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Most GMAT/GRE students study in a surprisingly passive way. And it's understandable.
This is because the real work in GMAT prep is not solving questions. The real work is analysing your mistakes.
When we solve 20 questions in a day, the brain naturally moves on quickly. You check the explanation, understand it vaguely, feel like you've understood the logic, and go to the next problem.
But that doesn't actually build the deep logical INFRASTRUCTURE in your mind that the GMAT tests.
A different approach is to solve fewer, harder questions and spend much more time analysing the inevitable mistakes.
For example, instead of doing 20 questions, try doing 5 very difficult ones and really dissect them:
This process exposes weaknesses much faster. It is a very involved process.
It also helps you get comfortable with the psychological difficulty of the exam. Once you've spent ample time with the hardest possible questions in practice, your mind will work differently: "I've spent time with the hardest possible questions, what can possibly show up that I won't be able to deal with?"
My experience:
During my GMAT prep, I solved only 88 Critical Reasoning questions IN TOTAL. But almost all of them were among the hardest 805+ problems on GMATClub.
When I got a question wrong, I didn’t immediately read the expert solution. I would sit with the problem until I could figure out exactly where I went off-track. Sometimes the mistakes were super elementary, other times they taught me completely new ways of thinking about logic.
This process forced me to build stronger logical habits.
In the end, I saw the V90 after about two weeks of self-studies. And you can, too!
Quality of thinking matters much more than quantity of questions. Don't take the easy way; it will lead to easy achievements.
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Approaches like these feel productive, but often lead to very slow/uncertain improvement.
This is because the real work in GMAT prep is not solving questions. The real work is analysing your mistakes.
When we solve 20 questions in a day, the brain naturally moves on quickly. You check the explanation, understand it vaguely, feel like you've understood the logic, and go to the next problem.
But that doesn't actually build the deep logical INFRASTRUCTURE in your mind that the GMAT tests.
A different approach is to solve fewer, harder questions and spend much more time analysing the inevitable mistakes.
For example, instead of doing 20 questions, try doing 5 very difficult ones and really dissect them:
- Why did my reasoning fail?
- Did I miss a word in the argument?
- Did I misunderstand the argument?
- What pattern should I recognise next time?
This process exposes weaknesses much faster. It is a very involved process.
It also helps you get comfortable with the psychological difficulty of the exam. Once you've spent ample time with the hardest possible questions in practice, your mind will work differently: "I've spent time with the hardest possible questions, what can possibly show up that I won't be able to deal with?"
My experience:
During my GMAT prep, I solved only 88 Critical Reasoning questions IN TOTAL. But almost all of them were among the hardest 805+ problems on GMATClub.
When I got a question wrong, I didn’t immediately read the expert solution. I would sit with the problem until I could figure out exactly where I went off-track. Sometimes the mistakes were super elementary, other times they taught me completely new ways of thinking about logic.
This process forced me to build stronger logical habits.
In the end, I saw the V90 after about two weeks of self-studies. And you can, too!
Quality of thinking matters much more than quantity of questions. Don't take the easy way; it will lead to easy achievements.
01 May 2026, 07:39
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Great advice—it really aligns with what GMAT Ninja emphasizes:
change your strategy if your accuracy isn’t improving. There’s no point solving more than 20 questions if you’re still stuck at 50–60% accuracy.
For beginners, this is gold.
Take your time early in your prep—don’t rush.
No course material can fix your thinking process on its own; that requires deliberate effort and reflection.
You can also use ChatGPT to analyze your mistakes and pinpoint flaws in your reasoning.
For example, here’s a structured way to review:
Correct Answer: (D) A further loss of species in national parks
👉 Why?
The core issue is failure in wildlife protection. The passage consistently highlights:
Key distinction (very important):
👉 A cause mentioned in the passage is not necessarily the outcome that will increase.
This is a classic GMAT trap—don’t confuse what’s causing a problem with what the question is actually asking will worsen.
change your strategy if your accuracy isn’t improving. There’s no point solving more than 20 questions if you’re still stuck at 50–60% accuracy.
For beginners, this is gold.
Take your time early in your prep—don’t rush.
No course material can fix your thinking process on its own; that requires deliberate effort and reflection.
You can also use ChatGPT to analyze your mistakes and pinpoint flaws in your reasoning.
For example, here’s a structured way to review:
Correct Answer: (D) A further loss of species in national parks
👉 Why?
The core issue is failure in wildlife protection. The passage consistently highlights:
- protecting park wildlife
- the impact of external environmental degradation
Key distinction (very important):
👉 A cause mentioned in the passage is not necessarily the outcome that will increase.
This is a classic GMAT trap—don’t confuse what’s causing a problem with what the question is actually asking will worsen.
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