I digested almost 80% of manhattan SC after doing a few timed drills on OG yesterday. I did not do the OG 10 questions which manhattan SC asks us to do because I did not have that kind of time, however, was awake till almost 2AM last night taking notes, and going through my other GMAT notes, I have personally made on paper. After reading all the tips I went down to the center at 11 o clock today, and started with the test. I had an option of skipping the essays, but I decided that whatever I do, I have to build my stamina so I decided I will take every DT from now on with the essays. Math started well, I saw a few percents, fractions, percents, some tricky DS, but I was comfortably marching through them, and bang saw one probability question, stumbled on it for almost 5 mins, guessed and moved on, another one! straight 5 questions from Probabilty one after another. I was totally tense. After came another DS, and it started sailing smooth, I was keeping track of time and was making sure I solve the problems within 2 minutes. Finally Maths was over. I knew I did not do well on the probability questions which were probably all lined up from 12-17...
Verbal... My dear verbal was next. I was very much prepared for this one, my fresh Manhattan SC stint had given me enough courage to tackle the first SC, after which flashed a very scientific RC with 3 questions which I managed to digest, then a couple of tough arguments, which I sailed through smoothly and comfortably, I was keeping tab on time, as well as was writing the eliminations on paper, and striking ABCDE off except whichever I felt was the right answer. I did this only for tough questions later on in order to save time. I saw a few familar CRs and one familiar RC, however, the Arguments were surprisingly becoming difficult, and I had to think a lot more than I normally tend to think, but I kept my concentration levels, and decided to run through it.
I was done with the test finally at about 3, and did wait a moment before looking for the score. Flash came the 670. I was so happy to see the breakup more than the average. I knew I had done bad on the math, so Math was just 40, but believe my good stars I had scored 43 in verbal, which is steller as per my own standards, and I knew probability questions were not a big deal as there was no way I would have seen 5 straight probability questions on the actual GMAT. I was happy, and left the center with a little piece of advise from my verbal tutor. She advised me to go through the OG10 questions at least for the sections which I feel are difficult, she felt the verbal score was really good, and if I can improve even a little, I will comfortably sail past 700.
What a run-down. I was extremely happy, I am going to follow her and do the OG10 for the Sentence correction sections of the Manhattan SC. So far, I am just going to dream that I get at least close to 43 in my actual GMAT, I can't be complascent, as I have to go miles before I sleep.
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Cheers
Abhi
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