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Stupid mistakes on GMAT [#permalink] New post   29 Jun 2005, 06:08
Dear ALL!
I'm an international student planning to apply to the fall 2006. I've been preparing for GMAT for nearly 4 month. And I haven't stopped making STUPID mistakes in the Quant.section. Somebody calls them technical mistakes. How to reduce the number of such kind of mistakes? I am afraid, if I do such mistakes in practising mode, how many more I will do in real test.

P.S.: Today took Powerprep, made 9 mistakes out of 37. Most of the mistakes were in DS sec.. And they all are STUPID!

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[#permalink] New post   02 Jul 2005, 21:41
Hi, Dilshod, it seems you have a concentration problem. That is if you actually can solve the question but you miss details under time pressure. That I think happens to everyone of us in some degree.

You should do some relaxation before answering questions. I also suggest some self-talk and positive thinking during relaxation. You will face the questions relaxed and concentrated.

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Re: Stupid mistakes on GMAT [#permalink] New post   03 Jul 2005, 01:16
Dilshod wrote:
Dear ALL!
I'm an international student planning to apply to the fall 2006. I've been preparing for GMAT for nearly 4 month. And I haven't stopped making STUPID mistakes in the Quant.section. Somebody calls them technical mistakes. How to reduce the number of such kind of mistakes? I am afraid, if I do such mistakes in practising mode, how many more I will do in real test.

P.S.: Today took Powerprep, made 9 mistakes out of 37. Most of the mistakes were in DS sec.. And they all are STUPID!

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GMAT math is all about stupid mistakes. When you stop making them, you get to Q48-50 (to 90-95%), when you actually learn to solve tricky problems well, you get to Q51 and above (99%).
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[#permalink] New post   03 Jul 2005, 20:41
Thank you all,
But the thing is, that the questions I answered wrong didn't contained any difficult tricks. Just ordinary questions, but somehow I manage to answer them wrong.
P.S.^May be was cursed by GMAT?!:)
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[#permalink] New post   05 Jul 2005, 14:29
Dilshod wrote:
Thank you all,
But the thing is, that the questions I answered wrong didn't contained any difficult tricks. Just ordinary questions, but somehow I manage to answer them wrong.
P.S.^May be was cursed by GMAT?!:)


I too was on the same boat in the very beginning. There is only one way to fight this i.e. learn the patterns of ur stupid mistakes e.g. a pattern can be - assuming that a variable X is an interger even if the DS doesn't say anything. Once u know ur patterns, then all u have to do is implement it as soon as u see a problem of similar kind and thinking "wait a sec, I know I make mistake here, so let's be careful". Try this and see how it helps ! Keep notes of all mistakes/patterns and review biweekly.
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[#permalink] New post   06 Jul 2005, 06:40
Many thanks for replies.
Tried to concentrate harder, practiced self-talk and took several pills.
The result is
Kaplan 2003 - CAT 1 - 630(Q 49, V 28)
PR 2003 - CAT - 660(Q 50, V 30)
What will my actual GMAT score would be?
Kaplan questions seem to be more difficult, don't they?
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[#permalink] New post   06 Jul 2005, 23:48
Agree on that. Kaplan Maths is quite a joke. The OG offers a better challenge in the quant section compared to Kaplan.
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[#permalink] New post   07 Jul 2005, 00:11
Sure not for the Math. Look at my verbal section results.
Can I improve my verbal skills in 2-3 month? I want to jump at 40-45.
What are the most effective strategies? Don't advice practicing: the more I solve, the more I get wrong answers and the more become desperate.
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[#permalink] New post   07 Jul 2005, 12:24
ywilfred wrote:
Agree on that.

Offtopic: Is phrase "Agree on" correct? Isn't it should be "Agree with"?
I've just downloaded Idioms lists from this web-site, and now am trying to seek and correct any non-idiomatic phrase I find. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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