To begin this article, I have to give you some bad news \u2013 you\u2019re probably NOT going to get an 800 on the GMAT. Shocking news, I know \u2013 but if we pull together, you should be able to survive the horror of that realization. Now, it\u2019s important that you read those prior two sentences as the \u2018joke\u2019 that it\u2019s intended to be. Your goal should NOT be to get an 800 (to be fair, very few people hit that mark each year \u2013 only about 1 in every 10,000 Test Takers can actually do it). Your actual goal SHOULD be to score at a level that will help make you an attractive applicant to the Business Schools that you plan to apply to.<\/p>\n
Assuming that you have the proper overall perspective on that issue, we can now move on to the actual \u2018tough choice\u2019 that you\u2019ll face while taking the GMAT:<\/p>\n
One of the Aspects of Maximizing Your Performance<\/strong> In real simple terms, this means \u201cdon\u2019t get hung up on any really hard, layered or weird prompts and waste so much time that you end up cannibalizing your 75 minutes and missing out on LOTS of other points as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n You Can See It In Your Own Performance<\/strong> If it was a Quant question, then did you spend MORE than 3 minutes on it? And how many times did you end up spending more than 3 minutes on a question in that section? Did you then have to rush through a bunch of questions just to finish on time? Did you hit Q49+ or did you come up short?<\/p>\n If it was a CR question, then did you end up spending more than 2.5 minutes on it? If it was an SC, then did you end up spending more than 1.5 minutes on it? How many total CRs and SCs fit that description? Did you have to rush through a bunch of questions just to finish on time? Did you hit V40+ or did you come up short?<\/p>\n Next, take a good look at the questions that you had to rush through. How many of them COULD you have gotten correct IF you just had a little more time\u2026?<\/p>\n Now, Put it All Together<\/strong> GMAT assassins aren\u2019t born, they\u2019re made, To begin this article, I have to give you some bad news \u2013 you\u2019re probably NOT going to get an 800 on the GMAT. Shocking news, I know \u2013 but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,243,940],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-uncategorized","category-blog","category-gmat-prep-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30167,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118\/revisions\/30167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou MUST prioritize your performance on the OVERALL Quant and Verbal sections ahead of your performance on any one question in the Quant and Verbal sections.<\/p>\n
\nDepending on how long you\u2019ve studied, you\u2019ve likely come across a certain number of questions during your practice CATs that you would describe as \u2018hard\u2019, \u2018really hard\u2019 or \u2018I-had-no-freaking-idea-how-to-deal-with-it hard.\u2019 Take a good look at any of the CATs that you\u2019ve taken and locate any questions that would fit that description\u2026 How much time did you spend on EACH of those questions...?<\/p>\n
\nSo now we\u2019re finally down to it \u2013 THE tough choice you have to make \u2013 are you comfortable with the idea that you need to \u2018sacrifice\u2019 a really hard question (or a few of them) so that you can have enough time to answer those other questions? It\u2019s a tough reality to face, but you seemed comfortable earlier with the idea that you weren\u2019t going to score 800, so it shouldn\u2019t be THAT hard of a concept to digest.<\/p>\n
\nRich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"