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When you need a reason to be confident, use logic.
I often hear from people preparing for the GMAT that they don’t have confidence or that they’re discouraged by the results they’ve gotten when preparing. Basically, in all these cases, people are wondering whether they’ll be able to improve their skills and achieve their GMAT score goals.
There are a variety of reasons for lack of confidence, including a relatively low baseline score, weak performance on a certain type of question, or lack of progress, and we can all see why someone experiencing any of those would wonder whether she or he will be able to hit her or his score goal.
So, what’s to be done to become more confident? In other words, how can you be confident you can do something before you do it?
One answer is to use logic, and here’s what I mean.
It’s logical that you can learn. You’ve been learning all your life. So, clearly, you can learn one thing at a time, and learning one thing at a time is the way to increase your GMAT score. So logic dictates that, no matter what your baseline score or background is, you can increase your GMAT score until you hit your score goal.
Furthermore, people score high on the GMAT all the time, and you’re a person. So, logic dictates that you can achieve what other people have achieved.
Now, you may say that not everyone's the same, and you could point to people who have scored super high on the GMAT without doing much preparation and point to other people who have prepared a lot without achieving a relatively high score, but here’s the thing. I can guarantee you that those people who score super high on the GMAT “without preparing” actually have prepared. They weren’t born into this world knowing what a difference of squares or a participle is. Somewhere along the line, they did something that prepared them for the GMAT. So, you can get results similar to the results they have gotten by preparing as they have prepared.
Another thing we’ve all seen is that people who are strong in quant or strong in verbal but aren’t strong in the other section think that they are simply “naturally good” at one and not the other. Here again though, the thing to consider is how much you have prepared for each. If you’re an engineer or have been doing algebra since the sixth grade, it’s no surprise that you’re better at quant than verbal, and if you're a copy editor for a publication, it's no surprise that you're better at verbal than at quant, and logic dictates that, if you put some time into the section you’re less strong in as you have into the section you’re already strong in, you’ll be strong in the other section as well.
In fact, the truth is that GMAT quant and GMAT verbal aren’t that different. Both involve using logic to arrive at correct answers. So, logic dictates that, if you’re strong in one, you can become strong in the other.
Overall, whenever you’re not confident or feeling discouraged, you can use logic to make yourself more confident. If you see other people achieving things you’re not achieving, figure out how they are doing those things, and you’ll get similar results by doing what they have done. You have infinite potential. So, if you’re not good at something, realize that you can develop yourself and become good at it, and in the GMAT world, logic dictates that you can develop yourself until you hit your score goal.
For an example of someone who started out with only logic to make her confident and ended up scoring 780 on the GMAT, see this great debrief.
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