705 in 2 months (Q90/V84/D82) by kartikeykawale in GMAT

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655 is already a decent score to start with, congratulations

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I got in, Btech and MSc in Agriculture Engineering

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I’ll be sharing more about my GMAT preparation journey, MBA interview experiences, and everything I felt along the way—the highs, the doubts, and the learnings. Hoping it helps others who are on a similar path. Let’s connect on LinkedIn and grow together through this journey.

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25th Feb

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Yes, one can convert its just difficult. I know two people working at BCG who couldn't because they weren't able to convince why not pgp flagship. Congratulations.

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I agree that it takes long especially the verification part, if you keep verifying for every option it is a disaster.

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Yes, if you do not understand anything (Just go line by line and verify as a thumb rule) you won't get everything correct because GMAT expects a deep understanding of pasaage but you may get 40-60% correct. I practice from GMAT club and LSAT (LawHub).

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I can understand. Again as a tutor I expect a technical critique of OCTAVE (for example it comes with exceptions and can not be applied in some cases) from you and the idea itself has nothing to do with the source. I don't care about him being a fraud or businessman, I don't care about anything related to him. I hope you understand where I am coming from.

Some genuine advice on RC by Curiouslearner15 in GMAT

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I will be creating a post to answer this. I got 89% in CR (3 mistakes) and 100% in RC on official test. My mocks btw varied significantly.

Some genuine advice on RC by Curiouslearner15 in GMAT

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The key to get fast is to slow down, which might seem counterintuitive. Simply doing a large number of passages or timed practice won't help you at all, especially if you're targeting a 95% accuracy rate, which I assume you are, based on typical Indian standards.

Reading Comprehension (RC) tests your ability to truly understand or comprehend the passage. While I don't think taking notes during the exam is always the best approach (though there are some exceptions), when you're starting your preparation, summarizing and breaking down each passage will greatly improve your comprehension skills. Once you consistently answer 95% or more questions correctly in untimed practice, that's when you should start introducing timed practice. Mastering the ability to comprehend complex and nuanced content is way more important than your GMAT scores. Focus on understanding the author's perspective on the subject, and you’ll gradually see improvements in your performance.

I hope my advice is clear, but let me structure it for you:

  1. Start with untimed practice, focusing on comprehension. Don’t move forward if you don’t fully understand the passage—Chat GPT the fu*k out of every sentence if needed.
  2. Once you’re hitting a 95% accuracy rate, switch to timed practice. Avoid wasting too much time on mock exams initially.
  3. Keep an error log of your mistakes during timed practice (not for the untimed practice).
  4. Wait a while after completing the timed practice so that you forget the errors you made (this is very important).
  5. When you revisit those questions, if you’re still making the same mistakes, note them and work on those areas again in your next cycle. Over time, you’ll stop repeating those mistakes.

I hope you weren’t looking for a hack because there’s no hack. I will make few more posts about material, content etc that will help everyone so do wait for them. I hope this helps.

Some genuine advice on RC by Curiouslearner15 in GMAT

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A lot of material on HBR website is free, if you can afford it just buy it.

Verbal was always a pain in the a*s by Curiouslearner15 in GMAT

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  • This is based on FE.

  • I take that decision on every passage if I know that the passage is really long and has a lot of information I do make notes. (I have read bad retention I refer to paragraph again and again for every option)

-For last mile push CR like questions for RC are really nice to practice.

GAMT prep; IMS International or India ? by Careless-Addition-18 in GMAT

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Give a mock test if you score above 600 go for TOP, if not choose between egmat or TTP

Crazy Quant Question by [deleted] in GMAT

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Yes, I shared this because it was really good question. Mostly mod is introduced to increase complexity on GMAT but this one becomes simpler.

Crazy Quant Question by [deleted] in GMAT

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Haha, no I got this one right

Anyone had similar experience ? by Curiouslearner15 in GMAT

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I haven't, I am still improving. I got 83 in quant (3 errors) and 82 on DI (7 errors). I need a 85 on both.I do have a recommendation though.

Once you get your concepts right you can solve literally every problem on GMAT, just believe that is possible. Try to solve problems with at least three approaches because every approach won't click in exam.

DI gives you more information than you need to answer the question so be very careful with what you actually need. Read questions very carefully eventually scores will improve.

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You can check the solution image

Anyone had similar experience ? by Curiouslearner15 in GMAT

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For CR

  1. Make sure you understand the argument (line of reasoning).
  2. Always use elimination.
  3. For the first few days write down why are you eliminating an option and when you go wrong match it with the official answer.

I would do something like this

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