760 On Gmat: My First Step Is Over
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GMAT Test Preparation for 3 months was well worth the effort!. I am absolutely thrilled with my score 760 Q:51 V:45 . I expected >700 easily with my prep but never expected it to go so high.
Thanks Scorechase and scorechasers without youall it wouldnt have been possible. Special thanks to Sneha for amazing explanations in Verbal Guardian for helping in Math and RC Hagrid for being the best admin maverick and saswati for keeping things alive.
Start:
I started my GMAT preparation in October I forgot to mention my first mock test score in october was 580 here is the first advice I got from Guardian and Sneha the GMAT Tutors on Scorechase which I relegiously followed:
DO NOT refer to a LOT of material. concentrate on basics for 2 weeks and then PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.
Stay positive if you have worked hard for it you will do it.
Take GMAT Gold Seekers membership its worth every penny!
Remember: You have got nothing to loose nothing is the end of the road.
Given the advice here is the material I recommend:
Manhattan SC for sentence correction dont read it digest it.
OG11 read math concepts practice SC ONLY after you have completed Manhattan SC
Scorechase Gold Seekers Cove subscription that made my day do MGs and VGs religiously pm Sneha/guardian if you dont get any of them but solve them religiously ..each of them
beatthegmat forum great resources
GMATPrep tests take them more than 2 times to exhaust all questions from the bank
Kaplan tests I hate them but if you are scoring around 700 in GMATPrep then these definitely helpalthough the max I got in Kaplan was 680
And thats it for the prep!!
Final day of the exam
Took rest as is always wisely adviced. Believe me you would need it in verbal.
Reached an hr earlier and relaxed.
GMAT exam
AWA: easy just look around for some tips needs 45 days of prep at max.
Math:
I got quite a few concepts on algebra. I was surprised to see no questions on mean/median/SD.
Verbal:
Got 3 RCs I had read it just couple of days ago and that saved me a bunch of time in reading and digesting the paragraph. The other two RCs one was political and other was about butterflies .
SCs were purely GMAT type Manhattan SC will do it. Saw just a couple of VGs but that was enough to boost my confidence I knew I got em right and was sailing. For verbal if anything else except Manhattan is needed ..Snehas explanations will fill the void
CRs always strong for me ..
Overall was expecting somewhere around 720 40 marks I guess bonus MGs and VGs helped.
All the best all for your preps.
About the writer: Viswanath Shankar has been managing and maintaining various elearning softwares for the past decade and a half. A storehouse of knowledge about LMS Learning Management Systems He has been working in close coordination with web development experts to develop user friendly distance learning programs. It takes a professional like him to declare the big time arrival of e learning as a worthy substitute to conventional learning techniques.
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