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by mleviko » Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:12 am
Just wanted to update you guys that I'm getting there.....

My third shot at the GMATPrep1. Got quite a few questions the same, especially in verbal, but in fact it only disturbed my attention.

In Quant I almost immediatly started seeing medium-hard questions and it remained this way until question ~25, where stuff became more easy.

In conclusion I'm happy with the progress in the mock test scores, and my work in verbal is beginning to show with the highest V score I've ever had so far.
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by medea66 » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:09 pm
Hi there,

Great progress!!! Please share the strategies behind your score improvement. I agree that practicing with PowerPrep and GMAT prep is the best way to go. I feel most comfortable practicing with those as well. However, I seem to be stuck in a high-400/low-500 rut. I am trying to get out of this to achieve my target score of 680. Any suggestions?
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by aim-wsc » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:41 pm
Your G-day is on 5 May! hmm,
I am hopeful that you will get your desired score! you have plenty of time to study!

All the best!
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by mleviko » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:57 pm
medea66 wrote:Hi there,

Great progress!!! Please share the strategies behind your score improvement. I agree that practicing with PowerPrep and GMAT prep is the best way to go. I feel most comfortable practicing with those as well. However, I seem to be stuck in a high-400/low-500 rut. I am trying to get out of this to achieve my target score of 680. Any suggestions?
Hi medea66,

Thanks a lot for your reply, and I hope you'll break the 500 score soon.
My strategy for climbing up from ~560 to the current ~690 was a bit different, because I have problems with my attention span, so I needed to achieve two important things - one was to be able to study without losing my attention and the other was to practice sitting on my ass for 3-4 hours and acing GMAT questions.
the following seems to work best for me:

1. Like said a million times before in this forum - I review EVERY question I do, doesn't matter if I did it right or wrong, you can learn both ways.

2. I study about 2-3 hours a day with pauses every time I feel I'm losing my attention. I would take a coffee, watch a funny video on youtube, do some pushups etc. When I feel I'm ready again I sit down and do 20 questions of the chosen subject, this forces me to analyse them one by one, and then I review subjects in which I sucked during the 20 questions quiz.

3. Full CAT exams prepare me for the G-Day as for attention span and stamina. I write a GMATPrep or a POWERPrep at least once every two weeks. I don't care about seeing the same questions twice, it's the actual sitting down and solving questions for a period of time that interests me.
Also, I try not to solve any non official CATs as those seem to be less representative of the real deal (although I might do some MGMAT CATs late april just to get some more practice)


4. For improvement of specific weaknessess I use everything available - Kaplan, Kaplan Premier, Beat the GMAT, PR, I just read a lot and do lots of exercice until I crack the specific subject that was difficult to me.


5. Being non-native in english, I read books and watch american movies with english subtitles - this is fun and educative (well, at least if you refrain from seeing American Pie... :) )

Just my $0.02.

Good luck
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by kand2112 » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:35 am
hiii guys,

I am giving my gmat on 25th march. I already have a gmat prep exam that i had downloaded earlier. If i download the latest now will it be having different question sets.

Thanks in advance.
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by mayonnai5e » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:49 am
Great tips from mleviko. I definitely agree that you should review every question no matter whether you got it right or wrong. This is supremely important because even answers you got right, you may not have gotten it right for the right reasons and the official solution will provide more insight into how to "correctly" solve the problem. I didn't see dramatic improvements in my scores until I started hunkering down and reading every single solution and studying every one for at least 2 or 3 minutes (sometimes 5 to 10 minutes on more difficult ones). The improvements from that point on were leaps and bounds.
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