Day 19 - Sep 03 2011

Sorry for not being regular in updating here...

I have not read any verbal book till now...but have been progressing in Quants....

Have completed MGMAT 02 The Fractions, Decimals, and Percents guide 4th Edition.

Will have to complete atleast Sentence Correction along with the MGMAT 03 Equations, Inequalities, and VICs Guide 4th Edition as i start both tomorrow.

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Day 9 - Aug 23

Manhattan books
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SC - 1 - SC basics
SC - 2 - Grammer Meaning Concision

some PS questions from OG

Day 8

Read Data sufficiency related topics and Reading comprehension from Manhattan GMAT books...would be working on the problems of DS from OG 11 tomorrow.

Day 7 - Aug 21 - Did not read anything

Day 6 - Aug 20

Aug 19 - Day 5 - DId not read anything

Aug 18 - Day 4 - did not ready any thing

Day 3 - Manhattan GMAT 8 books

Quants: PEMDAS
Verbal : RC related

Day 2

Quants :
Chapter 3: Positives and negatives
Chapter 4: Consecutive Integers
Chapter 5: Exponents
Chapter 6: Roots

Verbal:
basic English grammar

Day 1

MGMAT - odds and evens

have decided that i would continue to update my daily study advances

as decided before

as i had told before, i did restart my preparation for GMAT once again and have decided to study atleast 2 hrs a day ...

completed
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MGMAT - NUmber properties guide - chapter 1 - Divisibility and Primes
Wren & Martin - Grammer -
Chapter 1 - The scentence,
chapter 2 - Subject and predicate
Chapter 3 - Phrase and clause
Chapter 4 - Parts of speech

i am drowned rightnow

did i fail to see what was written on the wall?

yes, today the D-day had arrived and i am now back from the Pearson's venue after completing the GMAT. Unfortunate it is, that i did not bell the CAT aka GMAT. I realized that mistake of not having the verbal corrected and Quant improved has left me high and dry an year away from my dream....

the score report goes like this
                                   Scaled Score      Percentile
Quantitative                 39                       50
Verbal                         24                       33
Total                          530                      40

This clearly shows that my efforts are not directed at the correct place and i need to start all over again correcting the flaws that have been seen now.

There is no doubt in my mind now that both Quants and Verbal are my weak points and verbal in fact requires much more attention that i had imagined.

I would restart my preparation once again after a week long rest. I want my brain to refresh again so that i wont be getting dejected about the result and start with a fresh mind to achieve my goal of joining either IIMA/IIMB/ISB in that order to realize my dream of Executive MBA.

am i getting back?

i took the MR test today and got 670....am i getting back?

Verbal total - 41 incorrect - 20
Quants total - 37 incorrect - 9

i have to check the individual questions and see in which questions i have committed mistakes in both Quants and Verbal

it showed 670 then n now when i check it shows 540....i am slipping down n down

am i slipping down and down

i am slipping down and down and i just have 5 more days ahead before the D-day

Q 33T  13IC  39
V 41T  19IC  24
total - 530

god make me more stronger and help me get good marks....

am i loosing GMAT PREP

Q  44 ( 37T - 14I)
V 28 ( 41T - 14I)
total 600

MR CAT TEST 1

Hope the growth continues...


And i am willing to strive harder...


Q - 42
V - 39
T - 650

MBA.com Sample Test 4

4th one since April and 3rd one since 2 weeks...i feel i am improving, though not to the extent i wanted to be....

Quants - 44 ( of total 37Q, 13 were incorrect, of 13 incorrect - i could not answer 2 Q)

Verbal - 31( Of total 41Q, 17 were incorrect)

The observation is that i am still committing mistakes in the first 5 questions...i hope i would be successful in avoiding these mistakes in the further tests....

Wish me best of luck again and again and wish me that i would join the dream institutions for my MBA...

mba.com Practice test 3

Once again back

This time, i did not write the essays, but directly attempted the  Quants and Verbal...

