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I have been working on my weakest section (Verbal: SC) and in last 1-2 months, I have improved my accuracy from 50% to almost 80%.
I am also doing okay when it comes to completing an individual question within 1.5 mins.
But on the practice tests, I don't know how to measure time and manage time all up. At times, it makes me anxious and I pay way too much attention on keeping tab on the clock.
Any techniques that I can use to reduce my anxienty and get the timing right?
I am also doing okay when it comes to completing an individual question within 1.5 mins.
But on the practice tests, I don't know how to measure time and manage time all up. At times, it makes me anxious and I pay way too much attention on keeping tab on the clock.
Any techniques that I can use to reduce my anxienty and get the timing right?
14 Mar 2017, 22:53
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I have been working on my weakest section (Verbal: SC) and in last 1-2 months, I have improved my accuracy from 50% to almost 80%.
I am also doing okay when it comes to completing an individual question within 1.5 mins.
But on the practice tests, I don't know how to measure time and manage time all up. At times, it makes me anxious and I pay way too much attention on keeping tab on the clock.
Any techniques that I can use to reduce my anxienty and get the timing right?
Do you have a timing strategy in place? Many test takers try to check the clock for the first time only after the first 10 questions. It's clearly not a good idea to manage time on a question by question basis (too much variation) and I'd imagine that the act of checking the clock itself wastes quite a lot of time.I am also doing okay when it comes to completing an individual question within 1.5 mins.
But on the practice tests, I don't know how to measure time and manage time all up. At times, it makes me anxious and I pay way too much attention on keeping tab on the clock.
Any techniques that I can use to reduce my anxienty and get the timing right?
If you stick to an average pace, your time targets will look something like this:
Start (75 minutes and 41 questions left)
10 questions done: 56 minutes left
20 questions done: 38 minutes left
30 questions done: 20 minutes left
Finish
16 Mar 2017, 01:14
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hey pacificnw,
What I'd suggest is this: plan a schedule for each section, dividing it into manageable chunks. For example, for the Quant, which is 75 minutes and 37 questions, have a goal of solving 7 questions every 15 minutes. Then set your timer to go off every 15 minutes, and check how many questions you have completed. If you see you're behind schedule, don't pause but rather keep going and update your goal - try and do the next section faster. If not possible, decide to go for less question and guess the last few.
Important note: If you see, after sufficient practice, that you don't have enough time to solve all question - revise your section goal. Decide to go for only 30 questions, say, and solve only 6 every 15 minutes. Get used to using this strategy, and use it on the GMAT test as well - checking yourself every 15 minutes and updating your goal.
If you do want to know how you perform timewise on a question-by-question basis, definitely don't do it manually. Rather, study with an online program (such as exampal) which keeps track of your performance for you.
What I'd suggest is this: plan a schedule for each section, dividing it into manageable chunks. For example, for the Quant, which is 75 minutes and 37 questions, have a goal of solving 7 questions every 15 minutes. Then set your timer to go off every 15 minutes, and check how many questions you have completed. If you see you're behind schedule, don't pause but rather keep going and update your goal - try and do the next section faster. If not possible, decide to go for less question and guess the last few.
Important note: If you see, after sufficient practice, that you don't have enough time to solve all question - revise your section goal. Decide to go for only 30 questions, say, and solve only 6 every 15 minutes. Get used to using this strategy, and use it on the GMAT test as well - checking yourself every 15 minutes and updating your goal.
If you do want to know how you perform timewise on a question-by-question basis, definitely don't do it manually. Rather, study with an online program (such as exampal) which keeps track of your performance for you.
