My GMAT Progress

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My GMAT Progress

by folex98 » Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:22 am
Hi there,

I've been a long time lurker on this forum, and decided to begin posting my progress towards beating the GMAT! I took the exam once in 2008 and scored a 610, without understanding how to study and just doing practice problems. So this year, I decided to tackle the GMAT once and for all, and plan to take it in September with the goal of a 720! I see that many people on here have had dramatic increases in their scores, so it gives me hope that I can do it too! I'm not sure if I posted this in the right forum, but I will be documenting my progress until d-day.. So here goes:

Knewton Exam 1: 560 (q37 v31)
I took this exam before the class started and without studying for 2 years. I thought I would have done better, but whatever. I will be taking my second test as my class just ended and want to see how much I've learned. I've been going through my MGMAT sentence correction book, so feel pretty good on that section (just have to watch for stupid mistakes!

Will keep updating.. thanks for joining me in my journey!
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by folex98 » Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:06 pm
Knewton Exam #2: 620 (q35 45% v41 92%)
I knew i was going to do well in the verbal section of the exam since i've been solely focusing on it, but didn't think there would be such a discrepancy! What's worse is my time management: I didn't finish 6 quant and 3 verbal questions. I'm actually happy with my progress seeing how I was shooting for a score of 40+ on verbal. I knew that I would struggle with quant, but am confident that I can it up more easily than verbal.

After MGMAT SC, I plan to go through the following:
1. MGMAT Number Properties
2. MGMAT Geometry
3. MGMAT Word Translations
4. Powerscore Critical Reasoning

I am concurrently going through OG 12 with the MGMAT books. I also have a Kaplan Premier 2008 edition, is it worth going through that as well, even though it's quite dated?