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20 Mar 2017, 07:04
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Hi,
I've been following the Magoosh 3 month beginners plan and I'm on the 6th week. I've noticed how important the timing of the questions are after taking my first MGMAT CAT test. After completing my first CAT exam, I notice why my score was super low, I didn't finish 12 of the quant questions and 10 of the verbal questions.
All these times, I was focused on getting the question right in both Magoosh and OG problems that I have been exceeding the 2-min mark and reached roughly on average 4-5 mins per questions.
I feel that I'm wasting valuable questions in both Magoosh and OG by rushing to answer the problems.
In regards to the Magoosh-3 month plan, I'm considering redoing all the questions that I got incorrect (almost 50% of the questions that I've currently completed) within the 2-minute mark rather than continuing to waste valuable questions.
If Mike or someone can point me in the right direction it would be great.
I've been following the Magoosh 3 month beginners plan and I'm on the 6th week. I've noticed how important the timing of the questions are after taking my first MGMAT CAT test. After completing my first CAT exam, I notice why my score was super low, I didn't finish 12 of the quant questions and 10 of the verbal questions.
All these times, I was focused on getting the question right in both Magoosh and OG problems that I have been exceeding the 2-min mark and reached roughly on average 4-5 mins per questions.
I feel that I'm wasting valuable questions in both Magoosh and OG by rushing to answer the problems.
In regards to the Magoosh-3 month plan, I'm considering redoing all the questions that I got incorrect (almost 50% of the questions that I've currently completed) within the 2-minute mark rather than continuing to waste valuable questions.
If Mike or someone can point me in the right direction it would be great.
20 Mar 2017, 16:29
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Hi,
I've been following the Magoosh 3 month beginners plan and I'm on the 6th week. I've noticed how important the timing of the questions are after taking my first MGMAT CAT test. After completing my first CAT exam, I notice why my score was super low, I didn't finish 12 of the quant questions and 10 of the verbal questions.
All these times, I was focused on getting the question right in both Magoosh and OG problems that I have been exceeding the 2-min mark and reached roughly on average 4-5 mins per questions.
I feel that I'm wasting valuable questions in both Magoosh and OG by rushing to answer the problems.
In regards to the Magoosh-3 month plan, I'm considering redoing all the questions that I got incorrect (almost 50% of the questions that I've currently completed) within the 2-minute mark rather than continuing to waste valuable questions.
If Mike or someone can point me in the right direction it would be great.
Dear odnoc, I've been following the Magoosh 3 month beginners plan and I'm on the 6th week. I've noticed how important the timing of the questions are after taking my first MGMAT CAT test. After completing my first CAT exam, I notice why my score was super low, I didn't finish 12 of the quant questions and 10 of the verbal questions.
All these times, I was focused on getting the question right in both Magoosh and OG problems that I have been exceeding the 2-min mark and reached roughly on average 4-5 mins per questions.
I feel that I'm wasting valuable questions in both Magoosh and OG by rushing to answer the problems.
In regards to the Magoosh-3 month plan, I'm considering redoing all the questions that I got incorrect (almost 50% of the questions that I've currently completed) within the 2-minute mark rather than continuing to waste valuable questions.
If Mike or someone can point me in the right direction it would be great.
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My friend, I am sorry to say that you have developed a bad habit and you have to redouble your efforts to break this habit.
I think toward the beginning of that schedule, we recommend this blog:
Pacing and Timing Strategies for the GMAT
As I explain there, it's extremely easy to get extremely comfortable doing GMAT problems as if you have all the time in the world, and that kind of comfort is sheer poison as regards your GMAT success.
I would say in all your practice, set a 2-minute timer, say on your phone, and if you don't have the answer within two minutes, move on. In fact, 90 seconds would be better. Say in a set a 10 practice questions, you would have two waves
first wave--answer whatever you can, sticking to two minutes per question
second wave--try to answer any you didn't get in the first wave, now with unlimited time, seeing what you can do
Then, look at the answers.
Part of the issue is practicing against the clock rigorously, every single time you practice, for every single problem, so that you develop that internal sense of when two minutes is up. You want to get that internal sense as sharp as possible (of course, you will have a clock on the screen on test day).
Also, I suspect you may not be spending enough time with the solutions, especially in math. You see, it's not enough to know whether you got a problem right or wrong: you have to see whether you got the question right using the most efficient method. Many times the solutions in Magoosh will show a very efficient solution, and if this is not the way you did the problem, you need to take notes on that. If you want to know how to do any problem more efficiently, search for it here on GMAT club, and ask the experts there how to do the problem most efficiently.
As for your practice henceforth, I would say there's a value in revisiting the problems you got wrong, and there's a value in answering new questions. Maybe do 50-50 for a while--one day, all new questions, then next day, all previous wrong questions. What's important is that on every single problem you have a timer ticking. You want to be deeply tuned in to exactly how much time is two minutes.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
