Day 7 and 8 - 28 and 29 June 09

I have mentioned earlier that i am going to take a test on 28thJune09. It appeared to be a warmup test from princeton review and not a full simulated test. However I am able to analyze myself with the warmup test.

The test consists of 40 questions, 20 each from maths and verbal. The time alloted for each section is 30 minutes, i.e. 1.5 minutes per question which is less than the actual time given per question in the gmat. I took the test in two different sessions, first being maths and then verbal.

While working on the Maths questions, I felt more comfortable that I could categorize the questions as medium difficulty only. I scored 16 out of 20. Of the 4 questions i missed, 3 were careless mistakes which i will eventually overcome. I had no problems with the concepts that were tested. I doubt that the real gmat questions are as easy as these.

On the verbal section, I found it very hard to answer these medium difficuly questions itself. Though I have not answered confidently, I got 15 questions correct out of 20. On the sentence correction questions I could not identify the actual grammatical error, but in most of the questions the options that appeared as best to me were correct. On all the 3 sections of verbal, I have to practise a lot.

I have placed online orders for kaplan series books and official guide 12th edition. I will get these books only by 11th of July, which is the 19th day of my sudy plan. By the time, I should complete the practise questions and tests in priceton review and all the questions in the official guide 11th edition.

The summary of my warm up test result is as follows.

Total - 31 out of 40
Maths - 16/20 : Data Sufficiency - 7/8 and Problem solving - 9/12
Verbal - 15/20 : Sentence correction - 6/7; Reading comprehension- 6/8 and Logical Reasoning - 3/5

Ranking as per PR: My standings in both the sections separately is among the top 1/3rd of test takers. But the combined standing is of an average score of 450-550.

I am happy that I am not at a below average level, but I have to work hard to move upto the level of high scorer in another 93 days. Its going to be practise and test sessions for the next 10 days. I will have a detailed analysis of the areas that i have to improve and those in which i have enough competency.