all right so welcome Nandita and very congratulations for your 740 Q49 and V42
tell me I believe that you started your prep using verbal online
course so what was your score before you started your prep okay so I was
contemplating giving the GMAT exam sometime last year journey that is I
caught the OG and I was waiting to kick-start but somehow I could never get
started I did start with the the GMAT prep software and I gave a mock and I
actually got a 490 without any sort of preparation I got a score 90
and I was appalled and I was appalled now as alarmed I was just you think of
the most concerning negative adjectives and I was there and I was not confident
at all but I always thought that I was good at Verbal because English was
always a favorite subject of mine but once I started the journey I realized
that it would require a very fine tuning because it all came down to choosing
between those last two answers which seemed very correct so I was looking out
for a course which could give me a good understanding of verbal because what I
needed was not a complete overhaul of what I knew but rather Russia and I was
also looking for an environment which would keep me hooked so I wrote a lot I
searched for a lot of platforms and somehow I found that eg mat was being
mentioned very often especially when it came to work so I decided to take the
plunge and I purchased a subscription to the eg mat probable cause on or sometime
in January I believe I realized that I was doing that but it was not structured
it was just all over the place I was doing questions and I attended a webinar
and one of the GMAT strategies webinars and
I somehow found and there was a CR to see our session and I realize I was
supposed to have gone through the CR material but then I've started looking
at those questions it seemed alien to me so I really wanted some I realize there
are at a lot more of prep to do so that's how I began the eg smartphones
and I must say that I have studied English I studied in the ICAC for all
these years but a lot of the things that I learned during this bubble course it
just just hit me in the sense these are very simple things but I never knew
about it save then to use a do two verses of
because are so many things which had always been there they were doubts even
if you look at the parts of a sentence how to break it down and the first three
are the first session I think it's called I forgot the name but that the
thing yes yes I think that is excellently done so I went through the
so I know that in one of the videos you mentioned that you don't have to go
through all the videos and all the questions if you think you're good I
somehow found it gave me a lot of comfort to go through it and I started
using that to structure my dream a spread so I went through the SC module
and I also went through the CR module and I found that very grounded me a lot
and gave me a lot of the basics to go to yeah yeah
so let me ask you a convention yeah so so regarding CR you mentioned that you
had already prepared for CR so how had you done your prep before you
somehow I found that the way it was structured the way the post was
structured it was very interactive and B it's always there was some glitches I've
I did free some glitches for which I wrote to the team it was not a
completely smooth journey but at the same time it sort of makes the whole
journey smoother so with CR I found the whole yeah the strengthening the pre
thing class rethinking exercise very helpful because
it somehow made you think that there isn't it isn't rocket science it's just
a series of steps and I also used the power score the CR the boo supplements
my learnings but to be honest after doing that I just practiced on the
scholar rhenium my all my verbal that whatever practice I did so I come to
this call rhenium with a little later but whatever practice I did was on this
column so I found that yeah okay alright okay so how would you compare powers go
strategy is with the pre thinking strategies taught in eg mad because
you've done both so at like okay so for power power school are basically used
power school because I what happened was that I was using eg matsya in the
initial months of my planner when I start out that is John fat much and some
health issues etcetera so I could not revisit the whole journey
so what eg Matt essentially did was to give me a foundation wherein I put I
could talk to the questions it taught me that I used to get confused with there
are be certain drug questions where before prep you start do you think this
answer seems very light but when you look at the pose you understand that
okay this is irrelevant from this is out of scope for this extrapolation so what
Iijima did was it helped me understand the answers and look at them in a
certain view it was more of a its it helped me
understand the question better they have to understand the help me be honest my
name and yeah so I was just doing it how you do it so somehow that struck me
because I had all my work but then I also realized I was asking myself I'm
making progress because I miss my suppose were hovering around the 610 to
650 range that's where I was at during my boss so towards the last two
weeks of my prep I was essentially doing my scald rhenium questions
I found that SC was a strong point I would always order above 85% accuracy on
the AC somehow SC something I always felt was something that I didn't have to
put in too much effort because some answer would seem
to me and I would go ahead with it but CRC I realized I needed practice more
