Egg’s OXFORD Home – 2010

After the debacle, Eggs is moving closer to those 1 year programs. And Lo! one of the best ones!

SAID has a 1 year program, deadline is Oct 24th

Apply through apply yourself – How to apply

There is a TOEFL waiver – FAQs

We will waive the TOEFL or IELTS requirement if you have gained a degree from an American, Australian, British or Canadian University. If your education in another country has been in English or you have lived/worked in an English-speaking country for some time, you may submit a letter with your application to request a waiver of the TOEFL/IELTS requirement. This will be considered on an individual basis.

Average Age: 29  Average Ex: 6  Average GMAT: 690 hmm class Profile

More on the colleges of OXFORD at Wicki

Checkout the pulsating list of electives! and look at Private Equity

Some more Stuff – GO

Scorechase for me

The day I decided to spend time on Scoretop, they closed it down

The day I decide to take the electric chair, there will be a National Grid break down

Found Scorechase interesting though, the forums are good, but the real hard questions, the JJs, the GMAT SETS…hmm

Let me check out Scorechase, the blogs , the GMAT Stories , forums and if anyone replies to EggsIgnio’s first comment

Anatomy of a 780

Anatomy of a 780 (Q50, V47) courtesy Scoretop

I hadn’t planned to write a debriefing. But some of my friends here on ScoreTop seem to think that such a summary might be useful’so here it is. Fair warning, this is a long one.

I’ve never been much for standardized tests. I can’t say why. My marks in school (all 20 years of it) were fine, but my various board scores, while sufficient, were never particularly impressive. Frankly, standardized tests scare me. They scared me then and they scare me now. Why? I think that it has to do with what seems to be their essentially arbitrary and judgmental nature on the part of these exams. I suppose they may be necessary. Still, there?’s something elemental about the exclusionary purpose of the entrance exam that bothers me on a visceral level. The point is that, in approaching the GMAT, as in most everything else, fear is bad. Fear makes people do all kinds of stupid things. Regardless of my attitudes and opinions in this regard, I had to confront these demons, in their territory, and find a way to neutralize them. I did this through my interaction with all of you here on ScoreTop.  So, whatever you?’ve got to do, be it meditation or exercise or baking cookies or knitting socks or posting verbal A&E for 20 GMAT Sets, find a way to manage your fear.

GMAT 790 – the GUY who got

This is great stuff….

As I said when discussing my PP1 results, I only got around 65% of these right on my first test. By the time of the test, I averaged 1 wrong out of every 100 questions. Here’s how I improved so much:First thing I did was buy Manhattan GMAT’s Sentence Correction Guide. While it’s true that, as everyone says, OG is the bible for practicing verbal, I would say that this book is the bible for learning the rules of SC. This book is so comprehensive it’s amazing. I cannot emphasize enough what an important role this book played in achieving my score. Also, the friend I told you about who got a 750 without studying did actually spend a couple of days studying. The only thing he studied was this book, and as a result his verbal score jumped from 40 on PP1 to 44 on the actual GMAT.

GMAT 780

Soni, another MITian manages a 780 (Kudos, Q50, V47)

He recommends Manhattan GMAT for Number Properties, Word Translations, and Sentence Correction and GMATClub’s tests for the devil which is in the details.

For the last 3 weeks I used GMATClub’s tests. The importance of these tests was that they taught me to PAY ATTENTION. For example, “if n is a positive integer…” — DON’T TRY n=0 or n=-1/2 when trying to solve the problem! PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS OF THE GIVEN INFORMATION!!! This is where the GMAT catches a lot of people, that’s why I double and triple checked everything.

GMAT game plan

Wonder why I missed this site before. There are some candid insights and some plans, and I badly need one. Gmattutor.com has a game plan section with a few GMAT prep strategies. I don’t know which one is best for the 800 score I’m aiming at.

The Website says “Spend at least five hours reviewing the information on this website. The areas you will want to focus on most are the Math Basics page, the Idiom List, the Special Reports, and the Miscellaneous Tips & Tricks pages.”

Let me aim for taking the GMAT by mid July, which is approximately 100 days from now. That would give me 15 weekends and 14 work weeks (70 days). Say I give one hour a day on work days plus 3 hours on weekends. I’ll have 115 hours till G Day.

So maybe the 100 hour plan works well for me, Excerpt,

GMAT Math – DOs and DONTs

Gmathacks.com has an interesting post on GMAT math. You have to score 100% in this section to get an 800.

A list of things you DONT need to study for GMAT,

What may be most important to your study plan is what is not on the list. No combinations, probability, standard deviation, or absolute value. No surface area of a cylinder, compound interest formula, or functions.  

A list of 10 important GMAT topics that you have to MASTER

Hello world!

Hello!

Failure is the stepping stone to success. My last attempt at MBA was a failure in the classic sense of the word. After 8 dings, I have cribbed enough. I’m finding it real hard to gather myself for another try, to believe that I still can. But the last thing I want to do now is to let the lessons of last year pass. So blog….