760 (99%tile, 95 Q, 97V) from 680(90%tile, 82Q, 81V)

Hmmmmmm Damit,

Congratulations.

WooHoo: Congratulations !!

Congratulation damit(woohoo)! I am very happy for your drastic increase and actual score. I wish you all the best in your applications and definitely am waiting to hear more from your experience.

Ok have finally recovered from my hangover and mass destruction of brain cells over this weekend. Sorry I tried to keep this brief but failed miserably and decided on to err on the side of too much info as opposed to leaving something out.

Background

Took the GMAT 1 year ago and scored a 680. I was not thrilled and for a variety of different reasons I had to put off the test even though I did prepare briefly for another attempt. The best thing that happened to me after my first attempt was to discover the GMAT club. While I have not been the most active member here i.e. not responded to many posts, I did post a lot of questions and checked posts and concepts (esp. verbal) here everyday during my preparation (which started May 25th 2005 for July 30th 2005 test)

Lessons Learned From Previous Un-successful attempt:
1. Improve my speed: In quant I guessed last 2 questions and in verbal I guessed last 4 questions. The reading comp. on question #34 killed me
2. Track Errors: I knew my SC’s were horrible and my RC’s were pretty bad too. CR I was doing well. But I didn’t know where I was screwing up in SC and RC i.e. what types of questions. It was blind attempt to just keep working through OG and try and improve. I also had fundamental conceptual issues with SC grammar.
3. Allow sufficient time for practice after concepts are solidified: My total prep time last time was 2.5 months (while working full time). It took me about 1.5-2 months to go through all the concepts using MGMAT strategy guides, Kaplan, and PR. I did not all enough time for practice and jumped to doing a lot of tests.
4. Reduce careless mistake in Quant: I knew I was capable of 48-50 in Q but always made silly errors in quant like 18/4 = 4 or something stupid in a hurry. Also needed to better track Quant problem areas
5. Never give up. Ever!!

How I Prepped This Time / Recommendations for Prep (Keeping in mind the lessons learned)

SC:

1. This was my MOST problematic area. The biggest challenge here was finding good questions as I had already done OG SC’s and remembered many answer even after a here. Kaplan and PR SC material SUCKS! That’s when I discovered 1000 SC document which essentially contains ALL SC’s from ETS paper tests and also OG.
2. I used Manhattan GMAT (which is necessary but NOT sufficient) for fundamentals. A great compliment to it is “Grammar Smartâ€

Congratulations on a great score!!

And thank you for sharing your GMAT experience with all of us.

Interesting Debriefing. Thanks.

Very insightful post and congrats.

Anyway how can i get my hands on the 1000 SC, CR and RC documents?

Hi there are different names for it. I have also heard it being refered to as SC885 on this forum. I am travelling and dont have access to it. you can just search on the forum

thanks!

Congratulations once more! Thanks a lot for detailed description. Great post! Very practical!

Thanks for the quick response, i have tried a couple of searches but i'm only coming up with questions that others have posted from the document or their general comments on it still can't get the actual document.

will be grateful if you can help.

Congrats to a great score.

Very inspiring to read your message.

you said:
I started working through SC1000 document

Where can I find this document? My weak area is SC so it would
be nice with some more SC questions.

All here is the link to SC material

https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=5210

enjoy and happy practicing

Thanks woohoo,

Great stuff!

Hi,

Congratultions on your score. I was wondering if you could mention where we can find that ? CR is my weakness.

Thanks.

hey woohoo,

i was away for a short while but thanks for that!

Thanks kwasi7 .... I found the 1000SC document. However, my weakness is CR, so I REALLY NEED the 1000CR document.

If someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

I hope this helps.