10 days to go

Oh God! Only 10 days. I was taken aback when I saw calendar yesterday. I counted the tests I am left with (4 Kaps, 3 Prins, 1PowerPrep) 8 tests and just 10 days.

So I took one Kaplan test today. I remember Anurag told me that he never scored more that 630s in Kaplan tests. And when I sat for the test today in the morning, I was determined to crack it. But the result is as follows.

620 (50 qa, 31 va)

A 31 in VA sounds horrible. The questions were so lengthy that almost all of them required a considerate amount of time to be put. No RC passage was any easy in language and all were pretty long ones.

I've been doing some research on the schools I'll be applying to. Would write a detailed post for that after my GMAT.

Plan for next few days is to take three more Kaplan tests. To exert myself before putting myself in the highest gear. Lets see how it works out.

Take 4

So here's the story till now:

Princeton I : 720 (50 QA 38 VA)
Manhattan : 670-690
IMS : 630 (never gonna look at IMS again)
PowerPrep I : 750 (50 QA 41 VA)


So finally touched the 750 mark. The paper was fine. Though if I had known the definition of "Median" I could have got 51 in maths. And that could have meant a yummy 760 (i m lovin' it). But its fine... lets be slow and steady.

Best thing was that questions were unseen (except for 1-2 SC questions which anyways were easy). They have claimed that PowerPrep has all the questions different from OG 11th ed.
The best test I must say. For obvious reasons, closest to GMAT.

And now I think.... I didn't even know what a "Median" means....

disgusting...

Back in full gear

After IIMI fiasco, I am back to my GMAT preparation in full gear. Took a day off justto recollect what all I needed to do. I did one IMS MaxGMAT test. IMS tests are the worst I have ever seen. 8 questions in RC passage, very first question was RC, loads of DI question, dicey options. It reminded me of IMS CAT test series. Thankfuuly it didn't have the vocabulary based questions. They are their favorite.

Anyways, I found spidey's notes for SC on esnips. Excellent compilation I must say. One must get hold of it and go through it. Besides that I am still stuck with 1000SC by ScoreTop (1000 is a bit too much). I don't think one needs an OG if he does the 1000 series by ScoreTop which is free also.

I am planning to take one PowerPrep test today. Will update about the score in my next post.

As of now, the material I am referring to is:

Scoretop 1000 series
OG 10 and 11
Princeton Tests
Kaplan Tests
Powerprep Tests

I still have some 15-16 days to go before GMAT and I must grow serious atleast now.