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29 Dec 2014, 10:37
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I'm preparing for GMAT from last 4 months. I was not in touch with study since 12 years and needed to start from basic.
I got enrolled myself in coaching inst. From last 4 months, i was brushing up basics/ fundamentals of verbal and quant.
I could not do extensive practice as much of the time spent on understanding the basics.
When i thought, it is the time to see now, where i stand and what is to be done next, i decided to give my first mock.
I was expecting that first score would be somewhere around 580 to 600.
But when i really started giving the test, i could not attempt more than 25 questions on both verbal and quant section in time.
It was really a setback.. And whatever tried after 25 were wild guess and most of them were gone wrong.
When i completed the test and got the score, it was 490 ( Q-34 and V-24). I thought this is bullshit and what the hell i was doing for last 4 months.
When i reviewed the incorrect answers which were wild guess, i could find that those were really doable. I just lost them because of extra time spent on earlier
questions. ( so everything comes to basic again. Need to finish in time...need to clear basics...will get enough time to attempt.. and so on)
One more thing which i did wrong was solved DS question till the end like PS...it wasted my time a lot.
I realized one thing while giving exam that if basics are not crystal clear, any simple problem with little twist can fool you.
So i feel that i should solve more and more problems with understanding the basics.
This is really easy to say....but hard to do..
I'm unable to decide next course of action to avoid what happened on first mock and really need help from you guys and PRO of gmatclub.
After 490, it is personal now....will kill the GMAT..
and post it here .....
I got enrolled myself in coaching inst. From last 4 months, i was brushing up basics/ fundamentals of verbal and quant.
I could not do extensive practice as much of the time spent on understanding the basics.
When i thought, it is the time to see now, where i stand and what is to be done next, i decided to give my first mock.
I was expecting that first score would be somewhere around 580 to 600.
But when i really started giving the test, i could not attempt more than 25 questions on both verbal and quant section in time.
It was really a setback.. And whatever tried after 25 were wild guess and most of them were gone wrong.
When i completed the test and got the score, it was 490 ( Q-34 and V-24). I thought this is bullshit and what the hell i was doing for last 4 months.
When i reviewed the incorrect answers which were wild guess, i could find that those were really doable. I just lost them because of extra time spent on earlier
questions. ( so everything comes to basic again. Need to finish in time...need to clear basics...will get enough time to attempt.. and so on)
One more thing which i did wrong was solved DS question till the end like PS...it wasted my time a lot.
I realized one thing while giving exam that if basics are not crystal clear, any simple problem with little twist can fool you.
So i feel that i should solve more and more problems with understanding the basics.
This is really easy to say....but hard to do..
I'm unable to decide next course of action to avoid what happened on first mock and really need help from you guys and PRO of gmatclub.
After 490, it is personal now....will kill the GMAT..
and post it here ..... 
30 Dec 2014, 00:48
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sach24x7
I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. GMATPrep is hard, and more so when you take it for the first time. One of the important things about the adaptive tests is that you have to ensure that you do not get sucked in to hard questions that are beyond one's ability. Because of this students end up allocating their time to the hard questions and then running out of time on questions that are well within your reach. It does take some time to develop a sense for this.
I agree that most of the time one does not have to solve the DS to the very end, however if you are feeling shaky on a DS, it may make sense to go all the way to get confirmation that you indeed approached it correctly. As you become more solid on DS, you can back off in terms of going all the way. I often see students who miss problems because they don't go far enough. My general recommendation is to go far enough such that you are 100% sure that you got the problem. On the very difficult ones, I personally do go all the way, and if the answer is say D, then I know the outcome for the two statements mus match.
Cheers,
Dabral
I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. GMATPrep is hard, and more so when you take it for the first time. One of the important things about the adaptive tests is that you have to ensure that you do not get sucked in to hard questions that are beyond one's ability. Because of this students end up allocating their time to the hard questions and then running out of time on questions that are well within your reach. It does take some time to develop a sense for this.
I agree that most of the time one does not have to solve the DS to the very end, however if you are feeling shaky on a DS, it may make sense to go all the way to get confirmation that you indeed approached it correctly. As you become more solid on DS, you can back off in terms of going all the way. I often see students who miss problems because they don't go far enough. My general recommendation is to go far enough such that you are 100% sure that you got the problem. On the very difficult ones, I personally do go all the way, and if the answer is say D, then I know the outcome for the two statements mus match.
Cheers,
Dabral
30 Dec 2014, 09:58
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Try not to make it too personal. Solving more problems can help -- but you also need to step back and understand the scope of what you are being tested on --- know what they are trying to trick you on and how that might appear. If you are too involved in the details of each question and you can't see patterns between them, then you may not make much progress. So yes, practice -- but also step back and make sense of it all. Click any links in my signature to get more practice questions.
