Hello,
I am a IT/M/India candidate with 5+ years work experience. My MBA journey started when I sent my CV for pre admission profile evaluations of many b schools I found out that GMAT score is very important for admissions in Top 20-30 rank college.
In May I started preparing but due to family issues, I had to postpone my GMAT from Sept 2011 to Nov 30th,2011.I atttended kaplan's classroom programme and also reffered to MGMAT books and online 6 practice tests. My score raned from 630 to 670. On GMAT Prep I scored 650. With a +-50 range from GMAT Prep I thought I would be close to my target and elusive 700 score.
But my big day didn't started well. I was continuously studing for past 7 days and slept around 2AM on Nov 31th. Then I woke up at 6:15AM, reached the test center at 8:30AM and was on the hotseat around 9AM. The starting two essay's went well (I was nervous about these two).
Then in Quant, After 10th question i got a question to distribute $200 in two people and tell what each gets and I knew I have bombed the exam. I knew I will have to come back. My final score of 44 reflected the same. I got a lot of Coordinate geometry and inequalities questions and as I didn't had much practice in these, I wasn't able to solve these.
Then i took the verbal and the sleepless nights crept in. I just couldn't concentrate. With no concentration and a very long RC, I got a 29 in Verbal section.
As I only want to go into the top 20-30's, I have decided to retake my exam (may be the decision was made while giving the exam itself). I don't believe in cancelling test scores so that was not a option. My big question is does age matter for FT programmes if I am not able to get in this year ?
My weak points :
Coordinate >> please tell me what to cover and look at ?
Inequalities >> No idea where to get the questions to practice on this
Verbal :
I am good in RC/CR and SC but I would like to continue practice. I have completed the OG Verbal and found it to be easy. I would be digging into OG 12 for more exposure.
I plan to use SC 1000 and CR 1000 series to more practice. Are they are good for time I have in my hand (I plan to retake exam before Jan End,2012) ?
Books I used :
MG SC Guide
Kaplan Classroom programme
GMAT PREP
Target Schools :
HEC Paris, Schulich , Indiana, GA Tech, Terry (worst case scenario) and may be UC Irvine.
The worst thing that happened in all this is that my terms with my manager/organisation isn't good anymore. If I have to continue with my current job, I am sure it won't be fruitful(anyways he has refused to promote me since december,2010 ).Next big question : Should I continue with my current job?
I am a IT/M/India candidate with 5+ years work experience. My MBA journey started when I sent my CV for pre admission profile evaluations of many b schools I found out that GMAT score is very important for admissions in Top 20-30 rank college.
In May I started preparing but due to family issues, I had to postpone my GMAT from Sept 2011 to Nov 30th,2011.I atttended kaplan's classroom programme and also reffered to MGMAT books and online 6 practice tests. My score raned from 630 to 670. On GMAT Prep I scored 650. With a +-50 range from GMAT Prep I thought I would be close to my target and elusive 700 score.
But my big day didn't started well. I was continuously studing for past 7 days and slept around 2AM on Nov 31th. Then I woke up at 6:15AM, reached the test center at 8:30AM and was on the hotseat around 9AM. The starting two essay's went well (I was nervous about these two).
Then in Quant, After 10th question i got a question to distribute $200 in two people and tell what each gets and I knew I have bombed the exam. I knew I will have to come back. My final score of 44 reflected the same. I got a lot of Coordinate geometry and inequalities questions and as I didn't had much practice in these, I wasn't able to solve these.
Then i took the verbal and the sleepless nights crept in. I just couldn't concentrate. With no concentration and a very long RC, I got a 29 in Verbal section.
As I only want to go into the top 20-30's, I have decided to retake my exam (may be the decision was made while giving the exam itself). I don't believe in cancelling test scores so that was not a option. My big question is does age matter for FT programmes if I am not able to get in this year ?
My weak points :
Coordinate >> please tell me what to cover and look at ?
Inequalities >> No idea where to get the questions to practice on this
Verbal :
I am good in RC/CR and SC but I would like to continue practice. I have completed the OG Verbal and found it to be easy. I would be digging into OG 12 for more exposure.
I plan to use SC 1000 and CR 1000 series to more practice. Are they are good for time I have in my hand (I plan to retake exam before Jan End,2012) ?
Books I used :
MG SC Guide
Kaplan Classroom programme
GMAT PREP
Target Schools :
HEC Paris, Schulich , Indiana, GA Tech, Terry (worst case scenario) and may be UC Irvine.
The worst thing that happened in all this is that my terms with my manager/organisation isn't good anymore. If I have to continue with my current job, I am sure it won't be fruitful(anyways he has refused to promote me since december,2010 ).Next big question : Should I continue with my current job?
Inequalities is one of the important topic in GMAT quant.
