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How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 17 (result: 760)
A 760 on today’s practice test. I think that’s called a ‘result’: comfortably past the 99th percentile (i.e. beating 99% of the people who take this test). 108 questions, 52Q and 56V, with 11 errors giving me corrected raw scores of 44Q/50V, despite getting 5 wrong near the end of one section. Analysis tomorrow; here […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 16 (analysing day 15)
May 16, 2007
Okay, time to analyse my first 700 score. (Or 90th percentile, which means I’m beating 9 out of 10 people who take the GMAT.) 107 questions, corrected raw scores of 50V/40Q: 3 sentence correction, 1 critical reasoning, and 0 reading comprehension errors, and 7 problem solving quants, and 3 data sufficiency questions wrong. I’m getting […]
Now it’s a bloody water main exploding
May 15, 2007
What in blazes is happening to my ‘hood? The embers are barely cold in the smoking hole in the ground that used to be a nearby industrial site, and today a water main does a Yosemite, shooting ten metres of water up through the tarmac… RIGHT AT THE GATE TO MY MEWS, which means this […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 15 (result: 700)
May 15, 2007
ALmost back on track: 700/800. Should have hit 710 today to be fully on track. But from here on in it’s going to get really hard. 107 practice questions, with raw scores of 51/55V and 42/52Q, correcting to 50 and 40 for a total corrected raw score of 90. Here are the essays… ANALYSIS OF […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 14 (analysing day 13)
May 14, 2007
OK, my scraped 690 includes five questions I really should have got WRONG (i.e. I wasn’t at all sure about) in the Verbal section, so more ‘wrong’ ones analysed today than I really need to. To get off this plateau I need a different approach, so today I’m writing a list of all the different […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 13 (result: 690)
May 13, 2007
OK, I’ve hit the hump. Officially. Three 690s in a row, but I think I know why, and I’ve decided once again: those GMAT people are clever bastards. Practice tests contain questions mixed in difficulty. To simulate the Computer Adaptive nature of the real GMAT – where questions get harder as you get more right […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 12 (analysing day 11)
May 12, 2007
Another 690. Lesson learned today: a bottle of red the night before, followed by doing the test at 5am since I’ve got no other slot available, does not contribute to a higher GMAT score. 108 questions, 52 quant and 56 verbal, and 11 wrong maths and 5 English errors giving with corrected raws of 38Q/50V. […]
They’ve got a POLICY for it?!!!
May 11, 2007
Ms Crowe’s colleague Emily Richards said: “You couldn’t miss the fact that Sonya was sat on a big squashy ball instead of an office chair.” What I find shocking about this story was that health & safety officials had actually issued guidelines over what chairs its lecturers should use.
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 11 (result: 690)
May 11, 2007
Another 690! That shows what rushing your review of wrong answers gets you. In other words, it’s time to knuckle down and study some algebra instead of winging it. (OK, I haven’t really hit the books yet, trying to ‘learn’ by going over questions instead.) Here are the essays; analysis of wrong ‘uns tomorrow. Analysis […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 10 (analysing day 9)
May 10, 2007
My fifth GMAT practice, and I’m still on target. A total of 106 questions, 61 verbal (with one ‘not scored’) and 52 quantitative. 5 wrong in sentence correction (oops), 1 wrong in reading comprehension, and 1 wrong in critical reasoning. 11 wrong in maths, of which 4 were data sufficiency and 7 problem solving. Which […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 9 (result: 690)
May 9, 2007
Whew, that was close. By one raw-adjusted point, I hit 690, maintaining my target of rising 10 points each practice test. I’m making fewer maths errors – my critical eye for question types is starting to become experienced – but dropped a few on the verbals. This test seemed more difficult than the last. Today’s […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 8 (analysing Day 7)
May 8, 2007
So, that 680. I’m on target – actually slightly ahead of target. No questions wrong in reading comprehension and critical reasoning; not bad on verbal, just 2 wrong in 56. But I keep running out of time on the maths sections: 16 wrong of 52, and at least 8 of those due to cramming the […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 7 (result: 680)
May 7, 2007
My fourth practice test gave me 680. Also, I scored my first ‘perfect’ sections – reading comprehension and critical reasoning – so I’m up to snuff on 2 of the 5 basic question types (reading comprehension, sentence correction, and critical reasoning for verbal; problem solving and data sufficiency in quant.) Here are the essay practices; […]
Wither the Government?
May 7, 2007
With John Reid jumping before he gets pushed by Brown, it’s easy to forget that Blair hasn’t actually set a date yet… although it’s all over bar the shouting. This is more good news, setting the scene for a Conservative comeback in two years. First, Brown hasn’t got many friends with the balls to handle […]
Sarkozy wins!
May 7, 2007
Well done Nick! Now France, that most amazing of countries culturally and geographically, will retake its rightful place as a forward-looking economy. At last, Britain will have some competition in Europe, after decades of France on its knees thanks to decades of feckless socialism. What happens next? Well, the right-wing, American-admiring Sarkozy will abolish the […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 6 (analysing Day 5)
May 6, 2007
OK, so 670 was a decent score, but numerically I got the most wrong yet – 23 out of 113, 13 out of 52 quant and 10 out of 61 verbal. 1 cr, 4 rc, 5 sentence correction. At least there’s not a ‘bias’ any more: the mistakes are more evenly spread. Quant A certain […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 5 (result: 670)
May 5, 2007
Time for my third practice test. 113 questions, 52 quant and 61 verbal. 13 wrong quants and 10 wrong verbals – whoooo, slipped up on my English there, although there were more questions in the test. Corrected raw scores of 36 and 49 lead to a combined 85, equalling 670/800. Still on target! Here’s the […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 4 (analysing Day 3)
May 4, 2007
Yesterday’s test was under test conditions, so it was good to score 650; shows actual conditions aren’t a big factor for me. 13 wrong quant questions and 3 wrong verbals – pleased with that verbal; more practice means I’m capable of a perfect score there. But while I hit the 85th percentile on verbal, I’m […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 3 (result: 650)
May 3, 2007
An ‘official’ practice test today, at London’s Kaplan Centre. It’s a ‘real’ test of 78 questions, 37 quant and 41 verbal, done in the correct order (quant then verbal). I get raw scores of 24 and 38, corrected to 36 and 42. The combined corrected 78 gives me a projected GMAT of 650, 10 above […]
How to ace the GMAT in 28 days: Day 2 (analysing Day 1)
May 2, 2007
Yesterday’s 640 was cheering, since I got so many wrong – 23 out of 113. In other words, plenty of opportunity to STOP making those errors and raise my game. (Remember, all I need is to get one less question wrong every practice test.) It’s time to check what I got wrong on the first […]
May 17, 2007
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