How to stay sharp until test day?

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Hi,

I've been studying relentlessly for the past 2 months and I managed to improve my GMATPrep test scores from 730-720 to 770-750, but for me  that's a problem . I'm the kind of person that performs extremely well under constant pressure; I need to be stressed out in order to perform my best, but now that I feel I "reached the goal" I can't focus. I feel lazier and less sharp. I can't even study for more than 3 hours a day now (I'm not working, so that's a pretty lazy day)

Does this happen to anyone else? How do you handle it? I'll take the GMAT in 10 more days and I feel that if this state of artificial relaxation goes on I'll severely under-perform on test day. It happened before actually, and when it did, I couldn't focus on the test AT ALL.

Please give me some hints on how to stay sharp and focused!

Thank you

PS: I'm an Engineer with severe attention deficit disorder (taking Ritalin), maybe that helps

OptimusPrepJanielle · Answer

Your mock scores tell that you have a great chance to score very high on the GMAT. Tel yourself the something that if you do not become lazy, you can be among the very few people who score very high on the GMAT.

If you need material to keep yourself busy, you can buy the Exam Pack 1 and 2 and the Question pack 1.
This will keep you engaged and not let you feel dull.

In addition, since you just have the last 10 days, go through your error log/incorrect problems that you have noted down and see what all lessons you can derive out of them so that you do not make the same mistakes again. 
Have you retaken any of the mock CATs?

Tabur · Answer

Hi, I haven't retaken any mock test, I did the two free ones and bought the exam pack 1 (representing the 4 scores). It's weird, but I feel like if I keep doing test I'll burn myself out, but if I don't I'll lose pacing and intuition. I've been doing the hard level questions from the question pack 1, but after 30 questions I felt very tired and couldn't focus anymore...

I'll keep doing exercises, but I need something else as well in order to recover my "test acing" self

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EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Tabur,

If you're genuinely that concerned about losing focus, then you might consider paying the $50 rescheduling fee and moving up your Test Day (so that you don't have to wait 10 days).

Before you do that though, I'm hoping that you can clarify a few details from your post:
1) You stated that you took the GMAT before? How did you score on that Test (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
2) What resources did you use when you prepared for THAT GMAT?

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

Tabur · Answer

I haven't taken the GMAT before, only the GMATPrep tests. I've always scored Q50, and Verbal has varied from like 38 to 44, up and down. In regards to study material, OG15, Manhattan SC, and a quant level 700 exercise set I found somewhere.

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