It’s not racist to say a neighborhood is dangerous. Murder rates are far higher in North Philly than they are in Cherry Hill, NJ. Is that a racist comment?
^good point
I probably could have worded it differently though. Point taken.
Just knocked out the following scores on the Official Guide’s GMAT diagnostic test. Comments welcome, especially from people who’ve done this test and taken the real thing as to what the correlation of scores is: Problem Solving: 23/24 (Excellent on the OG scale) Data Sufficiency: 19/24 (Excellent) Reading Comprehension: 14/17 (Above Average) Critical Reasoning: 14/17 (Excellent) Sentence Correction: 18/18 (Excellent) My one major concern is that the math section took me forever – 155 minutes to do 48 questions, or an average of 3.23 min/question. The instructions said the diagnostic test wasn’t meant to be timed but it still concerns me that I’m taking so long to do the problems.
the scores look pretty impressive, but you are hooped if you took that long on the math problems.
Yeah I’m hoping that the questions on the diagnostic test were purposely made to take longer to answer than the real thing; guess I’ll find out when I take a practice exam.
So I took my first practice exam on GMATPrep today and came up with the following scores. Interested in any feedback, especially from guys like topher who did a few of these: Overall Score: 760 Quant: 48 (got 24/37 right but also missed 7 out of last 8 because I ran out of time and had to click random answers) Verbal: 47 (38/41 right) Breakdown: Problem Solving – 14/20 right, which includes the 3 wrong in the last group that I guessed on Data Sufficiency – 10/17 right, which includes the 4 wrong in the last group that I guessed on Reading Comprehension – 12/13 right Critical Reasoning – 12/12 right Sentence Correction – 14/16 right Looks like my biggest weakness right now is just working through the math problems quickly. Any tips on how to improve my speed?
760 is impresive but seems high for a first test with no practice. you might want to take another to ensure that’s not an outliar. if that’s not an outliar, just take the test. manhattan books have pretty good strategies as well as kaplan’s gmat 800 book. the gmatclub tests are excellent for math practice ($79) http://gmatclub.com/blog/gmat-tests/ obviously drilling/reptition will improve that speed
Given that you are a moron, well… your schooling till now has been a complete waste, I dont see what a moron could get out of b-school. There would be no one who would want to network with you and you would fail your classes because you thought you were too smart to ever do homework. After which, you would cry about it here and make us take pain killers to read your posts. Good luck…you are one person who will really need it.
slave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 760 is impresive but seems high for a first test > with no practice. you might want to take another > to ensure that’s not an outliar. if that’s not an > outliar, just take the test. manhattan books have > pretty good strategies as well as kaplan’s gmat > 800 book. the gmatclub tests are excellent for > math practice ($79) > http://gmatclub.com/blog/gmat-tests/ obviously > drilling/reptition will improve that speed Yeah I’m concerned that it’s an outlier too. Going to take another GMATPrep in addition Manhattan, Kaplan, and GMAT Club practice exams. I find it hard to believe that I missed so many questions on the quant section and still got such a high score.
Sentence correction was the most difficult for me. Some of the bs rules were so nit picky its unbelievable, no one is that grammatically correct in real life. The verbal section on a whole was more difficult for me than quant, I guess with English being my second language. I barely practiced quant much at all. It’s really similar to the SAT quant. If you did well on the SAT quant, you shouldn’t need much practice here. I was able to get 95-100% on the quant everytime. A lot of the quant problems are very similar so if you just work enough of them, you’ll start to get quicker at it. And yea 24/37 in quant and 62/78 overall doesn’t seem like a 760 to me for some reason
Blaze Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I dont see > what a moron could get out of b-school. I thought getting in is the hard part but once you are in, you will for sure get your degree. I for one have never met anyone who flunked out of graduate B-school. Law school maybe, but not B-school.
cfagoal2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sentence correction was the most difficult for me. > Some of the bs rules were so nit picky its > unbelievable, no one is that grammatically correct > in real life. Actually, I am. Sentence correction is the easiest section for me because I spend all day correcting people’s grammar already.
iheartiheartmath Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > cfagoal2 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sentence correction was the most difficult for > me. > > Some of the bs rules were so nit picky its > > unbelievable, no one is that grammatically > correct > > in real life. > > Actually, I am. Sentence correction is the easiest > section for me because I spend all day correcting > people’s grammar already. lol … +1 … even though I capitalize way too much for your liking …
You can capitalize my P anyday. Who dat?
IHIHM, if you can shoot me a msg at mp2438 at gmail, that would be great. have a question for u.
I’d like to take a crack at the sentence correction portion of the exam. On a side note, how does AF feel about people writing the word ‘utilized’ rather than ‘used’ in sentences? There is actually a difference between the two. People who write utilized drives me nuts.
TheAliMan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I’d like to take a crack at the sentence > correction portion of the exam. On a side note, > how does AF feel about people writing the word > ‘utilized’ rather than ‘used’ in sentences? There > is actually a difference between the two. People > who write utilized drives me nuts. You can utilize the gmat practice questions on their website to see what the general idea is
I love how I conjugated drive incorrectly. Go TheAliMan.
mp2438 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > IHIHM, if you can shoot me a msg at mp2438 at > gmail, that would be great. have a question for u. Send it to me at limodriver4irishlass/yahoo/com and then notify me that you sent an email, I rarely check that address unless daviskr is sending me pics so I don’t log on unless someone sends me something. BTW I am still waiting for daviskr’s indecent exposure pics from last weekend.