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by ben wade » Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:35 pm
Well said rockyB. As i mentioned earlier, i plan to give the gmat again in August. I started preparing some time ago and have been scoring pretty well in Quant on all the practice tests i took. I am also feeling pretty confident in Quant. My plan is to improve accuracy in DS section, where i found that i was making mistakes.
Planning to concentrate on verbal section from now until end of month and then a final push to the summit.

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by Alpha800 » Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:49 pm
rockyb wrote: essentially, as you go higher, the effort to score a single point increases exponentially and time to prepare is as critical as the material itself.
Law of increasing cost and law of diminishing return. :-)

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by rockyb » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:05 pm
@ben: awesome! sounds like a good plan. best wishes for ur retake!

@alpha800: i had taken economics in high school and the only concept i seem to remember now is law of diminishing marginal returns :D :D :D

unfortunately, that seems to apply everywhere you look nowadays :D

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by rockyb » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:12 am
quick update: thought id done poorly on my awa. got a 6.0 :D