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Hi everyone,

Long time reader, first time posting here :)

I have been studying for the gmat for about 1 week now. (1-2 hours everyday) and I am feeling so discouraged. I have been practicing with the question from the OG and I logging all my errors and analyzing them with the difficulty chart found on this forum. When I time myself, for example 20 questions in 40 minutes, I noticed for the hard, very hard questions, I am getting them wrong. All of them (both DS and PS). When I come back and look at them without the timer, I have no problem solving them.

Any advice? Suggestion?

Thanks :)

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Hi everyone,

Long time reader, first time posting here :)

I have been studying for the gmat for about 1 week now. (1-2 hours everyday) and I am feeling so discouraged. I have been practicing with the question from the OG and I logging all my errors and analyzing them with the difficulty chart found on this forum. When I time myself, for example 20 questions in 40 minutes, I noticed for the hard, very hard questions, I am getting them wrong. All of them (both DS and PS). When I come back and look at them without the timer, I have no problem solving them.

Any advice? Suggestion?

Thanks :)
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Hi slimmz2004
My advice to you is to focus on gradually increase the difficulty of the problems and once you get comfortable with all level of difficulties, try to increase your speed. It is similar to driving a car. First you drive at slow speeds and learn the route and then you increase the speed and later you drive sub-conciously even at higher speeds.

Please don't drive your car at full speed till you learn how to drive.
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As you are in the initial phase of study, don't bother about timings. Strengthen your foundation first, then track accuracy followed by gradually time yourself by maintaining accuracy. Following the above may help you to improve your ability to make high score.

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For the test, 3 aspects are very important
1. Accuracy
2. Time management
3. Strategy

Since you’re in initial stage, ONLY concentrate on accuracy. Never mind the time. Once you are comfortable with the accuracy (I.e. If you can do most of the questions correct without timer), then start doing timed practise. Do timed practise with mix of questions (Low/Medium/High level) all together.
If the concepts are clear and the approach is correct, time will automatically fall in place.

Strategy comes into picture when you start giving mocks, which is a later stage.

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Hi everyone,

Long time reader, first time posting here :)

I have been studying for the gmat for about 1 week now. (1-2 hours everyday) and I am feeling so discouraged. I have been practicing with the question from the OG and I logging all my errors and analyzing them with the difficulty chart found on this forum. When I time myself, for example 20 questions in 40 minutes, I noticed for the hard, very hard questions, I am getting them wrong. All of them (both DS and PS). When I come back and look at them without the timer, I have no problem solving them.

Any advice? Suggestion?

Thanks :)
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You've only been studying for a week. Even if you're already an expert problem-solver, solving problems with a GMAT timer is a new skill. Please don't stop working with a timer - it's something you really need to practice to master the test! But, what you're experiencing is completely normal and exactly what you should be doing right now. Go ahead and miss those problems when you do them with a timer, then review them later on with no timer. When you review, try to find ways to do them more efficiently. Then, come back to those problems after a week or two and do them again. See if this time you can get them right. If you're consistently taking too long with a certain type of problem (for instance, Geometry or Algebra) then spend some additional time studying that area.

You've got this and it sounds like you're doing everything right. :)

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