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One more thing that I meant to mention: If I had to do it over again, i would have tried to do many many more practice tests because one very crucial thing that you learn from the practice tests that you don't learn anywhere else, is not to panic when you have to throw in the towel on a question and take an educated guess.

The fact that the GMAT is adaptive means that you're going to be challenged by questions. I imagine someone scoring a 780 and someone scoring a 600 could miss the same number of questions on the test, the difference being that the person w/ the 780 would have had much more difficult questions.

So the point is, since you know you'll be challenged, there are going to be questions that are just too time-consuming for you to work out. During my practice tests I got comfortable looking at a question and saying, "Hm, this is going to be very difficult for me, it will probably take me at the very least three minutes to take a stab at it, and even then I'm not sure I'll be able to figure it out, I'm just going to take a guess and save some time."

So when I took the actual test yesterday, there were three math questions where I could just tell from looking at them that they would be enormous time-sinks, and I just took educated guesses. And I didn't feel panicked at all, i was completely comfortable with it.

The way I see it, is you start off answering easy questions and as you get them right you work your way up to difficult questions. When you get to one of these enormous time-sink type questions you can spend five minutes working it out, only to be rewarded with another difficult question, or you can take a guess. If you guess right, then you have another difficult questions, but you haven't wasted time on the time-sink. If you guess wrong, then you get an easier question or two before the test "adapts" and feeds you another difficult question. And hopefully this next one is one that you don't find as difficult as the time-sink.

I'm not sure I'm explaining this very well so I'll just use this silly analogy. Let's say you're a boxer, and to win a boxing title you have to beat the champ. And to be eligible to fight the champ, you have to beat two lesser boxers in a row. So you fight the two easy boxers and win, and then you get your title shot. You look at the champ and you say "There's no way I can beat this guy, I can either let him pound the crap out of me and most likely lose, or I can just take one lucky swing at him have a slight chance of knocking him out, but if that doesn't work I'll just take a dive and let him win. I'll survive unscathed, and then I'll just fight two easy boxers and earn another shot at the title and hopefully there will be a new champ at that point (someone easier to beat)."

Okay, I've probably just confused everybody even more, but I really think it's important to understand that guessing is a great way to save time, and it can actually help you if it means it saves you time for more difficult questions later in the test. I think it's great to get comfortable with this concept and doing lots of practice tests will get you to that level of comfort.