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01 Jun 2016, 19:17
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There is a lot of talk on error logs. I understand they are extremely beneficial and there are a number of awesome users who have shared their own error log skeletons.
Would any of you who broke that 42 barrier be willing to share some of your SC, RC, and CR error log entries? I've been working on my own error log for a while, but I haven't seen much in the way of results and I hoping to feed off of some of your mindsets in order to get my head thinking correctly. What I want to know is HOW DO YOU THINK when you are making entries to your error log? I want to know how you analyze a wrong answer, identify your error(s), and make notes on how to improve.
Any insights to your process will be well received!
As an example of what I'm talking about, sayantanc2k provided a few entries from his error log entries in his post here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-improve-your-verbal-score-213013.html
Would any of you who broke that 42 barrier be willing to share some of your SC, RC, and CR error log entries? I've been working on my own error log for a while, but I haven't seen much in the way of results and I hoping to feed off of some of your mindsets in order to get my head thinking correctly. What I want to know is HOW DO YOU THINK when you are making entries to your error log? I want to know how you analyze a wrong answer, identify your error(s), and make notes on how to improve.
Any insights to your process will be well received!
As an example of what I'm talking about, sayantanc2k provided a few entries from his error log entries in his post here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-improve-your-verbal-score-213013.html
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02 Jun 2016, 16:10
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Hi gatorguy47,
Back in late March, you posted that you had scored V36 on a CAT. Have you taken any additional CATs since then (and if so, then how did you perform overall?)?
A V36 a strong performance overall and means that you don't have a big 'weak' category in the Verbal section. The missing points that you're looking for in that section are likely due to subtle things: rarer question types and grammar/idiom rules, subtle wrong answers in CR/RC, etc. A good place to 'look first' is all of the questions that you 'narrowed down to 2 choices, but still got wrong' - if you were THAT close to choosing the correct answer, then you just missed something on the 'last step.' Defining those little things (what did you miss? what made the correct answer correct and the incorrect answer incorrect?) should help you to define some of the areas that you need to work on to raise that Verbal score.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Back in late March, you posted that you had scored V36 on a CAT. Have you taken any additional CATs since then (and if so, then how did you perform overall?)?
A V36 a strong performance overall and means that you don't have a big 'weak' category in the Verbal section. The missing points that you're looking for in that section are likely due to subtle things: rarer question types and grammar/idiom rules, subtle wrong answers in CR/RC, etc. A good place to 'look first' is all of the questions that you 'narrowed down to 2 choices, but still got wrong' - if you were THAT close to choosing the correct answer, then you just missed something on the 'last step.' Defining those little things (what did you miss? what made the correct answer correct and the incorrect answer incorrect?) should help you to define some of the areas that you need to work on to raise that Verbal score.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
03 Jun 2016, 13:33
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Hey Rich,
I took your advice and stepped away from the MGMAT CATs and tried my luck at the actual GMAC stuff. I took a CAT from GMAC and scored a 740 (49Q and 41V), and then took the official GMAT a couple weeks later and scored a 700 (48Q, 38V, and 8IR).
There were a number of things that led up the sub-optimal actual GMAT score (including a test time at noon), but I'm trying to hone in on a couple of them. Right now I have another GMAT scheduled for the end of the month, and I've been able to change my verbal approach a bit to follow this review for questions I got wrong/wasn't 100% sure on. I feel that since my last test I have really dialed in my test taking approach to answering the questions, and for those verbal questions I get wrong I try to follow this:
1) why was the wrong answer so tempting? why did it look like it might be right?
2) why was it actually wrong? what specific words indicate that it is wrong and how did I overlook those clues the first time?
3) why did the right answer seem wrong? what made it so tempting to cross off the right answer? why were those things actually okay; what was my error in thinking that they were wrong?
4) why was it actually right?
I've been keeping an error log that is more detailed than my last one. I think it has been helping, but I just wanted to see what some of the others used in theirs to see if I'm making the right adjustments/noticing the correct high level errors and not focusing too much on the micro stuff!
Thanks!
I took your advice and stepped away from the MGMAT CATs and tried my luck at the actual GMAC stuff. I took a CAT from GMAC and scored a 740 (49Q and 41V), and then took the official GMAT a couple weeks later and scored a 700 (48Q, 38V, and 8IR).
There were a number of things that led up the sub-optimal actual GMAT score (including a test time at noon), but I'm trying to hone in on a couple of them. Right now I have another GMAT scheduled for the end of the month, and I've been able to change my verbal approach a bit to follow this review for questions I got wrong/wasn't 100% sure on. I feel that since my last test I have really dialed in my test taking approach to answering the questions, and for those verbal questions I get wrong I try to follow this:
1) why was the wrong answer so tempting? why did it look like it might be right?
2) why was it actually wrong? what specific words indicate that it is wrong and how did I overlook those clues the first time?
3) why did the right answer seem wrong? what made it so tempting to cross off the right answer? why were those things actually okay; what was my error in thinking that they were wrong?
4) why was it actually right?
I've been keeping an error log that is more detailed than my last one. I think it has been helping, but I just wanted to see what some of the others used in theirs to see if I'm making the right adjustments/noticing the correct high level errors and not focusing too much on the micro stuff!
Thanks!
