GMAT – Step 1 & 2 - Registration & Collecting Stuff

This post is for my friends who have started thinking about an MBA in US.
If you are targeting fall 09, then you must have taken your GMAT by now. If you are targeting fall 10, then it’s a good time to start thinking about GMAT.

Go to MBA.com and take the date if you are serious about it. $250 is what makes you have thoughts like “Am I ready to take the test?” Take the date and you ll be ready in no time. Take the date now for Feb, March end or April first week so that you have good enough time for introspection and research about colleges after the GMAT.

3 months is a good enough time for preparing. I didn’t score the dream score of 770, just managed to score 7xx in 3 months. Someone can do it in 2 months and someone like me may not be able to do it in 6 months even. So it all depends on you.

So start collecting the stuff..
 GMAT 11th edition
 One more book you need - princeton/kaplan/etc ( I went for Kaplan and found it worth)
 Power prep tests (the very first thing you need to do is take these tests)
 Online tests for practice( I went for manhattan tests)
 Spidey’s notes
 Manhattan Sentence Correction (it’s a real good one)
 GMATprep tests (these you ll get from MBA.com once you have registered for the test). Save them for the end. They are really precious.
 And lot more..

Let me know if you I can help you with anything.. I have lots of lots of..... stuff

Make a folder in one of the drives of your laptop.
Put the stuff there ..
And get going..

More on how to go about it.. later
Ciao

P.S.
Feb, March dates are easily available. Just checked it on MBA.com. I guess there is fight for dates from May onwards.

've you already thought about it?

I am sitting with a laptop, thinking deeply about what I really want in life.

“What do you want?” this sounds very simple sometimes, if you ask someone or is it being asked from you. What do you want?

Answers can be infinite varying from anything to everything. But when it is asked by a Bschool, you just can’t go on and say anything. You got to be very clear about what you want in your life because an MBA is a big investment of your life whether it be the money, the 2 years or the hard work you are putting for getting into a bschool or the hard work you are going to put during those 2 years.

The very first question any Bschool asks is – what is you career objective?

If you have never thought about it, it’s the high time. It’s the time for, as one of my friends says, Self Realization. It doesn’t matter whether you are 21, 25 or 28 years old. What matters is do you know yourself.

Ask yourself,

What do I want?

What am I going to do after a few years?

Am I going to work at the same place?

Am I going to do the similar kind of work?

Will I get a break I am looking for?

When will I get that break?

Am I looking for any break btw?