sanders

04-03-2002, 12:23 AM

hi paul

I just moved to melbourne about a year ago from NZ. i was thinking of applying for a full time MBA. I have attended a few information sessions for UNSW and Melb Uni. I also tried to find a classroom course for GMAT preperation in melbourne but i havnt had much luck.

Kaplan has got a good book which comes with a cd and u can get that from Technical Books on swanston street. But it finally comes doen to how motivated u r to actually open the book to read after a long day at work.

anyways, if u think we can be of some help to each other to prepare for GMAT and applications, email me at deadmetalzone@hotmail.com

good luck

anand

Dear Paul,

You should make it a point to purchase the book that ETS publishes containing thousands of real GMAT questions. (The Official Guide for GMAT?Review 10th Edition).

Then put yourself on a plan of rigorous study (literally spending 1-2 hours/day working on the various question types and completing problems). Kaplan and Princeton Review both have books out there to help you with the strategy side of things. Try to imitate real testing conditions as best as you can (no interruptions etc.)

Please feel free to contact us if you have other questions about the process of preparing to apply to MBA programs.

Best of luck,

Graham

A few GMAT points:


If you're definitely going to do the test, book it now. The sooner you book it the sooner you'll get the prep software from GMAC. Most of it you can download from www.gmac.com but the CD they send you includes 2 complete GMAT tests which are very useful to gauge your preparation.

I also bought some prep software from www.800score.com, my first online purchase, and I wasn't expecting much. In fact it turned out to be very helpful - particularly on the verbal side- where most of the grammar correction questions become very simple once you know the idioms and about parallelism.

As for general test prep, Graham was right you have to replicate the test conditions. The quant section is all based on 14 year old level maths so it's not that hard. Until you have to answer every question in two minutes. If you take more time in preparing you'll want more time in the test.

One last thing, all the topics for the AWA exercise are availalbe to review. It's worth doing it, because some of them can leave you pretty flat for ideas, and being the first thing it could really spoil your frame of mind for the rest of the test.

Good luck,

D

Thanks to you both for your advice. I'm progressing well and have the ETS PowerPrep CD. It's a bit frustrating that the questions on it are the same as those in the ETS's Official Guide to GMAT Prep...

If they don't have classroom courses in Australia for GMAT prep, you can do an online course, even a short course to get your feet wet to see if you want to do a more in-depth one. Princeton Review has online courses (www.review.com), and I think you get the same materials you get when you take a classroom course. The class materials are a lot more in-depth than the ones you can buy locally or from Amazon.com. Worth it just for those!

Hi Paul,

Graham gives good advice here. The best two study books I've found for the GMAT are the official guide (for general review) and the Princeton Review book "Cracking the GMAT" (for test-taking strategy). It's important to study both if you want to do really well on the test. Don't cram; study them regularly over a period of time.

Remember, though, if you don't happen to do well on the test (i.e. you're applying to a top-ten program and get a 600), you can take it again, as the schools only consider the top score - however, note that the schools will raise their eyebrows if you take it many times.

Todd

Hi, Paul.
You may also want to check out Kaplan's online course. Good luck!

Paul:

This response is probably 7 months too late, but for you or anyone else looking for live GMAT instruction in Australia, my company Veritas offers it (www.veritasprep.com).

We do not have classes in Melbourne at this time. However, we do have live classes in Sydney right now, and another beginning in January. We also offer private tutoring in Melbourne.

The Veritas GMAT course is a comprehensive 42 hours, and all of our instructors and tutors have scored in the 99th percentile on the GMAT.

Best of luck,
Chad

is there anyone can help me with the personal statement on how an MBA can contribute to my future carrer.
I don't know how can develop a proper one
the anh

HI Paul, I have just moved to Sydney and havent found any GMAT course... any advise? or any psrtner to study? please reply to daniel@marcos.bz

Did you took your GMAT already? how did you did?

thank you,

Okay, this is probably way too late for the original poster, but for anyone else in that corner of the world. consider cruising over to Asia. Yep. Kaplan and Princeton Review run courses all over China, Korea and Japan, and, the cost in China and Korea is dirt cheap. In Korea, you'd spend about a third of what you'd pay in the States or Canada. As such, the rest of the dough could pay for your flight and hotel.

What about the instructors? They're almost always excellent. Kaplan and Princeton have very, very few full-time teaching positions in the States, so, some of their teachers, who absolutely love teaching test prep, head over to Asia to do it full-time.

You can go to Kaplan or Princeton's websites, look up "International Locations" and contact the folks directly.

For reviews of Kaplan's and Princeton's GMAT classes, check out http://www.testpreprankings.com/id7.html