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06 Jul 2014, 13:47
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Hi all,
I hear that there is a gap between the difficulty + content that you'll find in the real GMAT and the study guides and CAT's.
What are the best ways to close the gap between practice CAT's and the real GMAT so that your practice tests and study tactics won't lead to any surprises during the real GMAT? The last thing I want is to look at a sentence correction question and have no idea how to work it during the real GMAT because the content never came up in study guides or practice CAT's.
In case you are curious, I am solely using the following materials:
+ Manhattan GMAT (MGMAT) prep materials (study guides and CAT's)
+ The OG 13 problems
+ The GMAT prep quant and verbal guides.
+ GMAT Prep tests (there are only 2 available, if I'm not mistaken).
I hear that the real GMAT sections go like this:
+ Quant - not as computationally-intensive as MGMAT Quant, but similar in terms of difficulty.
+ Verbal - much harder than practice questions anywhere else
To close the gap in quant, my plan is to use GMAT Club practice tests. I'm going to start working through them in a few hours. People seem to do pretty well on the real test when they practice GMAT Club tests, despite the level of difficulty being much higher than real GMAT.
I have no idea how to close the gap with Verbal. I have not found a good answer online. Any thoughts here would be appreciated!!!
I hear that there is a gap between the difficulty + content that you'll find in the real GMAT and the study guides and CAT's.
What are the best ways to close the gap between practice CAT's and the real GMAT so that your practice tests and study tactics won't lead to any surprises during the real GMAT? The last thing I want is to look at a sentence correction question and have no idea how to work it during the real GMAT because the content never came up in study guides or practice CAT's.
In case you are curious, I am solely using the following materials:
+ Manhattan GMAT (MGMAT) prep materials (study guides and CAT's)
+ The OG 13 problems
+ The GMAT prep quant and verbal guides.
+ GMAT Prep tests (there are only 2 available, if I'm not mistaken).
I hear that the real GMAT sections go like this:
+ Quant - not as computationally-intensive as MGMAT Quant, but similar in terms of difficulty.
+ Verbal - much harder than practice questions anywhere else
To close the gap in quant, my plan is to use GMAT Club practice tests. I'm going to start working through them in a few hours. People seem to do pretty well on the real test when they practice GMAT Club tests, despite the level of difficulty being much higher than real GMAT.
I have no idea how to close the gap with Verbal. I have not found a good answer online. Any thoughts here would be appreciated!!!
06 Jul 2014, 18:18
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I think you can expect to be surprised on the test.
You can expect things to go wrong one way or another and you be stumped on a question (simple or hard). Many have freaked out before when they got stumped on an easy question. You should have a plan B for that.
My suggestion is that you know exactly how much time you can spend on any single question. Know where you should be in terms of timing (minute 45 you should on question 20 for example - i made this up so don't use it for your guidance).
I would say having a good feel for timing (ability to slow down and speed up if needs to be) is key on the GMAT, so you want to make your practice tougher and finish at least 2-3 mins early.
P.S. If you do really well you are guaranteed to see a few questions that you have not encountered before and will not know how to tackle so if you are there, think of approaches to potentially tackle a question you have never seen. Here is an example of such question - most people don't know how to approach it:
Water lily grows at such a rate that it covers double the surface that it covered the day before. It takes 30 days for a water lily to cover the entire surface of the pond. How long would it take for two water lilies of the same size to cover the entire surface of the same pond?
A. 8.33
B. 12.5
C. 15
D. 20
E. 29
You can expect things to go wrong one way or another and you be stumped on a question (simple or hard). Many have freaked out before when they got stumped on an easy question. You should have a plan B for that.
My suggestion is that you know exactly how much time you can spend on any single question. Know where you should be in terms of timing (minute 45 you should on question 20 for example - i made this up so don't use it for your guidance).
I would say having a good feel for timing (ability to slow down and speed up if needs to be) is key on the GMAT, so you want to make your practice tougher and finish at least 2-3 mins early.
P.S. If you do really well you are guaranteed to see a few questions that you have not encountered before and will not know how to tackle so if you are there, think of approaches to potentially tackle a question you have never seen. Here is an example of such question - most people don't know how to approach it:
Water lily grows at such a rate that it covers double the surface that it covered the day before. It takes 30 days for a water lily to cover the entire surface of the pond. How long would it take for two water lilies of the same size to cover the entire surface of the same pond?
A. 8.33
B. 12.5
C. 15
D. 20
E. 29
07 Jul 2014, 00:09
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It is given that the water lily takes 30 days to cover the entire surface of the pond and that it covers double the surface that it covered the day before, then on 29th day the water lily covers half the pond.
The question is on Geometric Progression.
If we take the pond size as 1, then on 29th day then size of the lily is 1/2 on 29th day.
Hence, 29 days are required for two water lilies of the same size to cover the entire surface of the same pond.
Answer (E).
The question is on Geometric Progression.
If we take the pond size as 1, then on 29th day then size of the lily is 1/2 on 29th day.
Hence, 29 days are required for two water lilies of the same size to cover the entire surface of the same pond.
Answer (E).
