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22 Jan 2020, 07:44
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Studied for 5 months (while working 10h a day) before doing the GMAT. Scored 500! That´s terrible result for the effort I gave!
What were my mistakes?
1- called former gmat students and asked how did they study. - Do that, but keep in mind that they are not experts in the matter (they told me they bought OGMAT book and did all the exercises. I did the book 3 times and still got terrible result
2- Studied not continuously. In GMAT, I found out that if you study 1h per day, than that´s a bad decision. It´s better to focus one month non-stopping in the Gmat than to do it while you work. You need to be fresh for the GMAT and work causes a lot of stress and consumes a lot of energy
3- stopped doing sports - You should always do 1h sport at least once every 3 days, so your body is strong physically. It will help with stress and endurance of the brain
4- Didn´t check the veritas blog free posts. Please take into account that Veritas gave me more in 2 weeks, than the OGmat on 5 months. (and I studied less time per day)
5- Didn´t train pace. This was the most stupid mistake I did. Since I am a perfectionist freak, I always try to get all the answers correct. Skip some if after 1m you do not see an easy way to solve or if you are doing a lot of calculations(YES every problem should have an easy way to solve). Use the tests available to train for that. you should never answer a question with less than 1 min. If you do 10 questions and can for each of them risk 2 options in under 1 min, you will already improve your probability of getting a correct answer by 13% (trust me it is a lot)
What were my mistakes?
1- called former gmat students and asked how did they study. - Do that, but keep in mind that they are not experts in the matter (they told me they bought OGMAT book and did all the exercises. I did the book 3 times and still got terrible result
2- Studied not continuously. In GMAT, I found out that if you study 1h per day, than that´s a bad decision. It´s better to focus one month non-stopping in the Gmat than to do it while you work. You need to be fresh for the GMAT and work causes a lot of stress and consumes a lot of energy
3- stopped doing sports - You should always do 1h sport at least once every 3 days, so your body is strong physically. It will help with stress and endurance of the brain
4- Didn´t check the veritas blog free posts. Please take into account that Veritas gave me more in 2 weeks, than the OGmat on 5 months. (and I studied less time per day)
5- Didn´t train pace. This was the most stupid mistake I did. Since I am a perfectionist freak, I always try to get all the answers correct. Skip some if after 1m you do not see an easy way to solve or if you are doing a lot of calculations(YES every problem should have an easy way to solve). Use the tests available to train for that. you should never answer a question with less than 1 min. If you do 10 questions and can for each of them risk 2 options in under 1 min, you will already improve your probability of getting a correct answer by 13% (trust me it is a lot)
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22 Jan 2020, 10:52
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Thanks for your nice suggestion. Could you specify which things of veritasprep help you?
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22 Jan 2020, 10:55
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Sorry about the low score. Hope you will learn from the mistakes and prep strategically onwards.
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