Every successful test-taker knows these five Test Day secrets.
Hoping to gain entry to an elite MBA program? Admissions committees often use minimum standardized test scores to filter out candidates they think are less than competitive. In fact, matriculants at the ten leading business schools in the United States earn an average GMAT score of 720.
So, if you want your application to get noticed, you’ll need the drive and dedication to become a skilled test-taker. These five tips will help you on the path to Test Day success.
5. Challenge yourself to a better GMAT score
Average scoring test-takers see the GMAT as a fearsome roadblock, or a nuisance. Exceptional, 700+ test-takers, on the other hand, see the test as an evenly matched competitor—not as something superior—and thus look at it as an exciting challenge.
4. Be a holistic test-taker
Candidates who earn the highest GMAT score know how to balance quantitative and verbal skills, identifying their own strengths and weaknesses along the way. By recognizing the areas in which you need to improve, you can more effectively organize your prep strategy.
3. Fail better
It may sound counterintuitive, but earning a 700+ GMAT score means welcoming mistakes. Top test-takers see mistakes as opportunities to score more points. They actively look for flaws in their strategy and holes in their game on every question. Then, they find a resolution that’s realistically achievable before Test Day.
2. Keep to a tight training schedule
Test-takers who earn a high GMAT score don’t “study”—they train rigorously. They have a set training schedule that they execute in an environment that simulates Test Day conditions—and they stick to it even when they’re insanely busy with a full-time job, kids, or other obligations. Champion test-takers know in advance which topics need to be addressed each day of GMAT prep. They also set many smaller, more manageable goals instead of one really big goal.
1. Where there’s a will, there’s a higher GMAT score
Average test-takers merely “hope” they’ll do well. Test-takers who get into elite business schools know they’ll do well because they do whatever it takes to get that 700+ GMAT score. Unshakable willpower is 24K gold on the GMAT.
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