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Updated on: 24 Apr 2023, 08:49
Originally posted by theGisforGorilla on 24 Apr 2023, 08:27.
Last edited by theGisforGorilla on 24 Apr 2023, 08:49, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by theGisforGorilla on 24 Apr 2023, 08:49, edited 1 time in total.
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With test day nearing, I have encountered a new problem. On my latest mock exam, I would stare at a question which just would not compute. Some examples:
Bizarrely, all of these happened in the second half of quant and the first half of verbal (Q-V-I test order). I had not a single mistake in the first half of quant, nor in the second half of verbal. During this period my mind just stopped working. Time management suffered, too.
For reference, I get Q50 every time, and have OG accuracies of RC 98%, SC 95%, CR 80%.
When I retried these questions a day later, I solved them instantly (these, plus two questions I had lost to time management). There were some CR questions that I absolutely did not understand even with the OE - but these are an acceptable loss. What's not an acceptable loss, though, is to make such preventable mistakes... and I worry this mechanism could repeat on test day. I took the mock at the same hour as my real exam. Does anyone know what the problem could be?
- DS; x^2-y^2=?, where 2xy=60. Spent 5 minutes looking for a way to reach (x+y)^2, and could not connect the dots. Guessed.
- DS; a(1+b)-c. "ab" and "a-c" were given. Spent 4 minutes on it without making the connection. Guessed.
- RC; could not absorb the passage at all. Inner voice telling me to abandon the passage ASAP ended up drowning out my attempts to read it. Got half the questions wrong (despite consistently getting 20-streaks of RC sets 100% correct)
Bizarrely, all of these happened in the second half of quant and the first half of verbal (Q-V-I test order). I had not a single mistake in the first half of quant, nor in the second half of verbal. During this period my mind just stopped working. Time management suffered, too.
For reference, I get Q50 every time, and have OG accuracies of RC 98%, SC 95%, CR 80%.
When I retried these questions a day later, I solved them instantly (these, plus two questions I had lost to time management). There were some CR questions that I absolutely did not understand even with the OE - but these are an acceptable loss. What's not an acceptable loss, though, is to make such preventable mistakes... and I worry this mechanism could repeat on test day. I took the mock at the same hour as my real exam. Does anyone know what the problem could be?
24 Apr 2023, 08:44
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Huh. Very odd for this to happen during the middle or late part of the section of the test. Usually these are things that tend to creep in because somebody did not warm up.
Another reason I can see is thinking too much about how the test is going. The best approach and the best strategy for the test is to take one question at a time. To only look at the clock three times during the test and do your best on every question.
I am surprised the bit you had for five minutes to spare on those questions….
Finally, my suggestion for you is to figure out the plan for situations like these. It’s not uncommon to not see certain things and then answer easily when you’re not attacking a question head-on. This is especially true for puzzles and tricky questions. You need to figure out how you can Stop attacking the question head on and change your attitude all within two minutes that you have for the question while being under pressure…. I put together a checklist for myself for verbal to run through different mistakes if I couldn’t identify one. What a checklist help?
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Another reason I can see is thinking too much about how the test is going. The best approach and the best strategy for the test is to take one question at a time. To only look at the clock three times during the test and do your best on every question.
I am surprised the bit you had for five minutes to spare on those questions….
Finally, my suggestion for you is to figure out the plan for situations like these. It’s not uncommon to not see certain things and then answer easily when you’re not attacking a question head-on. This is especially true for puzzles and tricky questions. You need to figure out how you can Stop attacking the question head on and change your attitude all within two minutes that you have for the question while being under pressure…. I put together a checklist for myself for verbal to run through different mistakes if I couldn’t identify one. What a checklist help?
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24 Apr 2023, 10:10
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Fair to say there is a difference between solving questions under timed conditions compared to untimed prep.
Ultimately, if you are getting a Q50 every time, that's a positive sign.
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Ultimately, if you are getting a Q50 every time, that's a positive sign.
24 Apr 2023, 15:53
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That's just how I always did quant, I guess. Always spent 15 minutes on 4 questions (usually 3 mistakes), and 47 minutes on the remaining 27 questions (usually 1 mistake). There's always an extra-hard DS and a careless error between me and Q51.
It's bizarre, though, how the first screen of the verbal section, an RC passage, just wasn't legible to me. I was looking at the letters but I didn't know what I had read, resulting in 4 guesses on the first 4 questions of verbal. I guess it's a good idea to start planning in case it happens again... do you recommend any materials for creating such a checklist?
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Timed or not, I had never had this catatonic state before. Were it not for that, I would've gotten a Q51. I hope my mind is sharper on exam day.
That said, nothing is stopping me from getting a Q41 once the test day heebie jeebies kick in