than anything because the concepts were there but it wasn't helping just like
that so I started doing a lot of practice questions and towards the end
of my exam I wanted to do the verbal ability quiz but there was this glass
okay an exhausted the unique tool so yeah another thing I did was I started
looking at my the weak areas pattern for example the the bold-faced questions
that is one section where I just would get confused all the time it was so
confusing so I started practicing a lot what I felt is that called rhenium needs
to be used very regularly and you need to just keep doing it one good thing
about it is that I love the interface makes you to practice not something
thoroughly enjoyed about it because it was always like coming home and yeah you
know that this will be kind to you somehow I really like doing that's
that's the first I've heard this would be kind to you yeah
hello Nandita
yeah Nandita sorry I yeah yeah all right oh good good I
what I was saying is that then that your expression that scholar inium will be
kind to you that's that's a very unique expression somehow I found the
performance very for example if I was lacking in an area it showed me that
this is where you are lacking you need to step up and I haven't found so useful
the og practice that you have along with each section so I tell you a bit more
about it here yes so the most the og is that is there are so many questions that
after a while after doing 10 questions I have become very tired out I can't do it
so what I would do is instead I would just for example if it was RC I started
doing the og practice on this called rhenium because not calling him back on
the calls because what it is was it gave me an online method to do the offline
question and it also showed me the time I was taking to do it and it somehow
made the whole thing so much more better I didn't have to worry about okay am i
doing the og questions or not because it sort of balanced between the course
material as well as this okay all right sounds good here
okay how about reading comprehension okay so I see I used eg math mainly for
practice the okay the one thing which I was my biggest takeaway from the RC
course was how to make the main points how to form an idea about the main
points because until then I was reading the whole paragraph but I was never
making it a point to find out the summary of each paragraph I
just with an assumption okay this is what it's about but what eg man did was
it taught me that if it's a paragraph you have to consider each and every
paragraph with equal importance so that is one lesson which helped me in the
main exam as well the rest of it to be honest I did not have the time to go
through the entire course why usually went to it and I just did the practice
question so I did a lot of the og questions on the GMAT pooting okay
correct correct okay okay now tell me how would you you
said that you used to look at the scale data and you would then get feedback
from it so how did you use that Express a little bit more detail about that here
and just see how long I was taking to answer a wrong answer and I just notice
that mostly for the wrong answers I was taking around one and a half to two and
a half minutes and it was just very telling the time taken to answer the
wrong question versus that for the right question that was one way the second way
was that I was looking at individual sections even within CR one section I
was strong the other section I was me so what I started doing towards the fat end
of the practice of the Crypt was I would just until then I was doing full-on
probability quizzes because I also enjoy bubble so much that for me it was I
loved doing it it was more of a yeah let's make let's see what it has to
bring on today but then I realized there is no point in doing everything then you
don't have to do NS C so much you're decent at SC it's telling you you are
getting 85 percent above consistency so then I started filtering out only the CR
and RC questions and started doing those so that was that was very helpful yeah
okay and how would you do how did the
solutions help you in scholar rhenium okay so I
it just showed me how this question which seems so complicated to you it has
a proper way of being looked at and that every question you can actually arrive
at a solution if you follow the approach because that is something which
otherwise solution seems so hard sometimes if you look at the oj for
example the OG solutions it will be very difficult for you to lead to everything
and sometimes it doesn't make sense but for me that is called rhenium solutions
were very useful i preferred the tech solutions to the video solutions because
it took some time to load and sometimes i would just not go there but i made it
a point to try and go to every solution I could because and then I would also do
the questions I got wrong just sure if I am not mistaken
making the same mistakes again ok ok all right that's the one part which is
really really made all the difference was the SC module it just it was
completely overwhelming and I actually I think those are life lessons because
because for example using such as instead of like and so many examples I
am I'm trying to internalize it so that I can okay
well you already have a very good spoken English so I mean if you were able to
identify those things it just goes to show the amount of learnings that are
possible from the extent of variants that are possible alright good thank you
very much Nandita alright so let's talk about next steps for you yes are you
applying right now I can stop recording now so