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Chrissy: Sympathizing with your concerns, I can relate to the hardship experienced by the visa issues. I was an international student myself, having lived three years in China, three years in Japan, nine years in Canada and nine years in the United States. It is a tough story - what doesn't kill us ...
- by brandonsun
Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:49 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54092
Thanks Eric.
Will continually strive to give back and help the community out.
Good job on the site - it was an invaluable help to me and my studies.
- by brandonsun
Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:23 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54092
Vineetbatra: I agree with you in that you're wasting two hours of prime studying time. Can you take the bus or train? Even if it takes you three hours instead of two, that is three hours you can pivot into quality study time. Although it'll be some more stressful, it'll actually even save you money ...
- by brandonsun
Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:37 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54092
I am being quite prolific and charitable today. More advice on verbal: At the same time, really attempt to work smarter. Analyze your errors (especially in verbal) to understand where the errors are. Someone once taught me that English is a language based on order. Unlike languages, the order of the...
- by brandonsun
Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:57 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54092
Re: 2nd time, same history 600's
My question is, what else can I do? I’m definitely going to study harder for verbal, probably buy the MGMAT books for verbal, and for quant I will do the MGMAT tests. The answer is simple - work harder. You mentioned that you studied for two months, eh? I studied for four and backed up my determi...
- by brandonsun
Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:29 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 2nd time, same history 600's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1920
Congratulations on HBS!
This was one of the threads I read the night before my test and provided me with a lot of inspiration.
I am graduated from a respected liberal arts college and glad that we're going to be making a more meaningful impact at these bigger schools.
- by brandonsun
Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:22 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: From 620 to 760 -- I OWNED the GMAT
- Replies: 57
- Views: 108272
Took my test on Sept 14th (Monday) and got my AWA results back yesterday, Sept 20th (Saturday) so was impressed with their turnaround time. Scored a 6.0 which corresponded to 90th percentile. In the past, a 6.0 is 87th percentile, leading me to believe that the test is getting harder as more and mor...
- by brandonsun
Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:59 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54092
Re: Finding a strategy to beat GMAT!
Started preparing for the exam with 0% idea of this exam during the month of Apr '09. Found time and Studied only during weekends as i'm working in an IT company and its certainly tough to study during weekdays. Booked the exam Jul 29th.. Had no idea whether the 4 months time and that too weekends ...
- by brandonsun
Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:37 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Finding a strategy to beat GMAT!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2257
I also got 50M (93%), 44V (97%) but only a 760. This shit's messed up. Why does the composite score fluctuate?
- by brandonsun
Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:18 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 770 - 50M (93%), 44V (97%)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3905
Thanks for the comments. Enki: I probably spent 20 hours per week on average for the final three months. First month was a honeymoon period where I just read theory and did questions for fun (though maybe still committed a good five hours a week of studying that first month). I know the people at Ma...
- by brandonsun
Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:35 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54092
760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
1st Attempt 760, 99% 50 Math (93), 44 Verbal (97) I am a competitive person and relish every opportunity to win. I started off one of my AWA essays with the quote, "Some people see things and they ask 'why.' I see things that never were and ask 'why not?'" Contextualized within my topic, t...
- by brandonsun
Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:20 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 760 / 99% / 6.0- Grateful and Offering Unconventional Advice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54092