Slow progress

I am done with the Kaplan Verbal workbook and almost half of kaplan 800.
The difficulty level of questions in Kaplan 800 is surely much better and it has helped me increase my accuracy in Critical reasoning and sentence correction.

Maths was fine, no great about the difficulty level.

Took another Princeton Review Test and scored 730 this time with a raw score of 46 in quants and 45 in verbal.

The good news is that I am scoring well in verbal and making around 8 mistakes in a full length test. The bad news is that I am still unable to put a check on the careless mistakes I am making in Data sufficiency.

I need to focus more and go a little slow in the maths section. I finished it with almost 40 minutes to spare.

Verbal i need to improve my focus and concentration level and that would help me push my score further up.

From where I am right now a simple zero error score in maths would get me a 750 plus and I need to focus on getting this right. After that even if I do just fine in verbal i will get a good overall score.

inching closer to the GOAL

I am feeling much better now and am in aposition to sit and study without much of pain :)

I have almost finished the kaplan verbal workbook and right now I am working with kaplan 800 and it is an amazing book.
have done only Critical reasoning from the book and it sure is pretty tough.

I have also takem 2 full length tests in last few days.
First one was the Paper based full length test in kaplan book.

I got 4 wrong in Quants and 10 wrong in Verbal section.This fetched me a score of 660 according to the scoring formula given in the book.

In Verbal I made only one mistake in CR and 5 in Sentence correction and 4 in Reading comprehension.

Yesterday night I took Computer adaptive test from Princeton Review and managed a score of 680. Here again I made 3 mistakes in quants and 9 mistakes in the verbal section. Out of these 9 I again made 3 mistakes in Sentence correction and 4 in Reading comprehension and 2 in Critical reasoning.

Was a bit disappointed as I was expecting a score of above 700.

So now what i feel is that I am doing good in critical reasoning and I need to improve my accuracy in sentence correction and reading comprehension.

part of it can be done by concentrating better and being aggressive while eliminating the answer choices. In some cases I did not read all the answer choices carefully, in someother read the question wrong.

Quants is where I am strong and I need to get rid of the careless mistakes I am doing. As all the 7 mistakes I made in the 2 tests were very simple ones and I made the mistakes because fo trying to hurry up.

I still have not started with my OG and I think doing that should also help me improve on my scores in sentence correction.

I am all pumped up and want to hit a score of 750 plus. Lets see if I can push myself hard enough to do that.

What a start :) The going just got tougher.

I was down with fever for past few days and was avoiding a visit to a doctor. When the fever just refused to go away even after 3 days I finally went to see a doctor and it turned out to be something more serious than a normal fever and have been advised bed rest for minimum 10 days. And guess what the previous night only I had booked my GMAT test date for March 14th :)

I think god thought testing me just on GMAT would be an easy thing to do, so he increased the odds against me :) and here I am now with only 4 weeks for my GMAT and out of which the next few days are gonna be bad with fever, weakness and many other things :)

I flew back home and am off from work till I get well. That means good food and care at home :)

I have carried along all my gmat books. The net here is real slow so I wont be able to take too much of advantage of the various online forums etc. Need to register for VIP membership of scoretop. Anyone with an idea how good it is ?


Have been working with the Kaplan book for the last 2 days now.
The way I see it, I hardly need to do anything about quants.
I am also finding CR pretty straight forward, sometimes the weaens and strengthens questions get a little tricky but most of them are in black and white with no grey areas.

Sentence correction also I am improving slowly and my accuracy level is up to 80% now.

Reading comprehension was something i used to think might be tough, but to my surprise i made only 1 mistake in 24 questions I attempted so far from the kaplan book.

Once i finish this I would also take the full length practise test and then move on to kaplan verbal workout and then to kaplan 800.

Right now I am feeling really weak so studying in short slots of half an hour types.

Lets see if i crack under adversity or make a record :)

One month is all I have

It has been long time that i have been going slow on my preparation for GMAT. Finally I have decided to put my foot down and set a date for myself.

March first week is what I am aiming at, I still need to find out if there is any free slot available during that time.

I plan to get cracking with the kaplan book by this weekend.

Next would be Kaplan Verbal Workout and then Kaplan 800.

Once I am done with these I am sure I should be ina good shape to take the cd tests and would move on to OG.

Lets see how quickly and vigourously I get cracking on this.

Got Tagged :p

Starting here, the game hit KV who in turn tagged Mr D.Spiral and then wannabe and finally hitting me.

So here I go

Four jobs I've had in my life:
Ok I have been working for a few years only so dont really have 4 full time jobs :) But anyhow some of the jobs I think are major ones are

Placement Coordinator at College
Software Engineer at my previous organization
Programmer at my Current Organization :)
Fund Raising coordinator at a Not for Profit Organization

Four movies I can watch over and over:

Forrest Gump
Notting Hill
The Matrix
Munna Bhai MBBS its a hindi comedy :)

Four places I have lived:

Hissar
Bangalore
Hyderabad
Gurgaon

All in India and none of them is my hometown

Four TV shows I love to watch:

Young Turks
India Business Hour

I cant really recall any other TV show which I watch regularly..


Four places I have been on vacation:

Pondicherry
Shimla
Kodai kanal
Kullu manali

Four of my favourite dishes:

Kheer
Halwa
Aloo Parathas with curd
Pizza

Four websites I visit daily:

Pagalguy
business week
Orkut
My yahoo gorups

Four places I would rather be right now:

At home with Parents
Sipping coffee and reading a book
In the Gym or running
With my friends

Four bloggers I am tagging:

I am a new kid on the block not really sure if I know 4 bloggers who would respond :)
Lets see if I can continue the game :)
Forrest
Vibhu
Ash