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25 Nov 2022, 21:02
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Hey Charles
basically all the interviews i have seen and all the test prep experts mention to not impose any time limits and really take each question slow and steady (at least initially) and know every choice and why you got them right AND why all the other choices should be wrong. The kid that scored almost an 800 in 2 months (the one that you interviewed) also mentioned this…
But seeing your post here where you mention to not spend too much time on explanations kind of goes against this, dont you think? which method should i follow?
i feel like if i dont take some time in understanding the explanation then i will just keep repeating and practicing the same wrong mistakes….
21 Dec 2022, 04:59
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GMATNinja, Thank you for making this study plan.
I am pretty much getting mauled by GMAT Verbal, so I decided to go through all the verbal resources on the Study plan. I just noticed that links in both the "How to approach" videos in RC and CR are linked to the same CR Video. Is this by design or are we missing a RC video link?
23 Dec 2022, 16:21
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Great question, sa800. And apologies for my slowness in responding to it!
To be clear: I'm not saying that you should NEVER spend time reviewing questions. I'm just saying that you want to be very, very careful not to burn a TON of time doing so.
You're spot-on about one general principle: when you make mistakes, you need to figure out why you're making them. If you don't learn about yourself through this process, it's awfully hard to improve.
But we see far too many students obsess over every single answer to every single question, and that's not a great use of time. Others maniacally read expert explanations to everything they miss, and that's not a great habit, either: the point of reviewing is to learn more about why YOU make mistakes, and how you might avoid those mistakes next time. You could read hundreds of our best explanations to verbal questions, and those explanations won't teach you very much about yourself, unfortunately.
That's why we very strongly recommend redoing your mistakes first, before you start diving into a bunch of explanations of a question. If you get the question right the second time, then either you've learned something about your propensity to make careless errors, or else you somehow got better at something -- and both of those are potentially good, productive things.
If, on the other hand, you miss the question a second time, then you have some decisions to make. Is the question worth obsessing over, or is it a question that's hard or unique or obscure enough that it isn't worth studying? After all, TONS of GMAT questions are one-off oddballs, and you're unlikely to see anything quite like them ever again. Even a question isn't totally unique or strange, you'll still need to be very clear about what you hope to gain by reviewing it. If you spend 30 minutes reviewing an RC passage, will it make you better at reading a completely different passage? Or will you just spend 30 minutes becoming an expert on some topic that you'll never see again?
So yes: reviewing can be productive, and sometimes it can be absolutely indispensable. But your time is valuable, and in the study plan, I basically just argue that you want to be very, very thoughtful about how and what you review. We meet a ton of test-takers on GMAT Club who review questions in so much detail that it's wildly inefficient or even counterproductive -- so please just be careful not to let that happen.
I hope that helps a bit!
