Hi Experts,
I am in a horrible state of mind at this point. I have no solution to my date for exam and I am looking
to apply to college this year ideally in R1. My GMAT prep is just all over. I have daily been solving official questions and my speed is generally slow so at most I am able to only do 5 CR questions daily with the explanations and if I do not do CR then I manage to do about 15-20 Quant questions in a day after dedicating 5 hours or so.
Needless to say, my CR is very weak. Some experts attempt to tell strategies here but it is honestly not actinable. I am in a really bad state and have been daily gettin anxiety because this is my only way forward and I have been consistent in my prep and do not want to stop. I am really looking for some genuine and actionable steps today and get to course correct asap. If you are responding and willing to help please comment or DM- I am happy to share all my error logs for your reference and to give me a more specific study plan and guide me where I am going wrong.
Over the past year, here is what I have done
1. SC- from
Egmat last year in May; no revision whatsoever ever since ( it was not so bad for me. Not the best but I feel relatively more confident in this but I have not done any revision so idk about now)
2. CR - from Manhattan,
Egmat questions, Powerscore and now switched to
TTP (2 topics down)
3. RC-
TTP and rarely any revision. Solved a few passages but not been doing it of late. My weakness here is that I am very slow at reading passages and do mess up on some questions. It is better than CR but still not so great and my accuracy is primarily driven by the amount of time I am spending to understand (You'll know better when you see the
error log)
4. Quant -
TTP and now daily solving
OG questions topic wise
For CR, to elaborate my issues that I have observed are that it requires a lot of thinking and you are expected to also think like GMAT, I generally do not understand the context completely and hence get manipulated by wrong chocies and tend to overthink or sometimes tend to face other issues of connecting dots and having some sort of idea on what the gap is and what I am looking for. Rarely, however, if I am clear about a certain logic or flow of the passage, I immediately figure the right ans but most of the times, my state of mind is such that I do not process the info completely or correctly and when I go to the answer choices, I just try to justify all. I only go to answer chocies in this case because I am short on time and spend too much time understandign the passage itself that I have no other option. Overall there are very rare cases in which I full understand and out of that too in a rare scenario, I would answer correctly despite a clear understanding ( I guess these errors must be because of me not thinking in the GMAT way). The rest of the major times, I am just in the water just trying luck.