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Yep, I did it - 710 (Q-50, V-35)

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by maihuna » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:25 am
mbadreams wrote:Congrats Ritesh!!! I got 690(Q47 V38). You can read my debrief and I would also like to thank you for the documents at the last minute .
Ok great, so last moment discussion that day helped that way.....right..?
Charged up again to beat the beast :)
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by riteshbindal » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:06 pm
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riteshbindal wrote:Hi Guys,
I took the GMAT just now and scored 710. Nerves got over me in both the sections, Q and V. After completing quant, I thought that my score would be 48 - 49 and I got very tensed. This got reflected on my verbal as well. I took more time initially and later on, in 15 mins, I had to complete 15 questions. I was so tensed that I was unable to understand any passage or RC.
In my tests, I was consistently scoring 740 - 750 with the lowest score of 720 in Gmat prep two weeks back.
I am not sure what to do. Should I retake? I am planning to apply for ISB and INSEAD. My expectation today was to get 720 - 740. But after doing badly on verbal, while waiting for the score I was expecting around 690 :( . How much does the difference between 710 and 740 matters for b schools?
Edited: After looking at the average scores of all top b schools, I figured out that this score is good enough for any college to consider you. So guys, I will soon post a debrief. Just want to take some rest now.
ritesh ,
can u tell how was the level of questions bth in Q(ps/DS) and V (sc,rc,cr).
The level of ps/ds question was much much higher than OG-12. When I was at question 50, I was thrown some geometry questions which had one triangle with multiple triangles inside it and every two triangles were joined with another lines. You can imagine the state when 2 mins left for 2 qs and you get such PS question. I just ticked D for it. This was a trick from princeton that for tough DS qs, you should always guess A (if you are doing blind guess) and for tough PS, guess D.
For more details, I will put my debrief.

Bro!!

Where is the debrief??we r waiting for u !!!
Hi...
At last I posted my debrief which is not brief :)
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by riteshbindal » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:20 pm
mbadreams wrote:Congrats Ritesh!!! I got 690(Q47 V38). You can read my debrief and I would also like to thank you for the documents at the last minute .
Congrats!!! It's my pleasure. Good to know that the document helped a bit :D All the best for apps.
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by vaibhav.iit2002 » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:31 am
Ritesh,

how are u deciding ur schools.... i mean the criteria and the sources which u'll follow or followed to research for schools?
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by riteshbindal » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:11 am
vaibhav.iit2002 wrote:Ritesh,

how are u deciding ur schools.... i mean the criteria and the sources which u'll follow or followed to research for schools?
Hi Vaibhav,

I am looking for one year MBA and my targets are pretty limited right now, ISB or INSEAD. I will look for pagalguy forum to get the required information. Which schools are you targeting for?
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by riteshbindal » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:04 am
Hi all,

I am getting many requests to send out Sets which I mentioned in my debrief.
It will be good if I upload sets in this post.
Eric, is it ok, if I post sets on this site?


Thanks.
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by riteshbindal » Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:40 am
Hi Guys,
Just got the AWA score. It's 5. Not bad, considering that I just read how to do AWA a day before GMAT day!
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by gmater29 » Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:11 am
Awesome score Ritesh.. Congrats..

1 quick question. I read your post about approaching RC problems.. You said you used to make notes at start but later you practiced without notes did this impact in anyway in real GMAT ?
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by riteshbindal » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:18 am
No, I don't think it impacted in a negative way. I figured it out in my practice tests also that I was faster and more accurate without notes. It gives more time for answering questions.
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by grv_0028 » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:49 am
Really good Ritesh, Congrats.
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