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Beat the GMAT 700 - Q39 V47

by timsilcox » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:53 am
Hi All - wanted to post my score, and give a BIG thanks to this website and all of the people who are on it.

Wrote the GMAT on Friday, April 9, and scored a 700. I was really happy with my score, seeing that I only hade 5 weeks of studying (the last week I was off work so I had lots of time).

I appear to be a rarity on here. My quant score was not great, 53 percentile, but I'm really happy with my verbal score.

I focussed a lot on my SC and CR during the last week, and I realized that my math was only going to get to a certain level over the 5 weeks.

I think I'm going to write again - simply because I feel that I was about to turn the corner on the math, and I think I could improve my quant score into the 99+ percentile as well (Math comes easy to me, but I'm a psychology major).

For my studying I used the OG 11, & Princeton review as the two general Books.
I also used the Powerscore CR Bible, and the MGMAT SC Book for verbal - and the MGMAT EIV and FDP books.
If/When I write again - I'll pick up the other MGMAT books - they are great books!


Thanks again everyone!
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by srinivasarajui » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:25 am
great score! Congrats!
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by backtoschool11 » Fri May 28, 2010 7:05 pm
This is great! I'm in a similar position, I struggle with the quant but think I could get there if I just put the time into it. Although it's great to know its possible to hit a 700 w/o a steller quant score, thanks for sharing!
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by uwhusky » Sat May 29, 2010 8:01 am
Wow, that's an amazing verbal score. Most people here would kill for that verbal score!

Congratulation!
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by money9111 » Mon May 31, 2010 7:15 am
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by timsilcox » Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:54 pm
Thanks to all.

This site was a big help, and pointed me in the right direction a number of times.

I do think there was some variance with my score, that is to say that I wouldn't be entirely confident that I could score a V47 again (I think there was some luck). But the work paid off. I got into the school I applied to!

Thanks again,

Tim

And best of luck to the rest of you!!
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by skins81 » Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:42 pm
how did you do the SC questions? Is there any book you used?
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by timsilcox » Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:04 am
skins81 wrote:how did you do the SC questions? Is there any book you used?
Hey, sorry for the delay in getting to your question.

Yes - I used the Manhattan SC guide. I reallly liked all the Manhattan books I had, and would reccomend them.

I used the Powerscore CR bible as well for the CR questions.

I used the guide to learn, and the OG guides to drill questions. I also used the flashcards on here and through the Manhattan website.

Going through wrong answers on practice exams helped as well - after a while the SC's and CR's just starting to click for me.

Best of luck!!
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by skins81 » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:15 am
thanks for the advice!
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