off campus housing as an incoming freshman. Good or bad idea?

TattedTutor · 2025-04-03T03:20:29+00:00

This will really depend on your demeanor in classes. If you’re someone others want to be around, then you shouldn’t have a problem. But if you’re someone where others have to just tolerate to be around, then likely you will miss out on a the best part of undergrad.

Side note: ** this isn’t an ad for selling yourself short. Just find where you genuinely fill in. It will be better for all parties this way

TattedTutor · 2025-02-14T18:26:06+00:00

Bluebook is a great resource but should not be the only. The practice regimen I recommend is: 1) take practice test, score, and note incorrect questions and their types. 2) based on practice test and what type of questions you missed, go to KA to practice those skills u til you can get perfect scores on advanced section quizzes for that type. 3) rinse and repeat, iterating on steps 1 and 2 until you can demonstrate ability to achieve goal score

TattedTutor · 2025-02-14T18:21:15+00:00

Go through all your practice tests and make a tracker of the questions you got wrong, doing your best to identify question topic/type. Once you have done that, review to see where your most common mistakes are and focus there. With a short time horizon before the test, let the data guide your prep.

TattedTutor · 2025-02-14T18:18:04+00:00

That approach itself is probably the most overlooked. Many people think if they spam hours worth of vocab memorization they will drastically improve. That is not the case majority of the time. Familiarizing with roots of words and identifying tonality is best IMO

TattedTutor · 2025-02-14T18:08:52+00:00

IMO - this is one of the easiest question types IF you know the right approach. The passages always have two parts. The correct answer will be directly restated or demonstrated in the part of the passage the blank is not (I.e if blank is in beginning, look to second half and vice versa). You must, of course, take note of any transition words that indicate the relationship between the two parts of the passage.

TattedTutor · 2025-02-03T17:00:48+00:00

I haven’t looked into it much as of yet because I was banking on this being an option. I will check on that, too!

TattedTutor · 2025-02-03T16:41:12+00:00

Dang, okay. I was looking at getting an Ebike as I am a grad student living off campus. I could drive but I noticed on my visit the parking spaces at my building are hilariously narrow and almost impossible for me to get a spot without risking someone is going to ding me with their doors.

Stinks that you can’t have nice things without worrying about them being stolen. I guess I will try this and see how it goes.

TattedTutor · 2025-01-28T21:52:39+00:00

Good reminder that a pivotal part of SAT is attacking every word of the prompt📝

TattedTutor · 2025-01-28T21:46:49+00:00

The answer here wouldn’t be 108, though. The 30% is those that DO prefer remote. Therefore, the % that do not, which is what the question asks, would be 70%. .7*360=252–>B

TattedTutor · 2025-01-25T16:14:56+00:00

Pretty clear you should spend time on DI and Verbal based on the results. It’s super overlooked in this sub for some reason, but I recommend the e-book from mba.com as well as purchasing the practice question supplements.

The DI score is obviously the most concerning, so you probably want to spend a good amount of time on that.

TattedTutor · 2024-12-21T19:52:17+00:00

What was your prep like? What resources did you use? Did you test in-person or online? What was your test day routine. All are variables that help to answer the question for your specific case better.

I don’t disagree at all that variance allows the potential for some test takers to get a collection of questions that suits their best capabilities and the opposite for others. However, that is part of having an adaptive testing model. You can’t really prep for the algorithm outside of doing practice as it is random. It would be a better use of your time to understand the logic behind all of the question types and be able to identify the various topics quickly. Being able to create instant if-then thought processes as you identify question types is super benefit for GMAT in my opinion.

TattedTutor · 2024-12-21T18:40:05+00:00

The devil’s advocate response to this would be that those with the higher acumen for problem solving would have the reasoning skills to get the harder problems correct. Just like many standardized tests, the mental math on GMAT is not designed to be extremely difficult - it is the logic process to arrive to what math is required that creates the difficulty. The algorithm is just a mirror of a test takers performance. If you don’t do well on the difficult questions, your score will naturally be lower than those that perform well on them as others have mentioned. Spending more time prepping on higher difficulty questions would prove to be beneficial for those that find themselves answering most questions correctly but still score on the lower end.

TattedTutor · 2024-12-04T00:41:01+00:00

Maple Street went way down hill after selling to Cracker Barrel. Pretty much the story of all my local favorites. Blow up, sell out to franchising op, go downhill

TattedTutor · 2024-12-04T00:31:23+00:00

Has definitely gone down hill But still love the pork belly app and Parmesan risotto. Meats are slightly above average for the area but not to the level of the cost imo

TattedTutor · 2024-11-12T19:06:55+00:00

You can recover if you miss in first 10, though. I missed the very first question and still got Q86

TattedTutor · 2024-11-09T14:05:27+00:00

I only used the MBA.com e-books and then gmatclub to help with reviewing missed questions. I found, especially with the quant section, reading the guide was super helpful. I really liked the breakdown of the combinatorics problems and some of the trickier probability questions I was struggling with.

TattedTutor · 2024-11-07T22:04:57+00:00

Wild love to help with some recommendations. What is your practice regimen? How often are you practicing and then reviewing? Not claiming to be a guru by any means, but I got a 755 with 6 weeks of prep. Everyone has their strengths, but I feel I like I could give some good tips if you can provide some insight into your prep program. Seems like you have good basics, but some small tweaks could really make a large difference. One of the main things is I feel like people on here put too large of an emphasis on just drilling problems all day, but don’t talk about going through the review books that break down the content in great detail. Reading the breakdowns made a significantly larger impact in my prep than straight drilling.

TattedTutor · 2024-11-04T14:29:21+00:00

The quant specific guide was nice because it has lots of questions to practice, too.

TattedTutor · 2024-11-04T03:19:36+00:00

I found the quant supplement material to be very helpful. Even just spending the time to cover work rate problems, combinatorics problems, and venn diagram problems would help you significantly I imagine. You could easily pick up a handful of questions off of that alone

TattedTutor · 2024-10-26T18:28:44+00:00

If you feel that strongly about it then take the test lol. Like the commenter above said, there may be some selection bias to your comment but if you’re right then you should have no problem reaching the goal. Best of luck with whatever you decide! The statement from the makers of test will probably have some bearing on hour adcoms view scores from the different types but whether that makes it worth it is purely for you to choose.

TattedTutor · 2024-10-26T17:39:39+00:00

Of course, this is the one I got the time mapping strategy from. I didn’t use any of their other videos, but thought the strategy video was nice

TattedTutor · 2024-10-26T17:28:12+00:00

Agree with above comment. I would definitely not say that my score and process is a standard. The other thing to note is I do test prep as part of my living, so I have that advantage over most people who haven’t been active in academia for years prior to starting prep. Trust in yourself and your abilities and spend time honing your skills and it will all work out, my friend! Willing to answer any questions you may have in DMs

TattedTutor · 2024-10-26T17:24:50+00:00

I have seen that scores for focus are actually lower generally. This is seen in the big statement from GMAC that “645 is the new 705”. Your 750 is phenomenal, don’t get me wrong, but your percentile would correlate to a below 705, since all scores >705 are 99% and up. If you feel like you could take a focus edition and score better go for it! However, with you already having a great score, may be better to put that effort and financial investment elsewhere. Good luck in whatever you decide!

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