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24 Nov 2010, 11:21
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Hi, first of all thanks for a great blog and all the valuable support I have gotten from the members here.
I am going to take my first GMAT test tomorrow.
Yesterday I had a rather unpleasant experience that made me feel bad and low on self esteem. I had been scoring 620-650 on my tests but scored only 500, two days before the test.
I analyzed the mistakes last night and this morning.
I was exceptionally bad in the Verbal where I scored only 20, my best score so far is 37. There were a lot of stupid mistakes and the RC totally sucked the time out of me and made me fall behind, then I made a lot of easy mistakes by trying to win back the time and get to "neutral" time/question level.
Today I have been going back to the OG12 and 2edition and solving problems for CR,SC,RC...I was really successful and had probably around 85-90% of all the answers right.....which gives me a better feeling for the test tomorrow.
Despite that I must mention that I was using approx 2 minutes for each problem, RC, SC and CR. This is just to much time.
Hence I am left with the question should I focus on some questions, devote more time to them and then simply sacrifice questions that come later in order to win up time? this is also a risky approach since I could spend to much time, fall behind but shill have missed the earlier questions...then I guess I would be totally screwed
If you have any experience, opinion or useful tips on how to approach this I would be very glad you shared them with me.
My test is tomorrow and I will be turning on the computer before going to the test center (it´s in Europe)
(btw. A technique in RC that I discovered today here on the blog and has saved me a lot of time over the actual answers, is to read the question stem, take key words from the question and go back to the Passage, understand and then read the answer choices, I spot the answers much faster now, without having to have to go back and forth and scratch my head..)
many thanks
I am going to take my first GMAT test tomorrow.
Yesterday I had a rather unpleasant experience that made me feel bad and low on self esteem. I had been scoring 620-650 on my tests but scored only 500, two days before the test.
I analyzed the mistakes last night and this morning.
I was exceptionally bad in the Verbal where I scored only 20, my best score so far is 37. There were a lot of stupid mistakes and the RC totally sucked the time out of me and made me fall behind, then I made a lot of easy mistakes by trying to win back the time and get to "neutral" time/question level.
Today I have been going back to the OG12 and 2edition and solving problems for CR,SC,RC...I was really successful and had probably around 85-90% of all the answers right.....which gives me a better feeling for the test tomorrow.
Despite that I must mention that I was using approx 2 minutes for each problem, RC, SC and CR. This is just to much time.
Hence I am left with the question should I focus on some questions, devote more time to them and then simply sacrifice questions that come later in order to win up time? this is also a risky approach since I could spend to much time, fall behind but shill have missed the earlier questions...then I guess I would be totally screwed
If you have any experience, opinion or useful tips on how to approach this I would be very glad you shared them with me.
My test is tomorrow and I will be turning on the computer before going to the test center (it´s in Europe)
(btw. A technique in RC that I discovered today here on the blog and has saved me a lot of time over the actual answers, is to read the question stem, take key words from the question and go back to the Passage, understand and then read the answer choices, I spot the answers much faster now, without having to have to go back and forth and scratch my head..)
many thanks
24 Nov 2010, 15:26
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Hey hafgola:
I'm glad you're getting your confidence back! That makes a huge difference, and I think that sometimes people's last practice tests are taken under "just fit it in" conditions that don't allow them to properly focus, and I worry that those scores then just unravel them. There are good reasons for your score going down, and none of them mean that you're incapable of hitting your higher practice test scores and beyond!
I'd recommend this - if you know that you're behind on time and need to make it up, give yourself one question out of every 10 that you look at, recognize is going to be time-consuming, and just "pass" (guess) on. That ought to buy you around 7 minutes and all the peace of mind that comes with it, and you may still get 1-2 of those questions right anyway. And because you're not risking a run of incorrect answers in a row by having to rush all at once, you'll avoid getting easier questions, then getting them wrong, and falling into a downward spiral at any point.
Just one strategy, but I know at least a few examinees who have made it work and found that it helped them to relax and perform to the best of their abilities.
Good luck tomorrow!
I'm glad you're getting your confidence back! That makes a huge difference, and I think that sometimes people's last practice tests are taken under "just fit it in" conditions that don't allow them to properly focus, and I worry that those scores then just unravel them. There are good reasons for your score going down, and none of them mean that you're incapable of hitting your higher practice test scores and beyond!
I'd recommend this - if you know that you're behind on time and need to make it up, give yourself one question out of every 10 that you look at, recognize is going to be time-consuming, and just "pass" (guess) on. That ought to buy you around 7 minutes and all the peace of mind that comes with it, and you may still get 1-2 of those questions right anyway. And because you're not risking a run of incorrect answers in a row by having to rush all at once, you'll avoid getting easier questions, then getting them wrong, and falling into a downward spiral at any point.
Just one strategy, but I know at least a few examinees who have made it work and found that it helped them to relax and perform to the best of their abilities.
Good luck tomorrow!
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