I am now done with the Princeton Review 2008 Edition. I did all the Practise questions and drills through out the book. As I mentioned in an older post, I also gave the GMAT Warm-up test sometime back. Improvement needed: Spend more time on going through the test results ( both right and wrong ). I also working on 3 Quant bins and 2 Verbal bins. The bins increase in their level of comlexity. I need to get back to the final bins ( Quant - bin 4, Verbal - bin 3 ).
For now, I am going to start working on Kaplan GMAT Premier program- 2009.
My preperation of 'Princeton Review' was not done with proper planning. I need to embark on a much tighter schedule for my Kaplan. Also, I need to write 2 practise tests each week. , from now on. Here are some of the online test resources that I found on testmagic:
GMAT Prep ( Free CAT )
GMAT Score ( Full length tests )
MGMAT ( Free CAT )
GMATLive ( Free Practise test )
800Score ( 1 Free Sample Practise test, 5 Practise tests - $24.95 )
Also, Princeton Review has 2 practise tests online, which I haven't looked into yet.
Kaplan book comes with 6 full-length practise tests. 1-book, 1-online and 4 on CD-ROM.
Eric on beatthegmat mentioned that the amount of time he spent on Kaplan is 12 days.
If that's a decent amount of time to spend on that book, I should shoot for 26th March to finish it.
Target date to finish reading Kaplan - 26th March.
TODO : Download the flashcards from beatthegmat.
P.S.: I know the coming week is going to be tough as my brother is arriving today to visit me during his Spring break.
More fun to come!
14.3.09
9.3.09
Preparation, hithertho
My preparation has been going on and off for a few weeks now. I used to work in Maryland up until November '08. I changed jobs and moved to Chicago area back then. I should say the winter here kind of motivated me to get back to reading, since there wasn't really a lot to do in my free time during early days of my stay here. Howerver, I procrastinated for a couple of months and finally decided to buy material and jumpstart my GMAT prep. This happened in early January.( not exactly one of my primary new year resolutions ! ). To cut the matter short, here are the books I bought.
5. Manhattan GMAT ( CR, RC, SC ) - Need to purchase.
6. Flash cards - Need to make yet.
I have been working on Princeton review for the past month in a very hapazard fashion. By now, I finished the verbal and quant sections of the book. I got good scores ( 3 out of 26 wrong, 4 out of 26 wrong ) on the math 1 ( easiest ), math 2 ( easier ) bins resp. . I also took the diagnostic test in the book and scored a 550. I still need lots of work to do!
After going through the forum at beat the gmat ( an excellent resouce for gmatters, btw ) and a few othe blogs, I decided to design my schedule in as below and stick to it.
1. Weekdays - 8 hrs ( 4 days a week - 2hrs each day )
2. Weekends - 10 hrs ( 5 hrs each on sat, sun )
That sums up to 18 hrs each week, for the next 8 weeks.For now, my plans falls somewhere in between the 100hr and 300hr gameplans. I am currently working on my gamplane and I will update you all with that very shortly.
Intro
I am writing this blog with the purpose of tracking my progress during my GMAT preparation. It should also serve the needs of any other gmat aspirant and be able to act as a guidepost.
I have been pondering about GMAT for a longtime now and finally decided to give it ( I set the date to May 15th ). To be more precise, I have close to 8 weeks.
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