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chrtpmdr
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chrtpmdr
Hello guys!
I am currently prepping "serious" (before I just stumbled through the Manhattan Books every other day) for the GMAT since around 1 1/2 weeks.
My background is a University studies in Economics / Business, I will finish it next year with my BsC.
In Uni I am one of the top performers, have great grades and (I am not American though, just what the calculators say) ~3.9 GPA
With the GMAT though I have to say that some problems make me struggle really hard at the moment and sometimes make me depressed.
For example this morning I wanted to solve some Quant Questions and one of them was a "machine / rate / output per hour" text-problem which I could not solve. I then looked the question up at gmatclub and saw that it was rated as easy .. which immediately made me think that I am just too dumb to achieve a 700+ if I don't even get these questions right.
*short mental breakdown*
As soon as I got myself together again I reviewed the questions and looked up a few different and now that I understood the rate / time relation I solved them fairly easy.
The main problem right now for me is the time -> the next quant question I took was a similar problem just a bit trickier and this time they wanted to know "how many machines ..." instead of "ouput per hour ..."
So I sat there and thought quite some time (think like 5-7 minutes I dunno) to come up with a suitable solution, I had the eureka moment at the end and came to the right solution but it frustrated me again because the solution was basically very simple and it took me that long to arrive there.
Have you guys immediately solved questions WITH time aspect or did you give yourself some weeks of just plain understanding / solving without time constraints before really pushing it under time pressure?
I am not sure which approach I should follow.
This might seem like I don't really have a plan but well I do, I have an error log, write everything down, have a time schedule and am pretty organized. I just have those breakdowns here and there where I am seriously questioning my competence.
It's also very hard for me to push in much hours, in Uni I can learn 8-9 hours during finals / exam phase, with the GMAT I did ~6 hours yesterday and after 3-4 hours it wasn't just possible to solve harder problems anymore.. So I used that time working on a spreadsheet and a cleaner error log.
Thank you guys for any input
I am currently prepping "serious" (before I just stumbled through the Manhattan Books every other day) for the GMAT since around 1 1/2 weeks.
My background is a University studies in Economics / Business, I will finish it next year with my BsC.
In Uni I am one of the top performers, have great grades and (I am not American though, just what the calculators say) ~3.9 GPA
With the GMAT though I have to say that some problems make me struggle really hard at the moment and sometimes make me depressed.
For example this morning I wanted to solve some Quant Questions and one of them was a "machine / rate / output per hour" text-problem which I could not solve. I then looked the question up at gmatclub and saw that it was rated as easy .. which immediately made me think that I am just too dumb to achieve a 700+ if I don't even get these questions right.
*short mental breakdown*
As soon as I got myself together again I reviewed the questions and looked up a few different and now that I understood the rate / time relation I solved them fairly easy.
The main problem right now for me is the time -> the next quant question I took was a similar problem just a bit trickier and this time they wanted to know "how many machines ..." instead of "ouput per hour ..."
So I sat there and thought quite some time (think like 5-7 minutes I dunno) to come up with a suitable solution, I had the eureka moment at the end and came to the right solution but it frustrated me again because the solution was basically very simple and it took me that long to arrive there.
Have you guys immediately solved questions WITH time aspect or did you give yourself some weeks of just plain understanding / solving without time constraints before really pushing it under time pressure?
I am not sure which approach I should follow.
This might seem like I don't really have a plan but well I do, I have an error log, write everything down, have a time schedule and am pretty organized. I just have those breakdowns here and there where I am seriously questioning my competence.
It's also very hard for me to push in much hours, in Uni I can learn 8-9 hours during finals / exam phase, with the GMAT I did ~6 hours yesterday and after 3-4 hours it wasn't just possible to solve harder problems anymore.. So I used that time working on a spreadsheet and a cleaner error log.
Thank you guys for any input
Most people, regardless of their training, will not know how to quickly and accurately solve GMAT quantitative problems. You would need to become familiar with its special elements of question types and methods of solving.
The GMAT does not really test your mathematical abilities. It instead tests logical abilities.
Many testtakers start with low practice scores and do end up scoring well on the actual exam. You will need several months to do well on the exam. GL!
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chrtpmdr
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Joined: 24 Jul 2019
Last visit: 05 Oct 2022
Posts: 206
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Given Kudos: 161
Schools: HSG MBF "23 (A) UniBocconi MFin "23 (A)
GMAT 1: 730 Q46 V45
GPA: 3.9
19 Aug 2019, 00:48
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chrtpmdr
Hello guys!
I am currently prepping "serious" (before I just stumbled through the Manhattan Books every other day) for the GMAT since around 1 1/2 weeks.
