Last weekend

Happy fourth of July!
Also my last weekend before the test.
The math sections, sentence completion and most of reading test are finished and I am getting ready to take my 4th test of GMAT tomorrow morning. Will post the results than.

GMAT Official Test Number 1

I am devastated, either I woke up on the wrong foot today or the GMAT prep program is laying....

Did my GMAT CAT official test #1 as my score is 580!!!! That is hopeless, this is not the top 10, even not a top 100 B-school score. It is horrible. My verbal is 22 that is what 26 percentile...

TYPE	SCORE	ESTIMATED PERCENTILE
Quantitative	48
Verbal	22
Total	580

Forgot to mention that I finished four Math books from GMAT official review. I feel hopeless, only 20 more days to go...

GMAT Practice Test Number 2

I bought the Manhattan GMAT 7 book series, to use as a reference and still continue to look at other sources and for certainly to the official review questions simultaneously. After completing first two books:

Number Properties and Fractions, Decimals, & Percents I attempted my second Manhattan GMAT test on June 29. According to some source these test estimate your score within 50 points, so I was happy to see a 20 point jump in my score:

TYPE	SCORE	ESTIMATED PERCENTILE
Quantitative	46	79 %
Verbal	34	72 %
Total	660	86 %

Well this was 3 weeks ago. That seemed really great at that time.

Ready, set, go!

Just created the calendar with the approximated due dates. Will be updating it as I set on for material. I am using GMAT Strategy guides by Manhattan GMAT for now.

Some statistics to start with

My long term educational goal has been MBA from top American university for a long time. Trying to build the foundation step by step I have reached the point where there are no more challenges on the way that make the dream impossible. Well, this is the country of opportunities and every dream is possible! if you work hard enough and that is what I am going to do for the next couple of months. Join me in my journey friends!

Having set my date of exam on July 10, 2010 I have exactly two months to do my best towards earning >95% score to guarantee the above average acceptance score in top 10 national universities.

According to Princeton Review 2008 the scores for the universities that I am going to target are the following:

Name	Average Score	Score Range
Harvard	713	N/A
MIT	710	665-760
Northeastern University	704	N/A
Stanford	721	700-750
University of Michigan	700	640-760

Let's first understand what is the objective and what it does really mean 95%??
From the official MBA website those score charts are

Based on this chart my target goal is 740, where my current test score is 640.
This is one test from Manhattan GMAT I did couple weeks ago before scheduling my exam or starting to study. Some details from that test for my future reference..

TYPE	SCORE	ESTIMATED PERCENTILE RANK
Quantitative	43	70 %
Verbal	34	72 %
Total	640	80 %

This means we need 15% or 100 point score improvement. Next will discuss the attack plan! Wish me luck.
Well bon voyage, as some will say!