jump of 70 pts (50q/37ver- total 720)

[themaharaja1]

I am writing this post as I owe a lot to Manhattan and BTG forums and especially to moderators from both forums:

Little history: Indian guy, engg background appeared for gre in 2004 and scored- 1340 (800q/540v/3.5 awa). Did masters in industrial engg and working in US in one of the fortune 500 companies.

GMAT first attempt: 6 aug 09 650(q49/v31/writing 5)
GMAT second attempt: 15 September 09 720(50/37)

Suggestions and findings:

Sometimes your gmat score depends just upon your luck. I got less in 1st attempt mainly because exam was difficult. Pls believe me. This is true.

Don't loose focus. Concentrate on your current question. Fu** earlier questions...just ignore everything other than current question

Refer to forums "GMAT Prep Math" and "GMAT Prep vebal" from website https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/ These 2 forums are awesome and THE must. Mr. Ron Purewal (moderator) is too good. I am ready to treat him for his awesome explanations.

Use official material and 6 tests by Manhattan gmat. I don't think that guides provided by manhattan are any good. Kaplan has two good books - 1 just for difficult gmat questions and 1 for just verbal section...you should use them

As u can see from my gre awa score, I am not a good writer. I scored meager 3.5 in gmat awa. So if you are in the same bucket, pls practice a lot. My suggestion: share your essays with American guy or may be with Indian Christian guy who is very good at verbal. ( I am not racist.... you can share your essays a guy from any religion as long as he is awesome in English). Point to note: if you screw your writing section then it can affect your mood for rest of the exam!

While practicing, analyze all your wrong questions and keep track of them

You can find a word doc at the location https://www.beatthegmat.com/difficult-gm ... s-t78.html Use it...

One interesting thing...one guy (bhatiagp) from BTG forum pointed that he scored 720(49/41). he took the exam on the same day as i have. So after looking at my score and his score I think that scoring 50 in quant (provided u have 37 in verbal)is equal to scoring 41 in verbal (provided u have 49 in quant)...I mean you should try to score 50 in quant.


Once again ron purewal ki jai ho! BTG and manhattan forums rock! There are some other good forums too...they are good too. But I will prefer these 2!

and pls ignore my verbal mistakes...i am weak in that section!


I will provide more inputs as I remember...

[Enki]

Congratulations !!Very nice score .
And your debrief was very informative .

I was wandering ,everyone in the forum appreciate those MGMAT series .Why you think they were not that good?What are the other books you recommend?

I just started me prepration and planning to finsih all MGMAT 7 series first to revise the theory part.
Is that a right approach?

What was your study plan? Which book did you finish first and what are the self tests you attempted.Pls give me some suggestions.
I quit from my job So completely focussing on Gmat .And Expecting a lot from myself .
How to plan study pattern?I was thinking to cover up quant in a month and verbal in a month .then error log and tests .Go for Revision after that.
Is that the right approach ?I have MGMAT books
OG 11 , OG quant , OG verbal , PR cracking the Gmat 2008 .Is there any other book you suggest?
As per my engg background I think math is going to be my strength .How you practice your verbal section RC ,CR ,SC?I will appreciate any of your input about this.

Thanks
Ankita

[themaharaja1]

mgmat guides are too theoretical. you cannot apply those techniques in exam........i mean i dont think one gets that much time! so my suggestion is dont go with those books, but do use their question bank! i will suggest you to finish og's first. do 6 exams. also follow 2 forums that i have mentioned of regular basis. and at least give 3/4 powerprep exams (repeat your exams if needed).....for verbal i just followed 2 kaplan books, OG's, manhattans material.....(thats all!)

[caspermonday]

Enki, if you want to improve your CR and have so much time, do LSAT exams, Logical reasoning section. One LSAT exam is usually 25 questions. There are appr.45 exams overall. Do one exam every day. They are the best and harder than GMAT, so you'll be well equiped. For SC correction use 1000SC. These 2 things will help uou a lot.