I am FUMING right now.
Three days since I touched my GMAT books. I finally sit with focus and determination to take the DS section head-on and end up with 11 of 37 questions wrong. Yeah 30 freaking percentatge error. Screw me.
DS has been a pain since I first took the Diagnostic test. I was below average in that. So I've always kind of been wary of DS and so was brushing up on quant fundamentals for the past few days so that I could tackle the problems better.
It did not pay off.
I did feel more comfortable solving the probelms as I hit upon the AD/BCE method but am terribly disappointed and angry with myself that I let 11 damn problems go wrong. I looked at all of them and seems that I was in too much of a hurry or just over-analyzed the problems and ended up getting them wrong. God, I hate myself right now.
Maybe, its the fact that I am wary of DS that I kind of go overboard and screw up. Hell, that cant't be tha case as I pretty much screw up across all the sections. Seems like I need to be more smart to solve these. Need to focus and remain patient while solving the problems, yet have a dose of common-sense ready, so that I do not commit silly mistakes. I cannot afford to get a 30% failure rate in DS. No way. Not in a section where I don't even have to solve the damn problem. No freaking way.
In other news, I looked up the Tata-McGraw Hill GMAT book. It seems a good buy at Rs. 450(it comes with 6 prep tests). There are plenty of tips for each section. Think I'll but that. Atleast for the 6 tests.
Bambi gave me the NOVA's GMAT book. Still need to look at it. Wanted to look at the Kaplan Comprehensive or the Manhattan GMAT. Can't believe the two major book shops didn't have it. Need to locate the two. May be will buy one.
And yeah, I did make a time-table, but not very detailed. But after today's DS debacle, I guess I have to chalk out a detailed plan. 46 days to go and hell there is so much to study.
Will take a break now. Phew!
Current Mood: Calming down.....
PS: I'm sorry Bambi I was rude to you. I was really angry with myself and should not have taken that out on you. I am really sorry :(
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Its all about being organized, Stupid
That's what I keep telling myself. Especially after I got a 620 in GMAT Prep Test 1 last Sunday.
While I have been preparing for the last 4 weeks or so, I was always wary of taking a full length test for two reasons.
1. Didn't want to exhaust my test material
2. Was not sure how the score would affect my prep.
Guess what? I was totally wrong on point 1. I really needed some kind of direction on where I was going with all the prep I was doing so a full-length test was not just much needed, but, as they would call it in tech jargon, was mission-critical. I can alwyas spend a few extra bucks to get more material, but I'll never know if I'm on the right track if I don't evaluate myself- especially in the early stages of my prep.
As for point 2, I got the mother of all doses of reality one could ever get once I saw my score. I was like Huh?And a little 'Obviously' thrown in.
See, I knew all along that my prep was not focussed. I kind of knew my strengths and weaknessess, so to speak, but my prep was not addressing the same. As I blindly covered the concepts in Math and English, I knew I was operating at low concentration levels and that I was not working toward targets. Bambi always told me to get a damn time-table but I always shrugged it off.
Now I know I need one. Desperately. Otherwise I better kiss my dreams goodbye.
So here's the analysis of my first prep test.
1. 12 Wrong in Math. 16 in English. I don't have my notes rite now, but I think it was 38Q and 34V.
2. I suck at DS. Mostly because I do not evaluate all the answer choices independently. Number Theory and Coordinate geometry are the topics I need to work on.
3. I messed up an entire passage in RC. My verbal started off with an RC -which was a tricky passage - and I needed to focus more.
4. I also messed some SC's. I need to get back to some basics here.
Takeaways:
1. Get a damn time table.
2. Get through the concepts quickly and more importantly work as many problems as possible
3. Take a full-length test every week. This is the bare minimum. Do more tests as the magic date nears.
4. CONCENTRATE while doing 2 and 3.
Moral of the story: Get Organized, Stupid.
While I have been preparing for the last 4 weeks or so, I was always wary of taking a full length test for two reasons.
1. Didn't want to exhaust my test material
2. Was not sure how the score would affect my prep.
Guess what? I was totally wrong on point 1. I really needed some kind of direction on where I was going with all the prep I was doing so a full-length test was not just much needed, but, as they would call it in tech jargon, was mission-critical. I can alwyas spend a few extra bucks to get more material, but I'll never know if I'm on the right track if I don't evaluate myself- especially in the early stages of my prep.
As for point 2, I got the mother of all doses of reality one could ever get once I saw my score. I was like Huh?And a little 'Obviously' thrown in.
See, I knew all along that my prep was not focussed. I kind of knew my strengths and weaknessess, so to speak, but my prep was not addressing the same. As I blindly covered the concepts in Math and English, I knew I was operating at low concentration levels and that I was not working toward targets. Bambi always told me to get a damn time-table but I always shrugged it off.
Now I know I need one. Desperately. Otherwise I better kiss my dreams goodbye.
So here's the analysis of my first prep test.
1. 12 Wrong in Math. 16 in English. I don't have my notes rite now, but I think it was 38Q and 34V.
2. I suck at DS. Mostly because I do not evaluate all the answer choices independently. Number Theory and Coordinate geometry are the topics I need to work on.
3. I messed up an entire passage in RC. My verbal started off with an RC -which was a tricky passage - and I needed to focus more.
4. I also messed some SC's. I need to get back to some basics here.
Takeaways:
1. Get a damn time table.
2. Get through the concepts quickly and more importantly work as many problems as possible
3. Take a full-length test every week. This is the bare minimum. Do more tests as the magic date nears.
4. CONCENTRATE while doing 2 and 3.
Moral of the story: Get Organized, Stupid.
Monday, July 16, 2007
It’s time
Yes it is.
I have been wanting for some time now - say around 4 years now - to pursue an MBA. My first attempts were at ‘belling the CAT’ - or as they call it, getting into one of the six famed Indian Institutes of Management or IIMs. I tried thrice, albeit, seriously only once, but failed.
Then work happened. And with it brought plenty if opportunities(read America). So Long, I said to my MBA dreams, but was never quite able to put it away. It lingered and lingered and it is back now. And this blog is its testimony.
Just to lay it out bare - my goal is to obtain an admit in one of the many respected MBA programs by the Fall of 2008. And this blog will be the logbook of my voyage. It will chronicle most of everything I’ll do (some things could turn out to be unprintturn out to be unprintable, so) during this journey.
Everyone has his run to run.
I have been wanting for some time now - say around 4 years now - to pursue an MBA. My first attempts were at ‘belling the CAT’ - or as they call it, getting into one of the six famed Indian Institutes of Management or IIMs. I tried thrice, albeit, seriously only once, but failed.
Then work happened. And with it brought plenty if opportunities(read America). So Long, I said to my MBA dreams, but was never quite able to put it away. It lingered and lingered and it is back now. And this blog is its testimony.
Just to lay it out bare - my goal is to obtain an admit in one of the many respected MBA programs by the Fall of 2008. And this blog will be the logbook of my voyage. It will chronicle most of everything I’ll do (some things could turn out to be unprintturn out to be unprintable, so) during this journey.
Everyone has his run to run.
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