GMAT Strategy

Well it took me 2 tests to get a little comfortable with the MGMAT format(score, 670, 680)...after that range was 710 - 780 from CAT3-CAT6.

Understand the mistakes in each test before proceeding to the next.

Hey rangerguy2000, I think you are taking far too many tests in a short interval. My suggestion, take MGMAT tests only in the wk ends. Either 1 or 2 at the most in a week would suffice.

Most importantly, analyze error your tests thoroughly. I was also doing a whole lot of OG questions on SC and RC with a low accuracy (around 50%) without really spending enough time on analyzing my mistakes. I was having this mad rush of wanting to complete all the questions in the OG. I was going through the answer explanations, as if it was a ritual, with out really understanding those explanations. My suggestion is, do fewer set of questions, but analyze them thoroughly including the ones you have done correctly (especially for SC). Quality matters more than Quantity. No point in taking so many tests without analyzing your mistakes.

MGMAT Test 6 Scores

15th August 2300 hrs.

Overall 600
Q 47
V 26

Disgusting

GMAT Prep Test 1

Aug 19 2009, 2200 hrs

Overall 510
Q 27
V 33

Feel like posting myself on the wall.

Well if you have scored 600 in MGMAT and 510 in GMAT Prep1, then time get dirty and go over the mistakes and improve your weaknesses...

Try avoiding the next test till you think that you have covered your major weaknesses...

gmat_dest wrote:Well if you have scored 600 in MGMAT and 510 in GMAT Prep1, then time get dirty and go over the mistakes and improve your weaknesses...

Try avoiding the next test till you think that you have covered your major weaknesses...

u know whats more frustrating ... i got the answers wrong just due to silly mistakes .. like coming to a conclusion before even reading th qs and the options. in quant i screwed myself up in the 1st 10 as i got 8 out of 10 wrong, over all 15 wrong outta 37.

Friday aug 21, 2009, 220 hrs.

I just finished GMAT Prep Test 2. This is the final one Im doing now before going in on the big day on the 24th Aug, 2009, Monday.

Overall 670
Q 48
V 34

it gives me some hope of breaking over 680-690 atleast.
Im not doing anymore tests now. Just gonna cram Kaplan, MGMAT Tests and OG.

God Help Me!

I haven't practiced too much for the AWA's. Have just been concentrating on the V and Q. Just wrote them twice and that also half heartedly. I know i can write average essays, i mean, with all due respect to writers, poets, publicists, etc, if i could write essays i would not preparing for GMAT atleast. Hope i can write something in the real test.

Haha. What a thread! Good luck man and you can retake it and analyze your mistakes if it doesn't go so well I guess.

going in tomorrow, 24th aug, 1800 hrs, less than 27 hrs now. its surreal right now, like a dream sequence.

shld i do a test today or no?

god help me.
and i need all the good luck i can.

Best of Luck rangerguy2000 !! Beat the GMAT to the pulp

rangerguy2000 wrote:god help me.
and i need all the good luck i can.

leaving for the test center now. right now its 1630 Toronto time, test is at 1830 in downtown Toronto.

God Help Me!!!

real GMAT score 550

q 36
v 30

hate myself

mmm.can u give us a debrief. what happened? how did you feel during the test? I'm not talking about healthwise. I'm talking about how did you perceived your performance to be during the test?

that sounds uncharacteristic given your previous scores.