Hi everyone. After three months of intense studying I finally managed to get the score I wanted on the GMAT.
I started studying for the GMAT in April 2014, purchasing the offical guide and a few other books. The first thing I have done was to take a full practice test, to understand my starting point. Then I started studying, my initial approach was not very well structured I was doing different exercises on different topics, jumping from verbal to quant. I soon realized this was not the right approach. I felt I needed to focus more on every single topic, and more importantly to have a specific approach to every different type of question. I think this is fundamental in order to get questions right and to understand how to tackle the question.
In order to do this I went to target test prep. I chose this company among all the others on the market thanks to the referral of a good friend. I started using their Online GMAT Math Self-Study Course, and it was great. The tool is built around each different type of question you can find in the test, and for each topic there is a theory session (very clear) and tons of exercises. I believe that practice is the key to this test, and thanks to Target Test Prep Online GMAT Math Self-Study Course i was really able to put this into practice, doing hundreds of questions for each topic. In addition to the on-line tool I also did one-one tutoring with Jeffrey Miller form TTP. He helped so much, he was able to explain things to me in a very clear and easy way, alwasy giving me the right questions. In addition to this Jeff was able to help me with timing, in order to spend the right amunt of time on each topic.
After a few months on the on-line tool and tutoring I approached again the GMAT offical guide and its practice questions. It made so much more sense, after tutoring with Jeff my approach to the questions completely changed, I was getting more questions right and I was much faster.
After a few months I also started doing one practice test a week, in order to get more and more confident with the test, and then reviewed each test with Jeff after. I think this helped a lot especially in terms of time management.
After three months tutoring with Jeff, I took the test. It went well I scored what i wanted. And it was such a relief to get it done.
In conclusion I believe that the key to this test is a lot of practice and your approach to the test, you need to have a very structured approach to it in order not to waste time and really improve, and I think that having Jeff helping me with this really made the difference. In the end I scored 720!!
Best of luck to all of you!!
I started studying for the GMAT in April 2014, purchasing the offical guide and a few other books. The first thing I have done was to take a full practice test, to understand my starting point. Then I started studying, my initial approach was not very well structured I was doing different exercises on different topics, jumping from verbal to quant. I soon realized this was not the right approach. I felt I needed to focus more on every single topic, and more importantly to have a specific approach to every different type of question. I think this is fundamental in order to get questions right and to understand how to tackle the question.
In order to do this I went to target test prep. I chose this company among all the others on the market thanks to the referral of a good friend. I started using their Online GMAT Math Self-Study Course, and it was great. The tool is built around each different type of question you can find in the test, and for each topic there is a theory session (very clear) and tons of exercises. I believe that practice is the key to this test, and thanks to Target Test Prep Online GMAT Math Self-Study Course i was really able to put this into practice, doing hundreds of questions for each topic. In addition to the on-line tool I also did one-one tutoring with Jeffrey Miller form TTP. He helped so much, he was able to explain things to me in a very clear and easy way, alwasy giving me the right questions. In addition to this Jeff was able to help me with timing, in order to spend the right amunt of time on each topic.
After a few months on the on-line tool and tutoring I approached again the GMAT offical guide and its practice questions. It made so much more sense, after tutoring with Jeff my approach to the questions completely changed, I was getting more questions right and I was much faster.
After a few months I also started doing one practice test a week, in order to get more and more confident with the test, and then reviewed each test with Jeff after. I think this helped a lot especially in terms of time management.
After three months tutoring with Jeff, I took the test. It went well I scored what i wanted. And it was such a relief to get it done.
In conclusion I believe that the key to this test is a lot of practice and your approach to the test, you need to have a very structured approach to it in order not to waste time and really improve, and I think that having Jeff helping me with this really made the difference. In the end I scored 720!!
Best of luck to all of you!!
Last edited by andreab on Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
