My GMAT Experience!!!

[sharmaa67]

just got back...
hopefully when i get my results i'll post a detailed experience, but for the time being...
studied GMAC books
Kaplan Qbank: 1st time unused = 85% (that was with a bit of cheating, 83% without cheating)
Used 2minuteGMAT
Took the ManhattanGMAT prep class
now for the exam...
just remember that this is my own personal experience, and it's only meant to be a guideline

1. exam is doable, the class really helped
2. definately easier than Kaplan Qbanks
3. i only did Knewton’s free test and i really believe that the exam was the same and even slightly easier than Knewtons
4. q's evenly distributed, i can't say that they concentrated on a certain topic
5. the so-called experimental q's: out of the q, i think there was only 1 q that i thought to myself: what the hell.
6. Emails from 2minuteGMAT helped
7. 45% direct, just recalling - easy.... 45% require thinking, connecting - medium/difficult, 10% v. difficult - had to use a combo of logic, general knowledge, educated guess

8. without reading the concepts u don't stand a chance
9. they did put a few "tricks", where they try to lead u to the wrong answer, and it actually worked a few times, but when i would read the question
10. finally, it took me 3hrs in bed to get to sleep, so i only slept 4 hrs, but still the stress of the exam is enough to get u through and make u concentrate fully... so no need for sleeping tablets, beta blockers etc

and again, this was only my opinion on the exam

now i've entered the most difficult part of the GMAT... the long wait!!

[JAgozzino2]

Man, you 2minute gmat people are slimy.

Not particularly bright, but definitely slimy. There is no "wait" for the gmat. You get your scores from the CAT immediately upon completion.

Registering different names and telling the same story (hey, I took *insert book with known reputation* + 2 minute gmat + *insert course of company currently hosting forum* = made up success (usually) or, in this inexplicable case, "the long wait."

[StaceyKoprince]

JAgozzino2, lol.

:)

[hitesh.the.game]

They are bright as well. The post looks extremely honest and genuine!

[StaceyKoprince]

:)

[cgarre]

ha .. interesting , people are so desperate to score good, that they believe everything.. thanks for the information ... Good that someone observed the pattern. And yes the very obvious flaw, score is given immediately. I am sure they should be intelligent enough to atleast fake some score - something like I got 740, and then *insert course* and 2 min gmat and *insert book* ...

Most likely they are used to 2 minutes - often they would end up writing so fast that logic takes time to catch up. Logical thinking takes more than 2 minutes.

[StaceyKoprince]

"at least fake some score - something like I got 740, and then *insert course* and 2 min gmat and *insert book*"

I have seen some posts that fit that pattern as well.