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by keepintouch_7 » Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:35 am
Hey everyone,

This is my first post (and probably last, unless you ask me questions!), but this forum has been very helpful for me and I wanted to give something back to the community!

I took my GMAT today, and scored 740.Although my quant score is well below my expectation,I am happy with my score.I prepared for around 3 months and used only Official guides for my practice.After a few days of my practice I took a GMAT Prep and scored 700.I figured out that SC and DS were my weak area and so I worked on them.
For SC I used Manhattan and Aristotle SC Grail.I also used Powerscore CR and found it extremely useful.
Two days before the GMAT exam I took GMAT Prep2 and scored 760 although I saw some repeat questions.I then spent the last couple of days before the GMAT reading over the questions I had done wrong, as well as reading the answers of the last 20 questions of each question type to keep all of the methods fresh in my head. I did nothing GMAT related on the day before the GMAT. The Actual GMAT test was more or less same as GMAT Prep

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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:11 am
as well as reading the answers of the last 20 questions of each question type to keep all of the methods fresh in my head
congrats :), i did not get above quote. can yo please explain may be with an example
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by jaichil » Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:57 am
Congrats. I wonder why you had to copy the lines from this post.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/780-50q-49v-t114652.html
keepintouch_7 wrote:Hey everyone,

This is my first post (and probably last, unless you ask me questions!), but this forum has been very helpful for me and I wanted to give something back to the community!

I took my GMAT today, and scored 740.Although my quant score is well below my expectation,I am happy with my score.I prepared for around 3 months and used only Official guides for my practice.After a few days of my practice I took a GMAT Prep and scored 700.I figured out that SC and DS were my weak area and so I worked on them.
For SC I used Manhattan and Aristotle SC Grail.I also used Powerscore CR and found it extremely useful.
Two days before the GMAT exam I took GMAT Prep2 and scored 760 although I saw some repeat questions.I then spent the last couple of days before the GMAT reading over the questions I had done wrong, as well as reading the answers of the last 20 questions of each question type to keep all of the methods fresh in my head. I did nothing GMAT related on the day before the GMAT. The Actual GMAT test was more or less same as GMAT Prep

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by shreerajp99 » Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:47 am
Congrats for getting a great score!!u've mentioned u scored below what u expected in quant.Can u pinpoint any reason for the same?Which of the topics were mainly tested in quant and can u tell us from where did u mainly do ur preparation?

Thanks,
Shreeraj