Maintaining accuracy in completed subject & Moving to next subject

Hi Akhilshah.

I would add to what has already been said that one way to retain concepts well is to seek to understand the logic of them because, when you understand the logic underlying concepts, rather than having to simply remember them, you have a logical foundation that supports your retention of the concepts.

For instance, in SC, the pronoun "everyone" is always a singular subject. You could seek to simply remember that fact, but you'll remember it more easily and basically forever if you understand why it's always singular, which is that it is a combination of "every" and "one," and it's quite logical that "one" would always be singular. Similarly, it's logical that a modifier set off from the rest of a sentence by commas would be nonessential, because the commas act like parentheses around the modifier.

You'll find that there is a logic that you can use in this way to almost all the concepts you learn for the GMAT.

For some more ideas on how to retain what you learn for the GMAT, see the following post.

How to Learn More, Learn Faster, and Retain More Knowledge While Preparing for the GMAT

Hi Akhilshah,

If you're concerned about any particular GMAT skills 'fading' over time, then there are a couple of ways to offset that issues. First, you should look to periodically practice each of the major question types (in the case of your example, that does NOT mean that you need to practice SCs every day - but you should plan to do some SC review/practice each week). Second, simply creating some flashcards (so that you can quickly review rules/formulas/etc. as needed) is a fairly low-tech solution that you could use at any time of day.

Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) How long have you studied?
2) What study materials have you used so far? What “brands” of CATs/mocks have you used?
3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

Goals:
4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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

Contact Rich at: Rich.C@empowergmat.com