Never give up, never surrender

2002-12-30 09:14:46

Sorry about the English input, the truth is I can’t type Chinese very efficiently; I came to United States when I was 14. Contrary to your believes I am not an ABC, even though I can’t type Chinese, but I can still read and speak Chinese affluently. I took my first GMAT exam 4 months ago, at that time I though it will just be like any other standardized exam I took since I arrived here, after all I took TOEFL when I was 17 and got a 610 without much efforts. But after I finish the exam and saw a 5** on the screen I was crushed. The following few days I kept thinking maybe I am not as smart as I thought. I know a lot of you have the same experience as I did. But after sitting down and reexamining of my whole studying experience, I realized that what I have done wrong. I know this may sound cliché but it is true that your attitude decides everything, I remember when I first preapare for the exam I had too many distractions in my life. I skim the OG once and never put in the effort to summarize and analyze the questions, I underestimated the GMAT exam and thought it will be a piece of cake.

So the second time studying for the exam I completely changed my approach. I redid the SC part of the OG, after awhile you realized that ETS only has few tricks in its sleeves. Parallelism, Verb-Subject agreement, Logical comparison, sentence Tense consistency, Idioms, and dangling modifiers. All SC question in the OG can be put in into either one or two of the categories. Then I focus on RC, I never though I would have problems in reading, after all I went to high school here and going on to my 4th year in an American university. After redid the RC part of the OG I start to realize practice makes prefect, I don’t have problems understanding the articles, all I have to do is slow down and make sure I don’t miss any details. I believe do well on RC is the most important factor of getting high score in Verbal. 3 articles appeared in the first two 20 questions in both of my exams. So do well on RC. As for math, I only have middle school Chinese math, and I don’t think I learn any thing new math wise since I moved here. But it doesn’t mean I will do well on the Math part, as a matter of fact I did horrible the first time. To improve math, I did JJ posted on this website, and I found them extremely useful, because the quantitative part in China is harder than that of in U.S. So if I can do all the hard questions, then I won’t have any problems at all.

I have to tell you the past 4 months I spent studying GMAT has been one of the toughest yet most satisfying experience I ever had. I am still a full time university student, on top of all the school work I put in average 4 hours a day to study for GMAT. But when I saw
The final result Q5* V4* 7** this morning I know everything I did had pay off.

I found OG the most useful studying material; I also did all the RC and most of the RC & SC on the white XDF book. But OG is the bible, know it inside and out. I did two Kaplan practice exams before the real exam, but I found them too hard and quite different from the real GMAT exam. I like the PP3 the best, it give you a feel of what the real thing is like, but the math part is too easy, so don’t be fooled by that. I would recommend everyone to do 3 or 4 practice exams one week before the Test date. So you can get use to doing question on computer and get comfortable with the 3 and half long hours.
I hope all this mumbling can give you some inspirations. Just remember, you all made this far and that means you are all the best of the best, so never doubt your ability. All you need is the drive, the need, the determination to achieve you goal. Ask yourself, if you only have one shot, one chance, one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, do you take it or just let it slip?

So thanks to everyone who has contributed JJ, now it’s my time to do the same

AI: Whether Team work is still important, since the one with most ability do most of the work.

AA: The owners of the Café have made a right decidsion moved to a new location, since it will celebrate its second year in business, and there have been 3 businesses in the Café’s old location.

There are only 3 JJ in my math, I wasn’t surprised,

The ratio of choose 5 out 20 and 4 out of 20

The mixture problem the one with 2.9 as the answer

Three RC in my first 20 question
1. Studying the Genetic of the language, by using the example of the tribes of the Native Americans. Many Tribes share similarities because they are very close socially, then an exception is made, even though the Navajo Tribe is socially close to other tribes but it borrowed very few words from them.

2 In the 18th century, U.S court decided that the government has the ownership of all water, the law is similar to the Spanish water law, but the difference is that Spanish government allows the citizen to use the water when they are drought. Some scholars say the reason the judges grant the government the sole owner ship of the water is because they don’t know Spanish allow the citizen to share water, but evidence show that the judges know but they ignored the history.

3. Chaos scientist tries to find mathematical formulas to find the disturbance force. A related formula is found but the practical application is still needs to be studied.

4. Stock ownership
To fulfill social responsibilities and better serve the needs of the stockholders, companies need to diversify the ownership of the stockholders, but this also increase of the risk of hostile takeover.

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