6 GMAT Strategies That Do NOT Work (and What To Do Instead)
Studying hard but not seeing your GMAT score improve? It might not be the effort you’re putting in—it might be the strategies you’re using. In this video, Erika Tyler-John, a 735 scorer and expert GMAT instructor with 10+ years of experience and 4M+ YouTube views, shares 6 common GMAT study strategies that look useful but actually hurt your performance—and how to study more effectively instead.
What you’ll learn in this video:
1. Prioritizing the first 5 questions and the truth about GMAT timing strategy
2. Using Verbal answer choices as hints and why this hurts your GMAT Verbal performance
3. Solving Quant problems “by the book” instead of using flexible GMAT Quant strategies
4. Bingeing practice questions instead of building a solid GMAT study plan
5. Practicing only with a timer and missing untimed GMAT study benefits
6. Last-minute cramming and why it hurts GMAT exam performance
These mistakes are common, but with the right approach, you can avoid them and set yourself up for real score improvement.
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