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by gorgeouzmale » Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:38 am
Hello,

I always wanted to write a good debrief of my successful GMAT experience. Alas, that never happened so far. I have written GMAT twice and have scored subpar in both the attempts. The first time I took a whole bunch of books BARRONS, KAPLAN, OG12, VERBAL and QUANT REVIEW, POWERPREP CR and MANHATTAN SC and gave equal importance to every book. I took all the CAT of KAPLAN, MANHATTAN, POWERPREP and GMATPREP. I was scoring around 640 on KAPLAN and MANHATTAN CATs and around 710 on POWERPREP and GMATPREP CATs. Finally, when I gave the official GMAT on April 04, I scored 640(V35,Q43,E6.0). I was pretty dissapointed, but was determined to do better the second attempt.

I enrolled for the full GMATPILL study program with the +50 point guaranttee. I had little more than a month for preparation and wanted to give the second attempt before the new IR section was introduced. I had a solid one month preparation, in which I only used OG12, VERBAL and QUANT REVIEW and GMATPILL videos. I again took MANHATTAN and GMATPREP CATs. This time I was scoring consistently above 730 on CATs. I even wrote few GMATCLUB quant and Verbal exams. I was scoring around 25-30 on the quant exams and around 35 on the verbal exams. When I gave the second official GMAT on Jun 02, I scored a dismal 600 (Q37,V35). I was very dissapointed.

I want to give GMAT again. But, I dont know what I should do to score above 700. I still dont know what mistake I did during the preparation for my second attempt.

Seniors/Experts, Please advice on how should I go about preparing for my next attempt. I want to score high. Kindly, help.
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:14 pm
My honest opinion is that you probably spent more time doing problems and less time understanding them. That is a lot of books to have purchased. You really need to understand why you got certain problems right and others wrong. What rules are fuzzy to you? This type of thinking will increase your results.
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