gunjan01
Hello,
This is the first time in 2 years, since I joined this club, I am posting something. So my exam is on 31st March, after 4 days, and I haven't taken any prep tests or prepared for AWA and IR. I prepared seriously for GMAT last year but rescheduled my test date after I scored just 590 on GMAT prep 3 in June 2016. That score scared me. I had planned to study in next few months before taking the exam, but clearly this didn't happen. I have already re-scheduled the test twice.
Anyway, coming to point- I have solved Verbal Review 2016 and Quant review 2016. Previously, I had solved
OG 2016 completely. I am not sure if I should take GMAT prep test now as it may reduce my confidence and also I have solved some questions which might be from prep tests that could inflate my score.
I have some 300 more questions of each section, yet to be solved. What should I focus on for next 4 days? Should I continue solving questions or take prep tests? Also, need some really good strategy for AWA, not practiced it even once.
Another problem with my preparation is that it is not timed. In all, after all these flaws in my preparation, I am hoping for some suggestions to score decent enough. I was targeting 700, but clearly it is a distant dream.
Hi
gunjan01,
Analogy : Have you ever dreamt of starting to wake up early in the morning and go for running or did you just go to a nearby park and ran 2 full rounds? only to find later that it got you lot of tiredness, making you feel uncomfortable the next day. But then you continued to go for the 2 rounds every day and after some days you only felt energetic to for another mile
Same is the case here, if you have not been taking CATs then knowing that the real battle is right around the corner, you would not want to practice the same. Because it may make you tired. Specially when you feel that low score would only bring negativity. so chill for now.
Here is what i would do:
#1. I will not study like a crazy person to burn myself out.
#2. I will wire my brain to make the test day strategy.
#3. I will revise the formulas that are not on top of my head.
#4. I will revise the patterns and traps. like if you see |x| + |y| = 0 only tells that both x and y has to be ZERO. so i will have this consideration fresh in my mind that i have to test for zero as well whenever i see a mod, if not given that |x| != 0
#5. I will only do official questions for verbal. I will do less number of questions but learn more. Youd dont need to do 300 questions!! DO 5 questions of every type and revise the learning for them for 3 days. It will help retain what you learn.
#6. I will promise myself to not stick to a question if i think it is eating up more time than it should. Keep in mind to MOVE ON.
#7. I will not just mark any answer randomly like in 5 seconds unless i have only that time remaining. Try to invest a minute and see if you can get through the problem. if you feel you wont get anywhere with this problem then use guess wisely not randomly.
#8. I will sleep every single day as many hours as i usually do.
#9. I will not start a new habit nor i will stop one.
#10. Pre-decide the time for a question. Like 2 minutes for a quant question. 60-90 sec for SC, 120 -140 sec CR and 5-9 minutes for an RC. Timing depends but make your strategy
For AWA use this:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-get-6 ... 64327.htmlAll in all just think about how you gonna take the exam rather than what you can just learn in 3 days.
Have a very wise shot at this exam. Good luck