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27 May 2011, 06:33
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Hi GMAT Experts,
Can you please share what is the best approach for spliting the time for each section i.e. Quant and Verbal?
Approach I: split equally 12-12-13 for each 25 mins.
Approach II: give 1-10 questions weightage 1-10 -> 25 mins; next 10 ->20 next 10 ->20 next 7-> 10
Also, is there a maximum time that should be spent per Quant or Verbal question before taking an educated guess and moving on?
Please share your views. Thanks.
VT
Can you please share what is the best approach for spliting the time for each section i.e. Quant and Verbal?
Approach I: split equally 12-12-13 for each 25 mins.
Approach II: give 1-10 questions weightage 1-10 -> 25 mins; next 10 ->20 next 10 ->20 next 7-> 10
Also, is there a maximum time that should be spent per Quant or Verbal question before taking an educated guess and moving on?
Please share your views. Thanks.
VT
27 May 2011, 07:22
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I know this wasn't addressed to me, but at the most basic level, you've got 2 minutes per verbal question, and 1:45 per quant question.
Obviously some questions will take less than their quota, some questions might take more.
The hard-cap per question, doesn't really apply. It's all depending on where you are on the exam, and how much ahead or behind of schedule you are.
For example, if I'm on the last verbal question, 5 minutes ahead of schedule, I can take 6:45 on that question and not be worried.
However, if I'm on halfway through and I'm 5 minutes ahead of schedule, I'm probably not going to feel as comfortable taking more than 3 minutes.
The best advice I've been given is 'when you reach ~2 minutes, are you approaching a solution? or are you fumbling around? If you're fumbling around, guess and move on. If you're approaching a solution, solve it and move on'
Obviously some questions will take less than their quota, some questions might take more.
The hard-cap per question, doesn't really apply. It's all depending on where you are on the exam, and how much ahead or behind of schedule you are.
For example, if I'm on the last verbal question, 5 minutes ahead of schedule, I can take 6:45 on that question and not be worried.
However, if I'm on halfway through and I'm 5 minutes ahead of schedule, I'm probably not going to feel as comfortable taking more than 3 minutes.
The best advice I've been given is 'when you reach ~2 minutes, are you approaching a solution? or are you fumbling around? If you're fumbling around, guess and move on. If you're approaching a solution, solve it and move on'
29 May 2011, 04:40
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Hi jko,
Thanks for sharing your views! (and I would consider you as a GMAT expert looking at your scores
Ok, so what you are saying is that just take the average time available per question (for Q 2min and for V ~1.5 min) and then based on that during the test see whether you are moving ahead or lagging behind when you get a bit stuck on question.
Can you share a bit more about how you use this "in practice"? So, for ex, lets say you are on Quant Q15 and you can see the time on the screen - would you quickly calculate that 14 previous questions * 2 = 28 min, so your clock should be showing around 47 mins left. I found this a bit difficult to do as I need to calculate backwards on whether I am doing ok. (btw just wanted to add that I have only been doing partial tests - no full lengths yet except GMAT Prep1 w/o any prep). What I tried to do is that I pre-calc the amount of time that should be left at the certain periodic intervals (Q10, Q20, Q30 and similarly for verbal) and trying to get used to the benchmark timing that should be on the screen.
Please let me know how do you implement the approach you suggested. Thanks
Thanks for sharing your views! (and I would consider you as a GMAT expert looking at your scores
Ok, so what you are saying is that just take the average time available per question (for Q 2min and for V ~1.5 min) and then based on that during the test see whether you are moving ahead or lagging behind when you get a bit stuck on question.
Can you share a bit more about how you use this "in practice"? So, for ex, lets say you are on Quant Q15 and you can see the time on the screen - would you quickly calculate that 14 previous questions * 2 = 28 min, so your clock should be showing around 47 mins left. I found this a bit difficult to do as I need to calculate backwards on whether I am doing ok. (btw just wanted to add that I have only been doing partial tests - no full lengths yet except GMAT Prep1 w/o any prep). What I tried to do is that I pre-calc the amount of time that should be left at the certain periodic intervals (Q10, Q20, Q30 and similarly for verbal) and trying to get used to the benchmark timing that should be on the screen.
Please let me know how do you implement the approach you suggested. Thanks
