640 on the GMAT DISAPPOINTED AND NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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ashish.mahendra: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 22; Joined: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:22 pm; Thanked: 1 times

by ashish.mahendra » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:39 pm

Hi!

I just finished with taking the GMAT and scored a meagre 640

I am shocked and disappointed.I took this time off everything and gave it all and the result is not good.

I was consistently scoring in the 680-720 range in the MGMAT's and Gprep's.

But I guess I'm not that good at math afterall.

I wanna retake it coz I really feel I can do better than that.

I need some direction.I need some decent Prep material.I'm done with Kaplan.I also completed og-10 and 11.

Wondering what material to use for preparation now.

Especially Quant since that seems to be my Achilles heel.

Can you point out to me decent prep material for GMAT....... especially Quant

I need some drastic improvement in my Quant score.I guess verbal is Ok for now.

Please help me out.
Also, I wanna know if this score is decent enough for me to apply to the following colleges:

Rice
MSU-Broad
Indiana-Kelley
Rochester-Simon

Eagerly waiting for your replies.

Ashish

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by beatthegmat » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:48 pm

Hi Ashish:

Check out the book recommendations available here: https://www.beatthegmat.com/wiki/

Take some time to also look at the free quant resources available at the link above.

One book that seems conspicuously missing in your prep is OG--did you use this text during your prep?

Best of luck!

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ashish.mahendra: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 22; Joined: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:22 pm; Thanked: 1 times

by ashish.mahendra » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:15 pm

Thanks Eric,

I did use OG-11 for preparation.

In retrospect, I think I may have screwed up the DS.

Any suggestions on the best stuff for DS.......

Regards
Ashish

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by beatthegmat » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:32 pm

There's a lot of resources here for DS. Check out the DS resources on the wiki link I provided. Also, check out my DS approach on my GMAT blog, https://beatthegmat.blocked.

Finally, do some searching through some of the old forum posts here. There have been some great DS strategies that users have shared in the past. I especially like mayonnai5e's advice...

Good luck.

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Nisha1218: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 91; Joined: Tue May 01, 2007 4:04 pm

by Nisha1218 » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:31 am

My friend was admitted to Rice with a 610 and >3.0 undergrad GPA...

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by Nisha1218 » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:18 pm

Not from India, but he's Indian. My friend is from NY and worked at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. His total work experience after undergrad is approx. 4 years.

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