Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The last 3-4 days

I had my gmat today but i'm going to write about this before I write about the exam.

So I had taken 6 days at home before gmat which were not completely utilized. My focus was only on the OG now, the actual GMAT questions.

5 days before the exam, I spent a whole day on Quant section. I did about 100 questions and reviewed them. Added some notes to my flashcards, things I forget like I used diameter instead of radius in one of the complicated circle questions.

The next day was a waste, I was a bit under the weather and was zoned out the entire day. I watched an entire season of smallville and kept telling myself I have to study but did nothing about it.

3 days before I picked the Verbal section. The problem here was that I was finding OG verbal difficult than the Manhattan verbal which brought down my confidence. I had scored around 680 700 in MGMATs but with difficult verbal I feared my score would fall. I still had problem focussing on preparation.

2 days before was my last practice test, the second GMATPrep test. I scored a 720 Q49 V38. This score gave me some confidence I wanted. While taking the test I counted the number of questions I knew went wrong. In quant the number was exact - I counted 8 wrong and 8 they were. In verbal I could not tell which had me nervous. I went through my SC flashcards, reviewed some articles on beatthegmat site just to build some confidence. Went through my quant flashcards before I slept.

The day before I had read the advice to not study much. I had planned to do 15 questions from each section. So I woke up but had a nice relaxed morning, a nice eggs n sausages breakfast in bed (not exactly, cuz I live alone and had to prepare it myself). My focus was to keep my nerves today. I tend to lose confidence sooner than most people do. I went to the movies, watched 'knight and day' the old looking tom cruise and cameron diaz were still good enough. I shopped a little and then drove through the roughest traffic of the city cursing some listening to Lucky Ali to stay calm.
Reached home by 8ish, cooked simple home food, ate, looked through flashcars and some notes and slept. I could not do the questions as I had planned to.

3 comments:

  1. Hey Congratulations, that's a great score. Are you applying for Full Time or Part Time MBA?

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  2. I'm planning to apply for full time, don't have the money for exec programs. Where do you stand in your journey? GMAT/ Apps?

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