Wow,I have to tell you that after reading this, I just burst into tears! I have been going about in circles ever since 2009 when I decided to give the GMAT and scored a measly 540. I was nowhere competent to get a 700+ score! Not well read or even adept at calculations ( I am one of those people wh...

@ariz
Thanks. I think that you are going the right way. Keep up the tempo and I think that you should be on your way to glory

@behbette
Thanks, people from S.E. Asia incidentally happen to have the highest average GMAT scores across the world. Hope you're able to match them

thank you eternal_optimist for your inspirational post. i just took the gmat today (2nd attempt) and was incredibly discouraged to see that my score had gone down 10 pts. i guess i should be glad my score didn't drop significantly, right? either way, i'm scoring close to what you got in your first ...

@timmy d Thanks. I'm glad that you found some inspiration in my post. Nice story! Well done..Congratulations! BTW, can you please tell us about the difficulty level of CR and RC questions (compared with RC99{easy/medium/difficult} and OG12/CR) in GMAT ? Thansk Voodoo I'd say most of the passages on ...

I have been in a similar situation like you,the only difference being that I had taken the GMAT three times before I took the 4th one.You can read more about my struggle in my debrief.Hope that you should find some direction regarding strategy and material. I think that since you scored sub-600, tha...

Thanks neodante.Good luck to you. @megadeth You may start with some non-fiction easy to read books which aren't very prosy. I love reading books on business & management, entrepreneurship apart from philosophy,science etc. Just search on amazon for some of the aforementioned keywords and you'd b...

Sorry for replying late.I have loved reading a lot of authors who have won Booker/Pulitzer awards. The quality of text in these books is quite good. Apart from that,make sure that you keep reading the editorials in good newspapers.