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30 Mar 2025, 08:08
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First, get a book - mgmat, powersocre or even old Kaplan books. These have been written by people who professionally teach GMAT and spent thousands of hours perfecting them. These books cost just a few bucks if you buy them used.
There are specific exercises for every component of the strategy and approach. Make sure you follow them exactly like they’re written. They were designed and developed by people with 99th percentile. Unless you have a 99th percentile, I don’t suggest you modify them. Don’t assume you’re smarter Just blind to follow them, it’s the easiest thing in the world. Practice the specific sections and question types as you cover each chapter.
For example, a very common user wisdom will be to see a step in reading comprehension strategy which involves taking notes after each paragraph. The super brilliant test taker who has not even crossed a 605 will look at it and immediately come to a brilliant conclusion that they can skip taking notes because that can make them move faster through the question, and they think it’s an improvement. They also feel really good about themselves because no one else could think of this amazing strategy to drop making notes and reading comprehension. Only their brilliant mind thought of that.... Well they never crossed that 605 and then they’re wondering what the heck went wrong. The declare the strategy didn’t work... of course you did not because they were tampering with it.
30 Mar 2025, 08:35
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And to add, process of elimination is the caveman strategy. It’s super basic and rudimentary. I feel like you don’t really need to be told what it is because everyone already using it naturally. You absolutely should use it when it’s the best strategy but you need to make sure you use it in conjunction with using a grid so you can mark questions that you don’t need revisiting again.
In my experience the Manhattan and Kaplan strategy of answering the question in your own words in critical reasoning save a lot of time for average difficulty critical reasoning questions. It doesn’t work super well on Card questions but it slices through anything in the middle category and allowed me to move through the medium critical reasoning questions in under a minute each.
In my experience the Manhattan and Kaplan strategy of answering the question in your own words in critical reasoning save a lot of time for average difficulty critical reasoning questions. It doesn’t work super well on Card questions but it slices through anything in the middle category and allowed me to move through the medium critical reasoning questions in under a minute each.
