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Trekib: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 12; Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:33 pm

by Trekib » Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:27 pm

I'm registered to take the GMAT in late April and started preparing last week. I purchased the Official Guide for GMAT Review 12 ed. and have been working various problems. I have a few questions those with experience can answer and a course of study I would like to have critiqued. My target score is high 5's to low 6's.

Questions

My questions are as follows:

1. Are the practice exams on the GMAT Prep software representative of the actual exam?

2. Do you have adequate room to work problems at the testing center? It is my understanding you are given a dry erase marker and booklet? I would like to mimic testing conditions while studying and taking practice exams on my home PC.

3. Do you feel my target score is achievable with the amount of time available (roughly 2 months and 7 Days) and the course of study below?

4. The programs I am applying to have no stated minimum GMAT score as an admission requirement. Will my target score be competitive in the acceptance process?

Course of Study

1. Practice and review problems and concepts included in the GMAT Official Guide book and The Princeton Review Cracking the GMAT book (required for the course mentioned below) for 1-2 hours daily.

2. I will be meeting with a recently retired mathematics teacher probably 4 times for 2-3 hours over the next couple weeks to clarify some of my questions pertaining to the quantitative material covered on the exam.

3. I'm taking a 5 session GMAT review course starting in March provided by a local university. The course requires use of The Princeton Review Cracking the GMAT book. This course meets weekly for 3 hours an evening and the last session will be the week of my official exam.

Thanks in advance for any answers and insight. Experience is everything and yours is greatly appreciated.

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Trekib: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 12; Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:33 pm

by Trekib » Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:03 pm

Bump.

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by hja379 » Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:10 pm

Comments in blue.

My questions are as follows:

1. Are the practice exams on the GMAT Prep software representative of the actual exam?
>> More or less. But still the best software to rely on. You can read the debriefs of members and their scores on the software are close to what they get in the real exam.

2. Do you have adequate room to work problems at the testing center? It is my understanding you are given a dry erase marker and booklet? I would like to mimic testing conditions while studying and taking practice exams on my home PC.
>> You will have enough room. You might need to push the key-board a bit to leave room for the booklet or slide the keyboard to the left or right. But other than that, you'll have enough space.

3. Do you feel my target score is achievable with the amount of time available (roughly 2 months and 7 Days) and the course of study below?

4. The programs I am applying to have no stated minimum GMAT score as an admission requirement. Will my target score combined with my cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.69 and a year of business related job experience be competitive in the acceptance process? My undergraduate degree is in Finance from the University of Kentucky. In addition, the University of Kentucky's MBA program is equivalent to the other programs I'm applying to.
>> Check and see if they have average GMAT score. And again, GMAT is only a small piece of the pie. Schools usually take a more holistic approach while reviewing the applications.

Course of Study

1. Practice and review problems and concepts included in the GMAT Official Guide book and The Princeton Review Cracking the GMAT book (required for the course mentioned below) for 1-2 hours daily.
>> Personally, not a big fan of PR. You can go to "Self Study" tab to read about the reviews of books that are best for prep.

2. I will be meeting with a recently retired mathematics teacher probably 4 times for 2-3 hours over the next couple weeks to clarify some of my questions pertaining to the quantitative material covered on the exam.
>> Might help if you are weak in Quant.

3. I'm taking a 5 session GMAT review course starting in March provided by a local university. The course requires use of The Princeton Review Cracking the GMAT book. This course meets weekly for 3 hours an evening and the last session will be the week of my official exam.
>> Hope you are not shelling big bucks for this course. If you are, you should consider other options as well.

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