My background is a University studies in Economics / Business, I will finish it next year with my BsC.
In Uni I am one of the top performers, have great grades and (I am not American though, just what the calculators say) ~3.9 GPA
With the GMAT though I have to say that some problems make me struggle really hard at the moment and sometimes make me depressed.
For example this morning I wanted to solve some Quant Questions and one of them was a "machine / rate / output per hour" text-problem which I could not solve. I then looked the question up at gmatclub and saw that it was rated as easy .. which immediately made me think that I am just too dumb to achieve a 700+ if I don't even get these questions right.
*short mental breakdown*
As soon as I got myself together again I reviewed the questions and looked up a few different and now that I understood the rate / time relation I solved them fairly easy.
The main problem right now for me is the time -> the next quant question I took was a similar problem just a bit trickier and this time they wanted to know "how many machines ..." instead of "ouput per hour ..."
So I sat there and thought quite some time (think like 5-7 minutes I dunno) to come up with a suitable solution, I had the eureka moment at the end and came to the right solution but it frustrated me again because the solution was basically very simple and it took me that long to arrive there.
Have you guys immediately solved questions WITH time aspect or did you give yourself some weeks of just plain understanding / solving without time constraints before really pushing it under time pressure?
I am not sure which approach I should follow.
This might seem like I don't really have a plan but well I do, I have an error log, write everything down, have a time schedule and am pretty organized. I just have those breakdowns here and there where I am seriously questioning my competence.
It's also very hard for me to push in much hours, in Uni I can learn 8-9 hours during finals / exam phase, with the GMAT I did ~6 hours yesterday and after 3-4 hours it wasn't just possible to solve harder problems anymore.. So I used that time working on a spreadsheet and a cleaner error log.
Thank you guys for any input
I am currently prepping "serious" (before I just stumbled through the Manhattan Books every other day) for the GMAT since around 1 1/2 weeks.
My background is a University studies in Economics / Business, I will finish it next year with my BsC.
In Uni I am one of the top performers, have great grades and (I am not American though, just what the calculators say) ~3.9 GPA
With the GMAT though I have to say that some problems make me struggle really hard at the moment and sometimes make me depressed.
For example this morning I wanted to solve some Quant Questions and one of them was a "machine / rate / output per hour" text-problem which I could not solve. I then looked the question up at gmatclub and saw that it was rated as easy .. which immediately made me think that I am just too dumb to achieve a 700+ if I don't even get these questions right.
*short mental breakdown*
As soon as I got myself together again I reviewed the questions and looked up a few different and now that I understood the rate / time relation I solved them fairly easy.
The main problem right now for me is the time -> the next quant question I took was a similar problem just a bit trickier and this time they wanted to know "how many machines ..." instead of "ouput per hour ..."
So I sat there and thought quite some time (think like 5-7 minutes I dunno) to come up with a suitable solution, I had the eureka moment at the end and came to the right solution but it frustrated me again because the solution was basically very simple and it took me that long to arrive there.
Have you guys immediately solved questions WITH time aspect or did you give yourself some weeks of just plain understanding / solving without time constraints before really pushing it under time pressure?
I am not sure which approach I should follow.
This might seem like I don't really have a plan but well I do, I have an error log, write everything down, have a time schedule and am pretty organized. I just have those breakdowns here and there where I am seriously questioning my competence.
It's also very hard for me to push in much hours, in Uni I can learn 8-9 hours during finals / exam phase, with the GMAT I did ~6 hours yesterday and after 3-4 hours it wasn't just possible to solve harder problems anymore.. So I used that time working on a spreadsheet and a cleaner error log.
Thank you guys for any input
Most people, regardless of their training, will not know how to quickly and accurately solve GMAT quantitative problems. You would need to become familiar with its special elements of question types and methods of solving.
The GMAT does not really test your mathematical abilities. It instead tests logical abilities.
Many testtakers start with low practice scores and do end up scoring well on the actual exam. You will need several months to do well on the exam. GL!
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Thanks, yes I thought about that.
Given that I have no real time constraint and I started really early with prepping I think I should stretch my studies more out.
One of my milestone was to achieve a +700 before Christmas this year.. Usually Uni is very slow and not much work to do until January where it will be very harsh.
Do you think it is better then to quit the "hardcore approach" I follow now (with around 6-7 hours per day) and switch more to a smoother approach with ~3 hours per day without frustration and sole focus on improving + understanding problems?
I think I have got the mindset from Uni where it is "more time spend = good grade" I don't think that balls to the wall approach will work on the GMAT though
