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14 Feb 2017, 15:27
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Hey Guys,
As you could imagine I'm disappointed in my 2nd practice test.
I feel like I was off today doing it, and only gained momentum during the Quant Section.
During the Verbal section I feel like I got lazy and skipped an entire RC problem to gain time, and didn't treat the next few seriously enough, because I felt I had less time and needed to skip.
The funny thing is on my first attempt, I was running out of time during my last 8 Verbal questions and still scored better.
I have 2017 OG Review, Quant Review and Verbal review questions on Wiley. - I was wondering if I should start studying the Verbal section in a 75 minute interval of questions via exam mode, and then rest of day reviewing? This way I build stamina in a testing situation, but have access to solutions afterwards to review. I know its better to review a problem immediately after you've done it for learning sake, but for building stamina and comfort in test situations I feel like 41 questions straight via exam mode will help.
Anyways any advice to go from here will be of great help!
1st Test - 2 weeks into studying: 560 Q:37 V:29
2nd Test - 4 weeks into studying: 500 Q:40 V19
As you could imagine I'm disappointed in my 2nd practice test.
I feel like I was off today doing it, and only gained momentum during the Quant Section.
During the Verbal section I feel like I got lazy and skipped an entire RC problem to gain time, and didn't treat the next few seriously enough, because I felt I had less time and needed to skip.
The funny thing is on my first attempt, I was running out of time during my last 8 Verbal questions and still scored better.
I have 2017 OG Review, Quant Review and Verbal review questions on Wiley. - I was wondering if I should start studying the Verbal section in a 75 minute interval of questions via exam mode, and then rest of day reviewing? This way I build stamina in a testing situation, but have access to solutions afterwards to review. I know its better to review a problem immediately after you've done it for learning sake, but for building stamina and comfort in test situations I feel like 41 questions straight via exam mode will help.
Anyways any advice to go from here will be of great help!
1st Test - 2 weeks into studying: 560 Q:37 V:29
2nd Test - 4 weeks into studying: 500 Q:40 V19
14 Feb 2017, 15:58
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Hi EliMan,
Based on this score result, your 'endurance' isn't the primary issue impacting your performance - it's your knowledge and 'comfort level' with the material. As such, working through 75-minute practice sets will likely NOT help you to improve.
Since you've been studying for a month, it might be worth defining how you approach the major question types in the Verbal section:
1) What 'steps' do you go through when dealing with a typical SC, RC and CR prompt? What type of notes do you take?
2) Do you know the major questions types for RC and CR - and the work that you have to do to answer them?
3) Do you know the major grammar rules for SC? How well do you know the common idioms that can show up on Test Day?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Based on this score result, your 'endurance' isn't the primary issue impacting your performance - it's your knowledge and 'comfort level' with the material. As such, working through 75-minute practice sets will likely NOT help you to improve.
Since you've been studying for a month, it might be worth defining how you approach the major question types in the Verbal section:
1) What 'steps' do you go through when dealing with a typical SC, RC and CR prompt? What type of notes do you take?
2) Do you know the major questions types for RC and CR - and the work that you have to do to answer them?
3) Do you know the major grammar rules for SC? How well do you know the common idioms that can show up on Test Day?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
14 Feb 2017, 16:17
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Hi EliMan,
Based on this score result, your 'endurance' isn't the primary issue impacting your performance - it's your knowledge and 'comfort level' with the material. As such, working through 75-minute practice sets will likely NOT help you to improve.
Since you've been studying for a month, it might be worth defining how you approach the major question types in the Verbal section:
1) What 'steps' do you go through when dealing with a typical SC, RC and CR prompt? What type of notes do you take?
2) Do you know the major questions types for RC and CR - and the work that you have to do to answer them?
3) Do you know the major grammar rules for SC? How well do you know the common idioms that can show up on Test Day?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Based on this score result, your 'endurance' isn't the primary issue impacting your performance - it's your knowledge and 'comfort level' with the material. As such, working through 75-minute practice sets will likely NOT help you to improve.
Since you've been studying for a month, it might be worth defining how you approach the major question types in the Verbal section:
1) What 'steps' do you go through when dealing with a typical SC, RC and CR prompt? What type of notes do you take?
2) Do you know the major questions types for RC and CR - and the work that you have to do to answer them?
3) Do you know the major grammar rules for SC? How well do you know the common idioms that can show up on Test Day?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
1) What 'steps' do you go through when dealing with a typical SC, RC and CR prompt? What type of notes do you take?
For SC I typically look for splits, check for parallelism, see if the underlined portion flows with the beginning and ending parts of the sentence (when available), and check if the modifiers are being used correctly.
I review the solution to the problem, while making notes of idioms I didn't notice. I also review why I picked the incorrect one, and what mistakes I didn't notice with it, and what I didn't notice in the correct answer that would have made it the better choice.
With RC and CR, I'm familiar with the problem types. I haven't taken notes on these sections, but review thoroughly why the right answer was correct and how I choose the wrong answer.
2) Do you know the major questions types for RC and CR - and the work that you have to do to answer them?
In general, but maybe not well enough.
3) Do you know the major grammar rules for SC? How well do you know the common idioms that can show up on Test Day?
I think I know them fairly well.
I think the main that got me was stamina, lower energy and lack of focus for some reason. I was wired when I took my first one. The second I spent less time with each question, which created a chain event of poorer and poorer results with the questions. Whereas last time I spent more time per problem, despite running out of time, scored better.
