Monday | March 03, 2008

Prison Break

Where the hell has prison break come into the picture in b/w GMAT preperation.This could be your first thought,after seeing the title.
I am talkin about the mental freedom i achieved.I was struggling at scores of 470 -600 in december.A bit more practice i am touching 670.
GMAT Prep Test 1 :- 640(27V 50Q)
Princeton Review 3 :-660(30V 50Q)
 
The reason I believe I pushed my score is becasue of the practice I invested in strategy i formulated in Jan.
I realized that there are 2 things that i needed to work on:-


1)Endurance ---I need to get the ability to sit continuously for 4 hours with out much stress.

I relalized that when i was talking tests before it was tough for me to sit for 150 mins at a strech as i lost touch.This problem impacted particulary on Verbal section,as i was trying to finish the section with out much patience which impacted directly on the accuracy.

2)RC :I thought i was strong on this.But i realized that I need more pratice becasue GMAT is altogether a different type of exam.The strategy i use is look at the questions before reading the passage ,which allow you to figure out the answers while reading the passage itself.This trick saves lot of time ,but when this is not allowed in GMAT exam i gotta find out other ways and the only way is to read passage faster.

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Monday | January 07, 2008

Must Read BLOG's





http://www.outbeat-the-gmat.blogspot.com/

will add more to it ...as and when i find some interesting stuff out there on web.
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Sunday | January 06, 2008

OG 10 and OG 11 softcopies

OG 10 and OG 11

will post eventually all the the resources that i am using for my preperation.Can someone comment on how effective is Princeton Review??

Screwed up my preperation for last two weeks,blame it on new year parties,christmas parties,scorpions,friends visting my place and at last cold and fever.Lost the touch at the right time when i thougt i was picking up some pace in answering the questions.

Testing gonna start in another one week.So I guess that will keep me busy .However i still feel that lack of interest in preperation is whats turning me off from picking up the book and solving questions.
Feel like committing the first mistake of postponing the exam.

Good that i have come back after couple of weeks.I was able to get more resources(more i mean the ones i felt that i should be having life complete OG11 and Manhattan SC 200ed) online for my preperation.

By the way here is the link for the
Manhattan SC 2005 ed -OG11 Problem matrix  .

I guess these resources can help a person who is week in SC ,get started.Please let me know if any more resources need to be added.
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Tuesday | December 18, 2007

Analysis after 2 weeks of preparation

The first full-length test(Princeton review) i have taken i scored 470.Probably this is the reason why I was soo depressed to start my preperation.Some how I pused myself to book the date and started the preparation with sentance correction and critical reasoning.

Slightly confident i decided to take the test again and got a score of 520.What to do now is the question.No significant improvement of score.Depressed again. However i felt that verbal section was slightly under control.Some of the answers in SC I was damn sure they were right ,the second time i took the test.From what i observed,i lacked this confidence in answering atleast few questions ,the first time.

But one question nagging me at back of my mind mind.Is princeton review the right gauge of my score?Both the times I took the test i only got 3 questions wrong and none of them in first 10 in quant and my score in quant was 43 both the times and also the verbal questions are quite lengthy and answers options are ambiguous too(may be most of the questions are hard level questions).

So I decided to take GMAT800 test.And i got a score of 620.Now i felt really good as i am getting close to my target of 700.

When practicing OG-10 CR ,i am getting most of the questions right(50/60).However i never got soo many questions in exam (generally 4-6 right of 12-14).This may be because of the time pressure.Need to work a little bit on this.After taking two exams I decided to break verbal into 2 parts.0-33 questions  in first 60 mins and the rest in remaining 15 mins,as i read in some forum that there will always be a RC passage in last 7-8 questions.

 

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Thursday | December 06, 2007

The Convergence

What ever might me the reason,I decided to take GMAT exam.Even here soo many questions circle around like when should i book the date and when should i start my preperation.Finally taking suggestion of experianced,with GMAT,that preperation wouldnt start with out booking the date ,I booked GMAT date.

There are a million resources online both on "How to start prep" and "What to study".However picking up one and start prepring is soo tought that i didnt realize till i tried.I decided to collect all possible material online and i did.Now what?
Where to start with is a question again.Soo many suggestions to start of with ,a sample test or OG.

I finally decided to take a sample test and horribly failed with only 3 mistakes in quant and got only 13 right in verbal with 80% questions wrong in SC.A total disaster it was and i was totally depressed.What to do next?It took me almost a month to comprahend the fact and started solid preparation couple of days before and here i am today.

Manhatten SC,one i picked up from esnips
(Manhattan SC 2003ed-10ed OG Problem matrix ),
came as light for my verbal preparation.After A couple of days of manhattan SC study ,i was able to get most of questions right in OG.The best part is prblem matrix and the way each question in OG is correlated.

Now looking for right guide to shed light on RC and CR.
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Prelude

Every one say that before doing MBA you should know exactly why you are doing.Everytime i think about this question a thousand questions popup in my head.Everytime I tried answering this question I am lost in dark space,I know I am going no where ,yet I try.

Am I born interested in doing MBA?
Is it the Money that drives me to pursue MBA or is it life after MBA where one would most probably be the center of attraction?Howmany wouldnt like to go to parties , or howmany would like to live a objective life like what Ayn Rand describes as heros?Is this feeling is what brings me closer to MBA?
Is it because of family pressure?
Is it my hatred for current job profile?
Is it my technical weekness that left me unsuccessful is what's pushing me for change in job profile?
Is it my true destiny?


I am sure everyone has these questions,the first time they think "why MBA?".

Probably I dont even know what a MBA means till undergraduation.I thought MBA is just a source of big bucks and who can deny the fact .How could i deny the fact that I started preparation for MBA entrance becasue of family pressure?



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