo.....

First of all congrats!! on Stanford!!, Thats sweet,

I have to thank you dear, there were times of nightmare, there were times of lost hope, there were times of despair, there were times of spiral death valley, ....no hope...and then there was this forum and you!! white angel in dark clouds...simply you were there, to guide and advice and inspire....

I was in a state of hopelessness, I knew I was better than that but couldn't handle the stupid gmat...guess what I have straight A's in 4 subjects in MBA...I like the program...it's been my nirvana of enjoyment so far. I work hard till I kill myself...I am that kind of person. I am very glad to see your progress. I wish you very best of luck...you are sweetheart of so many...keep up good work......

When you feel there is no way ....there is still a way ...it's the inspiration you give. All I can say is thank you...

regard and good luck iwth your pursuit,
Vgamt2

Hi vgmat2,
thank you so much for your kind words. I truly believe that there is a higher being out there who keeps reaching out to all of us when we most need help in different ways shape or form.

I may have helped inspire you when you needed it most thru this forum, and now when I needed some push, your email helped get my spirit back up as well ...

It was a pleasure reading your email - a pleasure to see that you beat the gmat, that you got into an MBA school, are loving the program, and have achieved what all of us are still dreaming about and hoping to convert into reality .....

there is nothing better to inspire, motivate and give people hope than by actually being an example and showing it can be done. Thank you for that!

I didnt have the fire in me last year, but its back again. That voice inside that says i will do whatever it takes to convert this thought into something concrete. That nothing at all can stand between my dream and me - that I will give everything physcially and mentally that exists in me so that no matter waht the outcome, when I am done with this effort, every fibre in me will know there was nothing else that I could have given...

After that the result is in gods' hands - and whatever he does, he ALWAYS does for the best ...

thank you again for your kind words... that made my day,

Regards,
-ngufo

Awesome Experience..... I am very happy for ur Success....GOOD LUCK NGFU

thanks a bunch Dinesh. Appreciate your kind words - wish you the very best as well!

-ngufo

wow! Congratulations on your Stanford admission!

Hi aj!
I really hope you can see the future bro .

For people like me nothing comes easy - struggle is inevitable. I havent even applied to Stanford yet - let alone getting an admission buddy *grin*

I will 100% apply this year for sure (this fall). Will let you know how it goes.

Take care, and thanks for the future good wishes
-ngufo

Hi Ngufo,

I would simply like to thank you for your post. It gave me tremendous hope and bolstered my confidence for the test. With over confidence and without reading anything about GMAT strategy, I took the test twice 3 years ago but failed - 580 (Q45 V25 AWA 4.0) and 620 (Q48 V27 AWA 3.5). My verbal score was simply awful.

Thanks to your advice and careful study, I beat the gmat last week- 730 Q49 V40 AWA 5.5. Yes, people never fail, they just give up.

I wish you all the best !

Hi there Fillibuster,
I literally had goosebumps reading your email. I had to contain myself from clapping my hands buddy! When I get email an like the one you sent, I feel so good, so overwhelmed, so HAPPY..... Its amazing to see people reach their potential, and all they needed to know was that
1. They CAN do it
2. Smart studies + hard work gives U everything

I am really really happy for you.

All the best bro, very sure you will do great on all other challenges in your life as well

-ngufo

one of the best gmat guides I have come across. It has been very helpful to me and I aim to get past the 700 score for gmat.

https://www.winningprep.com

thanks for sharing Harvey. Will go thru it and forward the link to other people as well. From a brief look it looks very good - wish I had it when I was preparing for the test .

Take care, and all the best for the exam,
-ngufo

Hiya,
Hearty congratulations for your achievement, though am late in wishing , i just joined this portal few days ago.

I went through your posts, they are worth studying and getting inspired from. I will read them again.

However , got a query. You wrote you had to guess few questions at the end because of time shortage. Still you managed good score, is it that you did really well at the start . (1)Does that mean you need to give more time to questions at start, say first 10-15 questions?

Also, 9 questsions in quant and 11 questions in verbal are research questions. That means out of 37 in quant, 28 are real ones that count up to your score.
As we do not know which ones, so we need to give best shot to every question. However, if you do 90% well in exam, i guess that is best shot. Because most of the tougher last 10% may or may not be taken as exam question.

I also watched princeton review cd's where they said first questions if go right then toughness increases and if you do wrong attempts at last, still score will be high. Its relative to wrong questions first and doing right questions at the end.

Secondly,
I have just started with official guide first and pretty comfortable with quant. I need more practice once or twice and i will be fine with it.
Now , coming to reading comprehension and critical reasoning, they are my biggest weakness. (2) can you tell me how to proceed with them? Shall I first start reading how to solve those or shall i start official guide RC & CR ?

My timelines are very tight, just started one week ago. And am appearing in august first week. I am working professional so weekends are main dependencies of preparation and an hour on weekdays.

Thanks for your time. I built up the confidence after seeing your modesty n down to earth approach to help everyone out here.
Thanks.