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by Ankush002 » Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:39 am
Congrats dubinsky,Great Score.

I wanted to ask something, how many free and paid tests you gave ? and is it good to get paid tests(I mean to get paid kaplan and MGMAT tests ?) or free tests work well ?

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by mirantdon » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:44 am
yeah dude awa bhi phod diya yaar .!sahi hai .!
my mail address : [email protected] .
Of course i ll seek your advice :-)

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by dubinsky » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:02 am
@Ankush 002 WEll TERE ARE a couple of free tests out there..... Which give u a decent indication of wer u stand... Dont use the Kaplan Cd as an indication however!!!

The scores are like 80 less than u cud xpect to see on your GMAT...

Well I took Manhattan Gmat tests 6 of em and found thm pretty helpful....

I dont think u need to take any p[aid test series cuz der are a lot of free options out there... But to see your consistency and improvement in performance you need to have many tests of one level which I feel MGMAT gives you

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by dubinsky » Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:30 am
@mirantdon Hey I invited u to a group... You can Aceess lot of stuff from there...
Hope it is helpful!!!
Any way thanks for all your support!!!

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by catfreak » Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:43 am
Hey dubinsky,

Could you please tell about free test that you think are good.
Thanks in advance.

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by dubinsky » Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:51 am
Hey Catfreak ....

Wen is ur gmat? preparin for CAT too huh!!

Well I think the princeton review is a good free test resource you can use...Although i gave just one test many of my frenz used it and say dat it is a pretty decent indication of your level....

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by catfreak » Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:46 am
Thanks a lot dubinsky.

Well, right now only GMAT. I am struggling with Verbal at the moment ( Doing really bad !!)
About GMAT date, I have not booked a slot yet. But i am targeting August end.

Could you please give any pointers on how to prepare for SC and RC. I really suck in both of them :(

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by dubinsky » Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:58 pm
OK.. You might want to check for da availability of the slot in your center right now....
And once you book your slot trust me you will be able to study much better with much more sincerity as the pressure builds up....

For SC - I advise that you go through the Grockit questions - Free trial and its very easy to get a membership too there by inviting some friends....
Cuz in SC you need to practice alot.... Besides the practice the more important part is making a conscious attempt to find the reason why you got each question wrong!!!
Maybe note down stuff in a book... Small steps but i bet they will pay off!!!

For RC- well i was pretty bad in that too... What helped me alot was making a few notes while i read the passage.... I spent about 3-4minutes reading and understanding the passage real well with my concise notes....
After that each question answered based on memory and maybe a glance through my notes occasionally...
But for a detail question always look back in to the passage for the accurate words.....


Hope that was helpful!

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by dubinsky » Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:05 am
Also if u can get your hands on Rc99...
its a very good resource!

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by dubinsky » Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:33 pm
Hey I just got through The IESE YTP program !!!

:) :) :)

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by kirankuchi » Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:32 pm
dubinsky,
can you share what your Grockit CAT scores? also how do you rate Grockit CAT? is the score comparable to gmatpprep and real gmat?