I began studying about 4 weeks ago using Kaplan. Then after reading these forums I picked up the OG 11 and the Quant Review. My verbal was pretty strong so I just wanted to concentrate on the quantitative. I did go through the verbal questions and studied some, but the vast majority of my time was spent on the math part. And btw, I work a full time job usually 12 hours per day (be at work by 5:30am and get home around 6pm) and I have three teenage children and a wife at home. So my personal life was not exactly conducive to studying. But I did what I had to do and got it done.
I took the GMATPrep test four times (reinstalled it for the last two) and scored a 560 at the beginning, then 620 towards the end (four days ago). On the second time around I did recognize some of the questions so it wasn't completely accurate but I scored a 550 (this one scared me) and then 660 the next day.
This morning I was fairly nervous. I'm glad it starts off with the AWA because that gave me a chance to settle down. Once I got to the quantitative, the first few questions seemed pretty easy but it seemed like at least the last 30 questions were pretty darn hard. Some of them I just had to guess on so I could spend more time on other questions.
Once it was all over I was kind of dreading the results because I thought I had bombed the quantitative part. So I was elated to see a score of 640 (80th percentile) with Q=41 and V=37. 640 might not be the best but it is good enough to get me into the school I'm applying for.
The only glitch came at the end when I was all done and I had already seen my scores my computer popped an error message talking about some critical error with the computer. At first I thought maybe it lost my scores but luckily they just had to make some calls and they got it figured out.
Anyway, the forum was very helpful to me and I got the score I needed
I took the GMATPrep test four times (reinstalled it for the last two) and scored a 560 at the beginning, then 620 towards the end (four days ago). On the second time around I did recognize some of the questions so it wasn't completely accurate but I scored a 550 (this one scared me) and then 660 the next day.
This morning I was fairly nervous. I'm glad it starts off with the AWA because that gave me a chance to settle down. Once I got to the quantitative, the first few questions seemed pretty easy but it seemed like at least the last 30 questions were pretty darn hard. Some of them I just had to guess on so I could spend more time on other questions.
Once it was all over I was kind of dreading the results because I thought I had bombed the quantitative part. So I was elated to see a score of 640 (80th percentile) with Q=41 and V=37. 640 might not be the best but it is good enough to get me into the school I'm applying for.
The only glitch came at the end when I was all done and I had already seen my scores my computer popped an error message talking about some critical error with the computer. At first I thought maybe it lost my scores but luckily they just had to make some calls and they got it figured out.
Anyway, the forum was very helpful to me and I got the score I needed
I should have posted that before 
