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Great Story
You have a great story and one that resonates with my experience on the exam. I think in many respects the battle you described will be a great resource for you to draw from when writing your application essays. A 670 puts you in the inner 80% with schools in the top 10.
Good luck!
- by joostinshu
Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:19 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Thank You...670
- Replies: 11
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- by joostinshu
Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:07 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: GMAT, 6 times - 530 to 680 (Q47 V35) Perserverance Prevails.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10389
The answer is 5. You have 105 "spots" in English, Math, German combined and with overlap. The problem states 15 students take all 3 classes which means those 15 students account for 45 "spots" leaving 60 "spots". We know there are only 70 real students total which we su...
- by joostinshu
Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:12 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Sets / Counting Problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1233
- by joostinshu
Sun May 31, 2009 11:52 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Geometery question
- Replies: 5
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Skang357 - Cornell's admission committee is deciding my fate this Monday and Tuesday. My conversation with the adcom went very well yesterday. The woman I interface with has been extremely supportive of my candidacy and asked me to hit a 700... I think she was still pretty impressed by the leap to a...
- by joostinshu
Sat May 30, 2009 2:56 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: GMAT, 6 times - 530 to 680 (Q47 V35) Perserverance Prevails.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10389
I took a Veritas practice exam 1 week ago and echo your response. I thought the quant was too easy and the verbal was just insane. I did not agree with many of their critical reasoning answers and to start the exam off I had 2 reading comprehension passages back to back which seemed unlike any previ...
- by joostinshu
Sat May 30, 2009 1:11 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Veritas Prep mock test
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2520
- by joostinshu
Fri May 29, 2009 4:10 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Going to battle tomorrow.. any advice?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1640
GMAT, 6 times - 530 to 680 (Q47 V35) Perserverance Prevails.
I tried to make this short. It really is impossible to make this short given the fact I have taken the exams so many times. At last, I am done. Find my story below. Short History: I took the GMAT 6, yes, SIX times. My scores in sequence: 3/2007 – 530 (Q:AWFUL V:MEDIOCRE) I really don’t even know wha...
- by joostinshu
Fri May 29, 2009 3:18 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: GMAT, 6 times - 530 to 680 (Q47 V35) Perserverance Prevails.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10389
I am sitting for it for the 6th time today...... Admissions committees will want to know why you took it so many times... my response is that I always felt my scores were deflated for my ability. Hopefully today's result will provide evidence that that statement is true. Good luck with your studying...
- by joostinshu
Fri May 29, 2009 5:39 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Does taking GMAT 3 times hurt?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3974
It does provide the answer solution but when you are the night before the exam and have used 14 Manhattan practice exams, going back to find that given problem takes time.
Thanks for the help.
- by joostinshu
Thu May 28, 2009 6:09 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: VICS Problem -- Need Help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1794
It absolutely does match. I actually figured the problem out shortly after posting. The key is getting a common denominator when solving for t for the 1st 1/2 and the 2nd 1/2 of the trip. Then it is just manipulating the equation to solve for D.
Thanks for responding!
- by joostinshu
Thu May 28, 2009 6:45 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: VICS Problem -- Need Help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1794
Going to battle tomorrow.. any advice?
I am what you would call an anomaly. I have taken the GMAT 5 times to date and am sitting for my sixth time. I have been stuck in the low 600's with a 620 as my highest score. I changed my entire routine, hired a tutor for the last six weeks and have seen practice exams jump significantly. The bigge...
- by joostinshu
Thu May 28, 2009 5:57 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Going to battle tomorrow.. any advice?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1640
The raw scores are computed based on an ever-changing sample thus slightly different raw scores can produce the same overall score.
- by joostinshu
Thu May 28, 2009 5:52 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 690: Should I retake?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2426
VICS Problem -- Need Help
Bob bikes to school every day at a steady rate of x miles per hour. On a particular day, Bob had a flat tire exactly halfway to school. He immediately started walking to school at a steady pace of y miles per hour. He arrived at school exactly t hours after leaving his home. How many miles is it fro...
- by joostinshu
Thu May 28, 2009 4:33 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: VICS Problem -- Need Help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1794
When a certain tree was first planted, it was 4 feet tall, and the height of the tree increased by a contsant amount of each year for the next 6 years. At the end of the 6th year, the tree was 1/5 taller that it was at the end of the 4th year. By how many feet did the height of the three increase ea...
- by joostinshu
Thu May 28, 2009 4:27 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: PS problems .. Help to understand and solve..
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1275