After like ages of deliberation I finally wrote my first practice GMAT for this attempt. My prep basically consists of one or two hours of surfing through beatthegmat forums and solve their problems and go through their discussions. I find the interactive way of helping each other and analyzing greatly influences one’s basic understanding of the simple problems of GMAT.
GMAT is to test our patience and how we prioritize our time to critical situations for example the GMAT. For most of us, it’s months of preparation and hard work which goes into that so we do expect something out of it. In the end who holds his patience wins the game. Its very important for one to concentrate on the test day and do not let your mind wander away. If it’s required do train your mind accordingly. Its all in the mind. The problems are overtly simple at times, we just need to break through the glass wall and get our answers out.
The one I took was not exactly under test conditions. I treated myself with 3 hours of nap time and freshened up between the verbal section and the quant section. Overall I am not quite dissapointed with my score.
Verbal: 33
Quant: 46
Overall: 650
I am quite disappointed with the number of questions correct in each section. It was around 50 % to 60 % so the strike rate was pretty horrendous. The time factor does gets to my nerve. Till now I haven’t practiced much under timed conditions except this test. I am planning to take a test every week from now on till July 14. Patience is my key issue and my mind is my major enemy. Need to capture it fast and tie it down to the computer screen for 4 hours.
I have five major books for studies but till now I have hardly covered 10 % of them. These books are more than sufficient for anybody taking the test.
1. Official Guide 12th Edition
2. Powerscore GMAT Critical Reasoning Bible
3. Manhattan Sentence Correction
4. Kaplan GMAT Premier 2010-2011
5. LSAT 10 Official Tests
that’s a good score for your first practice exam..
Well, it’s my second attempt to GMAT though