HiLine
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Hi HiLine,
Here it goes:
2. Review your latest GMATPrep practice exam and report what percentage of questions in each subsection you got right
CR: 54% right
RC: 53% right
SC: 52% right
Quant:
PS: 60% right
DS: 29% right
All right here are my thoughts:
1. Your Verbal performance is consistent across all sub-sections, so it appears that your English is quite weak in general. Getting only half of the questions right demonstrates a weak command of the basics. What you need to focus on now is answering questions correctly. Do not incorporate any timing into your practice as you don't even know how to find the answers without time pressure.
2. Your Quant breakdown implies you're not strong in problem solving either, so you'll need to start with the basics here as well.
It appears that taking the EmpowerGMAT course did not help you. Can you explain to me how you utilized this course? How did you do on their quizzes? Did you understand their materials or did you have trouble comprehending?
Hi HiLine,
1. Ok - I have already incorporated that into my practice. However, I am not neglecting timing 100%. For instance, I try to answer every SC question under 1 min and then, if I'm wrong, I continue working on the question. Also, if I go beyond 1 min I take a guess and continue working on the question. What do you think of this approach? I actually have applied the same method for quant exercises. I always try to answer any quant question under 2 min. If I go beyond 2 min I take a guess and continue working on the exercise until I get to the right answer.
2. I have started with the basics all over. I don't go a lesson or question further on
TTP till I fully understand what's in front of my eyes.
When I was following the Empower course I didn't do well on some of the quant quizzes under timing constraints. In fact, I did not incorporate timing in my preparation at all. If I wasn't able to get every question right without timing, what good would come by adding a time limit? That was my thought process. I felt I didn't fully understand everything and was often lost when working on the medium and hard
OG exercises. Specially because I felt that the course approach was more focused on back-solving and picking numbers for testing. So I lacked the math approach.