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By: Critique of Mission MBA Blog | Graduate school blog reviews

Critique of Mission MBA Blog | Graduate school blog reviews — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:24:18 +0000

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By: missionmba

missionmba — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:36:03 +0000

@ladyc:
Yup, with a 99 percentile on one component, 56 on another pinches. But don’t worry, nobody cares for AWA that much.. Just focus on ur apps now

By: ladyc

ladyc — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:54:55 +0000

^^^that’s my excuse anyway. Didn’t know admissions read the essays.

By: ladyc

ladyc — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:53:59 +0000

Judging from discussion, my prep for AWA was nil…I wrote essays when I took full-length tests. Outside of that I did nada. I was confident in my ability to write something substantial and meaningful in 30minutes. I got a 5.0 -56 percentile too. Was very upset that. I was 99 percentile on Verbal. I see people who don’t do as well as that on Verbal with 6.0 on AWA. I hear word count of 500-600 is more important than content. I’d been averaging 350 words on practice tests.

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:09:57 +0000

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By: Prashant

Prashant — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:06:17 +0000

@Nicole: Yes, that’s been my experience too. Princeton review is a hopeless book per-se, but the AWA part stands out.

The other important thing to do is to go through the sample essays in the OG – try to understand the differences between each.

Yet another tip: I’m sure you will write “the argument is flawed due to X, Y, Z”. But never forget to add “but would have been strengthened if A, B, C existed (or were proved)”.

Cheers

By: missionmba

missionmba — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:07:35 +0000

@K:
Actually, my template was on a notebook and was prepared during last days of my preps. I jotted down the examples for recurring themes that I mentioned in the post above around the same time.
Would have loved to shared these, but it has been 2 yrs since I wrote the test and I don’t think I’ll be able to locate that..

@Nicole:
Yup, even I liked the PR template

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:54:25 +0000

I found the template in “The Princeton Review” to be incredibly helpful:)

By: K

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:08:29 +0000

Can you forward me the template if you have one..Keep writing its useful