Accuracy or completion

Hi billionaire999,

Many Test Takers face pacing issues in the Quant section, the Verbal section or both – so you are not alone. However, it's important to remember that pacing problems do NOT exist on their own - they're the results of OTHER problems. Most GMAT questions can be approached in more than one way, so If you find that you have to 'rush' through a block of questions at the end of each section, then it's likely that "your way" is the "long way" (and there could also be general inefficiencies in how you are reading and taking notes that are costing you time). You could potentially hit a Score Goal based on the plan that you're asking about, but if you're interested in scoring at a really high level overall, then you have to be able to correctly answer all of the 'gettable' questions (including the ones at appear at the ends of each section). Since any unanswered questions are 'penalized' (and the penalty is worse than if you had simply gotten the questions wrong), then you should make sure to answer every question in each section.

Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) How long have you studied? How many hours do you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used so far? What "brands" of CATs/mocks have you taken?
3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

Goals:
4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Probably a good idea to not get a string of questions incorrect.

I do understand what youre trying to say.
But at times I am able to accurately get high level Geometry sums at a time north of 3 mins. Along with some quadratic and counting method sums.

In such a scenario should I leave the question and move on or spend the extra 60-75 seconds and get it right.

Also will the negative impact on the score be greater when I fail to answer a 15-20 number question accurately or 25-31 number question?

I did read other articles stating the same. But will these methods be replicated on actual GMAT?

When You say "You could potentially hit a Score Goal based on the plan that you're asking about, but if you're interested in scoring at a really high level overall, then you have to be able to correctly answer all of the 'gettable' questions (including the ones at appear at the ends of each section). Since any unanswered questions are 'penalized' (and the penalty is worse than if you had simply gotten the questions wrong), then you should make sure to answer every question in each section."

Are you certain about this? Is it tried and tested on the actual GMAT?


Studies:
1) How long have you studied? How many hours do you typically study each week?
ANS Ive been studying from Late November, but had a break in early January. I put in about 25-30 hours a week, over the last couple weeks I've been putting in about 35 hours.

2) What study materials have you used so far? What "brands" of CATs/mocks have you taken?
ANS.
GSP Quants, Manhattan Quants, Veritas all topics, OG 2020
3 Kaplan2020, 4 Princeton 2021, 2 Veritas

3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
A mock every Sunday for the past couple of months.
started of
Q46 V 33 Princeton
Q44 V 35 Kaplan
Q47 V 33 Veritas
Q47 V 33princeton
Q45 V 36 Kaplan
Q47 V 37 Veritas
Q 48 V 37Princeton
Q49 V 38 kaplan
Q49 V 40 Princeton

Goals:
4) What is your overall goal score?
730
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?
Intake 2022
Rotman
MgGill
Uni of Melbourne
Oxford
LBS
National Uni of Singapore

Hi billionaire999,

Try to answer as many questions correctly as possible. As you get a string of questions right, the level keeps increasing and you will be served with 700+ questions which will eventually help you reach a higher score on GMAT. It's ok to run out of time for last 5 questions. You can go through the recordings below to understand the GMAT algorithm and a few test taking strategies.





Hope it helped. Feel free to get in touch if you need any more help with the study strategy.

Hi billionaire999,

Since you seem to have some timing issues, I actually have two great articles that I'd like you to check out.

GMAT Verbal Timing Strategy

Timing Strategies For a Higher GMAT Quant Score

Feel free to reach out with any additional questions.

Your statement is unclear. What do you mean by "replicated on actual GMAT"? The term "replication" has a proper meaning in the scientific literature and your statement does not correspond to it.

Make your theory clearer as to why something may or may not "replicate". A one-liner provides insufficient discussion.

Thanks! it helps

Can you suggest if is should leave high level RC questions. My accuracy on the same has been terrible and I seem to spend longer than usual on them.

I am targeting 730-750.

Can you suggest if is should leave high level RC questions. My accuracy on the same has been terrible and I seem to spend longer than usual on them.

I am targeting 730-750.

I would not recommend that. I think you need to keep practicing RC to improve your skills for those questions.