Below is the result.

Quants - 38
Verbal  - 30
Total - 570

Also, in Quants of total 36, 14 were wrong and 2 could not answer at all....
         In verbal of total 41, 14 were wrong and in those wrong ones the beginning 3 questions were only wrong....so i think this is impacting my scores

though its an improvement, but it is still not in the level of scores that i wish to be.

Also, i could not attend all the quants questions, i had no time to do some 4-5 quants and i guessed 2-3 answers in the middle...i think this time, the initial questions in the quants and verbal were good...hence got some improvement....hopefully this tempo remains...

i have not reviewed the questions which were wrong in this test..i would be doing it tomorrow morning in the fresh mind...

also i have the quants co-ordinate geo class at kormangala-jyothinivasa college by 3 and duration is 3hrs...

i have to make sure that i would take the MR CAT CODES test and be ready for the recharge GMATS....


i hope i would be successful in the GMAT which i am going to write by the end of this month...exactly 29days from now

another observation is that , i have failed in the initial questions itself - both in verbal and quants.

hence this dismal performance....

now i have to try even more harder...

mba.com Practice Test 2

I took the practice test today

same dismal performance again... am disappointed too

Quants - 38
Verbal - 25
Total - 530

My observations include
- non serious workouts by me
- basics being forgotten
- English RC being very weak. overall Verbal is still weak
- mixture problems, probability, geometry seems to be hitting hard....

i will try and prepare once again and take the new practice test from GMAT

Also, i have booked the GMAT exam date to be 30th July 2011. Hence i am just 35days away from the D-day and i would have to put my best to get best results there...

who ever is reading this..wish me best of luck

2nd Quant Class

Arithmetic - Data-sufficiency questions

Updates

I had planned to study for 2 hrs a week day and 5 hrs a week end day...
but till now i could only study for
Monday - 1 hr
Tuesday - 1.5hrs
Wednesday - 1.45hrs

I have completed the verbal CR homework...

I am now working on solving the CR from the Manhattan Review CR questions. Till today, i have solved 30 questions , out of which only 19 were right.

My main mistakes , as i could observe, is overlooking the question and failing to understand the core word..

i am not understanding how to use the Error Log...hope to use it from this week onwards....

2nd MR

Today we had the CR class, which was the first class of the Verbal......

Sir had given few questions to solve at home.

1st day in MR

today was the first class in MR..........

topics covered..
1. Number Properties..
2. Percentages


Sir has given the assignment...i hope to start reading today....

GMAT Prep Test 1

I have been a regular follower of GMATBLUB.com
and one of the suggestions that was given there was to take a prep test from the software which is downloaded from MBA.com

I did the same and took the test following the same routine as would be on the test day.

I spent 3.5hrs on writing the test ( inclusive of AWA, Quants and Verbal).

Below is my result
Quants = 36
Verbal = 2680
Total = 530

This marks clearly tells me that i have to do lots of hardwork to acheive my goal-post-marks of 780.

This is just the beginning. I will give my best.

2011 with lots of changes

Folks,

I am back again with the aim of belling the CAT i mean GMAT...

2010 had lots of complexities and confusions in my life and 2011 seems to have cleared most of them paving me a way to achieve my ultimate goal for doing my MBA from any one of the World's best MBA colleges...

First thing I checked this year was teh rankings of the MBA colleges for 2011 in FT. I guess ISB is still maintaining its position and IIMA has been included newly to the list. Hopefully IIMB would be included in that list from next year onwards...
I aim to join some IIM Colleges ( which have World wide reputation) for 2012-2013 batch...

Folks lets all share the information with each other and learn and bell MBA/GMAT together....

Best of luck to you all...

Sayonara for now

smmorrrrrre

http://gmat-math.blogspot.com/

general musings

I know i am pursuing my dream, but what i fear is i am still not confident on the things which i have to study, i need to spend time on it.

i have started studying, but i tend to spend the free time on something useless.