Quant timing strategies

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I am taking too much time on quant, I can solve most of the problems if time is not an issue.

Kindly help me out with this.

Bunuel · Answer

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BrentGMATPrepNow · Answer

Here are a few more resources that might help:

- Saving Time by Slowing Down (article): https://www.gmatprepnow.com/articles/sa ... ing-down-0
- Making Friends with Time on the GMAT – Part I (article): https://www.gmatprepnow.com/articles/ma ... %93-part-i
- Making Friends with Time on the GMAT – Part II (article): https://www.gmatprepnow.com/articles/ma ... 93-part-ii

Managing your time on test day (video): https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gene ... video/1244

Cheers,
Brent

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi rohitsatya,

The pacing problem that you've described doesn't exist on it's own - it's the result of OTHER problems. By making adjustments to how you deal with Quant questions, your scores (and pacing) should improve. As such, we need to better define how you've been studying and how you 'see' GMAT questions.

1) How long have you been studying?
2) What resources have you been using?
3) How have you been scoring on your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
4) What is your goal score?
5) When are you planning to take the GMAT?

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

rumanshu · Answer

Try to practice in timed question sets.
Make sets of 10-15 questions and try to finish them of in just under 2 minutes.
For your tests, Make sure you give enough time to the first 15 questions(say 35 to 40 min) they are the most important of all, complete next 10 in in under 2 min and for the remaining questions, complete them in leftover time.
DO NOT LEAVE ANY QUESTION UN-ATTEMPTED.
If in dearth of time, attempt every alternate question, instead of guessing 2-3 questions in a row.

MathRevolution · Answer

Hi,

As you already mentioned, time management is very important. You have to solve 37 questions in 75 minutes, but questions get more difficult as you carry on with questions. However, with the existing conventional method, it is very difficult to solve 37 questions in 75 minutes, as the conventional method is inefficient and time-consuming. Since your only issue is timing, we can totally help you with that.
From our course, you will learn Variable approach for DS and IVY approach for PS. With our unique approaches of, you can significantly save time, and will have 10 minutes to spare on exam. For instance, with our approaches, you can solve questions that normally take 4 minutes in 1 minutes and 30 seconds, and 2-minute question in 30 seconds. You can solve DS questions 100% with Variable approach and 30-40% of PS questions with IVY approach. We also would like to recommend studying and mastering DS first as DS is a quick win.

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Additionally, below are two useful articles featured in GMAT Club for your reference. This will be helpful for you. You can see what sort of questions you might encounter on actual GMAT.

· Ultimate Q51 Guide : the-ultimate-q51-guide-209801.html
· Most Updated Math Trend : overview-of-gmat-math-question-types-and-patterns-on-the-gmat-211809.html

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Happy Studying!

Jin
Math Revolution

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